QUEBEC CITY — An outdoor roofing structure for the Grand Rire Comedy Festival collapsed amid wet, windy weather at about 7:30 a.m. June 30 in Quebec City’s Place d’Youville, near the city’s historic district. No one was hurt.
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ORLANDO — InfoComm International announced that Adele De Berri, the founder Da-Lite Screen Company, has been posthumously awarded the first InfoComm International Adele De Berri Pioneers of AV Award.
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DETROIT —The Detroit Science Center recently opened the Toyota Engineering Theater (TET) with X-4D motion EFX seats, projectors, screens and other gear supplied by MediaMation, Inc.
Read More »BILLERICA, MA — Broadcast Pix and First Option Capital announced a new financing program designed to help U.S.-based dealers and customers upgrade to new technology without a large initial cash outlay.
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NASHVILLE — Video and lighting filled the void left by the absence of traditional scenery for this year’s CMT Music Awards, broadcast live from the Sommet Center.
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Michael Vergauwen, 52, died June 28 in a drowning accident in Lake Michigan. Vergauwen was executive vice president and COO of AVI Systems and secretary/treasurer of InfoComm International.
Read More »NEW YORK — The ESTA Foundation launched eSET, an Internet-based source for terminology used within the entertainment technology industry.
Read More »NEW YORK — Starting July 15, candidates thinking of taking ETCP’s Rigger/Arena, Rigger/Theatre and Entertainment Electrician certification exams will have a new way to prepare for the tests. ETCP will be offering 50-question practice exams for each test for $35 at www.goamp.com.
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Winfield W. “Buz” Ward III, age 59, who had worked in the music touring industry for more than 30 years, passed away June 20, 2009.
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MIDDLETON, WI — ETC is helping lighting technicians and programmers use their iPhones as lighting controllers. The company has released their iRFR (Radio Focus Remote for iPhone and iPod Touch), and said it would donate all the proceeds to industry-aid organizations Behind the Scenes and Light Relief.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, FL — Okay, maybe it only goes so far in simulating the G-forces and weightlessness. But taking a virtual journey into space via the new Shuttle Launch Experience doesn't set visitors back for anything more than what they already paid to get inside Kennedy Space Center — $38 per adult, $28 per child.
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PITTSBURGH — Four stories above the sidewalk, workers placed lights inside a PNC Bank building to illuminate 10-foot-tall letters that collectively read, “Lets Go Pens,” supporting the Penguins, winners of the 2009 Stanley Cup.
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