Chyron Graphics Technology Puts Anchors in the Driver’s Seat at CNBC Asia Pacific

MELVILLE, N.Y. — March 14, 2011 — Chyron today announced that CNBC Asia Pacific has built a new on-air workflow based on its signature Lyric PRO 8 graphics software. The Touch GraphX touch-screen graphics feature offered on Lyric PRO 8 literally allows the broadcaster to put the power of the program flow directly into the hands of anchors, who now can control graphics playout with a simple tap to the display as they present the business headlines.

As an enterprise authoring tool, Lyric PRO 8 allows the end user to create sophisticated graphic templates with unparalleled ease and flexibility. The Touch GraphX feature provides a simple scriptless solution for bringing touch-screen graphics to CNBC Asia Pacific broadcasts. The graphics can be created directly within existing templates, training is quick and easy, and the more

BUENA PARK, Calif.—Yamaha Stagemix software for the M7CL iPad app was recently installed into Chicago concert venue Viper Alley. Located in Lincolnshire, Illinois, the venue is the brainchild of Scott Greenberg, creator of the Wit, Chicago’s hippest boutique hotel. Viper Alley opened in early March with American Idol winner Lee DeWyze performing for two hundred online raffle ticket winners. The club also features a complete NEXO sound system. The installation was completed by Gand Sound Installations (Glenview, Illinois).

StageMix is an application for the Apple iPad that allows remote control of the Yamaha M7CL digital console’s mix functions via a simple, intuitive graphic interface from anywhere within wireless range. The application enables an engineer to set up monitor mixes from a performer’s position on stage directly controlling mix parameters via the iPad. Controllable parameters implemented in StageMix include Sends on Faders, Input Channel Faders, Input Channel On/Off, Input more

LYNDONVILLE, N.Y. — March, 16, 2011 — Digital Alert Systems (DAS), a division of Monroe Electronics and a leading innovator of next-generation Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) and Emergency Alert Systems (EAS), today announced that Bill Robertson, the company’s business development manager, will be a panelist for the session “Next-Generation EAS: The Final Stretch” at the 2011 NAB Show as part of the Broadcast Engineering Conference. Scheduled for 9 a.m. on April 13 in room S226, the panel session will address the FCC’s new rules and refinements for EAS, as well as the obligations and opportunities presented to broadcasters by FEMA’s adoption of CAP. more

Discover How Technology Helps Educators Facing Diminished Resources

AVI-SPL is teaming up with Polycom to present the next AVI-SPL University Online webinar, “E-Learning Everywhere� on Tuesday, March 22 at 1 p.m. EST. Polycom’s Marci Powell will show how 21st-century education can be delivered virtually, physically and online.

Today’s educators must find ways to meet unfunded legislative mandates while preparing students for a global economy. In the webinar “E-Learning Everywhere,� Polycom’s Marci Powell explains how managers in charge of training can accelerate the learning process and improve outcomes while minimizing the impact on resources, productivity and financials. Powell will also show how organizations can find innovative training vehicles that allow broad information dissemination to large and dispersed audiences. The “E-Learning Everywhere� webinar will:

• Examine the latest trends in National/Global E-Learning
• Explore support programs that ensure high technology utilization and success
• Discuss current and more

BTX Technologies
2011 NAB Show
April 11-14, 2011 | Las Vegas
Booth C7219
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Keith Prestidge joined HARMAN’s Studer team this week as Sales Director, Asia Pacific reporting to Adrian Curtis and with a brief to grow the expanding region in Broadcast and Performance installations for Studer audio mixing systems.

Keith, previously General Manager at Klotz Digital Asia, has resided in the territory for 15 years. He started his professional life as a hands-on radio broadcast engineer and has spent 20 years in the industry, which has included periods in Project Engineering and Sales.

“Extending the Studer sales team with Keith based in Sydney will further improve our customer focus in the Asia Pacific sales region,� said Curtis, “he will work closely with Tat Nam Yee, our Studer Applications Engineer already located in our KL, Malaysia office.�

Currently spending two weeks training in the Soundcraft Studer factory and Customer Centre in Potters Bar, then further training in the Regensdorf facility near more

Patchwerk Recording Studios is one of the premier recording and mastering facilities in the southeast. The Atlanta studio has recorded more than 60 gold and platinum albums. Patchwerk Recording Studios’ chief mastering engineer Kenny Daniels, aka Kenny Mixx, has worked with artists including B.o.B, Yo Gotti, Scrappy, Pit Bull, Yung Joc, Flo Rida, Rick Ross, T.I. and many others.

Kenny just finished mastering Sam Sneed’s long-awaited Street Scholars album, the final album to be released on hip-hop label Death Row Records. All of Kenny’s work is done using HARMAN’s JBL LSR6328P studio monitors and an LSR6312P powered studio subwoofer.

Kenny uses a minimalist mastering approach, which can be summed up in his philosophy of “Pure music – no hype!� Kenny noted, “If a song doesn’t require a specific piece of gear, then it is removed from the chain, eliminating any unnecessary processing. I don’t like ‘hyper’ compression, over-limiting more

HARMAN’s JBL Professional brand today announced that it is launching its EON515XT Test Drive Sweepstakes at participating JBL retailers. The promotion begins March 15, 2011 and runs through June 30, 2011, with a grand prize of a complete sound system including more than $13,000 worth of JBL, AKG and Soundcraft gear.

The EON515XT system, weighing a scant 32.5 pounds and delivering an impressive 132 dB max SPL, features a 3-channel mic/line mixer with adjustable bass and treble controls, a JBL 15-inch Differential Drive® woofer and a proprietary JBL high-frequency compression driver—both powered with Crown amplification. The EON515XT is road-tough with a molded black enclosure and metal grille, and it can be placed freestanding, pole-mounted or hung using its built-in suspension points.

The “Test Drive Sweepstakes� grand prize includes four JBL EON510 speakers, two JBL EON315 speakers, two JBL EON518S 18-inch subwoofers, one Soundcraft LX7ii mixing console, three more

On the heels of the launch of Apple’s iPad2 and GarageBand, HARMAN’s DigiTech, a leading manufacturer of guitar signal processors, is now offering compatibility of its world-leading RP multi-effects pedals with the iPad. Guitar players around the world now have the ability to stream, record, and play back high definition audio tracks from their own instruments through DigiTech RP multi-effect pedals to an iPad. The HD audio streaming capability of RP multi-effect pedals allows players to take further advantage of the ever increasing number of applications for musicians available from the Apple App Store.

“As an early adopter of the Apple iPad, I immediately recognized the power and relevance of the platform for the working musician, and was determined to integrate it with our products,� stated Rob Urry, Vice President and General Manager of Harman Professional Signal Processing Group. “DigiTech’s mission for the last 26 years has been more

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — March 17, 2011 — Atlona Technologies(R) today announced that it has selected Slamco/SDI (Solutions Development, Inc.) as the manufacturer’s rep and distributor for the company’s systems integration (Si) line of digital connectivity solutions in the northern Midwest of the United States. Under the agreement, Slamco will act as an extension of Atlona’s sales and marketing forces to promote the Si line in the residential and light commercial A/V channel, while SDI will provide distribution support throughout the northern Midwest region.
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