Manassas, VA––Unveiled this year, the new Edward L. Kelly Leadership Center was built for Virginia’s Prince William school system at a cost of $37.5 million and feature the very latest in A/V technology.
Named for Edward Kelly, the county’s longest-running superintendent who presided over the system for 18 years, the new facility is 150,000 square feet and will house about 500 employees.
The scope of improvements is impressive. For example, school board meetings had been held in a cramped former military barracks. Now they’re held in a 300 seat meeting room with state-of-the-art video screens and audio systems.
Other features of the center include: a small museum representing the history of the school system in the main lobby; computer stations for people to fill out employment applications; a School Board meeting room that can be divided, like a hotel conference more
ALAMEDA, CA - Clear-Com Communication Systems, a Vitec Group brand and a premier manufacturer of professional intercom systems, recently helped Audio Incorporated provide a CellCom digital wireless intercom system to the United States Tennis Association (USTA) for the three live on-air ceremonies that are part of the 2009 U.S. Open Tennis Tournament. Impressed by the seamless communication and unprecedented level of clarity and connectivity provided by CellCom, the USTA also plans to use the system for the 2010 U.S. Open.
Audio Incorporated, a Roselle Park, New Jersey-based sound system provider and sound designer for the U.S. Open Ceremonies, chose the CellCom system for this year’s event after being plagued by leaky RF issues and interference while using another brand of wireless intercom for previous competitions. Production staff saw an immediate difference when they used the CellCom for this year’s events, which included the U.S. Open’s Arthur Ashe Kids more
ALAMEDA, CA - Clear-Com Communication Systems, a Vitec Group brand and a premier manufacturer of professional intercom systems, continues its commitment to providing its customers with the highest caliber of sales service and support with two key changes to its U.S. sales organization. Michael Rucker, formerly the company’s Regional Sales Manager, Central Region, has been promoted to Senior Sales Manager, Central Region. Meanwhile, James Schaller has joined Clear-Com as its new Regional Sales Manager, Northeastern Region. more
NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 25, 2009 - Clear-Com Communication Systems, a Vitec Group brand, is pleased to announce the East Coast debut of its Tempest2400 wireless intercom system at AES 2009 (Booth 676). Tempest2400 operates in a license-free frequency band where it is fundamentally resistant to interference from other wireless devices, ensuring that communications go off without a hitch in even the most crowded RF environments. Ideal for the rental and staging market as well as live performance applications, it can be operated indoors and outdoors. more
NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 24, 2009 - Clear-Com Communication Systems, a Vitec Group brand, is bringing the latest version of its software-based intercom solution, Clear-Com Concert Version 2.0, to AES 2009 (Booth 676). Concert V2.0 allows Concert users and those on the traditional Eclipse digital matrix system to communicate over a single network via the Internet, Local Area Network (LAN) or Wide Area Network (WAN), providing a cost-effective means of expanding a facility or venue’s intercom system without an additional hardware or infrastructure investment. more
Clear-Com® and RTS® Two- To- Four Wire Intercom Bridge
AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS – MultiDyne Video & Fiber Optic Systems, a premier provider of fiber optic-based video and audio transport and routing solutions for broadcast and pro A/V applications, introduces the COMMS-2000 Two Wire to Four Wire Intercom Interface to its European customers at IBC 2009 (Stand 2.A54).
The COMMS-2000 interface allows for the conversion of a single channel of standard or TW party-line intercom to four-wire audio, while also converting call signals to RS-422 data. It also offers the capability to convert the signal back to its original form. The resulting audio and RS-422 data from the COMMS-2000 can then be sent to a Clear-Com Matrix port, fiber optic converter such as the MultiDyne Fiber-Comms or connected to another COMMS-2000 over twisted-pair cable such as CAT-5E. With its excellent hybrid null, more
Leading Spanish TV production company using Eclipse and V-Series for live sports
AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS, 11 SEPTEMBER, 2009 ─ Clear-Com® Communication Systems, a Vitec Group brand, is pleased to announce that Mediamovil TV, a leading Spain broadcast television production company, has outfitted its newest OB van with the Clear-Com Eclipse digital matrix intercom systems and V-Series user panels. Mediamovil TV took delivery of Eclipse-Median and Eclipse-PiCo frames, along with the panels, to ensure reliable, easily expandable communications across its rapidly growing roster of live and pre-recording sports broadcast projects for the BBC, RAI, Canal Sur and TV3, as well as other major broadcasters. more
German production house takes delivery of Eclipse, Concert, V-Series and FreeSpeak
AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS, 11 SEPTEMBER, 2009—Clear-Com® Communication Systems, a Vitec Group brand, has landed another significant customer for its innovative Hybrid Time-Divisional Multiplexing (TDM) Intercom/IP Server Network “Hybrid Network”. die Fernsehwerft, a premier German television production company, has taken delivery of the solution, along with Clear-Com’s FreeSpeak® digital wireless intercom system, to facilitate communications for its busy production schedule, which includes programming for 10 German television channels. more
AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS – MultiDyne Video & Fiber Optic Systems, a premier provider of fiber optic-based video and audio transport and routing solutions for broadcast and pro A/V applications, will showcase its HD-3500 multi-rate 3G HD-SDI fiber optic transport system at IBC 2009 (Stand 2.A54). This solution, now shipping worldwide, provides 1.5G or 3Gb/s fiber optic transport with audio, intercom and bi-directional data over a single fiber, with multi-rate high definition transport up to 1080p 3G HD-SDI.
MultiDyne’s HD-3500 gives broadcasters an innovative solution for moving high definition video as well as analog or digital audio, intercom, GPI and tally. The data and the GPI channels can be used to control equipment in remote locations, and the tally relay can be used to control a camera tally light. When not in use with an on-camera tally light, the tally relay can be more
Compatible with MultiDyne, Clear-Com®, Studio Technologies® and RTS® Systems
AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS – MultiDyne Video & Fiber Optic Systems, a premier provider of fiber optic-based video and audio transport and routing solutions for broadcast and pro A/V applications, is introducing Fiber-Comms, a four-wire optical extender designed for intercom lines to the European market at IBC 2009 (Stand 2.A54). This advanced fiber optic extender seamlessly transports from one to eight intercom or IFB channels and can also transport control and signaling data.
Addressing the three key areas sought after by professionals in the A/V and broadcast industries, Fiber-Comms allows for greater data transport, over a lighter fiber cable and for a longer distance. When used in conjunction with the MultiDyne COMMS-2000 two-wire to four-wire converter, Fiber-Comms can extend a two-wire system. It is also a cost-effective integrated component for the LiGHTBoX™ field portable more
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Manassas, VA––Unveiled this year, the new Edward L. Kelly Leadership Center was built for Virginia’s Prince William school system at a cost of $37.5 million and feature the very latest in A/V technology.
