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Super Bowl XLIX Halftime Show photo by Brad Duns, courtesy ACT Lighting and Clay Paky

Super Bowl, Halftime Show Set Record for U.S. TV Viewership

GLENDALE, AZ — The viewing audience tuning in for Super Bowl XLIX on Feb. 1, where the Seattle Seahawks faced off against the New England Patriots at University of Phoenix Stadium, averaged 114.4 million, topping the record number of 112.2 million who watched Super Bowl XLVIII in 2014. Along with the closely contested game itself, the event featured an elaborate halftime show production with well-received performances by Katy Perry, Missy Elliott and Lenny Kravitz packed within a 12-minute span. (Katy Perry and Lenny Kravitz are pictured here.)

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Blizzard Lighting G-Streak

Blizzard Lighting G-Streak

Blizzard Lighting’s G-Streak is a 50W white COB LED beam fixture equipped with a 14-color-plus-white color wheel and a single static gobo wheel with 18 gobos that include beam degrees down to just 2 degrees. The fixture also includes an 8-facet prism.

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ANSI Approves E1.39, Fall Arrest on Portable Structures

NEW YORK – ANSI’s Board of Standards Review approved E1.39 on January 28. It was published the same day. ANSI E1.39 – 2015, Entertainment Technology – Selection and Use of Personal Fall Arrest Systems on Portable Structures Used in the Entertainment Industry, is now available for free download at http://tsp.plasa.org/freestandards. The free download is made possible by the sponsorship of Prosight Specialty Insurance.

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Prolyte Group launches new website

Prolyte Group Launches New Website

LEEK, The Netherlands – Experience the new website from Prolyte Group Prolyte is proud to announce the launch of its new website. Setting out to create a modern, full functional online platform to offer not only product information, but also inspiration and technical support, Prolyte aimed to reach out to its users by offering diverse yet relevant information for product as well as technical aspects.

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LB-Par Quad RGBW

Blizzard Lighting LB-Par Quad RGBW

Blizzard Lighting’s RGBW 4-in-1 LED PAR can is designed to meet the needs of mobile DJs, working bands or for permanent installation within a variety of venues. The fixture has 12 10W LEDs with features including scratch resistant composite housing with dual mounting brackets for flexible positioning.

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Solomon Group supports the production and design of the 2015 College Football Playoff Concert Series

Solomon Group Supports “AT&T Playoff Playlist Live” in Dallas

DALLAS – During the inaugural College Football Playoff in North Texas, Solomon Group was tasked with producing championship weekend’s premier concert series. AT&T Playoff Playlist Live was staged at American Airlines Center in Dallas and featured back­-to­-back nights of entertainment headlined by Lenny Kravitz Jan. 10 and Sting Jan. 11, just prior to the big game itself on Jan. 12 in AT&T Stadium, home to the Dallas Cowboys. The Ohio State Buckeyes beat the Oregon Ducks 42-20.

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DEL Scoreboard at the Olympic Stadium

Solotech Provides New Scoreboard at Olympic Stadium in Montreal

MONTREAL, Canada – Solotech provided the new scoreboard for Olympic Park stadium here. The new scoreboard features a 16mm pixel pitch LED display measuring 33.4 by 9.4 meters (WxH) – 3,380 square feet in all. The new screen, one of the largest in Canada, replaces two smaller screens installed in 1992. Along with the scoreboard, Solotech supplied and installed an electrical distribution system, a fiber video distribution system, image processors and a sports scoring system.

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TDC at Visions of Vienna with Sydney Symphony Orchestra (c) TDC

Visions of Austria Projected Onto Opera House “Sails” near Sydney Harbor

SYDNEY, Australia – Technical Direction Company (TDC) did its part to bring together the similar-sounding (but wildly differing) nations of Austria and Australia with Visions of Vienna – a large-format projection of imagery from Vienna on the “sails” of the iconic Sydney Opera House. The multi-media artistic project was a collaboration between the Vienna Tourist Board and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

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Paige Faure in the National Tour of Rogers+Hammersteins Cinderella photo by Carol Rosegg

LDs Taking Broadway’s “Cinderella” On Tour Get Assist from FocusTrack

NEW YORK – Following a successful run on Broadway, a touring version of Rodgers+Hammerstein’s Cinderella is hitting the road. LD Kenneth Posner and associate lighting designer John Viesta made some changes to the New York design for the road, switching the side ladder moving lights from Martin MAC 2000s to Vari*Lite VL3500s and replacing the overhead VL2500 Wash lights with LED par cans. They got an assist with that transition from FocusTrack.

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