Ontario Ministry of Labor Issues New Safety Guidelines for Event Structures

LONDON — Mark Fisher, founder and managing director of Stufish, died June 25 after a long illness at Marie Curie Hospice in Hampstead, U.K. with his wife Cristina at his side. He was 66. Fisher played a key role in the creation of some of the most complex and successful stadium rock shows ever produced, for artists ranging from Pink Floyd to U2 to the Rolling Stones and many others.

NEW YORK – Matilda The Musical, Pippin and Kinky Boots (with Kinky Boots sound designer John Shivers pictured here) have two things in common: multiple 2013 Tony Awards and DiGiCo’s SD7T systems. The SD7T builds on the DiGiCo D5T, which is still being used on such shows as Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN – The University of Minnesota’s Golden Gophers football team requested improvements to the audio playback system in their locker room. Alpha Video & Audio was contracted to design and install a cost effective, new system centered on the powerful, but easy to use, Symetrix Jupiter 4 app based turn-key DSP. The new Symetrix Jupiter 4 app audio system allows for two iPod docks, a DirectTV input, and a cable input to satisfy the needs of the players, coaches, and support staff.

NILES, IL — The 2013 Tony Awards broadcast was a critical and ratings success, posting a 20 percent increase in viewership. With the show’s move from the Beacon Theater back to Radio City Music Hall, the theme for the night, as stated by host Neil Patrick Harris in the epic opening number, was to “make it bigger.” To cope with the show’s expansive production requirements, RF systems provider Firehouse Productions went with an all-Shure approach to wireless microphone systems and in-ear monitoring systems. Firehouse Productions supplied 48 channels of Shure UHF-R wireless and 8 channels of Shure PSM 1000 personal monitor systems.

SAN ANTONIO, TX – St. Phillips college contracted San Antonio Sound & Light to upgrade their sound reinforcement system. The sound reinforcement system that San Antonio Sound & Light installed was a LCR system consisting of Tonnoy’s VQNET 60 full range, self-powered, three-way loudspeakers, VQNET MB double 18-inch subwoofer, and a VQNET 85 dedicated two way down-firing Mid/High loudspeaker.

MANHATTAN, KS – Cytek Media Systems worked with Kansas State University to update the University’s Nichols Hall’s sound system. Cytek Media Systems pulled out the studio’s tired old sound playback systems and replaced them with new, reliable ones centered on the flexible Ashly NE800.70PE two-channel amplifier with optional on-board Protea digital signal processing. One of the amplifier outputs feeds the new full-range SoundTube CM82-EZ loudspeakers, while the other powers the new SoundTube CM1001d-T subwoofers.

SAN ANTONIO, TX – San Antonio’s Freeman Coliseum has been going through a multi-year initiative to update the entire venue. Bexar County and the facility’s management, teamed up with LD systems to install 40 ARCS Focus and 16 SB 18i subs into the venue to improve the sound quality in the coliseum. The new system is powered and processed by a combined total of 8 amplified controllers, two LA4 drive the bottom ARCS Focus while six LA8 power both the subs and upper four ARCS Focus cabinets.