NEW CASTLE, DE – Industry veteran Anne Johnston has joined Pete’s Big TVs as an Account Rep. Based in the New York/Tri-State area, Johnston will serve the company’s video equipment rental clients in the concert touring, TV and special/corporate events market. Her start date is Jan. 6, 2014. Johnston has worked in these same markets, most recently as VP of Marketing at Production Resource Group (PRG).
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Bandit Lites has announced the release of an iOS and Android app for the entertainment technology industry. The app serves as a portal for new and existing Bandit Lites customers to interact and communicate with the Knoxville based company. The app offers access to new gear, quotes, rentals and upcoming events and past shows Bandit Lites has been involved with.
For more details: www.banditlites.com
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MIRAMAR, FL – Barbizon named AV veteran Bob Leonard general manager of the company’s Florida operations, based here. Prior to Barbizon, Leonard, a 20-year industry veteran, was the managing director for Digital Video Systems (DVS), also based in Miramar, FL. Barbizon CEO Jonathan Resnick made the announcement.
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NEW CASTLE, DE – Donny and Marie Osmond are spreading their holiday spirit in song and dance around the U.S. on their 15-city Christmas tour. Pete’s Big TVs is again supplying a full video HD production system for the show, and enhanced its production values over last year’s tour. They’re providing newer LED technology, and more screens in larger sizes.
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On Thanksgiving day, Selena Gomez took the stage during the Halftime Show at the Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, TX. John P. Marovich, designed of the past eight halftime shows in Dallas, used 160 of the Chauvet Professional Nexus 4×4 LED panels to make two low res video panels measuring 15′ high by 24′ wide.
For more details: www.chauvetprofessional.com
SAN DIEGO, CA — The PEERS Network (Philanthropy, Entrepreneurship, Environment, Relationships, Social), a charity group launched by California entrepreneurs, held its 5th Annual Black Tie Gala here earlier this fall. The event, which raised $335,000 for the locally-based Challenged Athletes Foundation, was lit with 4Wall-supplied Clay Paky and Martin gear. LG Productions’ CEO, Luke Gulley, oversaw the event’s production.
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NASHVILLE — Longtime Bandit Lites crew member and lighting director Sam “Old Skool” Harden died Nov. 29. Harden had worked on Bandit Lites-supplied productions for close to 20 years, most recently supporting Toby Keith’s tours.
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KNOXVILLE, TN – Tomcat’s custom projects director, Keith Bohn, has announced that he will be leaving the company. “We wish him all the best in his future endeavors and welcome the opportunity to work with him again,” noted Scott Johnson, CEO. “Our industry is not only more educated, but a far safer place because of the work and effort Keith has contributed.”
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NASHVILLE, TN – In 1968, 12 year old Michael Strickland began “borrowing” lights to provide better lighting to touring acts making their way through Nashville. Forty-five years later, Strickland’s company has emerged as one of the largest rental and production companies in the U.S. Bandit Lites is now marking 45 years of being in business and continues to look forward toward the future.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark – The design goal of The Blue Planet, Denmark’s new national aquarium, was to make the aquarium’s visitors feel like they had entered the world of the sea surrounding it. Using Rosco’s X24 Effects Projector, lighting Designer Jesper Garde Kongshaug created a realistic and controllable water effect to accomplish that goal as he projected that effect throughout the vast concourse areas inside the aquarium.
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