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VANCOUVER, BC, Canada – Community loudspeakers helped ensure that attendees at the Winter Olympics could hear the announcements, commentaries and entertainment. As a long-time provider of large scale, all-weather loudspeaker systems, we have had a long association with the Winter Olympics, said John Wiggins, Community's vice president of business development.
In Turin 2006, Community loudspeakers were installed in three of the major venues. This year Canadian contractors have installed many more Community loudspeakers, not just in host venues but also in numerous practice venues. There's been a major focus on these venues' longer term benefit to their communities.

UK: UK culture minister Margaret Hodge granted the site Grade II status the week after EMI announced it was not planning to sell the iconic facility, writes David Davies. English Heritage originally called for Abbey Road Studios to be protected from radical alteration in 2003, but it was only after rumours of a possible sale began to circulate that the UK Government announced it would devote “urgent attention” to the proposal.

Source: Abbey Road Studios given listed building status

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For those of you who watched the Grammy Awards on Sunday night (and apparently there were more of you this year than any year since 2004), you may have had a feeling of déjà vu when you saw virtually the same group of stars that clustered together in 2009, 2008, etc. Does this perhaps remind you — at least a little — of the 1993 film Groundhog Day? You know, like Bill Murray’s character hearing “I Got You Babe” every morning?

Now, if you happen to want to hear the same song at the same time every day, that’s fine with us. But sometimes it’s fun to let the needle find a new groove.

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Source: New Episodes Available In The Art & Science of Sound Recording Learning Series

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FULLERTON, CA, – The Slide Bar, opened by Jeremy Popoff, guitarist for alt-rockers Lit, was able to use Renkus-Heinz's new IC Live digitally steerable line array loudspeaker systems to minimize the need for acoustic treatments.
The casual rock-n-roll café, a low-key local venue run by Orange County natives, had recently been renovated to create separate indoor and outdoor lounges. It also had the distinction of being one of the first installations of Renkus-Heinz's new IC Live digitally steerable line array loudspeaker systems.

Behringer has announced the formation of BIG, or the Behringer Installation Group, at the company's annual partner event in Zhongshan, China, as well as a major investment in a new factory, writes Rob Speight. Heading up the new part of the expanding Behringer empire is ex-IAG Professional boss Costa Lakoumentas.

Source: BIG moves at Behringer as installation plans announced

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It’s hard to believe that its been eight years since FMC’s original survey on musicians and health insurance. That oft-cited study, published in 2002, showed that 44 percent of working musicians did not have insurance. One of the barriers, besides cost, was that the topic is difficult to wrap your mind around. To help demystify the issue, we created the Health Insurance Navigation Tool (HINT) — a free program that offers jargon-free information to musicians seeking to learn more about their health insurance options.