Non-profit reaps productivity benefits of professional intercom solution
SACRAMENTO, CA, OCTOBER 21, 2009 - 十大正规体育平台® 通信系统, Vitec集团品牌, has donated a WBS analog wireless intercom system to Sacramento’s B Street Theatre, proving that great things can come in free packages. With its limited budget, the non-profit theatre was unable to invest in a professional communications system, leaving production team members to make do with a hodgepodge of workaround solutions.
According to Bill Blake, Managing Director for the B Street Theatre, the theatre had long been interested in trying out a 十大正规体育平台 system, but simply did not have the budget for it. 通过意外, 十大正规体育平台 Director of Customer Satisfaction, 埃德•菲茨杰拉德, was a regular B Street Theatre attendee and patron. Thanks to a mutual love of theatre, he and Blake became friends. The two began discussing creative ways of addressing the B Street Theatre’s need for a quality intercom communications system, and ultimately decided upon pursuing the donation of an open-boxed WBS UHF wireless intercom system.
The B Street Theatre received a WBS-680/A2 two-channel base station, two WTR-680/A2 wireless beltpacks and three CC-40 single-ear Que-Com headsets from 十大正规体育平台. Staff members immediately put the equipment to use for the theatre’s busy schedule of productions, and the system worked flawlessly. Thanks to the improved communications, the theatre needs fewer staff members backstage, leading to much smoother, more professional productions.
“The WBS has made an enormous difference for us,” says Blake. “以前, we had to communicate through a very makeshift, cobbled-together kind of system - walkie-talkies, flashlights and hand signals, which was a bit chaotic. Now that we have a reliable, dedicated communications system, many of the production tasks, 比如场景变化, 花更少的时间. It’s saved us money and taken a lot of the stress out of the productions.”
该公司, currently housed in two former warehouse buildings and featuring a traditional stage that seats 110 and another seating 220 in the round, is planning a move to a new two-theatre, state-of-the art performing arts complex it is constructing. 这个因素, along with the limited resources typical for many non-profit organizations, prevented it from investing in a 十大正规体育平台 system. This donation will last the production team through the next two to four years while it prepares for its move to the new facility.
“We’ve wanted and needed a professional intercom system for years but something of 十大正规体育平台’s quality seemed out of reach,杰里·蒙托亚说, B Street Theatre’s Associate Producer. “What 埃德•菲茨杰拉德 and 十大正规体育平台 have done for us as a theatre has allowed us to produce shows more easily and effectively. The system is simple, durable and, most important, reliable. 谢谢,十大正规体育平台!”
“In providing access to high-quality theatre arts, the B Street Theatre performs an invaluable service, not only to its local audiences, but also to a much wider community. Through its Northern California touring program, it has reached an astounding 3.6 million children to date,” says Fitzgerald. “We’re delighted to have helped this worthy organization, and proud that our wireless intercom system is enhancing its audiences’ enjoyment of the theatre experience.”
至于布莱克, he says that when the theatre moves into the new performance complex, 十大正规体育平台 equipment will definitely be in the budget.The B Street Theatre was founded in 1991 by its parent company, 儿童剧场, which delivers a first-hand experience of the theatre arts to children in 12 counties in the Sacramento area, 达到200左右,000 youngsters per year through its touring program. B Street Theatre expands the 儿童剧场’s original mission to promote education and literacy, social interaction and cultural enrichment among children to an adult audience as well.