KGTV Director of Operations and Engineering, Robert Vaillancourt, says he’s retiring in September from Scripps Media after a 42-1/2 year technical career. He’s been at channel 10 since April of 2014 when he returned to San Diego after spending almost seven years as Director of Operations and Engineering at KHON Fox 2 in Honolulu. Before 2007, he had been the Engineering Manager at KNSD San Diego.
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KVSD-LD Selling…Again
The D’Amico Brothers Broadcasting Corp. of Fallbrook filed an application with the FCC to transfer ownership of KVSD-LD, channel 35 on Mt. Woodson. Their purchase agreement mentions a sale price of $1.3-million to Word of God Fellowship of Georgia, parent of the Daystar Television Network.
KVSD-LD, which is currently off-the-air, normally transmits a 15 kW ERP signal beamed southwest toward metro San Diego. KVSD-LD had originally broadcast on channel 26 until it was displaced by KSWB in 2017.
A previous application to transfer ownership to Sovryn Holdings filed in October 2021 was not consummated.
This Website is 25 Years Old
Through the 1980s and early 90s, John Barcroft and Ron Foo, both engineers at KGB-FM and KPOP-AM, wrote and duplicated on a company copier, the monthly newsletter for SBE Chapter 36. They competently reported some local news, paraphrased some national news of interest, and promoted local meetings. Ron composed these on early PC software.
In about 1995, I offered to help them out, leveraging my journalism degree from the University of Oregon. I began sending it out via an email ListServ offered to us by Dave Biondi, an SBE supporter who had created Broadcast.net. The internet had been available to the general public for only a couple of years after American OnLine (AOL) and Prodigy began offering connections.
Continue reading This Website is 25 Years OldTony McDaid Moves to KNSD
SBE Chapter 36 Chairman Tony McDaid took a Systems Engineer position at KNSD “NBC7” San Diego and started work there Monday, June 28, 2022.
Tony had been an IT Engineer at iHeart Media since 2016. On his Facebook site, Tony said, “After five years it’s time to move on. I will definitely miss the fine people who work there, but I’ll still see most of them as I’m only moving next door to NBC 7, knocking a full 500 feet off my commute.”
Let’s Get Grounded! June 21 Presentation by GroundLinx Technologies
Tom LaBarge of GroundLinx Technologies says, “Our message these days is that traditional grounding, including a large part of engineering book lessons, and accepted industry standards (Motorola R-56, NFPA 780, and NEC 250, amongst others), is dangerously obsolete. Contemporary broadcast equipment being 100% electronic and digital requires a more resilient, broadband approach to grounding. Research in this area has led to the development of our unique, globally patented Gradiance® grounding devices and systems.”
Join us online June 21, 2022 at 11:30 PDT for a Zoom session. Register here.
Even if you don’t design site grounding schemes, you owe it to yourself to learn more about how to protect your equipment from needless damage.