BILLERICA, MA — Broadcast Pix has promoted Lisa Trabucco to serve as director of operations and human resources and has also hired Bob Poucel as support manager. Trabucco and Poucel will work out the Broadcast Pix main office based outside of Boston.
Read More »STURGIS, SD — Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler, 61, fell off the stage at the Buffalo Chip Campground Aug. 5 and was taken to the hospital to treat injuries to his head, neck and shoulders, according to news reports.
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LOS ANGELES — Rapper Jay-Z began a five-city summer tour with Ciara lit by Patrick Dierson and Justin Collie of Performance Environment Design Group. Atomic Lighting supplied the rig.
Read More »ORLANDO, FL— Matthew D. Loeb was unanimously re-elected as International President of IATSE at the 66th Quadrennial IATSE Convention in Orlando, Fla. Additionally, James B. Wood was re-elected as General Secretary-Treasurer and the entire General Executive Board, consisting of 13 vice-presidents, as well as three international trustees and the union’s delegate to the Canadian Labor Congress were also re-elected. All candidates ran unopposed and were re-elected by acclamation.
Read More »LAS VEGAS — Nominations are being accepted online to honor those individuals and companies for exceptional work in the pro lighting and staging field, and this window of opportunity will be closing Aug. 31, so go to www.parnelliawards.com and click on the Parnelli Awards nomination link today.
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CAMROSE, AB, Canada — A woman attending the Big Valley Jamboree country music festival was killed when a storm caused the main stage to collapse just before 6 p.m. on Aug. 1. An estimated 75 were injured.
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LAS VEGAS — Full Tilt Poker’s NBC reality show, Face The Ace, gives amateur players a crack at $1 million if they can beat the best professional poker players in the world. LD Justin Garrone of Innovative Show Design used LEDs from Acclaim lighting, supplied by CYM Lighting Services for the set design.
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JERSEY CITY, NJ — Daktronics and Upstage Video are once again supporting the All Points West Music & Arts Festival at Liberty State Park with a set of PST-12HD modular video displays for the main stage.
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IRVINE, CA — For 311’s June and July 2009 Unity tour dates, which promoted the band’s latest album, Uplifter, lighting designer/director Joe Paradise hoisted a lighting rig that included Coemar Infinity Wash XL, ACL and ParLite LED gear.
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ARGYLE, TX — GoVision broke ground on the new headquarters facility it is building in Argyle, Texas, near Dallas-Fort Worth, just east of I-35W. The company will operate with a 50,000-square-foot warehouse, the first building to rise on a 25-acre commercial parcel being developed by Denkmann Associates, LLC as Gateway Business Park.
Read More »CHARLOTTE, NC — For the current Nine Inch Nails and Jane’s Addiction tour, NIN|JA Summer Tour 2009, lighting designer Roy Bennett and co-designer Jason Bullock, who is also the lighting director/programmer, chose the ChamSys MagicQ console for control.
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McMURRAY, PA — South Hills Bible Chapel uses the Broadcast Pix Slate 3016 integrated production system to provide a live feed of worship services around its facility, including I-Mag for its congregation, and to produce DVDs for broadcast on local access cable channels in the Pittsburgh area.
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