Our February meeting will be held on Tuesday, February 20 at Noon at the Out-O-Town Club in Kaukauna. Our speaker will be Vicki Kipp from PBS Wisconsin Engineering. Her program will be on the FCC’s TV Audio Description Rules. The Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010 (CVAA) established audio description requirements for the top 25 TV markets and was later extended to additional DMAs. It took effect in Milwaukee in 2015, Green Bay-Appleton in 2021, and Madison in 2023. On October 17, 2023, the FCC adopted the Audio Description Second Report and Order, which phases in audio description requirements for an additional ten markets every year until all markets are covered. The CVAA 2021 2nd R & O will take effect in the La Crosse-Eau Claire market in 2027, in the Wausau-Rhinelander, Rockford, and Duluth-Superior markets in 2029, and in the Marquette market in 2032. Learn why Audio Description (AD) exists, what the FCC requirements are, and how to produce quality audio descriptions.
The meeting will be available on Zoom if you can not make it in person. See the newsletter for the Zoom information.
Our January Meeting will be our annual Holiday Social and Dinner at the Out-O-Town Club in Kaukauna. Social hour begins at 5:30 PM and dinner will begin at approximately 6:30 PM. There will be no Zoom link for this meeting.
Our December meeting will be on Tuesday, December 12th at Noon at the Out-O-Town Supper Club in Kaukauna. Please note that this is one week earlier than usual. Our meeting will feature Chris Tarr, Chief Engineer at Magnum Media and FCC SECC Chair talking about all things EAS and possibly other broadcast topics. Zoom details are linked in the newsletter.
Our November meeting will be on Tuesday, November 21st at the Out-O-Town Club at Noon. This month’s meeding with cover the latest happenings in the SBE, given by Jim Ragsdale. This month will also feature our chapter elections. If you did not receive the ballot in your email or have questions, please email Marty Jury at mjury@sbe.org.
Our August meeting will be on Tuesday, August 15th, at Noon at the Out-O-Town Club in Kaukauna. The program will be an interesting video that will look at the similarities of wave behavior. Vice Chair Matt Converse found the video and it covers wave behavior and provides historical context. Zoom information for those who can’t make it in person is in the newsletter.
Our July meeting will be on Thursday, July 20, 2023 at Woodward Radio Group, 2800 E College Ave, Appleton. We will be hosting the Next Best Thing Tour and our chapter picnic. Vendors will be ready around 11 AM with lunch at Noon. The tour will be open until 2 PM. You can register in advace for the show using this link. All SBE guests should park across the street from the station in the lot next to Tuffy (but not at Tuffy).
Our June meeting will be held in conjunction with the WBA Duke Wright Media Technology Institute at the Osthoff Resort in Elkhart Lake.
Our July meeting will be the chapter summer picnic. It will be held on Thursday, July 20 at Woodward Radio Group, 2800 E College Ave, Appleton. We will also be joined by The Next Best Thing Tour for the picnic.
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