Date: Tuesday, March 9, 2021
Time: Gather Online 6:30pm, Meeting 7:00pm, presentation to follow

Location:
ONLINE – see email for details

From John Hovanec – SBE CH70 Program Chairman

Our next meeting will be Tuesday, March 9 online at 6:30pm, the SBE Chapter 70 meeting will be at 7pm with a presenta-tion to follow.Our presentation is by Jill Walters, Director of Key Accounts and Strategy, of Digital Broadcast, Inc.The topic is, “Asset Man-agement and the benefits and importance of NoSQL” discussing reasons major companies (like Google, AWZ, NBC Universal, Cisco and Adobe) are starting to recognize and prefer NoSQL databases and the benefits of using a NoSQL database.Increas-ingly important with our new workflows and our need to manage and search assets very quickly from multiple sources in the same database and the support any type of content: video, documents, pictures –in the same archival system.Our March meeting will again be virtual, via Zoom.Click on the link in the email with this newsletter.We will most likelysend out a reminder email early next week with that information and a presentation as well.Hope to see you on March 9.

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Date: Tuesday, January 12, 2021
Time: Gather Online 6:30pm, Meeting 7:00pm, presentation to follow

Location:
ONLINE – see email for details

From John Hovanec – SBE CH70 Program Chairman

Our first meeting for the new year will be Tuesday, January 12 online at 6:30pm, the SBE Chapter 70 meeting will be at 7pm with a presentation to follow.Presentation from MultiCAM systems:Visual radio, and virtual reality.How radio is turning into a visual medium, best practices and what to look for in making the decision to go visual. And, virtual reality –what it is, how broadcasters can use it in a cost effective manner to design new studios quickly ( and is not) how to integrate it into your workflow and how it can help radio talent.About MultiCAM-Systems:Multicam produces, intelligent video camera, and control systems for Broadcast and Teleconfer-ence.Of particular interestto us are their multi-camera systems for Radio Studios, as more of us are integrating the visual aspect of radio for distribution into podcasts or web-streaming of our content.Multicam addresses the integration and intel-ligent automation aspects of this, which translates to a complete system solution.So we don’tneedto reinvent wheelas far as system component selection from various vendors, system design and getting everything to to do what the Programming or Marketing departments request.This is an integrated solution for what they are asking you to do.The meeting will again be virtual via Zoom.Click on the link in the email with this newsletter.We will most likely send out a reminder email early next week with that information as well.

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Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2020
Time: Gather Online 6:30pm, Meeting 7:00pm, presentation to follow

Location:
ONLINE – see email for details

From John Hovanec – SBE CH70 Program Chairman

Our next meeting will be Tuesday, December 8.Gather online at 6:30pm, the SBE Chapter 70 meeting will be at 7pm with a presentation to follow.This month we welcome Doug Ferber, VP of Sales for Tieline. Doug will present “Remote Broadcasting Connec-tions: Trends and Suggestions” and will discuss the Tieline ViA, Via-Merlin Plus Codec, Interfaces, the Report-IT Remote Broadcast App, and Cloud Codec Controller.A timely presentation as we look to other ways to ‘remote in’ especially during Covid-19, and to meet what seems to will be a continuing trend.The meeting will again be virtual via Zoom.Click on the link in the email with this newsletter.We will most likely send out a reminder email early next week with that information as well.“Happy Holidays” and hope you can make it on December 8!

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Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2020
Time: Gather Online 6:30pm, Meeting 7:00pm, presentation to follow

Location:
ONLINE – see email for details

From John Hovanec – SBE CH70 Program Chairman

Our next meeting will feature a presentation by Jake Alderman of the Telos Alliance.That will be after our gathering and Chapter Meeting.Log into our Chapters Zoom account beginning at 6:30PM on Tuesday, November 10th. We will begin the Chapter Meeting at 7PM, with Jake’s Presentation to follow.The Title is ‘Virtual solutions 101: How to get started with virtual workflows.’ Join Telos for discussion about the technolo-gies that underpin the catch phrase “Virtual solutions.” During this session we will take a look behind the curtain at virtual machines, containerization, and the cloud work. With the understanding of these solutions we will then apply our knowledge by exploring how broadcast can leverage them.Thanks again to Jake Alderman and Telos for putting together this presentation for us.Jake has hosted at least one past presentation for Chapter 70, but for those of you who may not be familiar, Jake’s ‘bio’ is in this newsletter on page 3.The Presentation will begin after the Chapter Meeting and Election. A link and the password to join the meeting is contained in the email with this newsletter.

Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Time: Gather Online 6:30pm, Meeting 7:00pm, presentation to follow

Location:
ONLINE – see email for details

From John Hovanec – SBE CH70 Program Chairman

This month’s presentation is by Steve DeFala, Director of sales for Accelerated Media Technologies.His company outfits vehicles for ENG and remote broadcast.The timely topic will be “Current trends and new technology in Mobile ENG, How to keep your vehicle fleet safe in a pandemic”.See Steve’s bio in this newsletter.

Our September 13 Meeting is again ‘virtual’ with Zoom.Gather at 6:30 pm or later, when we can visit and have open discussion before the 7PM meeting.Please note that beside the Zoom invitation link, you can join via a phone link.That information is below the zoom link, but note a different passcode that you will need to enter, if joining via ‘phone. We are trying to make this as easy and accessible for everyone to partake in our meetings.If you are ‘camera shy’ you can join with the video off when you log on, as well as have your mic muted.We have found that Zoom meetings are an easy way for those to join into the Chapter for discussion or ‘catching up’ with everyone, from home or out-of-town.I’ve had success joining with my newer computer as well as my ten-year-old laptop with Windows 7.Mobile devices such as iPhones, iPads and Android devices also work.If nothing else you can join the meeting with a ‘good old phone’ using one of the phone numbers, meeting ID and passcode listed in the invitation.Although we can’t offer you pizza and refreshments during the gathering, you don’t have to worry about driving to a meeting, or the concern of COVID to get together with everyone.We hope you can make it! Our Presentation will follow the Chapter Meeting.