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Avolites Tiger Touch 6.1 Debuts on Level 42 Anniversary Tour

LD Yenz Nyholm

Avolites Tiger Touch 6.1 Debuts on Level 42 Anniversary Tour

LONDON – Lighting designer Yenz Nyholm used his Avolites Tiger Touch to help reignite the memories of Level 42 fans when the band performed at London’s Royal Albert Hall. He programmed both the lighting and the video through his Avolites’ Tiger Touch 6.1, which now features enhancements and updates that have advanced the console’s capability. He said, “The best thing for me is the cue stacking. You can display your cue list and each individual cue’s parameters on the screens, but better still you can go in and change every parameter without having to be in the cue itself. This has been a massive time saving device.”

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John Kahn

NanoLumens Appoints New CFO

NORCROSS, GA— LED display provider NanoLumens appoints John Kahn as Chief Financial Officer. Kahn has more than 25 years of strategic international financial experience that includes CFO roles at a variety of NASDAQ listed, private equity owned, and venture capital backed companies. Most recently, Kahn was CFO of TeamStaff, Inc. where he helped the company become a top-performing micro-cap stock and led a public offering.

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New Reports on Ottawa Bluesfest Staging Collapse Cite Choice of Fabric Wall Ties as Key Risk Factor

OTTAWA, Canada — Although Ontario Ministry of Labor officials issued a report earlier this year finding no evidence of structural defects that led to the July 18, 2011 collapse of the overhead stage structure during a Cheap Trick performance at the Ottawa Bluesfest, newly-published details cite the crew’s inability to quickly cut ties securing the structure’s fabric walls as a key factor contributing to wind loads on the structure as the storm hit the area.

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Manchester's Festival Season Switch-On

dbn Helps Manchester’s Holiday Season Switch-On

MANCHESTER, UK – Lighting and rigging company dbn supplied stage lighting for the city’s 2012 Festive Season lighting switch-on. dbn’s Andy Kennett designed the lighting, making sure to light the audience as well as the stage action and to create effects that involved everyone as a whole. This is also why there was a concentration of beam type effects in the design to skim over the audience and also to highlight some of the buildings.

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Danish Music Awards

Martin Rig for Danish Music Awards

COPENHAGEN – LD Kasper Lange used a large Martin MAC rig that included Martin Professional’s new MAC Viper Profile for the 2012 Danish Music Awards at the Forum in Copenhagen. “We needed a small and powerful lamp that could cut through the massive audience light,” Lange said. The event was broadcast live in Denmark.

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(L-R) White Light Sales Manager Andrew Stringer, PR Lighting's Cui Lin, and White Light Sales Director Peter Threadgold at White Light offices in London

White Light to Distribute PR Lighting

LONDON – PR Lighting has appointed White Light as sole UK reseller for its lighting products. White Light’s technical support team have been working closely with their Chinese counterparts to ensure a seamless transition, enabling them to offer spares, service and product training, while product manager David Manister is planning an introductory road show around the UK.

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JLS at Christmas Switch-On

Stage Electrics Supply Bristol’s Christmas Switch-On

BRISTOL, UK – JLS, UK’s hot boyband, headlined the charity concert for The Mall at Cribbs Causeway’s Christmas Lights switch-on in Bristol earlier this month.  Stage Electrics supplied the fully equipped tunnel stage with complete event lighting. They also supplied and installed a temporary outdoor ice rinks with more than 1000sq m (10,764 sq ft) of real ice.

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Ithaca College

Robert Juliat Goes to Head of the Class

WALLINGFORD, CT – The University of California at Berkeley and Ithaca College (NY) have added Robert Juliat fixtures to their theatrical lighting inventories. UC Berkeley purchased four Robert Juliat Cyrano followspots from Musson Theatrical. “The user interface is great, all the controls are centralized, and there is pre-focused lamp control.  So they’re easy for the operators to work with day in, day out,” said techician Jeremy Little. Meanwhile, Ithaca College acquired four Buxie followspots from BMI Supply for its Clark Theater. The fixtures fit on their catwalk, and they liked their optical clarity.

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LumenRadio

Broncos Stadium Lighting Control Goes Wireless with LumenRadio

DENVER – Sports Authority Field at Mile High Stadium in Denver, the home of the Broncos, gets washed in hues ranging from Broncos orange and blue to Sports Authority red. To control the large-scale lighting effects, George Lacey Sales (GLS) worked with ME Engineers on a wireless lighting control system that includes LumenRadio gear from TMB (pictured here).

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PSAV Completes Merger with Swank AV, Retains Execs but Drops Swank Name

NEW YORK and ST. LOUIS, MO — Kelso & Company, the corporate parent to PSAV Presentation Services, reported that its acquisition of Swank Audio Visuals, announced in October, is now complete. Although key personnel from Swank have been retained from the 75-year-old firm, including Greg Diekemper, Swank’s former president and CEO, the Swank name has been dropped in favor of PSAV.

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