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Harman Handles Handball Audio at Cairo Stadium
Audio Technology deployed Harman Pro solutions at Cairo Stadium Indoor Halls Complex to provide sound for high-stakes handball championship.
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Baseball-Themed ‘Rigoletto’ Covers Bases, Audience
The Tulsa Opera recently took outdoor shows in a whole new direction when it performed a baseball-themed version of Verdi’s opera 'Rigoletto' at ONEOK Field, with the help of Axiom Audio and a sizable L-Acoustics Kara PA.
International
Floating the Audio of the World Rowing Championships
The audio needs at this year’s World Rowing Championships included live and streaming sound, eight commentary channels in multiple languages, wireless mics for the medal ceremonies and music playback—all handled on one console.
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Riedel Pops into NBA Bubble
A massive Riedel Bolero wireless and Artist digital matrix intercom solution is being used inside the NBA Bubble.
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Live Sound Showcase: Live Sound Livens Up the NBA Bubble
Faced with the threat of an idle summer during the pandemic, tour sound provider Firehouse Productions realized the NBA Bubble would need immersive crowd sounds at games before the NBA did. Now what seemed like a wild idea is...
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Dodger Stadium Gets Massive Audio Update
Built in 1962, Dodger Stadium has wrapped up a considerable renovation that included a massive installation of L-Acoustics loudspeakers.
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Xi’an Olympic Sports Center Gets EAW System
A new 18,000-seat sports arena in China, the Xi’an Olympic Sports Center, is covered via a massive EAW Radius loudspeaker system.
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New Clark City Stadium Outfitted with Outline Stadia
The 20,000-capacity New Clark City Athletics Stadium in the Philippines was recently outfitted with a new Outline Stadia PA system.
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Omaha Arena Updates Aging Audio System
Omaha’s 18,300-seat CHI Health Center arena recently underwent a massive audio upgrade centered around Leopard line arrays from Meyer Sound.
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Pliant CrewCom Connects with MLB
Live event production solutions provider CP Communications turned to Pliant Technologies’ CrewCom wireless intercom system to provide wireless communication for the recent MLB All-Star Game and surrounding live events.
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Clair Solutions Asks “What’s In Your Arena?”
Clair Solutions recently upgraded the house SR system for the 20,000-seat Capital One Arena.
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At World Cup 2018, Funktion-One, MC2 Cover Volgograd Arena
Volgograd, Russia is hosting four World Cup games this month in its new stadium, which sports a MC2-powered Funktion-One system.
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UCLA Recruits Bose Pro for New Mo Ostin Basketball Center
Bose systems used throughout entire sports building.
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Moots Tunes In to Games with Lectrosonics
In South Korea, Moots was tasked with putting wireless body microphones on some of the Olympic athletes, correspondents and anchors for a variety of news programming.
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Behind the Scenes of the Grammys’ Sound
By Anthony Savona. It takes a battalion of audio professionals to make sure Music’s Big Night goes off without a hitch.
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IMS Serves Martin Audio at Squash Finals
IMS Technology Services once again handled production for the US Open Squash Championship, held at Drexel University’s Daskalakis Athletic Center in Philadelphia. Inside the event’s custom ASB glass squash court, the Egyptian male and female champions—Ali Farag and Nour...
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Arena Updates 1979 Audio System
The Coors Events Center at the University of Colorado Boulder may be nearly 40 years old, but the 11,500-plus capacity venue is kept up to date with regular upgrades, from its playing surface to its video production room, to...
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DAS Audio Delivers for NBA’s Miami Heat
The house audio system at Miami’s AmericanAirlines Arena was upgraded recently, with DAS Audio Aero Series 2 and UX Series speakers installed just last month.
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Nexo Placed in New Place Bell Arena
Place Bell Arena’s grand opening was so recent, it still has that new arena smell. Having officially opened September 1, the Laval, Quebec venue is ready to roll, hosting its first season as the home of the Rocket De...
HOW Sound
Congress Writes to FCC About Wireless Mics
By Steve Harvey. A letter to the Federal Communications Commission from a bipartisan Congressional group could potentially make more frequency spectrum available to wireless microphone operators.
HOW Sound
Pros Prep For Sound Summit Seattle
Clear-Com, DPA Microphones, Lectrosonics, Sound Devices, and K-Tek will host The Sound Summit Seattle in August, taking over the Columbia City Theater in Seattle on Thursday, August 17, 2017.
HOW Sound
FCC Issues 600 MHz Consumer Disclosure
By Steve Harvey. The Federal Communications Commission has issued an Order that provides the specific language for the Consumer Disclosure notice to be displayed on wireless mic products operating in the 600 MHz service band.
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AV Roadshow To Hit New York August 2
By David Keene. Registration is heating up for the Rental Staging Roadshow that will take place Wednesday, August 2 in New York City. Stagers and live event producers from the area are registering for the event, to network, see...
HOW Sound
T-Mobile to Enter 600 MHz in August
By Clive Young. Pro-audio RF wranglers and wireless users may be in for a surprise next month, as T-Mobile announced yesterday that it will make its first in-roads into 600 MHz next month, far head of the original FCC-based...
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Sennheiser Unpacks FCC Wireless Ruling
Sennheiser is applauding the Federal Communications Commission’s Order on Reconsideration and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, ratified on July 13, 2017.
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DiGiCo is Game at Carver-Hawkeye Arena
The University of Iowa recently updated the audio system in its Carver-Hawkeye Arena for the first time since it opened in 1983. Sound Concepts, the systems operator for the 15,500-seat venue, spec’d a new audio system that included a...
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Liberty University’s Unique Concert Hall
Liberty University's School of Music has a new, unique venue for orchestral and choral music inside its 141,000-square-foot Center for Music and Worship Arts. The facility sports adjustable architectural acoustics, which work in conjunction with a Meyer Sound's Constellation...
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Danley System Slam Dunks Arena
A slew of Danley Sound Labs’ Synergy Horn point-source loudspeakers and tapped horn subwoofers were recently installed inside United Supermarkets Arena in Lubbock, TX, home to Texas Tech University’s Raiders basketball and volleyball teams.
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Community PA Revs Up Sonoma Raceway
Mention Sonoma, California and cars, and most people picture a peaceful drive through wine country. That pretty much 100 percent not what Sonoma Raceway is like. The 1,600-acre site hosts events 340 days a year, including three of the...
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3,000+ EV Speakers Rock Hard Rock Stadium
Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium is home to the NFL’s Miami Dolphins, and now, to a massive audio system of more than 3,000 loudspeakers, designed and installed by Diversified Systems in collaboration with the Bosch/Electro-Voice team
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PWS Touches Down at Super Bowl LI
While the New England Patroits’ win at Super Bowl LI may be fading into the record books now (not soon enough for Atlanta Falcons fans), the day will always be a memorable one for a different team that was...
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EAW Chills at Scott Hamilton Event
Cleveland, OH (March 1, 2017) – For 18 years, skating champ Scott Hamilton has heled an annual CARES fundraiser for the Cleveland Clinic, combining live musical guests,such as this year’s guest, singer-songwriter Michael McDonald, with champion figure skaters to...
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Sennheiser Goes Gaga at Super Bowl
Lady Gaga performed through a Sennheiser wireless microphone system during a halftime performance at Super Bowl LI that mixed music from her own catalog with patriotic classics.
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Chesney Brings Morris to Battle at Bristol
Football season may be over, but it all got off to a memorable start for 156,990 fans back in September.
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EAW Gets Into GCU Via Sound Image
Most sports venues take months if not years to build, but Grand Canyon University in Phoenix is in the middle of building 10 in two years—that a new sports facility every 10 weeks. Keeping up with that hectic pace...
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Kellogg Arena Serves Tasty Sound with ISP
Kellogg Arena has been a top venue for the Battle Creek area for decades, and recently the 6,500-seat facility upgraded its audio offerings with the installation of a new audio system from ISP Technologies.
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QSC, Audinate Set Dante/Q-SYS Webinar
QSC and Audinate will present a new webinar, “Best Of Both Worlds: Using Dante and Q-SYS in the Same Installation,” on December 8, 2016 at 2:00 PM EST. System Contractor News, PSN’s sister publication, is presenting the online event.
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Rupp Arena Installs Largest K2 System
Home to the University of Kentucky’s Kentucky Wildcats basketball team, Rupp Arena in Lexington, KY has been around for 40 years. For most of that time, an audio system nicknamed Big Bertha was used to cover the 24,000 seats,...
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Cardinals Feather Stadium with L-Acoustics
Home of the NFL’s Arizona Cardinals football team, the University of Phoenix Stadium opened a decade ago. Since then, pro audio has advanced considerably and with that in mind, this year saw the facility get a new house audio...
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Brand-New Ballpark A Home Run for ISP
Yesterday was opening day for the brand-new Jimmy Johns Minor League Baseball Field in Utica, Michigan. Two years in the making, the $15-million ballpark opened its doors on Monday as it hosted the first game of the likewise brand-new...
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DAS Dunks at Miami Arena
AmericanAirlines Arena may be best-known as the home of the Miami Heat NBA team, but it has a strong musical background, too, hosting major concerts and the Latin Grammy Awards. Helping to bolster the environment inside the venue, facility...
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WJHW, LD Systems Upgrade AT&T Center
Even though it was only built in 2002, the AT&T Center in San Antonio recently underwent a massive renovation in 2015. That included a new HD main scoreboard and a L-Acoustics sports entertainment sound system package designed by Wrightson,...