An image from last year’s Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in the downtown area. Two Technomad Berlin loudspeakers are seen atop the largest building, two of 16 Technomad weatherproof loudspeakers broadcasting the live KNKL-AM signal and public address information to the large crowds.

Toughest loudspeakers in the world provide general public address, security and entertainment from local radio broadcast to downtown area

BOSTON, July 27, 2010 – The city of Sturgis, South Dakota is known to motorcycle enthusiasts as home to one of the largest annual motorcycle rallies in the world. Each year, hundreds of thousands of people flood Main Street in Sturgis and ride the breathtaking roads that connect the many towns of the picturesque Black Hills region. The faithful will this year celebrate the 70th annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, taking place from August 9-15. more

Demonstrating their ideal performance for the world’s most demanding fixed install applications, Wild & Marr recently installed Crown amplifiers to power sound at World Cup venue Moses Mabhida Stadium. The stadium also features AKG, BSS Audio, JBL, and Soundcraft components as part of the sound reinforcement system. more

Studio Berar, Serbia’s leading production company for professional audio, video and lighting systems, deployed a full JBL VERTEC® line array system for the 2010 Exit Festival in Novi Sad, Serbia. The festival, which is one of Europe’s largest and most popular every summer, took place July 8-11 at the historic and picturesque Petrovaradin fortress near the Danube River, drawing 165,000 music fans from around the world over the 4-day span. Studio Berar was awarded contracts to support three of the largest stages of the festival. more

LOS ANGELES — Artesia, California-based UBI-TECH, a design-build contracting firm serving the house of worship market, reports that it installed an L-ACOUSTICS KUDO system at Sa-rang Community Church in Anaheim earlier this year.

With its 80-member choir, 25-piece orchestra and two full praise teams for Korean and English services, it is obvious that Orange County’s largest Korean megachurch places a significant emphasis on its music ministry. So when the time came to update its aging PA setup, Sa-rang’s technical crew spent nearly four months researching what would be the best retrofit option for its 1,500-seat sanctuary. more

HELSINKI, Finland — L-ACOUSTICS’ Finnish distributor, Starlike, has supplied a new sound reinforcement system to the Old Student House, a multipurpose hall in the center of Helsinki dating back to 1870.

The installation features five KUDO line source cabinets and an SB28 sub bass unit per side, with a 12XT coaxial providing center fill, driven by five LA8 amplified controllers. more

TriCaster PRO at rehearsals for Miss Teen USA 2009. Miss Universe deployed TriCaster to stream to more than 43,000 fans.

SAN ANTONIO – July 23, 2010 – NewTek, worldwide leader of video and 3D animation products, is partnering with the Miss Universe Organization (MUO) to provide live Web coverage of Miss Teen USA. NewTek TriCaster will produce and live stream coverage of the upcoming Miss Teen USA pageant on Saturday, July 24 at 8 p.m. ET from the Atlantis, Paradise Island Resort in the Bahamas. Fans will be able to watch the pageant live through the NewTek TriCaster-powered webcast, via www.missteenusa.com, www.seventeen.com and uStream.tv. more

LOS ANGELES, CA – When ESPN’s X Games descends upon Los Angeles to celebrate its 16th year in providing world-class venues for the finest athletes competing in action sports, Gefen’s Digital Signage Creator will be there. From July 29 to August 1, 2010, Gefen’s DSC will help direct X Games attendees to all the radical action taking place throughout the city.

Fierce competitions between more than 200 athletes in Skateboard, BMX Freestyle, Moto X and Rally Car will play out in four key venues within downtown LA: STAPLES Center, Nokia Theatre, the Event Deck at L.A. LIVE and the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. more

TORONTO, CANADA, July 20, 2010 – Blossom Learning’s (www.blossomlearning.com) revolutionary Online SMART Board Course, the world’s first online tutorial designed by teachers to unleash the full creative potential of the SMART Board in every K-12 classroom, has successfully extended and amplified face-to-face SMART Board training at the Red Hill Elementary School in Honolulu, HI. more

Four Fulcrum Acoustic CX1295 loudspeakers installed under the scoreboard.

The annual meeting of the Group of Eight (G8) countries is an epic, international event. Each year, one country is chosen to host the summit and it was Canada’s turn on June 25, 2010. In preparation for the onslaught of media, security, VIPs, and heads of state, the city of Huntsville, Ontario, began upgrades and face lifts to its facilities and infrastructure. more

A Victorian building near London’s Tottenham Court Road has been completely renovated and transformed to create a modern, vibrant London headquarters for German public broadcaster ARD.

The project manager for this marathon task, which took more than a year from initial design to completion, was UK studio design consultancy White Mark Ltd. The company also designed and installed all of the technical areas including radio and television studios, control rooms, vocal booths and edit suites. more