USA - Audio-Technica has declared its support for the recent Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decision to protect wireless microphones from interference by TV Band Devices (TVBD).

The FCC Memorandum Opinion and Order issued 23 September sets aside two TV channels in each market specifically for wireless microphones. This will allow wireless microphones to operate in those protected channels without interference from new 'white space devices'. In addition, according to the FCC ruling, professional users of large arrays of wireless microphones, such as theatrical performances and

USA - Xantech has expanded its commercial division's sales team in the United States with two new rep appointments.

Reisterstown, Maryland-based Samuel K. Macdonald (S.K. Macdonald) has been named Xantech representative for the Mid-Atlantic region. Also, Anew Communication Technology (Anew C.T.), who has been successfully representing Xantech Commercial throughout the West, including Southern California, Las Vegas, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, and parts of Idaho and Montana, expands their territory to include the Pacific Northwest. These announcements were made by Rick Seegull, X

UK - The 4th annual APRS Sound Fellowship Lunch is to be held at the Roof Gardens, Kensington on Tuesday 16 November. Tony Wadsworth, chairman of the BPI, has been invited to give the 'keynote' address by way of proposing the special 'Harewood Toast'.

The Harewood Toast was introduced last year, designed to provide an opportunity for a prominent member of the music, film and TV businesses to speak about the relationship they have with the studios and service providers that make their products.

The inaugural proposer of the Harewood Toast last year was Jeremy Lascelles, CEO of Chrysa

Sold Out - Tickets for Glastonbury Festival 2011 sold out in just over four hours after thousands of fans flooded the website and phone lines. The festival's website and Twitter feed apologised to those who missed out, adding there had been some issues with getting through "due to the sheer volume of people". Tickets sold out eight hours quicker than last year, the festival said. Fans were able to reserve up to eight tickets at a time. They had to pay a £50 deposit now and the rest when the booking site re-opens on 1 April 2011. Passes for next year's festival, which sta

USA - Genelec US, distributor of Genelec Active Monitoring Systems, has announced the appointment of industry veteran John Conard to the position of national sales manager, professional products.

In the new position, Conard's responsibilities will include managing Genelec's pro audio sales force in the United States and implementing dealer sales and support programmes for the full line of Genelec stereo and multi-channel applications. A long-time industry veteran of the professional audio industry prior to joining Genelec, Conard held sales and/or management positions at Yamaha Commer

USA - The American Airlines Arena is Miami's top sporting and entertainment venue, hosting everything from family entertainment such as Disney On Ice through to concerts from major international artists (Shakira, Lady Gaga and more). However, above all, the AmericanAirlines Arena is home to professional basketball team, The Miami Heat, currently one of the highest-ranking teams in the NBA. The facility is now also home to an Eclipse digital mixing console from Innovason following a recent AV upgrade which has moved everything into the digital domain.

The Miami Heat's director o

UK - Midas Klark Teknik has presented Bucks New University with wall plaques to recognise a burgeoning relationship between the organisations, and their joint efforts to tailor courses to the audio industry.

Bucks New University prides itself on strengthening links between education and industry, and the hookup with the brands is a striking example. Midas Siena and Verona consoles, plus Klark Teknik equipment including Square ONE Dynamics and Graphics units are being used for live sound modules in the university's BA (Hons) Audio & Music Production and Music & Live Event Management co

UK - RCF has announced the setting up of a new UK Service Centre, following the tragic passing of Mick Williams, RCF's technical manager for many years.

Phil Price, who heads up RCF's operation, praised the high level of technical back-up carried out by Williams' company, Audio Workshop, over a long period.

"The support provided for RCF products by Mick and his team was exemplary - and his untimely death last month left us with some extremely big shoes to fill, which we have now managed to do."

To that end, RCF have confirmed the appointment of Ampman Audio Services, run

Spain - Loudspeaker manufacturer dBTechnologies reports that the K300 has been chosen by hearing health specialists, GAES to form part of the precision hearing test, which is carried out at its many hearing centres around Spain.

Each of the GAES medical centres will be equipped with two K300 loudspeakers, with a view to rolling out the use of the dBTechnologies boxes across the world. "As new clinics are opened and older speakers need to renewed, the K300 is proving to be ideal for us," says Carles González Soto, electro sales manager at GAES. "These speakers are great

UK - Mortons private members club in Mayfair's Berkeley Square, has undergone a major refurbishment to each of the four floors in this Georgian town house.

This includes a new sound system designed over eight separate zones and a club lighting system in the newly-created Night Lounge located in the basement area. All spaces have been conceived, installed and supplied by The Sound Division Group (SDG).

When proprietor Marlon Abela reopened the venue towards the end of last year, there was just one piece of the jigsaw remaining. For while the ground floor bar, first floor restaurant a

Denmark - Christian Poulsen has joined DPA microphones as CEO and shareholder.

Poulsen, a member of DPA Microphones' board of directors for the last four years, has also been working as an external consultant at DPA for the last 10 months. According to chairman of the board Erik Holst, he has built up valuable knowledge of the company during this time.

A graduate of the Danish Engineering Academy, 49-year-old Poulsen founded digital camera and scanner company Imacon in 1995. Imacon became the fastest growing industrial company in Denmark in 1999 and 2000, merging in 2004 with Hassel

USA - Harman Professional has named Graham Hammell as director of its core research and development team, the System Development and Integration Group (SDIG). The announcement comes as SDIG's mandate is broadened to address more Harman Professional product families and also a greater number of application markets. According to Rob Urry, VP and GM, Harman Professional Signal Processing Group, who made the announcement, Graham Hammell's experience will be an essential guiding force in delivering the appropriate feature-sets for the respective applications.

"SDIG has developed HiQne

Denmark - The Performing Arts Centre (Musikhuset) in Esbjerg, a harbour city on the rugged west coast of Denmark, hosts many diverse cultural activities ranging from rock concerts to theatre, ballet and opera. Attracting 150.000 visitors a year, the centre has always been hampered by the fact that it lacked a medium sized venue for theatre. Esbjerg Musikhuset won the right to build a new modern theatre, capable of seating 500 guests, designed by architects Jan Utzon and his father J°rn Utzon, famous for his design of Sydney's Opera House.

"Choosing an appropriate PA system wa

UK - The Bose FreeSpace DS 40F and DS 40SE loudspeakers are the newest additions to the FreeSpace DS loudspeaker family, expanding the line to now offer three distinct levels of audio performance between the DS 16, DS 40 and DS 100 loudspeaker models.

The FreeSpace DS 40F and DS 40SE are high-fidelity loudspeakers that deliver background and foreground music with fullness, notable presence and detail as well as clear, natural-sounding speech reproduction, says the company. These 40-watt loudspeakers utilise a core Bose technology - a single 4.5" (114mm) full-range HVC (Helical Vo

Finland - ARX's MSX 32 active microphone splitters feature prominently in the new audio system installed into the Helsinki Cathedral.

Helsinki's most prominent landmark and Finland's most important Lutheran building the Church of St Nicholas (Suurkirkko) is located in the centre of the city. Seating 1300 people the neoclassical building was completed in 1852 and is a popular tourist attraction.

Starlike Oy, ARX's Finnish distributor installed a six-channel Sennheiser wireless mic system and Clockaudio wired Mic's which feed two units of ARX MSX 32 active mic splitters.

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UK - One of the fast emerging collectives on the UK festival scene are the Chai Wallahs, whose increasingly familiar marquees are dedicated to providing an eclectic blend of music appealing to different lifestyles.

Founded three years ago by Si Chai, today, Chai Wallahs attend a number of summer calendar events - including Green Man in the Brecon Beacons - and are quickly becoming seek-out destinations.

Inside the organic-looking structure Afro-beat, funk and reggae artists perform alongside DJs in a free-form mix, with the emphasis on acoustic music earlier in the day. It al

Brazil - Brazilian distributor Quanta presented a wide selection of the dBTechnologies' product range at the 27th Expomusic show in São Paulo last month, proving a solid commitment to the brand in a burgeoning market.

Import restrictions have made international trade difficult until recently, but Quanta director Augusto Gaia has every faith in the Italian manufacturer's potential in this territory. "With its great products, dBTechnologies promises to shake the Brazilian market. The sound quality in particular is really excellent," says Gaia.

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Lebanon - Vicoustic's flagship Wave Wood acoustic panel has featured in a major installation at the St Gabriel Church, Ajaltoun, Lebanon. Led by Movses Balabanian, a team from Vicoustic's Beirut-based distributor 21dB installed over 650 Wave Wood panels on the ceiling in order to address acoustic problems in the venue that included long reverberation times across the frequency range and poor speech intelligibility.

Wave Wood is specifically designed to control excessive and unwanted frequencies while maintaining a bright, ambient sound. The panel's design, which includes a series of n

France - Having launched ACP (Agence Centrale de Presse), the first BtoB editorial marketplace in the world of newspapers, ACP Group is to join forces with Digigram for the next stages of its development.

A statement says, "The new entity aims to ensure the acquisition, storage, transportation and management of content for the media in order to improve their productivity and responsiveness. This proposal is consistent with the transformation of traditional media to a new model of 'convergence' and aims to reposition 'content' as the engine of growth for its customers."

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UK - A.C. Entertainment Technologies audio and lighting divisions have supplied an extensive inventory of stage production equipment for the auditorium of the Hawth Theatre in Crawley as part of an upgrade to the venue's technical facilities.

The Hawth Theatre is one of the south's liveliest arts venues, playing host to a diverse mix of theatre, dance, music, comedy, concerts, film and visual arts. The theatre has been host to hit West End and worldwide musicals including West Side Story and Saturday Night Fever, comedy acts including Eddie Izzard and Jack Dee, and visit

UK - Jon Thornton, head of sound technology at the Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts (LIPA), has recently taken delivery of two new Audient ASP8024 consoles. LIPA students have been learning on Audient desks for almost a decade.

Thornton comments, "Eight years ago we came to replace two split analogue consoles in our studios. We wanted something intuitive, clear and simple - yet flexible. Fortunately, that was just after the Audient ASP8024 had been released. What attracted us was the clarity of the desk, which is ideal for training purposes. It has a nice big centre se

UK / USA - With plans for the merger between ESTA and PLASA now in their final stages, the elections for places on the new North American and European Regional Boards, and the over-arching Governing Body, got underway on 1 October.

The elections are a unique milestone in the merger of the two Associations, as this is the first time that ESTA and PLASA Members will vote simultaneously to elect representatives to the new Board structure. The month-long ballot, in which over 1,000 companies and individuals will have the opportunity to vote, pre-empts the New Year merger date when the Ass

USA - Due to the demand for its use in aesthetically sensitive installations, Community's R.25 all-weather loudspeaker is now available in an all-white enclosure, with white grille and yoke.

The R.25 is the most compact model in Community's R-Series, measuring just 11.3 x 11.3 x 13.3 inches.

Designed to be visually neat and simple to install, the R.25 is designed for short to medium throw fixed and portable applications, including theme parks, sport venues, arenas and cruise ships. It can also be used in distributed indoor systems in medium to large spaces like conference, exhibitio

UK - Following on from the major industry and consumer interest at the PLASA show, the new HK Audio compact PA system, Elements, has also proved itself a big hit with both users and resellers, says distributor JHS.

There are now eight Elements dealers UK wide, all of which have been impressed, not only with the systems performance and practicality, but also with the impressive 'silent salesman' POS Interactive Workstation, an essential part of the HK Audio Elements dealership package.

Alastair McFarlane, of KLS Entertainment in Falkirk says, "Without doubt this is the most vers

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