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03 September 2025

Austria - AV Stumpfl celebrated the opening of its new 2,200m² production hall at its headquarters in Wallern an der Trattnach together with its entire team during this year’s summer family festival.

Fuelled by a good economy in the United States – one of AV Stumpfl’s major sales markets – the company is experiencing a strong increase in demand.

More than 10 years ago, AV Stumpfl strategically established a US subsidiary in Atlanta, Georgia, to bring its innovative systems – developed and manufactured with dedication in Upper Austria – to the US live entertainment, hospitality and film industries.

The new facility adds 2,200m² of production space, effectively doubling the company’s production capacity. Last year, AV Stumpfl invested in new equipment for a second production line and welcomed 20 new team members. Until now, this

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03 September 2025

UK - AbsenLive, the dedicated live events category brand from Absen, will recreate the Oasis Live Tour LED set at PLASA Show 2025. From 7-9 September at Olympia London, the AbsenLive Experience Zone (located in the Oly Room) will transport visitors back to experience the band on stage once more.

For this special feature at PLASA, the production team behind the official tour is partnering with Absen to provide an exceptional visual experience in the AbsenLive Experience Zone. Disguise will be powering the screens, while Brompton will be handling the processing. Additionally, Adam Hall is supplying the lighting and sound to ensure a first-class production.

Absen’s VN4.8 Pro, used for all sold-out UK tour dates this summer, will take centre stage, immersing visitors in the energy, the sights and sounds alongside live footage and photography of the com

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02 September 2025

UAE - PPDS, the global provider of Philips Professional Displays and complementary solutions, has announced a new strategic distribution partnership with FVC, expanding its reach and strengthening its presence across the Middle East and parts of North Africa.

Under this new agreement, FVC will represent and distribute the full PPDS portfolio of Philips Professional Displays – including the latest digital signage, direct view LED displays, and professional TVs.

Headquartered in Dubai, FVC is a value-added distributor with a long standing reputation for bringing leading edge audiovisual and unified communications technologies to the market. The partnership ensures that systems integrators and end customers in the region can access the PPDS portfolio, supported by FVC’s extensive partner ecosystem and technical expertise.

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02 September 2025

Europe - Stage Precision has joined the OpenAV Cloud, a global, nonprofit initiative dedicated to building an open, connected audiovisual industry. The OpenAV Cloud fosters interoperability through open APIs and shared protocols, ensuring that AV systems, tools and platforms can communicate seamlessly across brands, disciplines and geographies.

By becoming part of the OpenAV Cloud community, Stage Precision is reinforcing its long-standing mission of delivering customers true freedom of choice, flexibility and system integration without lock-in.

At the heart of this commitment is SP Grid, Stage Precision’s flagship platform for managing and synchronising live data across complex AV workflows. SP Grid acts as a universal data backbone, bridging tracking systems, media servers, lighting desks, automation controllers, and more, so creatives and engine

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02 September 2025

UK - Van Damme has expanded its digital video portfolio with the introduction of new Enhanced UHD Vision 12GHz coaxial cables.

Engineered to support the latest SMPTE ST 2082 12G-SDI single-link transmission, the new range ensures uncompromising signal integrity for demanding UHD and 4K/8K video workflows. With enhanced performance and extended transmission distances, these coaxials are designed for reliability in both fixed installations and live production environments.

The new products include: Van Damme 75 Ohm Enhanced UHD Vision 12GHz RG6 LSZH (278-875-006); Van Damme 75 Ohm Enhanced UHD Vision 12GHz RG11 (268-875-011); Van Damme 75 Ohm Enhanced UHD Vision 12GHz RG6 (268-875-006) and Van Damme 75 Ohm Enhanced UHD Vision 12GHz 0.7/2.9 coax (268-075-006).

With calculated transmission distances of up to 227m at 6Gb/s and 105m at 12Gb/s (RG11

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01 September 2025

France - Harman Professional Solutions has announced the appointment of Freevox as the distributor of its AMX video and control solutions in France, effective 1 September 2025. This new agreement builds on Freevox’s existing role distributing Harman Professional’s audio brands, including JBL Professional, BSS, Crown, Soundcraft, Lexicon, and dbx.

“Expanding our relationship with Freevox to include AMX is a natural next step,” said Scott Aslett, sr. commercial director, EMEA, Harman Professional Solutions. “Their deep technical knowledge, strong customer relationships, and proven track record in the French market make them an ideal partner to represent our control and video solutions. We’re excited to see how this collaboration will elevate the AMX brand in France.”

With headquarters in Paris and a long-standing presence in the French AV

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01 September 2025

USA - Since 1960, Cincinnati Public Radio (CPR) has provided listeners in southwest Ohio, southeast Indiana, and northern Kentucky with a steady diet of journalism and engaging cultural programming. In 2018, the organisation committed to an ambitious reimagining of their headquarters in the form of a new, two-story facility that would provide them with more modern technical capabilities and ample event programming spaces to serve as a cultural hub for their community of listeners.

To ensure that the new headquarters would have top-of-the-line AV production facilities seamlessly blended into this new vision, the organisation made architectural acoustic designers WSDG a key player in the design, construction, and AV systems integration team they assembled for the project.

The team – consisting of architects Emersion Design, construction managers Skan

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26 August 2025

UK - LED walls, IMAG screens, and holographic projections elevated Lana Del Rey’s five-date summer stadium tour across the UK and Ireland, delivering a “theatrical and emotionally charged spectacle,” powered by Hippotizer Media Servers.

Phil White of nlitedesign LTD specified and supplied two Hippotizer Tierra+ MK2 and two Boreal+ MK2 Media Servers in a primary and backup configuration for the stadium shows. The tour stopped at major venues, including Cardiff’s Principality Stadium, Anfield Stadium in Liverpool, and two sold-out nights at London’s Wembley Stadium.

“The initial brief called for a three-part stage LED wall and IMAG screens, but we quickly expanded that to include a projection surface, holographic projections, and downstage wing LED screens on either side of the stage,” explained White, who has collaborated with Lana Del R

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26 August 2025

USA - Audinate Group has announced the appointment of TJ Adams to the newly-created position of chief platform officer. Adams joins Audinate from QSC, where he was senior vice-president, Q-SYS product strategy and was instrumental in the development of the Q-SYS platform. He previously held engineering, sales and product management roles at Biamp and SITA (formerly Com-Net Software).

In his new role, Adams will lead Audinate’s platform strategy to deliver an interoperable audio, video, control and management platform. Building on an established and strong foundation across the millions of Dante-enabled devices in the field, Adams will lead Audinate’s initiatives to deliver cohesive platform software, products and service offerings for designers, integrators and users of AV systems across a wide spectrum of vertical markets and applications. He will repor

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22 August 2025

USA - Sir Tom Jones returned to the road with a new production that blends powerful video content with a bold, versatile lighting design, supplied by Bandit Lites. Under the vision of lighting designer Mark Cunniffe, the rig showcases both technical precision and artistic flair, seamlessly enhancing Jones’s dynamic performances.

Cunniffe’s design centred around creating a cohesive integration between lighting and video, making the visuals feel like a natural extension of the artist’s storytelling. Rather than traditional left-and-right IMAG, the video content served as the backbone of the production, with carefully programmed lighting weaving between video columns to complement the immersive atmosphere.

“I have always been a fan of the Claypaky B-Eye,” shared Cunniffe. “It is a very versatile unit and when used in full pixel mode it can c

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22 August 2025

Spain - PPDS has announced the installation of a Philips Urban LED wall at FC Barcelona’s Ciutat Esportiva training campus.

Together with FC Barcelona’s commitment to installing advanced and sustainable technologies in its new Spotify Camp Nou stadium – for which Philips Professional Displays is the official digital display supplier – the club also prides itself on developing and implementing the latest training methods and innovations, with an ever-growing emphasis on technology to help stay on top.

Ahead of the 2025/2026 La Liga season, FC Barcelona sought new opportunities to upgrade Pitch 1, with the introduction of a state-of-the-art display system to bring new visual capabilities and detailed analysis to the touchline for both coaching and playing staff. Now known as Camp Tito Vilanova, Pitch 1 is the first team’s official training ar

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22 August 2025

Europe - TAF has released the LED Frame 4 – the largest and most powerful LED Support Structure in the TAF LED Frame range.

Engineered to safely support LED screens up to 10 × 8m and carry loads of up to 3500kg, while withstanding wind speeds up to 54 km/h, this robust structure delivers maximum strength, uncompromising stability, and flawless performance for the most demanding events – whether indoors or outdoors.

All trussing components are equipped with TAF’s Quicklock connection system, and all necessary connection hardware is included as standard to ensure a fast and efficient setup.

From massive music festivals and open-air arenas to high-impact indoor venues, TAF’s LED Frame 4 is designed to elevate powerful visuals and keep them steady from start to finish.

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22 August 2025

UK - PRG UK’s corporate events team continues to grow with the appointment of Cameron Bannister as director of corporate & special events, Ben Hornshaw as head of projects and the addition of Scott Rooney – Ashby as account director, joining technical account manager Nick Clarke.

Cameron has been a pillar at PRG for over 16 years with 10 years in the corporate market, successfully delivering high-profile events across the globe. His portfolio includes large-scale events including the open ceremonies and full-service productions for clients including NVIDIA, Google and UEFA. “Our side of the business has seen incredible success this year and we are continuing to push forward into 2026,” says Bannister. “With our newly strengthened team, I’m very excited to continue to deliver outstanding events around the world, ensuring our clients receive th

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21 August 2025

UK - LANG is expanding its LED portfolio with LIAM, a transparent product that takes lightness and image quality to a new level.

The cabinet measures 1x1m, weighs just 12kg, and is therefore particularly easy to handle. It has a pixel pitch of 6.25mm, a brightness of 4,200 nits, and a transparency of 50 percent to ensure clear, detailed images.

“The combination of active matrix and its light weight makes LIAM a unique product in the transparent LED sector - and a real game-changer for creative stage applications, especially outdoors,” says Svenja Mevissen, director of LED & displays at LANG AG.

Thanks to active matrix technology with integrated driver IC, each LED is controlled individually. This prevents annoying scan lines, ensures high viewing comfort, and enables a brilliant and uniform image - even for video and photo recordings.

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20 August 2025

UK - Video company Universal Pixels (UP) has been right behind Oasis’ reunion since it kicked off at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium. Two dates set the template for Oasis Live ’25, 41 performances in 13 countries across five months. 

Production manager Tony Gittins tasked UP with colouring Paul Normandale’s show design in the shape of a complete video package. Commissioned 12 months ago, UP invested in the image quality of Absen’s Venus 4.8mm LED, developing and delivering a huge upstage wall – 1,100sqm in Heaton Park - with IMAG screens 10 degrees back on either side.

Universal Pixels brought in Brompton Technology to manage the ambitious video setup, deploying 16 4K Tessera SX40 LED video processors and 34 Tessera XD 10G data distribution units, chosen for their ability to provide full redundancy, superb image quality, and colo

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19 August 2025

Georgia/Armenia - Van Damme has expanded its distribution network with the appointment of Pro-Sound and Light as its exclusive partner to cover Georgia and Armenia. The appointment provides Van Damme’s first dedicated local presence to support customers in both countries.

Pro-Sound and Light is an established distributor and systems integrator with a deep understanding of the challenges and complexities of the local market in both Armenia and Georgia. Van Damme joins a high-level roster of international AV brands that the company already represents, including Electro-Voice, Kramer, Eve Audio, Avonic and Dynacord.

“We are delighted to name Pro-Sound and Light as our exclusive distributor for Armenia and Georgia,” said Adam Jafrabadi, export director at Van Damme. “We know that these countries are part of an important and growing market with hu

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19 August 2025

China - 2025 celebrates a landmark 25 years of Absen at the forefront of LED display innovation. Since its inception in 2001, the company has evolved into a global force, delivering LED solutions to over 140 countries and regions.

With more than 60,000 installations worldwide, from high-profile installations at live events and sports venues to corporate lobbies, control rooms, and virtual production studios, the company’s impact is visible in many well-known and demanding environments.

As Absen looks to the future, its mission evolves with it. The company has unveiled a refreshed brand tagline: previously ‘Trusted LED Supplier’ to ‘Global Leader in LED Display Technology and Solutions’. This shift reflects Absen’s ambition not only to deliver exceptional products, but to continue shaping the future of the LED industry through sustainable

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19 August 2025

UK - The second edition of the Yungblud-curated Bludfest took place this year at Milton Keynes Bowl. With an emphasis on inclusivity and diversity both on and off the stage, the occasion proved to be another success.

Once again, Production Futures was invited to the event and enjoyed engaging with more than a thousand young people interested to find out more about potential roles in the production industries. True to the organisation’s ethos, and keen to showcase the talents of the next generation, the Production Futures brand activation area was designed, constructed, and run by two students from the Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies, part of Nottingham Trent University.

Abigail Skelton and Ant Ioannou are both in their second year at Confetti, and having first crossed paths with Hannah Eakins of Production Futures at an On Tour

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19 August 2025

Germany - Stage Precision has announced the release of SP Grid Viewer, available to download now on the App Store. This new iOS application extends the capabilities of Stage Precision’s SP Grid platform, offering SP Grid users live access and control of their custom-built interfaces directly from their iPhone or iPad.

The SP Grid Viewer app is designed to meet the needs of technicians, operators or creative teams who depend on SP Grid’s data-routing and control solutions in high-pressure environments. Whether backstage at an event, crafting an immersive installation or monitoring technical AV systems remotely, SP Grid Viewer gives users direct control over their existing SP Grid interfaces from their Apple device. The app supports full-screen UIs, both portrait and landscape modes and secure connection options, making it a powerful mobile tool for profes

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18 August 2025

Spain - When Dutch singer Yves Berendse took to the stage at Amsterdam’s Ziggo Dome in June for two sold-out concerts, he did so beneath a colossal Y-shaped LED screen that became the instant visual signature of the shows. Measuring 14m tall and 4m wide, the centrepiece was built to order by Dutch visual integration specialist MHB AV using AR3.9 panels from INFiLED’s AR Series of high-performance LED displays.

For Berendse, who shot to fame after his single Terug in de tijd (Back in Time) went viral on TikTok and topped the Dutch top 40 for six weeks, performing at the Amsterdam arena was a boyhood dream come true. To mark the milestone, his booking agency, Agents After All, conceived an ambitious stage design with a massive Y-shaped structure as its centrepiece – a challenge that required both the engineering and creative expertise o

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14 August 2025

Europe - CLM10.4 LED screens from Leyard have been provided by event and theatre technology supplier Blue-i Europe for two major stage productions currently captivating audiences: Holiday on Ice and & Juliet. These shows are using Leyard's technology to enhance their live experience.

Since November 2024, Holiday on Ice has been touring a new production across Europe, with performances stretching through to April 2026. With over 80 years of success, more than 330m viewers have experienced the magic of Holiday on Ice in over 100 different shows at almost 60,000 performances on five continents. The annual spectacle, under the direction of executive producer Michiel Morssinkhof and CEO Peter O’Keeffe, has been included in the Guinness Book of World Records five times. As part of this show, Leyard’s CarbonLight

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14 August 2025

Europe - Ashton Bentley, a Kramer-owned innovator of advanced integrated meeting room technology, is continuing its commitment to delivering cutting-edge, complete meeting room solutions to businesses around the world, with the latest X-Range family offering comprehensive USB-C based connectivity solutions for meeting spaces.

Bringing advanced connectivity and seamless collaboration capabilities to almost any environment – from small meeting rooms to large lecture theatres – the X-Range is a modular family of USB-C enabled AV connectivity solutions designed to simplify and standardise hybrid collaboration across modern workspaces. The line amalgamates more than 60 years of combined innovation, expertise, and experience, following Kramer’s acquisition of Ashton Bentley in 2024.

The X-Range showcases the power of collaborative innovation and furt

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13 August 2025

Japan - Lightware’s MX2-48X48-HDMI20-A-R matrix switcher has become a pivotal component in bringing the Koishikawa XROSS Digital Museum to life. An immersive, VR theatre within the museum, located at TOPPAN Koishikawa – a leading global provider of integrated solutions – in Japan, is designed to transport visitors into hyper-realistic, 360-degree environments.

The VR theatre boasts a 20m-wide and 5m-high Crystal LED curved LED screen to display 16K ultra-high-definition VR imagery, providing visitors with a highly immersive and realistic experience, along with a Leyard ceiling LED screen and a LED floor screen, designed to fully immerse audiences in striking visuals of clarity and scale.

With such advanced technology came equally complex technical demands. TOPPAN required a system that could support HDMI 2.0 distribution across a 64×64 matrix,

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13 August 2025

UK - Solstice AV has announced the appointment of Mike Day as technical sales manager – LED. Effective immediately, Hampshire-based Mike brings almost 15 years of knowledge and experience in the AV industry to the Solstice team, including more than three years of hands-on LED expertise and over a decade in distribution-focused roles.

Reporting to Solstice AV company director Paul Midwood, Mike joins the team at a time of significant opportunity for LED in the UK, as demand continues to grow across an ever-expanding range of markets, including corporate, education, and extended reality (XR) environments. Solstice AV works with a growing number of leading global LED manufacturers, including PPDS (Philips Professional Displays), BOE, LianTronics, and more.

Mike will be instrumental in developing Solstice AV’s technical sales capabilities and support