Held September 15-16, 2026 Madison Marriott West Middleton, WI The annual Society of Broadcast Engineers National Meeting will be held in Middleton, WI, on Sept. 15-16, 2026, in conjunction with the Midwest Regional Broadcasters Clinic, presented by the state broadcast associations of Wisconsin and Minnesota. SBE members from the region Read more…
A slate of candidates for the 2026 SBE election has been assembled. The SBE Nominations Committee, chaired by Jeff Welton, CBRE, provided a list of candidates. Additional floor nominations will be accepted until June 21. The slate of candidates: Officers: President • Kevin Trueblood, CBRE, CBNT; Ft. Myers, FL (incumbent) Read more…
The Society of Broadcast Engineers has elevated SBE member Fred Willard of Dunkirk, MD, to the membership rank of Fellow. The SBE Board of Directors elected him at a meeting held in April 2026. Fred Willard, CPBE, 8-VSB, ATSC3, CBNT, senior RF engineer for Televisa Univision in Washington, DC, joined Read more…
Through May 18, 2026, the Society of Broadcast Engineers will conduct a survey to determine salary levels and benefits among broadcast and media technology engineers. The SBE conducted its first survey in 2016. This ninth survey continues to help us establish a baseline for subsequent surveys and build compensation trends. Read more…
The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) announced that broadcast engineers and executives Bert Goldman and Harvey Arnold are the 2026 recipients of NAB’s Engineering Achievement Awards for Radio and TV respectively. They will be honored at the We Are Broadcasters Awards Ceremony, held on the Main Stage of the 2026 Read more…
Each year, the Society of Broadcast Engineers, the association for broadcast and multimedia technology professionals, conducts a member recruitment drive. The drive calls on current SBE members to encourage their non-member colleagues to join the association. In 2025, 49 individual members were recruited. The SBE Membership Drive runs from March Read more…
The Society of Broadcast Engineers will again exhibit and hold several events at the annual NAB Show in Las Vegas. The final SBE event of the convention will be the SBE Ennes Workshop at the NAB Show on April 21-22. Other events will be held through the entire convention. The Read more…
The Society of Broadcast Engineers will hold the 2026 SBE Leadership Development Course March 2-4, 2026, in Austin, TX. This three-day course is an intensive study of successful leadership and management, designed specifically for broadcast engineers. The course explores the nature of leadership, the difference between being a manager and Read more…
NAB Show: April 18-22, 2026 SBE Ennes Workshop @ the NAB Show: April 21-22 Las Vegas, Nevada This page is updated as information becomes available. Quick Links Register for the NAB Show (SBE members: Use the SBE code SBENAB26 for a free exhibits-only pass or $150 off the NAB non-member rate Read more…
The Society of Broadcast Engineers Program of Certification was adopted in November 1975, a remarkable milestone in recognizing and supporting professional excellence in broadcast engineering. To mark the occasion, the SBE has launched a program to encourage everyone to obtain or advance their SBE certification: CertChallenge. The challenge is to Read more…