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NY Radio Station Flips to All Christmas Music with NYC Drone Show by Verge Aero

NEW YORK – iHeartMedia New York’s 106.7 LITE FM marked its “Flip to Christmas” holiday music changeover with an aerial light show from Verge Aero, which flew 200 drones from a safe launch zone on Governors Island in New York Harbor. The pre-recorded streaming show could be viewed on litefm.com on Nov. 13 from 7 to 8 p.m.

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Berlin’s Waldbühne Amphitheater Stages Outdoor Concert Series Lit with Robe Fixtures

BERLIN – Berlin’s Waldbühne amphitheater, which can normally pack in 22,900 people, hosted socially-distanced audiences with up to 5,000 people for the “Back to Live” outdoor concert series in September. TSE supplied a lighting rig that included Robe BMFL WashBeams, MegaPointes and Spiider moving lights.

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Blackmagic Design Announces New Micro Converter 3G Models

Blackmagic Design announced a new family of Micro Converter 3G models that let customers use HDMI equipment with professional SDI systems. These new models incorporate custom hardware developed by Blackmagic Design and include features previously only found on high end converters, such as 3D LUTs and more video formats than the older models they replace.

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Who Wants to Go to China During a Pandemic? – with Mat Stovall and Zach Matusow

with:

Mat Stovall, Lighting Designer

and Zach Matusow, Lighting Designer and Director

On this episode, we discuss traveling to China to do a show in the midst of a global pandemic, League of Legends – Worlds 2020, the rise of eSports games, the quarantine process, the flight over, working in China, the working guidelines and environment, the COVID screening process with documentation, WeChat,

Five weeks of XR environment studio shows, the audience at the show, and how the crew interacted before, during and after the show.

Please visit: http://www.zachmatusow.com/

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In Memoriam: Peter Wright, 54

NEW YORK – IATSE stagehand Peter Wright died Nov. 12 after falling from scaffolding while performing restoration work at Broadway’s Winter Garden Theatre. Police reported that the accident took place around 8:45 a.m. while Wright was performing routine maintenance on the 109-year-old theater. Wright, a resident of Milford, CT, was 54.

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Texas Church Brightens Family-Friendly Church Services with Chauvet Fixtures

ODESSA, TX – Life Challenge Church expanded on the kid-friendly looks for their Sunday morning youth services with a Sunday Nights Kid Service on Oct. 18, an event that shared imagery from the children’s program with the congregation at large. Technical director Gabriel Loera detailed how various Chauvet fixtures helped meet the church’s goals.

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Jerusalema Dance Challenge Participants Add a Twist with 24 Astera Titan Tubes

PRETORIA, South Africa – It’s not easy to stand out if your group is one of many competing in the viral Jerusalema dance challenge craze on social media. Along with a troupe of 60 distanced employee dancers, broadcast/IT company ClearCast got a visual edge with 24 Astera Titan Tubes. Millennium Productions provided the fixtures, which worked in sync with two 10W multi-color lasers.

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CCME Reloaded Virtual Festival Performances Lit with GLP Fixtures

MADRID –  This year’s annual Coca-Cola Music Experience Festival, staged as a virtual event over two days at Madrid’s WiZink Center, was renamed CCME Reloaded to reflect the Covid-19 restrictions that had to be adopted for the event’s 10 year anniversary celebration. Performers including Aitana, Ana Guerra, Beret, Twin Melody, Cora Yako and Lemot got vibrant looks from a PRG-supplied lighting rig, which included 124 GLP fixtures.

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