With a worldwide audience of approximately three billion spectators, Australian production company David Atkins Enterprises (DAE) pulled out all the stops to make sure the opening and closing ceremonies at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver were both spectacular and hitch free. more

Advertising implementation agency Hogarth Worldwide has undergone such dramatic growth that it has more than doubled its office space in London’s Shaftesbury Avenue.

As a result of this expansion, the company has also increased its post production facilities by building six new video editing suites and a 5.1 surround sound dubbing suite for television advertising projects. These were all designed and installed by acoustic and technical design consultancy White Mark Ltd. more

SADiE equipment in the shape of the LRX2 location recorder and the PCM-H64 multi-channel recorder/editor has been at the forefront of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s recent recordings at The Falls Festival.

Held annually in two locations over the New Year period, The Falls Festival is one of Australia’s biggest music events and this year featured artists as diverse as Wolfmother, Seasick Steve, DJ Yoda, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Moby. Chris Thompson, Steven Schram, Dave Manton, and Richard Girvan travelled to Lorne in Victoria to record 24 bands in the ABC’s OB1 recording van, commissioned in late 2008. more

Mediatec, one of Europe’s largest corporations working with technical solutions for event and television productions, has invested in Jünger Audio’s LEVEL MAGIC™ technology to ensure the quality of its HD-SDI audio signals.

Headquartered in Sweden but with offices throughout Scandinavia, Mediatec operates in four specific areas – Broadcast, Display, Event and Installation. Its broadcast arm, Mediatec Broadcast, provides OB and transmission solutions to a wide range of clients. Its facilities include a fleet of more than 20 OB trucks, flight-pack facilities, studios, special cameras, 30-camera link systems, uplink trucks and fibre MCR’s. more

German public broadcasters ARD and ZDF have commissioned system integration specialist Media Logic to provide technical services during their coverage of the forthcoming Olympic Games in Canadian Vancouver.

Both broadcasters will offer their viewers extensive coverage of the games and these reports will be produced on location in HD from the International Broadcast Centre, using ARD and ZDF’s Mobile Produktionseinheit (mobile production unit). more

German public broadcaster NDR (Norddeutscher Rundfunk) has ordered five Fairlight Xynergi systems, which it is installing in its television production facilities in Hamburg.

The installation is part of a major upgrade to switch all of the broadcaster’s sound editing facilities to 5.1 surround sound, thus making them HD compatible. All of the Xynergi systems are being supplied by Media Logic, Fairlight’s German distributor. They will be installed by Hamburg Pro Audio and will be connected to the existing Omneon Mediagrid production server to ensure an integrated, networked MXF-workflow for TV formats in SD and HD. more

Although originally founded as an audio post production facility for advertising and corporate clients, Kansas City-based CR Sound now has an enviable reputation as a film post facility having mixed seven feature films in the last decade.

Located in the beautiful Country Club Plaza, CR Sound is headed by Craig Rettmer, formerly manager of Soundtrek Plaza which he bought from his partners five years ago. Alongside CR Sound’s audio room, the building also houses a video editing facility, a film production group and a PR firm.

In recent months Rettmer and his team have upgraded the equipment in the main studio to incorporate a new Fairlight Constellation XCS console featuring a Xynergi centre panel and running on Fairlight’s latest Crystal Core (CC-1) engine. This replaces the Fairlight MFX3 Plus that Rettmer inherited with the business.

“We have been using Fairlight equipment since 2000 and I’ve always been more

Fairlight is pleased to announce the introduction of a new six fader extension module for its Award winning Xynergi Media Production Centre. The XE-6 fits neatly into the physical setup of the Xynergi controller adding high quality and cost-effective tactile mixing control to the Xynergi hardware platform elevating it to fulfil the full range of audio production tasks from recording and editing through to mixing. more

TV Nova, the biggest commercial television station in the Czech Republic, has replaced its former audio processors with Jünger Audio’s Level Magic™ technology to help prevent surprise level changes when switching from one audio source to another. more

Prism Sound, manufacturer of audio test equipment for the pro audio, broadcast, consumer electronics and automotive industries, has announced a strategic partnership with LOUDSOFT, Danish manufacturer of loudspeaker simulation and analysis tools: Prism Sound will become a global sales and support agent for LOUDSOFT’s entire product range, with immediate effect. more