Meetings

February 2018 Meeting – Get the Sound Your Program Director Wants

With the latest broadcast audio processors, it’s easier than ever to give your station a competitive audio signature your audience and your program director will both love.

Paul Kriegler of the Telos Alliance visits Chapter 36 Wednesday, February 14th at 12 noon at iHeartMedia, 9660 Granite Ridge Drive in San Diego. He’ll give a talk on audio processing and try to answer your questions. Telos will provide a simple lunch. SBE members and guests are always welcome.

About Paul Kriegler

Paul joined Telos in November 2017. Like most Telos Alliance employees, Paul comes from a broadcasting background, including more than 25 years of broadcast management and programming experience, most recently with Lotus Radio in Reno and Emmis Broadcast Group in Austin. Over the years, Paul has been an incredible advocate of Omnia at all of his stations, which makes him a great fit for his new role. Paul says, “Processing is definitely a piece of the puzzle and part of the secret sauce on many successful stations. I look forward to helping my brothers and sisters in programming get the exact sound they want.”

Local News

Meet Darnell Forde

Chapter 36 welcomes new member Darnell Forde. He tells us he retired after 20 years in the Navy as a Chief Electronics Technician and graduated from the San Diego City College Communications program with a concentration in Radio. He’s now pursuing an MBA at Point Loma Nazarene University.

Darnell has been involved in radio both as a talent and as an engineering technician.  He said he was introduced to broadcast engineering by Dick Warren in 2006 when Dick mentored him at The Soul of San Diego, KNSN AM 1240.  When the lease agreement ended, Darnell continued to maintain the studio equipment at the Bayview Baptist Church.

Why did Darnell join the SBE? “I recently discovered that I have a passion for radio, especially the broadcast engineering aspect of radio and I want to be part of the change that has already started in radio from terrestrial to new media.  Although there are complexities, I am willing to learn.

“To date, I’ve done periodic maintenance of broadcast equipment, live remotes, and tours of transmitter sites.   After leaving the Navy, my interactions with RF transmitters became limited. [I’d like to] get into radio/broadcast management and be involved in establishing new innovations in radio.”

National

FCC Announces End of Main Studio Rule

The FCC Media Bureau announced the elimination of the Main Studio Rule last week. That rule had required each AM, FM, and television broadcast station to maintain a main studio located in or near its community of license. The order also eliminated existing requirements associated with the main studio rule, including the requirement that the main studio has full-time management and staff present during normal business hours, and that it has program origination capability.

Social media commenters have expressed dismay for the “end of broadcasting” as large owner groups continue to consolidate operations in distant cities and close local studios. Others see the opportunity for “live and local” operators to stand out.

Meetings

January 2018 Meeting – It’s Joe from Telos

Voice-over-Internet-Protocol, VoIP, is fast taking over copper-based ISDN as the go-to technology for remotes, studio phones, and even studio-transmitter links. If you don’t know him, Joe Talbot from Telos talks a lot about this transition and some of its fine points. At Los Angeles and San Diego SBE meetings this month, Joe will lead a “telephony roundtable,” a guided discussion about the latest issues in telephony. He can address codec preferences, network latency, and hardware issues. Bring your questions and learn a few tricks.

Join us Wednesday, January 10 at 12 noon at iHeartMedia, 9660 Granite Ridge Drive in San Diego. Joe is buying us sandwiches. Members and guests are always welcome!

About Joe Talbot

Joe has worked in the trenches of broadcasting technology, first at KWIZ Santa Ana, later as Director of Engineering at KGO/KSFO San Francisco. He earned a patent for a method for remote telephone calibration. He’s been Product Manager at the Telos Alliance since 2010.

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