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 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 May meeting will be Tuesday, May 16th. Lunch will be at The Rite Place, 1580 Bellevue St., Green Bay at 11:30 AM. The meeting and program will be held at 1 PM at UW Green Bay. There will be no Zoom meeting for this month. Included in the visit will be a tour of the Engineering and Media spaces. The media facilities are located in the Instructional Services Building (#6 on the map). It is suggested you park in the Laboratory Sciences parking lot (no permit needed). Enter the Laboratory Sciences building from the lot and proceed to the lower level, first floor. Follow the corridors through the Environmental Sciences building and arrive at Instructional Services. The labs and studios are in the west end of the building. Turn left and follow the signs for TEAM Labs.
Our April Meeting will be on Tuesday, April 25th at the Out-O-Town Club in Kaukauna. Our program will be a review of new items discovered at NAB. Kent Aschenbrenner, Senior Director of Engineering at The E.W. Scripps Company will be joining us, as well as any of our other members that were able to make the trip this year. Zoom information is in the newsletter.
Our March meeting will be on Tuesday, March 21st, at 11:30 AM (please note the earlier start time) at the Out-O-Town Club in Kaukauna. Our business meeting and lunch will be followed by a 1 PM tour of the Fox Energy Center natural gas power plant located in Wrightstown near the Out-O-Town Club. In order to attend the tour, you must pre-register by contacting John Pfankuch (contact info in the newsletter) no later than Friday, March 17th. The majority of the tour will be outdoors so dress appropriately. Due to the tour, the Zoom call will be limited to the business meeting. Zoom information is in the newsletter.
Our February meeting will be on Tuesday, February 21st at Noon at the Out-O-Town Club or via Zoom. The program topic regards regulations and practices surrounding broadcast towers today. It was originally presented to Chapter 25. Presenters were Bill Harland and John Robinson, PE of ERI in Chandler, IN. One of the members, Doug Garlinger, stated “This presentation should be watched by every US broadcast engineer involved with a tower.” The Zoom link in is the newsletter.
Our June 2022 meeting will be at the WBA Summer Conference, Wednesday, June 22 at the Radisson Hotel La Crosse. For more information on the Summer Conference Engineering Day, click here.
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