Chapter 58 Business Meeting & Presentation – Thursday, February 22nd, 2024 at 6:30pm
This was an in-person and Virtual WebEx event; recorded meeting posted on YouTube.
We held our February meeting in person at Spectrum Networks in Albany. After dinner, the business portion of the meeting to began at 7pm.
Our presenters this month were Mark Whitman, David Desrochers, and Biplab Ghosh from LAWO.
Chapter 58 Business Meeting & Presentation
Thursday, January 25th, 2024 at 7pm
This was a Virtual WebEx event only; recorded meeting posted on YouTube.
The January meeting was virtual, started with a chapter business meeting at 7pm, and was followed by a presentation sponsored by Diversified. The presentation was hosted by Keith Bickford, Solutions Architect from the Imaging Products & Solutions division of Sony Electronics.
Chapter 58 Business Meeting & Presentation – Thursday, December 14th, 2023 at 7pm
This was a Virtual WebEx event only; recorded meeting posted on YouTube.
The December meeting was virtual, and started with a chapter business meeting followed by a presentation from Ken Rubin, SVP, and Ric Belding, VP Solutions Engineering, both from Actus. The presentation was sponsored by Diversified, and discussed what today’s broadcast engineers should expect and how to get more from their required compliance and logging systems, The Actus solution offers tools needed for FCC compliance (like CALM ACT, EAS, and CC verification) as well as additional capabilities that can be combined into a single platform – such as browser-based multiviewers, SCTE trigger verification, TS analysis, playlist discrepancy reports, and OTT simulcast monitoring with analytics.
Chapter 58 Business Meeting – Thursday, November 16th, 2023 at 7pm
This was a Virtual WebEx event only; recorded meeting posted on YouTube.
Chapter 58 Business Meeting – Thursday, October 19th, 2023 at 7pm
This was a Virtual WebEx event only; recorded meeting posted on YouTube.
The October meeting was virtual, and started with a chapter business meeting followed by a presentation from Frank Grunstein and Broadcast Electronics’ on BE’s “Quick Block” transmitter solution for FM and TV.
Chapter 58 Business Meeting – Monday, May 22nd, 2023 at 7pm
This was a Virtual WebEx event only; recorded meeting posted on YouTube.
The May meeting was a chapter business meeting, followed by a presentation on Fiberoptic Cables for HD Broadcast from Benjamin Nemser from Nemal Electronics.
Chapter 58 Business Meeting – Thursday, March 23rd, 2023 at 7pm
This was a Virtual WebEx event, business meeting only; recorded meeting posted on YouTube.
Chapter 58 Business Meeting – Thursday, February 23rd, 2023 at 6:30pm
This was an in-person and Virtual WebEx event; recorded meeting posted on YouTube.
Our business meeting was followed by a program presented on the The Beam Asset Intelligence Platform by Beam’s CEO and Co-Founder, David Kaszycki.
Beam’s product brings a business solution to the broadcast industry that is dedicated for engineering teams, helping them to gain inventory visibility across the production environment, maximize uptime and minimize security risks.
Chapter 58 Business Meeting – Thursday, January 19th, 2023 at 6:30pm
This was an in-person and Virtual WebEx event; recorded meeting posted on YouTube.
Our business meeting was followed by a program presented by Ted Tramaloni from Ross Video, LTD. The Well-Equipped TD: Remote Production Switcher Panel/Frame Connectivity
Chapter 58 Business Meeting – Thursday, December 15, 2022 at 7pm
This was a Virtual WebEx event; recorded meeting posted on YouTube.
Presentations from Riedel Communications:
Simply Live Production presented by Greg Macchia
Future of IP Comms and Video Production by Stephen Remich
Chapter 58 Business Meeting – Thursday, November 17, 2022 at 7pm
This was a Virtual WebEx event; recorded meeting posted on YouTube.
EVS Solutions Architect Keith Bickford presented “Dynamic Orchestration and Signal Management
using EVS’s Cerebrum and Neuron products”.
Chapter 58 Business Meeting – Thursday, October 20, 2022 at 7pm
This was a Virtual WebEx event; recorded meeting posted on YouTube.
Our presentation was “Bringing to Light: The Changes in the Tower Lighting World” and from Kevin Bethke and Mike Thomson at LumenServe.
Chapter 58 Business Meeting – Thursday, September 15, 2022 at 7pm
This was a Virtual WebEx event; recorded meeting posted on YouTube.
Chapter 58 Business Meeting – June 23, 2022 at 7pm
This was a Virtual WebEx event; business meeting recorded and posted on YouTube.
November 15, 2018
Program: Scott Fybush’s Tower Site Tours & Industry Update
Presenter: Scott Fybush – Founder, President & C.E.O. at Fybush Media. Scott summarized all of his journalistic scoops from the NAB Expo, the NAB Radio Show in Orlando, NAB New York, and AES New York last month downstate.
Fybush also shared some exclusive photos of some of the most interesting new broadcast facilities he’s visited.
June 21, 2018
Program: 600 Matters!
Presenter: Scott Hewett, Spectrum Consultant, T-Mobile Communications
Scott updated us on the TV repack and T-Mobile’s deployment plans, reviewed displacement of LP stations/translators, and discussed the impact of the repack on wireless microphone users.
April 26, 2018
Program: David Allen, MNC Software & Jim Lein, AC Video Solutions
Presentation: Facility Remote Control
The Technology Running MNC’s Mosaic M & C System
Mosaic, MNC’s flagship product, is in use around the world, including AT&T DIRECTV, Global Radio UK, Voice of Vietnam, and ION Media.
February 22, 2018
Program: Sierra Automated Systems, audio over IP
Presentation: SAS’s Al Salci discussed AES-67 Audio Over IP, AES-70 for GPI-O and Control over IP. In addition, a possible successor to HDMI, AVB Audio over Ethernet (AoE) mechanism with auto QoS, was also discussed.
January 25, 2018
Program: Lawo Audio Consoles for TV
Presentation: Bill Bennett from Lawo discussed virtualization of radio and it’s anticipated role in future content creation and broadcast workflow.
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