FRONT of HOUSE Magazine (abbreviated FOH) is a worldwide news service for live audio professionals and manufacturers of pro audio equipment. Published by Timeless Communications, Corp a Nevada corporation. The magazine comes in digital or "analog" (print) format and is available free of charge to qualified professionals, enthusiasts, and students of event audio. Information on digital and live sound consoles, amplifiers, processors, microphones, speakers, trade shows, major concert/production tours, theatre, installations and industry news can be found within the pages of FOH. As well as informative stories on the people who work in the industry
The abbreviated name, FOH, is an initialism for Front of House and should therefore be pronounced as an abbreviation, not phonetically.
FOH is a BPA audited magazine with its current circulation according to their December 2010 BPA Statement of 22,734.
FOH's editor is George Peterson. George is a versatile and experienced live sound professional. He is a former editor of Mix Magazine
FOH was founded by Timeless Communications,Corp president Terry Lowe in 2003. FOH along with its sister publication Projection, Lights & Staging News presents the annual Parnelli Awards. These awards honor lifetime achievements in the entertainment technology industry as well as current practitioners whose works were outstanding in the preceding 12 month period. Lifetime achievement winners are selected by a board of advisers and yearly awards are nominated and voted on by the readers of the magazine. The Parnelli Awards were named after Rick "Parnelli" O'Brien a beloved production manager in the industry.
Sister magazine Projection, Lights and Staging News reports on theatrical and concert lighting as well as large format video and projection for entertainment in the same formats.
Timeless Communications also owns another free live production magazine which is totally about theater, called "Stage Directions". Stage Directions looks at theatre all the way from high school, college community, regional to equity theatre productions. The magazine has been in continuous print for 19 years.
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