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Catalyst Investment Managers have flagged the sale of Global TV, Australia’s largest outside broadcast and TV Studio operator. Catalyst is an independent Australian fund manager with around $1 billion of funds under management across around eight diverse corporate investments. Global TV was acquired by Catalyst in 2007 for around $46 million, from the Ten and…

Winners loved it, losers griped in the media. Hundreds of entertainment professionals donated their time, and Live Performance Australia spent a thousand hours making it be. A lot of awards were presented (41 in total) and the event at Sydney Opera House was as close to a major spectacle as the performance industry can manage.…

Melbourne, Australia – July 29, 2013 – Live Performance Australia [LPA], the peak body for Australia’s live performance industry and presenter of the Helpmann Awards, today released its annual Ticket Attendance & Revenue Survey 2012, which shows the sector remains stable generating $1.2 billion in revenue. Overall, the Survey recorded 16,273,730 tickets for Live Entertainment…

Crew of a certain age filled the Bald Faced Stag Hotel in Sydney’s Leichhardt on Sunday July 21st for the first Sydney reunion of crew who worked professionally prior to 1992. Several hundred survivors gathered to pay homage to the 80 who have passed since, and to celebrate life in general. Jimmy Barnes entertained the…

Jands is proud to announce they have been recently appointed as the exclusive distributor of Movecat in Australia. The appointment comes after Jands supplied thirty-two 500kg Movecat chain hoists to the ANZ stadium in Sydney. Movecat develops and manufactures chain hoists and controllers in Germany with the highest standards of safety and functionality. Movecat products…

Indie pop duo/couple Matt & Kim who hail from Brooklyn, New York, have just toured Australia as part of the Groovin’ The Moo festival. Lighting designer Ian Lyles uses a Jands Vista L5 console for the arena, club and theatre shows that the band play in America and so when he found out that he…

The ULA Group was once again involved in sponsoring the Annual Bruce Lynton Charity Ball, now in its 13th year, which took place on Saturday 20th April at RACV Royal Pines Resort on the Gold Coast with over 540 guests in attendance. The Bruce Lynton Charity Ball is one of the major social events of…

Audio community and family packed Menai Salvation Army today to say farewell to Ian Woodhouse, who passed away on July 12th from the effects of prostate cancer. It was standing room only as all his colleagues from Technical Audio Group (which was closed today out of respect) and people from all over Australia remembered a…

Based in Mount Evelyn, one of Melbourne’s outer eastern suburbs, Discovery Church is one of the city’s largest churches, with 1,700 people attending services each Sunday. As a growing and dynamic church, it had outgrown its old PA and was in need of a new system to meet its needs. The first of three staged…