Frequency Coordination

SBE to Coordinate NFL Games

 June 15, 1999


To: SBE Board of Directors, SBE Chapter Chairmen, 
    Local Frequency Coordinators, 
    National Frequency Coordination Committee

From: Edward J. Miller, CPBE SBE President Richard L. Edwards, 
	CPBE National Frequency Coordination Committee Chairman

Re: SBE, NFL COOPERATIVE EFFORT ON FREQUENCY COORDINATION FOR ALL GAMES

Cc: SBE Board of Directors


The Society of Broadcast Engineers and the National Football League have
announced a cooperative effort to coordinate frequency use for all
regular season and post-season NFL games beginning with the 1999 season.
SBE coordinators have, for many years, coordinated NFL regular season
and playoff games, working with the various networks, local stations and
other users. The ever growing media demands of NFL games along with the
enormity of playoff games, especially the Super Bowl, require a massive
effort on the part of these local volunteer coordinators to coordinate
the hundreds of requests for frequencies. Coordination is essential, not
only to keep the users of these frequencies from interfering with each
other but also with those of local broadcasters. This cooperative effort
between SBE and the NFL will provide all licensed users of frequencies
at stadiums around the country as interference free an environment as
possible.

Through its local chapters and frequency coordinators, SBE will appoint
a game day event coordinator for each teams home games. The event
coordinator will be equipped by the NFL with a laptop computer, scanner,
press box space and a telephone. The NFL will also provide database
software and contact information for each teams personnel and local and
network media. Event coordinators will work as volunteers. They will be
offered $150 reimbursement for out-of-pocket expenses. Should the
coordinator elect not to accept the reimbursement, the NFL will make a
$150 donation to the local chapter. The NFL will also provide each event
coordinator with a booklet of standard event operating procedures
authored by SBE. A parking pass and two All Area Passes will be provided
the event coordinator for each game.

The Event Coordinator will work with local and visiting team stations,
the major networks, equipment suppliers and other users of spectrum
within the football stadium. They will work to coordinate frequency use
for each game reporting interference and its probable cause to NFL
officials on game days. The NFL, or its representatives, will rectify
problems with the parties involved.

Rick Edwards, SBEs national Frequency Coordination Chairman, will be
working with local SBE chapters and frequency coordinators to identify
local event coordinators and a back up for each NFL city. That effort
will start immediately. Rick can be reached at Rick@cityscape-siting.com 
or at (954) 757-5757. 

If you'd like to "volunteer," come to our next meeting, July 21.--ed

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Edited by Gary Stigall. Posted 25-Jun-99.