HILLSIDE, NJ – Wireworks Corporation celebrates 35 years as a pioneer in and leading innovator of professional audio/video cabling products and custom panels. Beginning on Broadway and expanding over the past three decades into the broadcast and other markets, Wireworks Corporation designs and manufactures professional cabling products that are now prevalent in theatre, auditorium/arena, education, corporate, government and houses of worship. more

Stage Research has announced a new pricing model for its software at the USITT (United States Institute for Theatre Technology) Conference and Stage Expo to be held March 18th-21st, 2009 at Duke Energy Convention Center, Cincinnati, Ohio where Stage Research will occupy Booth 1040. more

With 22 Grammy awards to his credit, including a Lifetime Achievement award, there is no doubt that Stevie Wonder has had a remarkable career.

To mark his achievements across five decades, Universal Motown has recently released Live at Last, Stevie Wonder’s first-ever live concert to be released on DVD and Blu-Ray. The concert, which was recorded last autumn at the O2 (Arena) in London, was captured for posterity by Tim Summerhayes onboard the Red-TX mobile. The audio was then mixed by David Woolley at his Thornquest post-production facility in West Sussex. more

One of the newest additions to the Middle East’s burgeoning broadcasting scene is Al-Watan TV, a Kuwaiti-based satellite channel that broadcasts news and family entertainment to local citizens and Arab expatriate viewers.

Launched in 2007, the channel is the first in the region to build a studio that is completely HD equipped and Mac compatible. Committed to becoming the leading innovative local TV station of Kuwait, Al-Watan TV offers high quality content that includes internally produced programmes, acquired programmes, commissioned programmes and news feeds. These are broadcast on a free to air basis through the ARAB SAT 26, NILE SAT 7 WEST and Atlantic Bird 8 West satellites. more

Images & Sound, one of New Zealand’s largest post production companies, has upgraded its facilities to incorporate a 24-fader, three-bay Fairlight Constellation XCS console with integrated HD video record and playback.

Based in Auckland, Images & Sound offers a complete audio and video post production solution to the film, television and advertising industries. The facility has four mixing studios, two of which are equipped for 5.1 surround sound mixing. It also has two tracklaying studios, a Foley recording studio and a large cinetape department with a full range of HD and SD decks for mastering. more

John Lyons’s latest Hollywood venture, Bardot, is a tribute to the glamour of a bygone era. Best described as a classic club with a contemporary twist, Bardot evokes the mood and feeling of Old Hollywood while catering to the intelligent music lovers of today. The club sits on the second floor of the Avalon building at the corner of Hollywood and Vine, a spot that first opened in 1927. more

Fulcrum Acoustic, an audio technology company in the professional sound reinforcement market, today announced the availability of two new loudspeaker product lines: the TQ Install series and the Prophile series. The TQ Install series is a versatile family of loudspeakers intended to satisfy a broad range of installation needs. Prophile products are intended for high output, wide bandwidth music reinforcement/reproduction in architecturally sensitive spaces, where restricted ceiling height or sightline obstructions are a concern. more

LANCASTER, Pa. — March 16, 2009 — With economic woes driving down budgets and the switchover to digital television transmission less than four months away, broadcast engineers are scrambling to implement a cost-effective solution to manage audio consistency issues between network and local programming. To address both the technical and financial issues, Linear Acoustic, the leading authority in loudness control and upmixing solutions for digital television, has started shipping the compact AERO.one™ DTV audio/loudness manager and is announcing a special pricing offer through June 12, 2009. more

Atlas Sound AA60 AmplifierAtlas Sound is now shipping its latest model amplifier in the popular Strategy Series. The AA60 is a flexible 3 input channel mixer amplifier designed for distributed business paging and background music (BGM) systems, small to medium speech privacy systems, and in applications where music on hold (MOH) plus paging is required. more

Innovation-Packed CDP 300 Boasts High-Quality 24-Bit Resolution, Tube Output Stage, and Superb Build Quality and Performance

CAROLINA, P.R., March 16, 2009 — Koetsu USA, the U.S. distribution arm of the world-renowned Japanese cartridge manufacturer, introduces into the U.S. market the Blacknote CDP 300 CD Player, an advanced-design CD player built with the newest digital components now available. Blacknote, based in Italy, is a supplier of innovative, high-quality digital audio products. more