Chapter 47 Los Angeles + AES Meeting – High Quality Audio Best Practices

Join SBE Chapter 47 and the AES for a joint gathering with the Audio Engineering Society for a tour of NPR West facilities in Culver City and presentation on best practices for achieving and maintaining high quality audio for broadcast radio. This is an in-person event but will also be broadcast via Zoom Webinar.

In-Person Attendance

NPR West
9909 Jefferson Blvd,
Culver City, CA 90232

Parking : You may use all the parking spots in the NPR lot EXCEPT the row in front of the back building (Pretty Bird). Street parking is also available, carpool/ridesharing advised.

Tuesday July 30th 7:00-9:30pm.
Drinks and Snacks will be provided

RSVP for In-person Attendance

Zoom Webinar Attendance

RSVP for Zoom Attendance

Presenters

Doug Irwin: Doug is a career broadcast engineer with extensive major market experience: 18 years in San Francisco, 6 years in New York and now more than 11 in Los Angeles. His current role is Regional EngineeringLead for the Los Angeles region for iHeartMedia.

 Margaret Luthar: Margaret is an audio engineer based in Los Angeles, with experience in music studios in the United States, and abroad. She’s a broadcast engineer for NPR, and a music mastering engineer via her company Dark Sky Mastering. In addition, she cuts the lacquer masters used in making records.

Patrick Murray: Patrick has been an audio engineer at NPR since 1997, having worked in DC, San Francisco, and now Culver City.  He’s technical director emeritus of WATC, News Ops, WESAT, and WESUN. His passion is to create good radio, whether live on air or podcast.

To attend in person, please register via the button below on Eventbrite. If you’d like to join us via Zoom webinar please register below for the link. 

FCC LPFM San Diego Window Applicants – July 1, 2024 Update

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After the close of the FCC’s December LPFM Construction Permit filing window, applications began showing up among the 2,819 filed nationally.

You can search for the applicants from the usual LMS Search page, but the winning effort goes to Michelle Bradley of RECNet.com. Check out the California page in the REC Filing Window Application Tracking System. Let’s list the San Diego County applicants with REC’s comments:

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Richard Burden, Veteran Los Angeles Engineer, Dies at 92

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Longtime broadcast engineer Richard Burden passed away June 22, 2024 at the age of 92. A post on the SBE Chapter 47 Facebook page said, “It is not often in life that you meet someone who loves his family, friends and profession like Richard Burden. He gave 200% to everything he did with a smile on his face and love in his heart. We are all better people having known him.”

Richard’s notable career started in 1950 with his serving as Chief Engineer at his Lafayette College radio station, then his attendance at the RCA Institutes. He went on to participate in research at technology junctures that included FM stereo, TV stereo, and Traveler’s Information Service. He befriended the likes of Saul Marantz, Avery Fisher, and Rudy Bozak, but always had time for you.

Burden became a charter member of the SBE in 1966 and was still active this past year. He was elected as a Fellow in 1999, then received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005.

An article in the Radio World magazine has more information. You can read a fascinating transcript of an oral history interview on the Energy and Technology History Wiki website.

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