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Norway - Lighting designer Al Gurdon specified nearly 1,900 Chroma-Q LED fixtures to provide a stunning lighting and video effects wall forming the centrepiece of the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest, Europe's largest non-sport television production.

Oslo, hosted the 56th Eurovision event at the Telenor Arena. The three live shows, consisting of two semi-finals and Saturday's final, were watched on television and online by an estimated audience of over 120m people in 45 countries. In addition, over 80,000 people attended the live shows and various dress rehearsals.

The event was televised by host broadcaster, NRK and featured a core production team working under the leadership of executive producer, Jon Ola Sand and TV producer, Hasse Lindmo. Production management design was by Ola

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Norway - ShowTex supplied all stage drapes and decorative fabrics for the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo's Telenor Arena.

Marjon Franken of the Dutch ShowTex office comments, "The curtains and stage motion systems had to be gorgeous and versatile for this show. Each of the 39 performances had their own look and feel. Thomas Nysveen, Kirsten Weltzin, Bonsak Schieldrop, Audun Stjern and Trond Olav Erga from this year's host broadcaster NRK the Norsk Rikskringkasting created the stage."

The round stage featured a ShowTex Kabuki modular drop system, DekoSilk semi-sheer Venetia drapes and projection surfaces, Choucroute Heavy, PolyStretch dimensional sculptures, Molton CS backdrops, DekoTaft wall drapes, and ShowLED Chameleon RGB starcloth systems.

For the top Belgian entry by Tom Dice, Me and My Guitar, ShowTex Molton CS masked light perfectly and ShowLED

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Australia - The new $58m winter sports facility Icehouse, located at Melbourne's Waterfront City precinct in the Docklands, is one of the more impressive pieces of infrastructure built in this city for a long time.

Billed as the largest winter sport facility in the southern hemisphere, the Icehouse features two full-sized ice rinks suitable for ice hockey, curling, short-track speed skating, figure skating, and recreational skating.

The Bradbury Rink is designed as a family friendly entertainment rink, with 'general skating' already proving to be very popular. The rink features a striking audio visual design by Massteknik, including a JBL sound system and a light show that would not look out of place at a major city nightclub. Both rinks also have massive LED screens at the end of them, with the Rink 1 screen being used as a scoreboard for ice-Hockey, while the 8m wide screen

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Malaysia - K.M.E. reports that one of the leading full service providers for audio, video and stage equipment in Malaysia, SES Sound Electronic Service SDN BHD is using a substantial Pano line array system. The configuration consists of line source units QL 906, down-fill units QL 1215 , low mid extensions QLM 115 and cardioid subs QCB 318 plus controlling.

SES Sound is equipping many industry events, including the annual Anugerah Industry Muzik which was held for the 17th time this year. The AIM is the most important music award in Malaysia. The event, presented by Afdlin Shauki and Adibah Noor, took place at Putra World Trade Centre in Kuala Lumpur on 2 May 2010. The centre is situated in the heart of KL and offers multi-purpose facilities with modern audio-visual infrastructure.

The organizers requested a system which could be integrated inconspicuously into the stage yet p

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Eurovision Update - The teenager who represented the UK at the Eurovision Song Contest has said he is "still smiling" despite coming last in the competition. Josh Dubovie, 19, from Basildon in Essex, scored just 10 points with a song penned by Pete Waterman. Dubovie said it had been "a privilege to represent the UK" and one of the best experiences of his life.

Acts from 25 countries took part in the event. It was won by Germany, whose entrant Lena scored 246 points. Turkey's MaNga came in second place, with Romania third and Denmark fourth. This is the third time the UK has finished in the bottom spot in the past eight years, following on from Jemini in 2003 and Andy Abraham in 2008.

Dubovie, who was chosen to represent the UK after securing the most public votes on Your Country Needs You! on BBC One in March, said, "This has been one of the bes

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UK - Hoist UK has launched their revamped website, www.hoistuk.com which has enhanced new features and informative new content, along with improved navigation and usability.

"An interactive news feed section has been added to the website, allowing visitors to the site to be kept fully informed of the latest new product releases and project news from Hoist UK and our leading suppliers" comments Tony Dickson, director of Hoist UK. "The case studies section allows our existing and of course our new customers to see the exciting projects and installations that we have been involved with."

Fellow Director Paul Jordan comments, "As we continue to grow as a company, it is extremely important that our customers, and potential customers have easy access to product information, downloads, and new product updates."

(Jim Evans)

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Turkey - The meeting and party areas of the resort of Mardan Palace in Antalya features top-of-the-range lighting supplied by Coemar. The style of the resort combines the Ottoman-flavour gold colours and finishes with the clean-cut lines of European design, creating spaces with attention to every detail, where luxury is expressed to the full.

To achieve a more harmonious blend of the lighting equipment with the architecture of Mardan Palace, Coemar has customised its projectors where necessary, colouring them gold or white according to their use.

In the jazz bar, the stage is entirely lit by Coemar LED products, which produce a high output in limited dimensions, without heating the surrounding area. Thirty-six Pinlite LEDS provide the basic lighting, each with 12 1.2 W Luxeon LEDs, four red, four green and four blue. Six I Wash Leds moving heads are installed for the moving li

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Germany - The prediction of the coverage, loudspeaker alignment and mechanical set up of loudspeaker arrays is vital for an accurate and efficient sound system design. To this end d&b, has now updated its ArrayCalc simulation software for its line and subwoofer arrays. After releasing the bespoke ArrayCalc software packages of Version 5 in 2009 that introduced the SubArray calculations including a sophisticated time alignment feature, the new Version 6 now expands this acknowledged performance and functionality, says the company.

Apart from many new features such as increased number of listening planes, arrays and subwoofers, it primarily introduces a number of realistic functions. Included in these is a selection of different excitation signals, sine, 1/3 octave filtered noise, pink noise or IEC 60268 noise, for the simulation of the sound level distribution and absolute sound

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UAE - Nicolas Kyvernitis Electronics Enterprises, distributors of Shure microphones and audio electronics in the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar and Oman have supplied a complete range of wireless microphones and wireless in ear monitors to production company, 7 Productions & Events.

Although a newcomer to the market, 7 Productions & Events has quickly managed to create a presence in the OB rental business. Currently the company boasts an OB truck with 16 cameras, which has been used to cover many live events that include concerts, sports coverage's and other additional outside broadcast occasions.

"7 Productions & Events has a fleet of professional OB vans that supplement their services with top of the range equipment," commented Richie Hiranandani, marketing manager. "Their recent purchase emphasises the presence of Shure products not only in installed an

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UK - 5 Star Cases is once again exhibiting at the ABTT Theatre Show in central London this month, showing all its latest products relevant to the theatre, performing arts and presentation sectors.

Says 5 Star's Keith Sykes: "ABTT has always been a good show for us. The atmosphere is friendly and not too frantic, and it allows time to network, mix and talk business with our clients and friends in a semi-social environment."

The latest new product is a portable lectern system, which comes complete with integral heavy industrial grade case. This has been developed to address all the frustrating and time consuming issues surrounding setting up lecterns.

5 Star's stylish lectern is manufactured from birch plywood which is CNC machined at their factory in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire on one of three Thermwood CNC machining centres. It is aimed at AV rental companies operating

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UK - Integrator IVC Media has announced a new focus for its management team. John Smith who joined IVC at the start of 2010, as sales director, will take over as managing director and Ray Harding, former IVC MD, will step up to the role of chairman from 1 June. In addition, the company is creating Operations, Commercial and Sales divisions to allow services to be tailored even more closely to customer requirements.

"IVC works with some of the world's leading organisations in the field of IT, AV and broadcast installations," saysohn Smith, managing director of IVC Media. "This is an exciting time at IVC and in the past few months we have developed a clear strategy for the company moving forward and have now put in place a simple structure to allow the team to focus fully on tailoring our offering to particular customers' requirements.

"There have been some r

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Croatia - L-Acoustics' Croatian distributor Dicroic has installed a system of 108P coaxial enclosures into the new Terminal B at Dubrovnik Airport, opened in late May by Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor.

Two rows of eight 108P active coaxials have been installed; the first on the ground floor and the second below the roof on the third floor. Built-in microphones on each of the eight gates on the ground floor can notify travellers in any part of the terminal, using any combination of the 108Ps, from one localised speaker to the entire terminal.

"We've managed to get extremely good results in this large area in terms of excellent sound coverage without reflection, with a relatively small amount of enclosures," says Slaven Tahirbegovic from Dicroic. "When we compare the sound with other airports, the main difference is that using the L-Acoustics 108Ps, we have managed

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USA - "For me the imperative was it had to be transformational," says Doug 'Spike' Brant of Performance Environment Design Group (PEDG), the conceptual force behind Bon Jovi's latest tour. "The show essentially starts with nothing and then morphs and changes throughout - there's always the unexpected."

Encompassing the unexpected fell to Tait Towers. "We've worked with Doug many times before and he always challenges us," said Adam Davies Tait Towers VP. "His designs are theatrical in that they are complex underneath, but always look simple in execution and never detract from the artist."

Played 360 wherever possible, the stage is an ellipse within a circular walkway with automated lighting towers and robotic LED platforms to the rear. A video screen sits above. "These shows are even more elaborate than the last tour," said Bon

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UK - Through the countdown to the end of arguably one of the BBC's most controversial chat shows, Richard Martin Lighting continues to support lighting designer Chris Kempton on Friday Night with Jonathon Ross.

The show's rig includes Stage Zooms, MAC 250s, MAC 500s, MAC 700s, VL2000, Chroma Strips, Stage Bars, Pixel Pars, MR16 Battens with extras as and when required since 2002. This time it was the turn of the GLP Impressions/ XL which were the main focus whilst Groove Armada performed.

The chrome GLP Impression XL offers 240 LEDs. When asked about his choice of specification Kempton said, "I was delighted with the performance of the GLP units on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross. We always try to achieve fresh and distinctive lighting looks on the show and the GLPs are a very powerful unit both in light output and visual impact.

(Jim Evans)

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Switzerland - SpinetiX, developer of the Hyper Media Player hardware appliance, and Scala, the global connected signage company, have announced that their systems can now be integrated together to create cost-effective, flexible and reliable digital signage solutions without the need for a PC.

Scala's Content Manager 5 and Designer 5 software platforms can now deliver content to the dedicated SpinetiX HMP100 hardware device. The HMP100 uses the SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) family of open-standard specifications that allows XML-based file formats to describe static, dynamic and animated information. This means that dealers and systems integrators responsible for specifying digital signage rollouts are no longer tied to PC-based platforms when deploying a Scala solution with dynamic content.

Serge Konter, marketing manager, SpinetiX, comments, "Our Hyper Media Player tech

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USA Unveiled at this month's InfoComm in Las Vegas, the CMS 1201DC is a powerful large format in-ceiling loudspeaker device conceived, designed and built to complement Tannoy's existing class-leading CMS range. The CMS 1201DC is engineered from the ground up with superior full-range performance in mind to handle demanding distributed sound applications such as ballrooms, shopping malls, sports halls, airports and other high ceiling installations, says the company.

The new Dual Concentric drive assembly features a treated mid-bass cone and double rolled cambric surround for high sensitivity, as well as a 1.34" (34mm) aluminium dome with ferrofluid cooled Neodymium magnet assembly and a newly designed waveguide for the high frequency unit. These two drivers merge into one with the high frequency mounted in the throat of the mid-bass; coincidentally aligning both transducers t

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UK - Back in December 2009, Litestructures were approached by newly formed Formula One racing team, Virgin Racing, to design and manufacture a hospitality structure for the 2010 Formula One season. The structure, known in the paddock as a 'motorhome', naturally had to be portable to allow transportation between events, but equally, as a key part of the company's branding, it had to be different and have outstanding visual impact to highlight the team's new backer and stakeholder - Richard Branson's Virgin Group - for their debut Formula One season.

Litestructures immediately established a working relationship with the professional and ambitious young team, and once the drawings were signed off in February, Litestructures started work on the build with impressive results: the main structure is built from two-tier aluminium trussing in LitePro 290/390 with a brushed finish crowned

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UK / France - De Lane Lea - one of Europe's leading sound post production Facilities is delighted reports that it is now back open and ready for business. Based in the heart of London's Soho, the studios have undergone a major refit following a devastating fire in July 2009.

To celebrate the re-opening of the facility, De Lane Lea travelled to Cannes to sponsor the Women in Film and TV event in the UK Film Centre.

The event, attended by over 200 film industry invitees took place on the sunny first Sunday of Cannes and De Lane Lea CEO Huw Penallt Jones announced the facility back open for business and the launch of new department De Lane Lea Sound and Vision.

Back in London, the refurbished and modernised facility consists of four mixing studios and two ADR studios. At the heart of the facility is the impressive Studio One. Measuring some 16.5m long by 9.5m wide, the r

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UK - Roland Systems Group reports a substantial percentage increase in sales of its RSS portfolio of digital audio products to the house-of-worship market.

Reading-based audio systems integrator SFL, a specialist in the house of worship sector, has passed a significant milestone since becoming one of the first UK dealers for the RSS range. Mark Payne and his team have now sold 20 of the compact M-400 V-Mixing Systems, following the installation of two consoles into the newly-built Finchampstead Baptist Church in Berkshire, and a complete M-400 with 8-way M-48 Personal Monitor System to the Dominion Centre in London.

The FBC is an impressive house of worship, offering a rich variety of facilities to the local Baptist community which raised a substantial sum in grants and donations to build it. The modern design houses a sports hall, library, café and youth centre, all sp

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Greece/China - Telmaco, the Greek AV systems integration company, has partnered with Barco to equip the Greek pavilion during the Shanghai Expo 2010. With a combination of 21 events projectors and 16 near seamless LCD displays, they present visitors with a day in the life of a Greek city.

Telmaco is responsible for the design, equipment supply and commissioning of the Greek pavilion. To create this environment, Telmaco used a total of 18 RLM-W6 6,000 lumens WUXGA three-chip DLP projectors and three CLM HD8 8,000 lumens single-chip DLP projectors to create images on screens of various sizes, formats and curves.

"We have been a Barco distributor for Greece and Cyprus since 1978," says Athan Velouzos, market manager museums, VR, simulation from Telmaco S.A.. "We chose to use the RLM-W6 primarily for this installation, because it is the most silent projector availab

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UK / Benelux - D&M Professional Europe has announced an extended two year warranty in Benelux and the UK on all Denon Professional, Marantz Professional and Denon DJ products, supplied by it and purchased from authorised dealers and distributors. The initiative, effective from 1 April 2010, brings these territories into line with France and Germany in offering an extended warranty.

The warranty does not apply to D&M Professional products originating from other territories; whether purchased from authorised D&M Professional Europe dealers and distributors or not.

Commenting on the initiative, D&M Professional Europe brand director Mark Perrins stated, "In bringing Benelux and the UK into line with France and Germany, we are harmonising the level of service and aftersales support throughout our territory. The move also reflects the renowned reliability of our products, and

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