Checkers Industrial Safety Products' low profile top-loading cable protectors are available in 1-, 2-, 3-, or 5-channel models. They are 1.25" high with a .75" channel height and feature Dog-Bone connectors for modular interconnectivity and storage.
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LONDON – XL Events stayed busy in 2009 with a variety of events, many of which presented unique AV challenges that had to be overcome. Highlights including the Wella ITV Awards (pictured here), Clothes Show Live, Speakeasy, REGIS, Samsung Corby Global Launch, Carphone Warehouse GP Event and the Mini United event at Silverstone Race Track.
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LONDON – White Light is supplying Vari-Lite's VLX LED fixtures for Eddie Izzard's Stripped touring rig. LD Keith Johnson specified the 28 of the units, primarily to light the audience in large arenas, and called the fixtures "very fast," "very bright" and "very reliable."
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NEW YORK – A-V Services has installed Vista Spyder video/widescreen display processors for three large video walls on the trading floors at Dow Jones's new midtown Manhattan space.
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NEW YORK – TMB added Bryan Reiss, a 15-year industry veteran, to its North American sales group. His role will be primarily in customer development. Reiss is a graduate of Adelphi University with a BFA in Theater Design.
Read More »BELFAST – Production Services Ireland (PSI) once again supplied lighting, rigging and crew for the 2009 Young Voices Christmas Concert, staged in the city's Odyssey Arena with a lighting design by Joe Byrne and produced by London-based Sound & Light Productions.
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SAN ANTONIO, TX – Seven of Mega Systems' Enigma Net 7mm LED backdrops appear in Joe Nichols' live music video, "Gimmie That Girl." Nichols performed the song, featured on his Old Things New album, at Cowboys, a country music spot in San Antonio.
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PITTSBURGH, PA – The lighting and truss designs play a key role in club owner Gabriel Fontana's transformation of an older 13,000-square-foot venue located in the riverfront Station Square district into a Vegas-styled mega club. Fontana, who also owns the S Bar on the city's south side, called his new venue Whim.
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LIMASSOL, Cyprus – Christmas displays in Cyprus and New Zealand relied upon LightFactory for control. They included tree-shaped installations at My Mall in Cyprus and the Telecom Tree in New Zealand, which changes in response to the sound of children's voices as they talk to Santa using a nearby phone booth.
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CHICAGO – Windy City Music Sound & Lighting using gear from Coemar and Barco/High End Systems for a topping-off ceremony that marked the structural completion of the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, which is set to open in 2012.
Read More »ORLANDO, FL – Techni-Lux has announced its Winter 2010 Road Show, which will take place throughout the southeastern U.S. Techni-Lux has partnered up with several dealers to demo their LED and lighting gear, including the new UltraLED line, SGM and Dexel products. Workshops will also be conducted, and food will be served.
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NEWPORT, RI – An 18-projector system using Barco gear is giving submarine trainees immersive visuals with the prototype Submarine Bridge Trainer (SBT) program that is part of the U.S. Navy's Naval Undersea Warfare Center.
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