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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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Miller, Baldridge Win Top SBE Awards
The Society of Broadcast Engineers has announced its engineer and educator of the year for 2013. SBE Fellow and life member Edward Miller was awarded the Robert W. Flanders SBE Engineer of the Year award for his professional accomplishments and contributions to the society. A Broadview Heights, Ohio resident, Miller is a past national president […]
Society of Broadcast Engineers Elects New Fellows
Three members of the Society of Broadcast Engineers are now fellows, the society’s highest level of membership. At last week’s NAB Show, the SBE Board of Directors elected Lawrence Behr, James Schoedler and Larry Wilkins as Fellows. Behr, of Greenville, N.C., is the CEO of LBA Group, Inc., a company that provides electromagnetic protection for […]