Don’t miss the SBE Ennes Workshop by SBE Chapter 47 Los Angeles on Saturday, February 21. Breakfast and registration open at 8:00 am and the workshop starts promptly at 9:00 am at KPCC, 474 South Raymond Ave., Pasadena, CA 91105.
The cost is $25 for SBE MEMBERS and $35 for NON-MEMBERS. REGISTER HERE.
Students are FREE – Register HERE
The event includes a light breakfast and lunch, and ends at 3:00 pm. A studio tour follows, ending at 4:00 pm.
Here’s the Line-up
Calculating Reliability for Broadcast Engineers
By Fred Baumgartner, “Retired” Broadcast Engineer
No one wants downtime. But highly reliable systems come at a cost, and that cost is driven by design and environment. We can calculate a system’s reliability using simple mathematics.
When you propose a project or expense that is meant to reduce downtime, it often is useful to present this as competing costs – the cost of doing nothing versus the cost of investing in reliability, and the cost of downtime. What does it mean to have 5-nines (99.999%) of availability versus 2-nines (99%)? A big part of broadcast engineering is keeping things running. This is how to calculate the return on investment for various design approaches. Your gut feeling might be far from reality for subtle, not very obvious reasons. Never again will you have to pull a number out of the air or guess—you will be able to support your decisions with real numbers.
This is a skill and a mindset that every broadcast engineer can benefit from. And the rules are few and the math fairly basic.
Leadership Side of the Industry from a Business Perspective
By Mike Pappas, Field Engineer and VP of Business Development, Orban
It’s time to hear from the vendors! The leadership side of the industry, from a vendor’s perspective, is a really interesting topic once you look at it from both inside and outside the top four or five markets. For example, a DOE in major radio markets like LA can pretty much do as they please. Those same groups in Gainesville have a completely different role. Hear how vendors deal with each of these markets in quite a different way.
Running an Engineering Department in Lean Times
By Lynn Duke, retired Audacity Director of Engineering
Lynn Duke, long-time chief engineer at KNX, KRTH, and other stations, will discuss what it takes to run a cohesive engineering department, especially in these days of reduced staff and increased station load. How is success measured in doing so?
Organizational Leadership
Assistant Chief of the LA County Fire Department Pat Sprengel will talk about organization leadership inside the fire service.
Look for future announcements of additional speakers.
Ennes Workshop attendees receive One Credit Category G by attending the entire workshop (4 sessions).