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The move follows the strenuous efforts of BEIRG, the British Entertainment Industry Radio Group, to alert Ofcom to the threat its plans pose to the future of the UK's entertainment industry, and its campaign to highlight the RF requirements of the PMSE (Programme Making and Special Events) sector.

Ofcom's original proposals were set out in the Digital Dividend Review (DDR) consultation, published in December 2006. In response to the DDR consultation, BEIRG made strong recommendations to Ofcom outlining its concerns about the proposals, including the inabil

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Charles Uzzell, council business manager for planning and environment, said: "The extra numbers seem to have been effectively managed. We will be reviewing this post event with the organisers but we certainly have no significant concerns at this stage.

"We have noticed however that many of the camp sites were very full so this is something we may need to pick up on after the festival. The ground conditions have clearly been testing but we have been working with the organisers to ensure that this doesn't affect the management."

He added, "For us the most significant breach

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"This, for me, is what I particularly like about my DPA 4052 - its ability to pick up my instrument's entire range," he says. "It is compact, it is affordable, it's easy to use, and it sounds great! I'm now planning to extend its use to my cello."

Burney was introduced to the DPA 4052 by a sound engineer at a festival in Brae, Ireland. "I was playing there with Rene Marie and we were all blown away by how full the bass sounded, in both the house and the monitors," he continues. "I immediately inquired about the microphone, cont

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Eugene Vertyachikh, IBERI project manager, comments: "We saw Cornered at PLASA and at the Frankfurt fair, and became interested because of the discrete and innovative design. When we tested the products here in Russia, they actually exceeded our expectations and we are pleased that we can now provide our design conscious customers with a loud, clean and compact installation speaker system."

Hans V. Madsen, founder of Cornered Audio Systems states: "Russia is to my opinion the most interesting market in Europe at the moment. IBERI have a str

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Croatian national television broadcast the show live via 13 cameras operating throughout the stadium. The screens displayed live broadcast together with video clips from a Maxedia video server. Signals from the video server and cameras were managed by a Vista Spyder 344 processor and Analog Way Eventix seamless switcher / scaler.

A total of 112 modules were built into eight columns across the giant stage. The d11R fast rig modules made installation and de-rig an easy task for the one day event.

"This latest event was a great success; the concert producers we

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The evangelistic movement, founded by Reinhard Bonnke in 1974, generally stages events in Africa, where audiences ranging in size from 100,000-1.6 million gather.

A long-time live sound veteran, Hopkinson can generally be found behind an analogue mixing board. But when CfaN's technical manager Derek Murray suggested using one of Wigwam's five Digidesign Venue systems, the FOH man needed to reshape his thinking.

"Christian events are not like a normal rock show when you know there's a set list and set time. With something like this anything can happen - sometimes it's entirely spontaneous, and the prosp

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The centerpiece of the new kit is the spray etch machine, which has been specifically designed for PI's requirements. It is a fully conveyorised system. The exposed and developed metal plates pass through a double-sided spray-etching chamber where the required images are etched through the metal surfaces. The plates are then washed, stripped of photo resist and cleaned.

PI's Jim Douglas says: "We are best known for our glass gobo work, in particular our expertise in custom colour gobos. However, the general increase in business over the

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The Cork Opera House has recently used Stage Electrics' expertise to train its staff and now will be hosting the open courses at the end of August.

Course schedules include: Moving Light Masterclass and Advanced Strand Desk Programming. The Cork Opera House is also the first venue to host the newly developed Stage Flying & Rigging course. This course covers counterweight flying, single & double purchase, traditional hemp flying and rope craft together with LOLER principles and legislation, rigging, truss and motors.

Sara Alarabi, training manager for Stage Electrics, says: "I am delighted that we are expanding beyond the UK and are now running our popular technical th

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Sandra Serrano, formerly sales manager for Caius Technologies, has been responsible for the setting up of the company in partnership with Duran Audio BV and will taken on the role of managing director of Duran Audio Iberia.

"Previously there had been an AXYS presence in Portugal with many high profile projects having been completed," says Serrano. "However, Spain was a completely new market for AYXS products and technologies which presented many exciting opportunities. So, my idea was to create a structure that was 100% dedicated to AXYS products; offering the highest level of pre and post sales support, which is essential when distributing such high technology prod

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For the last 27 years, Nexo has been located in a facility in nearby Roissy, a campus-style operation which was the result of two decades of expansion across a large section of a suburban North Paris industrial park. In 2004, plans were prepared for the construction of a new facility, which began in late 2005.

Nexo's Plailly headquarters has taken its design criteria from industrial ergonomics, placing special emphasis on manufacturing process and quality control. Nexo founders Eric Vincenot and Micky Johnson have expressed total satisfaction with the new premises, and director general

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The alpha system and spectacular optical attractions - including a state-of-the-art laser show and no fewer than 17 video screens prompted DJ Luciano, in a recent interview with the scene magazine De Bug, to credit the club, which can accommodate up to 1,500 guests at a time, with leading the world-wide techno revival.

(Jim Evans)

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CN Tower stands 1,815ft tall and is considered an engineering wonder of the modern world. For nearly a decade the Tower was minimally lit in an effort to conserve energy while awaiting a better long-term lighting solution.

Following extensive evaluation, a Color Kinetics system was chosen to visually transform the Tower's appearance while reducing energy consumption and maintenance requirements at the same time. According to preliminary operation, the Tower will consume less energy when fully illuminated by LED fixtures than it did when only partially illuminated by conventional sources.

"The CN Tower is wide

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Cobrin comments, "It's the first time I have worked with Motley and production manager, Paul 'Kenno' Kennedy. It has been a breath of fresh air to work with two people that are so efficient and good at communicating. It has been a pleasure to work with them on this project."

Lighting technicians, Nigel Julian and Martin Garnish were hired to look after the system while on the road.

Hackett is based in Australia and has worked on and off with INXS for the last 14 years, fairly constantly for the last 11. He describes the current tour (ongoing since the start of 2006) as "an evolution" in terms of l

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Rob McCulloch leader of the four-piece band Magic Bullitz, who tour the UK regularly providing live entertainment for private events and productions, decided to improve the quality and ability of his already impressive PA system.

McCulloch comments, "I was not dissatisfied with the performance of my existing system and did not imagine that much improvement was possible, I thought I already had the best, what I was really looking for was to reduce size, weight and even other things like AC power consumption as well as saving time on set-up and sound checking.

"Having a long establi

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As an Association, the ABTT is supporting current national initiatives for training and participating in the consultative process with Creative & Cultural Skills, the Sector Skills Council for Advertising, Crafts, Cultural Heritage, Design, Music, Performing, Literary and Visual Arts.

With recent stories in the press of a predicted shortfall of trained technicians in the future, the ABTT sees this book as "the perfect tool to encourage and inspire a new generation to enter the profession. It will also help those already working in the industry to identify how they will continue their professional development."

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Element Labs' Kelvin Technology Series LED-based lighting system will be available for rent through Kino Flo in September 2007.

"By combining Element Labs' advancement in LED technology with Kino Flo's industry experience we look forward to developing tools that will further advance the art of filmmaking," says Kino Flo president and founder, Frieder Hochheim.

The Kelvin Technology Series represents a major advancement in the application of LEDs to create intelligent, controllable lighting, says the company. It provides variable colour temperature and maintains a colour rendering index (CRI) of 95 between 3200 K and 6500 K. It also offers d

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The Auditori Winterthur is a convention centre in the heart of the business complex of L'Illa in Barcelona. The Auditori was planned by architect Rafael Moneo, incorporating acoustics designed byIgini Arau and was originally built to present music concerts without the aid of amplification for up to six hundred and fifty listeners.

In due course, with an expansion into new activities such as conferences and corporate events, the need for a sound system became increasingly apparent. The original installation however, proved less than perfect as all the sound amplified through it was reflected back by a curved wall at the rear of

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More than 2600 systems are installed throughout the USA as part of the groundbreaking AccessIT software & funding vehicle introduced in 2005. Christie installations also span Africa, Asia, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Philippines, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

Christie installations outside North America have begun to accelerate, positioning the company as the leading player in the global deployment of DLP Cinema systems worldwide.

(Jim Evans)

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Jazz World featured a strong line-up including Amy Winehouse, Corrine Bailey Rae, the Guillemots, John Fogerty, Mr Hudson and the Library, Rodrigo y Gabriela and many more.

DPL's Darren Parker says, "It was a great honour to win the pitch to supply Jazz World. We had to design a flexible rig that would accommodate a wide variety of top quality international artists and the creative requirements of an array of visiting LDs. We chose the best equipment for the job which was Robe moving lights."

He adds that with the notoriously unpredictable nature of the Glastonbury weather, they also wanted really robust and reliable lights that would withstand the elements.

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Outline's exclusive distributor for China, Guangzhou ACME invited Outline's Sales & Marketing Director Giorgio Biffi to talk about Outline's experience with large sound systems in Stadiums.

Biffi spoke about the recent experience gained by Britannia Row Productions who have had experience with not only the Barcelona Olympics but also the newly built Wembley Stadium where they carried out the initial sound tests.

These tests resulted in their decision to combine the use of a temporary concert or 'touring' PA system with the permanently installed 'house

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The aluminium system can made longer or shorter, narrower or made even wider by adding or removing modules. The system boasts just five components including ramp and balustrade modules and all components are in sections, which are easy to handle, and fit together in minutes, says the company.

The two level Disabled Riser sited in the main arena, from concept to installation took just six weeks, and was in place just in time for Bon Jovi to perform marking the 02's opening on 24 June.

The modular aluminium structure can be moved simply by dividing into sections, unplugging the handrail, and stored in a minimal space when the arena is required f

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Headed up by Giles Bristow, Alstublieft was employed by festival organisers The Barfly Group to look after audio production across the entire festival, which this year featured around 150 bands playing across 20 venues. Featured acts included The Happy Mondays, Captain and The Magic Numbers.

A DiGiCo a D1 Live 48MDR, featuring a local Minirack and eight analogue I/O and eight AES I/O at FOH, and a stage rack with 48 in and out, was used for shows at the Corn Exchange and The Brighton Centre, East Wing. "Initially Giles was a little hesitant about using a digital desk in a festival situation," says DiGiCo's technical sales manager, Tim Shaxson, who was on site throughout

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With its attendance figures showing an increase on last year, UK visitor numbers were boosted by a strong attendance from mainland Europe as well as by attendees from the Theatres Trust annual conference which the ABTT co-sponsored.

The Show's three halls were packed to capacity with 100 exhibiting companies. Show director, Roger Fox comments, "It is particularly interesting to see how the show has evolved into a key industry event. This year we had many important product launches and with visitor numbers showing a steady increase year on year, we are confident of the show's continued growth into its third decade."

(Jim Evans)