Our August meeting will be on Tuesady, August 20th at the Out-O-Town Club in Kaukauna. Zoom information is in the newsletter.

Our August newsletter is available now.

Our April meeting will be on Tuesday, April 16 at Noon at the Out-O-Town Club in Kaukauna.

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Our March meeting will be on Tuesday, March 19th at Noon at the Out-O-Town Club in Kaukauna.

Broadcast Supply Worldwide (BSW), headquartered in Tacoma, WA and now in its 51st year of serving the broadcast community, presents two outstanding guests for SBE Chapter 80 this Tuesday, March 19th in a virtual meeting beginning at noon.

Ben Barber always liked taking things apart and seeing how they worked. When his parents bought him a “Radio Shack 65-In-One Kit” at the age of 12, there was no looking back. He took electronic classes in high school and college, and one of his first jobs was soldering patch bays at the local AM Radio station where he grew up. That cemented it for Ben; a career in electronics and radio was his destiny. Ben is the president and CEO of Inovonics Incorporated, an innovative broadcast equipment manufacturer located in the Bay Area of California.

Alex Bonello brings over 30 years of experience to broadcast as president of INSOFT LLC, a Florida-based corporation that specializes in broadcast and telecommunications products. He started his career as part of the team who developed audio compression. This achievement was set to revolutionize the radio industry by making hard drive based radio automation a reality. Throughout the decades, he worked for various companies designing digital audio processors, digital audio consoles, and radio direction finders. In 2012 he again shocked the industry by defining the new frontier: Visual Radio. Twelve years later, INSOFT’s award winning HDVmixer solution automates video production for the most influential broadcasters in the country: Univison, Learfield, Cox Media Group, Hubbard Radio, Bonneville International, and many others. It’s not a coincidence that after the surge in Visual Radio, Nielsen dropped the blockbuster news that AM/FM radio’s total audience overtook television for the first time in history in 2023. HDV Mixer is exclusively available in the USA from Broadcast Supply Worldwide (BSW).

Alex & Ben will be discussing EAS monitoring of LP1, LP2, and NOAA Weather services. Inovonics has recently released a triple receiver specifically built and designed for meeting these requirements for monitoring. This will be an in-depth review of the features and functions of this receiver and how it can be integrated into your current existing EAS air chain.

This presentation was coordinated for SBE 80 by John Lynch, BSW Director of Business Development and longtime ‘radio guy’ particularly in the broadcast sports world.

As always, if you can’t join us in person, you have the option of joining us via Zoom, Bill Hubbard will be sending the link in a separate email.

Our March Newsletter is avaialbe now.

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 February newsletter is available now.