(By KNSJ Staff) KNSJ Radio (89.1 FM Descanso) is off the air after the station’s transmitter on Mount Laguna froze and broke during storms the first week of January. The repair estimate is $1,500, said Martin Eder, founder of KNSJ, a public nonprofit radio station that serves East County and San Diego. Continue reading KNSJ Forced Off-air by Ice
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January Meeting – DVEO, Local Company with Cool Tools
Outfitting a TV channel with playout automation can be a real challenge. “Channel-in-a-box” solutions turn out to be more expensive than advertised because you end up buying a dizzying array of modules and licenses to get EAS, graphics layers, dynamic content, satellite network sources, and ASI inputs and outputs. Your vendor can make your product ownership experience frustrating because support is overseas or you have to pay for a big contract.
Local supplier DVEO is gaining traction with some interesting solutions for broadcasters of all kinds, whether a cable station, LPTV station, government channel, or a subchannel at your major affiliate TV station. DVEO will appear this month to show us modern tools for inserting commercials, network and local media, graphics layers, and even EAS into an SDI or ASI stream.
We’ll also get a look at a 4K resolution brand spanking new H.265 HEVC encoder and decoder pair. While you may not think of 4K as a practical format for broadcast yet, you can still use this codec for transmission of conventional HD video at about half the bandwidth of H.264.
Join us Wednesday, January 20 at 12 noon at KFMB, 7677 Engineer Road in Kearny Mesa, San Diego. DVEO will buy us lunch.
SBE 36 Adds Facebook Page
After years of procrastination, Chapter 36 has finally added a Facebook page. Vice-chairman Matthew Anderson set-up the page at https://www.facebook.com/sbe36/. Help it spread the news by “Liking” it. All SBE 36 web posts will have a link from the Facebook page, so you’ll always have the latest news if you Follow the site. This includes meeting reminders. Check it out.
Lombard Off to Phoenix
Immediate past Chapter 36 Chairman Andrew Lombard just landed a job as Chief Engineer at Fox O&O KSAZ (TV) channel 10 in Phoenix. Lombard had most recently been Director of Engineering at KFMB Stations in San Diego. At KSAZ, he’ll replace Gerry Grunig, who is planning to retire in early 2016.
Chapter 36 Officers Elected
The next crop of San Diego SBE chapter officer volunteers were elected in a late November online vote:
- Chair, Gary Stigall
- Vice Chair, Matthew Anderson
- Secretary, Doug Alman
Doug Alman was Chapter Chair in 2012 – 2014. Gary was Chair previously from 1998 – 2000.
The nominating committee consisted of past officers Andrew Lombard, Steve Moreen, and Gary Stigall.
Steve Moreen has been appointed to serve a second term as Program Chair.
The new officers succeed past officers Andrew Lombard, Chair; Manny Cervantes, Vice-Chair; and Matt Schiller, Secretary-Treasurer.