Professional Wireless Systems (PWS) provided frequency coordination for the multi-city 2017 CONCACAF Gold Cup soccer cup in July, the company announced today. Fourteen venues in 13 cities hosted various stages of the tournament. PWS began preparing its frequency coordination efforts about a month before the event via a website. All vendors involved used the site […]
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SBE Recognizes Steve Brown, Tony Peterle With Awards
Steve Brown of Robbinsdale, Minn., and Tony Peterle, CPBE, of Miami, are this year’s recipients of the Society of Broadcast Engineers’ highest honors: the Robert W. Flanders SBE Engineer of the Year and the James C. Wulliman SBE Educator of the Year, respectively. Brown is a former SBC Chapter 17 chairman and former member of […]
Triveni Digital To Conduct MPEG Tech Session
Triveni Digital will conduct a technical session on the basics of MPEG compression at the Society of Broadcast Engineers chapter meeting July 27 in Phoenix. Ruben Araza, a sales engineer with the company, will present “MPEG 101” during the session, which will take place at KTAR, located at 7740 N. 16th St. The presentation will […]
SBE Article Examines New EAS Weather Codes
The Federal Communications Commission has added three new weather codes –Extreme Wind Warning (EWW), Storm Surge Watch (SSA) and Storm Surge Warning (SSW)- to the Emergency Alert System. The Society of Broadcast Engineers has published an article on the new codes. It includes information the SBE has gathered on adding the codes to EAS devices from […]
Ted Hand To Discuss 2 GHz BAS Band Sharing At NewsTECHForum
Ted Hand, director of engineering/operations at Cox Media Group in Charlotte, N.C., and newly elected national frequency coordination committee chairman for the Society of Broadcast Engineers, has agreed to participate as a panelist on the 2015 NewsTECHForum ENG panel. Many in attendance may be unfamiliar with the fact that the U.S. Department of Defense currently […]
SBE To Stream Annual Membership Meeting Live Oct. 14
The Society of Broadcast Engineers will stream its national meeting tomorrow, Oct. 14, from the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Broadcasters Clinic. The SBE Annual Membership Meeting will be streamed live 4-5 p.m. CT. To access the meeting, visit www.sbe.org and click on the netcast link on the home page. The stream is also available via a […]
National SBE To Hold Annual Meeting In Wisconsin
The Society of Broadcast Engineers will hold its 2015 National Meeting in Madison, Wisc, Oct. 13-14, in conjunction with the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association’s Wisconsin Broadcasters Clinic and Wisconsin SBE chapters. During the event, SBE also will hold its annual awards dinner. Charles Cooper, acting field director of the FCC Enforcement Bureau, will be the featured […]
Let’s Hear It For The Frequency Coordinator, Please
I was a little disappointed to read in “Understanding Federal Spectrum Use,” by Paige Atkins, associate administrator of the Office of Spectrum Management at the National Telecommunications & Information Administration, that there was no mention of a key element that has a proven track record of making spectrum sharing a success, namely frequency coordination. Atkins […]
Parting Comments On Wireless Mics
This week’s technology feature article, “The Future of Wireless Mics Is Full Of Static,” like so many others I have written recently, revealed lots of interesting developments that just didn’t fit in the story. So once again, I rely on the Playout blog to cover details that didn’t make it into the story. In no […]
Weak Link Develops In Closed-Captioning Chain
Television broadcasters relying on Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS) phone lines to receive closed-captioning data from broadcast closed captioners take heed. Telephone companies across the country are slowly phasing those lines out, and their replacements may introduce data compression that will result in garbled captions and phone drop outs, the National Court Reporters Association, NCRA, is […]