[Updated 5/3/2020] Here’s a list of online learning and social events you can participate in during the coronavirus pandemic. We’ll try to keep this list updated, and please contact us if you hear of, or are sponsoring yourself, any similar events, even if they are quite promotional in nature. Engineers like to learn.
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March 2020 Virtual Chapter Meeting with GatesAir: Taking Your Plant to the Next Level
We were graciously offered to join SBE Chapter 9 Phoenix after they converted their monthly meeting to a Skype online conference.
Kevin Haider will give a complete walkthrough to better understand the differences between Generation 3 and Generation 4 HD Radio technology. This presentation will address important features such as the advantages of running a combined importer and exporter. Also, discover tools to help time alignment of the FM analog and digital audio. “Enhance your station’s HD Radio listening experience with the GatesAir FMXi Importer/Exporter.”
Join us all Wednesday, March 25, at 12 noon Pacific/Arizona time. Send a note to Ron Lane requesting to join the group.
NAB Show 2020 Canceled
The National Association of Broadcasters said this morning they would cancel the NAB Show, but CEO Gordon Smith said he hoped they could hold the show later in the year. Several major exhibitors, including Ross Video, Canon, Avid, and AJA had already called off their participation due to concerns about spreading COVID-19, the virus that the World Health Organization today labeled an “international pandemic.”
March 2020 Chapter Meeting: Canceled
In order to reduce the possiblity of a spread of the Coronavirus COVID-19, Chapter 36 leaders have called off our March 25, 2020 meeting. Tony Spica was to talk about Audio Precision test gear. We hope to have him at a future date.
February 2020 Meeting: Actus Digital
Everyone wants clips: stuff your talent said or did on the air, clips of your competition’s material, clips to prove you ran the right commercials at the right time. Clips to share on your station’s website, social media, or through your app. There’s more to the decoding, storage, and retrieval than you might imagine, and the quality varies. Can you retrieve by key words transmitted? In other words, can you have speech-to-text conversion and meta storage going at the same time? Can you compare instantaneous audience measurements to on-air events? How about measuring and logging loudness and alerts upon violations?
Local sales guy Jay Gedanken of Actus will visit us Wednesday, February 12 at 12 noon at iHeartMedia, 9660 Granite Ridge Drive, San Diego. We’ll have a quick meal, then a presentation about current logging and clip storage and retrieval technology.
Actus has been around for longer than 15 years, serving clients as small as local independent TV and radio stations and as large as Comcast, SKY, and Fox Networks. Take a look at the possibilities here.
Jay Gedanken recently joined Actus as Vice President of Business Development. He had previously served for over 30 years as a technical sales representative for firms developing devices for audio/video compression encoding and decoding.