NEW YORK — ETCP has added 10 new testing centers in Canada for all three of its exams. Computer-based testing is now available in Ontario at Sylvan Learning Centres in the cities of Courtice, Etobicoke, Oakville, Pickering, Scarborough, Vaughn and at three locations in Mississauga. Testing is also available at Robertson College in Winnipeg, MB.
Read More »ORLANDO — Da-Lite Screen Company named Beverly Clark and David Sweeney as its Sales Consultant of the Year award just before InfoComm 09 last month. It was the second time in the company’s history where the honor was shared by two sales consultants.
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SAN LUIS POTOSI, Mexico — The Labyrinth of Sciences and Arts Museum in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosi features a 31-by-17-foot Harkness Spectral 240 3D screen and MF Wrap-round frame for a film that is part of its Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia exhibit.
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LONDON — Summit Steel provided motors, rigging and a Kinesys K2 automation system for the U.K. pop band, Take That, and their recent Circus stadium tour, plus a custom-designed lifting system for a key movement cue involving a set piece weighing 6.5 tonnes.
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LONDON — Clay Paky is organizing the second edition of the Knight of Illumination Awards. The awards program, which honors lighting designers from around the world who work in both live entertainment and on television shows, is organized in association with STLD and ALD and is sponsored this year by Osram. It will be held on Sept. 13, 2009 at the Ibis Hotel at Earls Court, London.
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DUBLIN, Ireland — In “57 Channels,” Bruce Springsteen sings about trading his remote for a .44 magnum to adjust the picture on his big-screen TV. But if tours for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band have also downplayed the big screens, video is slowly taking a more important role in the look of the shows.
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LONDON — Interest in a planned one-day seminar on LED lighting and GLP’s Impression fixtures led Michael Müller, GLP director of customer support, to add a second day for the training event. Close to 30 technicians from U.K. sales and rental companies attended the event, held at Richard Martin Lighting’s office.
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GLASTONBURY, U.K. — HSL is supplying a specials package for LD Chris Megginson and the U.K. indie rockers White Lies’ current European festival tour, which was augmented for the band’s appearance at Glastonbury 2009.
Read More »HOLLISTER, MO — Blue Planet Lighting, which acquired fogging gear along with other equipment previously owned by Theatreworks, a former competitor, has announced plans to donate as many as 75 nearly-new LeMaitre Stage Fogger DMX units to Missouri fire departments seeking the gear for their training exercises.
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AARHUS, Denmark — Martin Professional has added several new hires to its customer care department, including Katrine Bøje as project manager and customer care coordinator and Adela Güven, Andrea Heinz, Pernille Høgsberg, Marianne Kirk and Pernille Rosenkilde as customer care coordinators.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Onside TV Production, the production arm of the Allsvenskan Swedish Football League, is gearing up with Broadcast Pix Slate integrated production systems to produce daily HD news conferences for each of its 16 teams. The project includes the installation of small, unmanned HD studios in stadiums across the country that will be monitored and managed by a centralized control room.
Read More »ZEBULON, NC — SurgeX named Sound Vision Marketing and Online Marketing/CRM as independent manufacturers representatives.
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