The Ennes Educational Foundation Trust has awarded five scholarships for 2022. The recipients were chosen from applications received by July 1, 2022, from the previous 12 months. The Harold E. Ennes Scholarship, Robert D. Greenberg Scholarship, John H. Battison Founder’s Scholarship and Gino Ricciardelli Scholarship are awarded to individuals interested Read more…
Ward “Chip” Fetrow III, Former SBE Chapter 37 Chair, Dies at 67 Chip served a leadership role at SBE Chapter 37 in the 1980s and early 1990s. Much of his broadcast career was with Doubleday Broadcasting as Chief Engineer of highly successful WAVA-FM, Arlington VA. Chip’s contributions as a friend Read more…
The Society of Broadcast Engineers, the association for broadcast and multimedia technology professionals, announces the results of the 2022 election for the national board of directors. Andrea Cummis, CBT, CTO, was re-elected as the society’s president. Cummis is the chief technical officer of PBS39/WLVT-TV, in Bethlehem, PA. She is the Read more…
For many SBE members, the local chapter provides access to affordable continuing education and a ready network of contacts and friends in the industry. The SBE recognizes chapters that meet those needs by rewarding them with an annual rebate of a portion of the SBE dues paid by its members. Read more…
In conjunction with the SBE National Awards program, SBE members who are honored by chapters as a chapter engineer of the year are automatically entered into consideration for the Robert W. Flanders SBE Engineer of the Year award. Chapters set their own criteria to make their selections. These six SBE Read more…
The Society of Broadcast Engineers, the association for broadcast and multimedia technology professionals, recognizes achievements from its members through an awards program. The annual SBE National Awards recognizes those who have contributed to the SBE, the industry or their chapters in a number of categories. Winners are presented awards at Read more…
Each year in the fall, the Society of Broadcast Engineers, the association for broadcast and multimedia technology professionals, holds its National Meeting, which includes the annual Membership Meeting, Awards Dinner, a meeting of the SBE Board of Directors, and several SBE committee meetings. The SBE holds its National Meeting in Read more…
From April 1 to June 3, 2022, the Society of Broadcast Engineers conducted its seventh annual compensation survey to determine salary levels and benefits among broadcast and media technology engineers. This survey provides a wealth of useful information, and it adds to the baseline being developed for subsequent surveys to 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. This year, 68 individual members were recruited. The SBE Membership Drive ran from March Read more…
The SBE has learned that many stations have received prior-coordination notices (PCN) regarding Dish Network and its deployment of AWS-4 at 2000-2020 MHz (downlink) and 2180-2200 MHz (uplink). Those stations have sought guidance on a uniform response. In reviewing these notifications, the SBE believes the potential for interference to ENG Read more…