InfoComm Renames Distinguished Achievement Award for Mackey Barron

InfoComm International, the trade association representing the commercial audiovisual industry worldwide, just announced that the Awards Committee has voted to rename InfoComm’s Distinguished Achievement Award in memory of Mackey Barron. The award will now be known as the Mackey Barron Distinguished Achievement Award, and is the highest honor bestowed on an industry member by the […]

InfoComm Renames Distinguished Achievement Award for Mackey Barron

rAVe Pro Volume 13, Issue 21 — November 4, 2015

For all you regular reader of rAVe news out there, you may not realize this, but twice a month we publish rAVe ProAV Edition an email newsletter packed with opinionated news and product stories about the ProAV industry. The most recent edition, Volume 13, Issue 21 includes editorials from Gary Kayye about the passing of industry icons […]

rAVe Pro Volume 13, Issue 21 — November 4, 2015

Industry Pioneer Passes: RIP Mackey Barron of HB Communications

THE AV industry’s pioneer passed away at age 95 yesterday. I say THE in all caps, intentionally. There is no one in AV who knew Mackey Barron, founder of HB Motion Picture Service (now known as HB Communications), that would disagree. His history of “firsts” in audiovisual are legendary — in addition to his unwavering […]

Industry Pioneer Passes: RIP Mackey Barron of HB Communications

Announcing the First Ever rAVe AV Hall of Fame

For years we’ve been writing about, featuring and awarding some of the best products, technology and people with various accolades and monikers. Now rAVe, the AV industry’s leading AV news source, will recognize the people in the AV market who have shaped it with the newly-announced rAVe’s AV Hall of Fame. This is a beginning. […]

Announcing the First Ever rAVe AV Hall of Fame

HB Communications’ Kevin Collins Passes Away

Friends and colleagues, Dana Barron, CEO of HB Communications, called me yesterday to ask if we would send out a message to the AV community in regards to Kevin’s sudden passing. I have mixed feeling about sending an email blast about someone’s death, but Kevin simply wasn’t “someone” – he was not only the face […]

HB Communications’ Kevin Collins Passes Away