DURBAN, South Africa – The 2016 South African Music Awards (SAMAs), broadcast live from the Durban ICC Arena on June 4 on SABC1, also entertained a live audience of 3,000. LD Robert Grobler, lighting the SAMAs for the first time, included more than 200 Robe fixtures on the rig, Gearhouse South Africa supplied the gear.
Read More »CAMDEN, NJ — Shortly after 10 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 5, Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa were out at a secondary stage at the BB&T Pavilion in Camden, NJ, near Philadelphia, getting fans pumped. Suddenly, the rail separating the fans on the lawn from the performers collapsed, and about 50 people tumbled forward, dropping on top of each other onto a concrete surface several feet below. Forty-two people, including Live Nation staff, were treated for injuries, according to reports.
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RIO – The Olympic Opening Ceremony at Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil kicked off the Games of the XXXI Olympiad. It is the first time that the World’s most watched sporting event is hosted in South America with a record number of countries participating in a record number of sports. NBC Olympics, a division of the NBC Sports Group, has selected NEP Group to provide mobile broadcasting and engineering consulting for its production.
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YONKERS, NY – Altman Lighting is pleased to announce that Wade Williams has joined the Altman team in the role of Southern Regional Sales Manager. Wade will manage Altman Lighting sales in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Puerto Rico.
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Blizzard Lighting’s vertical fogger, the 1500W AtmosFear Hex Jet, can send bursts of fog up to 25 feet in the air, and these plumes are set aglow with a dozen 15W RGBAW+UV LEDs.
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Chauvet Professional’s Ovation E-260WW promises a level of brightness and output that exceeds an HPL 750W ellipsoidal fixture, yet gives users all the advantages of LED fixtures, including a 50,000-hour LED source life to lower maintenance costs.
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LONDON – Creative Technology (CT) announces the acquisition of “The Wireless Works” a specialist event service business based in Godalming, UK, delivering radio communications, intercom and data services to the broadcast and live event markets.
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LAS VEGAS — For Hakkasan Group’s Jewel nightclub, which opened in May within the Aria resort and casino on the Las Vegas Strip, replacing the previous nightclub occupying the space, Haze, AudioTek provided an interactive lighting design controlled by a custom Avolites system of integrated control desks and Ai media servers.
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LONDON – Zero 88 has launched a competition offering one of its powerful and flexible FLX lighting consoles as a prize.
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MILTON KEYNES, U.K. – On behalf of Festival Republic, Dick Tee of ‘enteetainment Ltd’, was asked to look after the technical production management of the recent EDC (Electric Daisy Carnival) show in Milton Keynes Bowl, working alongside his counterpart, world renowned Production Manager Jake Berry, who was representing Los Angeles based Festival producers ‘Insomniac’.
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DENMARK – Sound and Light is a busy rental company based in the bustling port and university town of Aalborg on the edge of the gently rolling, lush countryside of Jutland, north Denmark, and a recent investor in Robe’s BMFL Spot moving light fixtures. Focused on servicing the top end of the entertainment lighting market – incorporating TV productions, corporate events and industrials plus installations – Sound and Light was founded in the 1980s by Jess Otzen.
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PHILADELPHIA – The impressive stage set for Coldplay’s 2016 A Head Full of Dreams Tour is highlighted by the new, bright, RGB Firefly FloppyFlex flexible LED neon. Currently on a seven-city US stadium run, the tour began early this year in South America, then went to Europe, and will continue to Australia and New Zealand.
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