OSLO — When the Nespresso Boutique opened earlier this year, it was still cold in Norway — good for hot beverage sales, but risky for staging an event that would extend the “coffee-café-and-more” retail outlet’s operations into the narrow street by the shop.
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EDMONTON, AB, Canada — In the five years since they were formed by Simon Cowell, Il Divo, a quartet of international vocalists, have created fans across the pop music-classical opera spectrum. For their third world tour, LD Dom Smith is once again using an Avolites console to help the group promote its latest album, The Promise.
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MOSCOW — The gear list at the 54th annual Eurovision Song Contest semi-finals and finals included some 2,000 square meters of LED, and the largest assembly of PRG Bad Boy luminaires on any one show yet — 72 of the 48,000 lumen output instruments.
Read More »LONDON, ON, Canada — Adrian Segeren, president, and Marnie Styles, vice president, announced that their company, Le Maitre Special Effects, has changed its name to Ultratec Special Effects, part of a strategy to differentiate the company in global markets.
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KNOXVILLE, TN — Bandit Lites is providing lighting for XFC (Xtreme Fighting Championships) mixed martial arts pay-per-view events broadcast on HDNet.
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Chauvet’s COLORdash™ Quad is a wash light with linear output that offers a wide field of color plus numerous options for a modest price. With 3, 4, 10 or 12-channel operating modes and saturated colors created by RGB color mixing, the COLORdash™ Quad includes four pods that can be controlled individually. Each pod contains nine 1-watt LEDs for a total of 36 in the fixture.
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COLOGNE, Germany — LD Manuel Da Costa from mo2 Design used Robe DigitalSpot 7000 and 3000DTs for the final of the latest series of Deutschland Sucht den Superstar, broadcast live on national channel RTL.
Read More »ORLANDO —Medialon will offer a training session on Manager V5 show and media control Software prior to InfoComm 09. The two-day course will be held on June 15 and 16 at Electrosonic’s Orlando-based facility.
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DENVER — Mike Andrews wrote the book on High End Systems technical training. Now he has started a new chapter as the in-house technician for Barbizon Light of the Rockies. Andrews, who has held repair-related positions at High End, Robe and Barco, is certified in Vari-Lite repair as well.
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ORLANDO — LMG, Inc., a national provider of video, audio and lighting support, was recently awarded the contract as the preferred on-site AV supplier for the Orange County Convention Center (OCCC).
Read More »RAS AL KHAIMAH, U.A.E. — Belgian gobo manufacturer Goboland opened its Middle East office here recently to meet demand for its gobo services in the architectural sector.
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TUCSON, ARIZ — Total Lighting Support used 24 Chauvet COLORado 6s lined up end to end for wash lighting at 27th annual International Mariachi Conference, which drew professional Mariachi performers and youth groups from the U.S. and Mexico.
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