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CANTUS and NEXUS at San Remo Festival
For the last 40 years, San Remo Festival has been the largest event
for the Italian music industry. The festival is live-broadcasted to
more than 30 countries and is shown on many other nations' TV off-tape.
In Italy, more than 19 million people watch the show every year, thus
making San Remo the most important business event for pop-music industry
every year.
With due regard to the importance of the festival, Italian RAI
(the national public-service broadcaster) sends a large-scale crew
to San Remo to handle the event: 300 highly qualified technicians
and editors, state-of-the-art audio and video technology with two
sound-reinforcement consoles, a couple of big broadcast consoles,
and a comprehensive NEXUS system as the heart of the whole setup.
CANTUS and NEXUS were already tested under real-life circumstances
at the »San Remo Giovani«, which is the qualifying
contest for talented musicians. Afterwards, RAI decided to utilize
Stage Tec products for broadcasting the 1998 San Remo Festival:
Three independent CANTUS consoles, 13 NEXUS base devices in ten
different locations, and a large-scale fibre-optic network are
the backbone of the production system as far as audio and intercom
are concerned. This gigantic customized system had been developed
jointly by RAI and Stage Tec in December 1997.
It was then delivered end of January and was put into full
operation exactly one week after the last delivery truck left
the site. This was when the vocal and orchestra rehearsals
started.
The actual San Remo Festival followed immediately, and RAI showed four hours
of program each day.
Thanks to their reliable operation and trouble-free handling,
CANTUS and NEXUS have been employed for all San Remo Festivals
since, too.
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