SBE Chapter 37's May meeting will feature Kumar Ramaswamy, President of igolgi Inc, giving a presentation on industry trends and how igolgi addresses those trends within their broadcast product line, including the iLux broadcast platform "station in a box" solution. The presentation will cover increasing channel count and video quality Read more…
After a long hiatus, Bits By The Bay, the Washington area’s own technical conference for media professionals, is returning in full form! SMPTE-DC’s Bits by the Bay 2025 is returning for a full two-day agenda at a freshly renovated venue on May 21-22, 2025, in scenic Chesapeake Beach, MD. Known Read more…
As you may have seen on Kirk Harnack's TWiRT podcast recently, iHeart and other station groups are replacing their RF STLs and legacy WAN technologies with Software Defined-WAN. There are dozens of SD-WAN vendors in the marketplace and it takes an expert to navigate the landscape. Dan Merwin, CBNE, based Read more…
The Mid-Atlantic Antique Radio Club (MAARC) presents: RadioActivity 2025 ScheduleAt The Byzantium, Annapolis MD Thursday June 195:00 to 7:00 pm – Registration desk opens.7:00 pm – Auction consignment ends7:30 to 9:00 pm – Tube, ephemera, & literature auction Friday June 207:00 am – Conference Registration Desk and Flea Market opens9:00 to Read more…
Over the past several years, Mike Pappas, Senior Vice President of Global Sales, Orban Labs has reviewed numerous AM and FM air chains, in large and small markets, and has found a plethora of problems. Not only do these problems negatively impact audio quality, they can also affect Nielsen PPM Read more…
Vinay Purohit, Founder & CTO of CloudJuncxion, will discuss the company's Seeker product, an advanced SD-WAN solution built on CloudJuncxion's Bandwidth Virtualization® technology, and how it can be used to modernize and enhance the connectivity, reliability, and performance of content-distribution networks. Vinay Purohit is a technologist, inventor, and entrepreneur with Read more…
The SBE Chapter 37 annual picnic at the WFED (formerly WTOP) historical art deco transmitter site in picturesque Wheaton, MD will be held on Saturday September 20th, starting at 12 noon. The picnic is an opportunity to meet with broadcast engineering friends along with their families, spouses, and significant Read more…
Join SBE Chapter 37 for a half day event about shared antennas and combining systems. AntennaFest 2025: Shared Signals is scheduled for Tuesday, October 7th from 11 am to 5:30 pm at WETA Headquarters in Shirlington, VA. Representatives from several companies will each present information about their solutions for combining Read more…
SMPTE’s Media Forward comes to Baltimore - WBAL! Kickstart Your Media Technology Career! Discover the latest technologies! Join us for a special Media Forward program at WBAL, Baltimore, designed to introduce students to careers in broadcast media through tours of its AM, FM, and TV broadcast operations, alumni success stories, Read more…
The SMPTE Washington DC Section and SBE Chapter 37 invite you to join us for our annual holiday party for 2025. This is a wonderful opportunity to network, socialize, and share in the joy of the season with friends, peers, and media professionals. All members, colleagues, family and guests are Read more…
Many of us might not quite remember the early days of Comrex. Some of us, present company included, were not even born yet in 1961. The first products produced by our founder, John Chaney, at our little place in Sudbury, Massachusetts were some of the television industry’s first wireless mic Read more…
Brian Szewczyk of GatesAir will give an overview of recommended air & liquid cooled transmitter site maintenance tasks. Brian Szewczyk has been the regional sales manager for GatesAir for 29 years. His territory includes the Northeastern States and Eastern Canada. Brian can help with Intraplex, Radio and TV transmission needs. Read more…