White Space Fight Escalates

NORTHRIDGE, Calif. — JBL Professional has announced the promotion of Harman Professional veteran, Stephen Morris, to the position of executive vice president of Sales, JBL Professional. Morris takes up the position having successfully led group-wide sales and marketing for Harman Professional’s cinema business and prior to that held senior sales and marketing roles at sister company, Crown Audio.  The announcement was made by John Carpanini, President, JBL Professional. According to Carpanini, the appointment underscores JBL Professional’s commitment to recognize achievement and promote from within but also to continually improve sales and support operations. 

NILES, Ill. — As this year's presidential campaign enters convention arenas in both Denver and Minneapolis, trying to look back on every rally, whistlestop, handshake and baby kissed becomes a grassroots blur given the power to inspire, excite, cajole and ignite the electorate. With the immediacy of the blogosphere as well as electronic media reporting events, old-fashioned oratory from the stump proved to still be as viable as ever in '08, aided in countless instances by Shure Inc. Hitting the campaign trail hard again just as it has throughout its own history, Shure Inc. traveled with both Senators Obama and McCain nationwide from Warwick, R.I. to San Diego and beyond.

TOKYO — Recently installed with a versatile Meyer Sound system, the 1,324-seat Akasaka ACT Theater in Tokyo is a multi-use venue designed to host a wide range of shows, from Broadway-style productions to symphonies, opera and dance. It is also part of the city-within-a-city of Tokyo Broadcasting System’s Akasaka Sacas as other large corporations successfully created complexes that are essentially micro-neighborhoods surrounding their headquarters in the high-density environs of Tokyo, including Fuji Television’s Odaiba, TV Asahi’s Roppongi Hills and Nippon TV’s Shiodome.

Sennheiser is introducing the evolution e 965 microphone at the 125th AES Convention in San Francisco. The new microphone is the company’s flagship product within the evolution range and also its first large-diaphragm true condenser microphone.

CARSON, Calif. — The new PL Series microphones from Electro-Voice got the punk rock seal of approval on this year’s Warped Tour, as new additions to the heavy-duty EV sound systems deployed annually for the tour’s Ernie Ball “Battle of the Bands” and Hurley Stages.

MELBOURNE, Australia — The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology ( RMIT University) in Australia is one of the country’s leading educational institutions. It offers a vast range of technical courses and has a reputation that is global in its reach. One course that elicits a high demand for entrants is the Music Industry course. The University aims to offer its students the most relevant products available to equip them for life out in the real world, and the recent opportunity to get hands on experience with a DiGiCo SD7 has helped to do just that.

NORTHRIDGE, Calif. — Wassmann Audio Video has installed of JBL Control Contractor loudspeakers and VRX line arrays in 10 Six Flags theme parks across the country. While each location poses its own acoustical challenges, JBL Control 29AV surface-mount loudspeakers and VRX932LA compact line array loudspeakers are prevalent in each park.