November Meeting Info
Date: Tuesday, November 15th, 2016
Time: Gather at 7:00pm, Meeting at 7:30pm
Location:
Telos Alliance Headquarters
1241 Superior Avenue
Cleveland, OH
From John Hovanec – SBE CH70 Program Chair
Our next meeting is Tuesday, November 15 at the Telos
Alliance Headquarters, 1241 Superior Avenue, Cleveland,
OH 44114. Gather at 7pm, meeting at 7:30pm, with
the program to follow. Frank Foti and the Telos Alliance
crew will no doubt have an interesting program lined up
for us so you won’t want to miss it!
September Meeting Info
Date: Tuesday, September 13th, 2016
Time: Gather at7:00pm, Meeting at 7:30pm
Location:
Ohio Media School
9885 Rockside Road
Independence, OH
From Blake Thompson – SBE CH70 Program Chair:
Our next meeting will be back at the Ohio Media School Cleveland Campus.Our host will
be Campus Director, Terry Grodin.Our program and dinner will be courtesy of Lawo.
When broadcasters swap CD’s, cart machines, turntables and audio consoles for PC-based digital playout, mixing & processing systems, we call that Virtual Radio. Our guest speaker Bill Bennett, Lawo’s Radio Applications lead in the U.S., who will describe virtualization in greater detail by outlining the real applications in use today. He’ll explore how broadcasters may now reap operational benefits and gains by capitalizing on I.T.’s investment in R&D and will discuss virtualization’s anticipated role in content creation and broadcast workflow in the future. A recent episode of This Week in Radio Tech (TWiRT) featured a Lawo presentation on this topic. How did they conduct their broadcast interview? Virtually, of course! The usual times apply, gather at 7pm with our business meeting to run at 7:30 and the program to follow that. Tours of the facility may be available after the program.
Please RSVP to me – 
– so we can get a headcount for the Panera order.
August Meeting Info
Date: Tuesday, August 9th, 2016
Time: Gather at 6:30pm, Meeting at 7:30pm
Location:
Boneyard – Sky Box Party Room
101 E. Royalton Road
Broadview Heights, OH 44147
From Blake Thompson – SBE CH70 Program Chair:
Our next meeting on Tuesday August 9th will be at
The Boneyard Sky Box Party room! They are located
at101 E Royalton Rd, Broadview Heights, OH 44147. We
will have our election meeting inside for a change. The
Chapter will provide a nice selection of wings, pizza, and a
soft drink for the ‘picnic’. We won’t have an official program
but we’ll hold the election for Chapter officers and
talk about future programs you’d like to see.
Slightly earlier times apply. We can start to gather at
6:30 pm with our meeting to go at 7:30.
July Meeting Info
Date: Tuesday, July 12th, 2016
Time: Gather at 7:00pm, Meeting at 7:30pm
Location:
WJMO Transmitter Site
9350 Ridge Road
North Royalton, OH
From Blake Thompson – SBE CH70 Program Chair:
Our next meeting will be at the WJMO transmitter site located
near/behind the Babbit funeral home at 9350 Ridge Rd. in North
Royalton. The site has the expected long gravel road leading back to
the 4 distinctive Blaw-Knox towers. We’ll see and hear about the upgrades
recently completed on those cool old towers. It’s also the main
transmitter site for 98.6, WNCX, and WQAL, 104.1.
Our Chairman will talk about the Nautel NV & GV series HD
Transmitters used as mains and a backup for WQAL and the rest of
his broadcast chains. John can also show us the small scale disaster
recovery studios for the two FM stations.
Be sure to bring a chair for yourself and maybe an extra one or
folding table you found. We’ll have a picnic style event in July for a
change. The usual times apply. Gather at 7 pm with our meeting to go
at 7:30.
June Meeting Info
Date: Tuesday, June 14th, 2016
Time: Gather at 7:00pm, Meeting at 7:30pm
Location:
WZIP Studios
The University of Akron
Akron, OH
From Blake Thompson – SBE CH70 Program Chair:
Our next meeting on Tuesday June 14th will be at the WZIP studios
located on the University of Akron Campus, in Kolbe Hall room
320. You can spot Kolbe hall as it has a
grid microwave dish on the roof. Come on up to the 3rdfloor ( ground, 1,
2, 3) and we’ll have a nice retirement party and get to see a preview of
the upcoming documentary on the history of WAUP/WZIP that the
students have been working on. We have also changed out almost every
piece of gear at WZIP since our last meeting here. There’s new Axia
consoles, a new ENCO DAD automation system, and much more. We
will also have tours available of the HD TV Production studio we use for
training and Fox 8 uses as their Akron home. Parking is ‘free’ in the lots
shown, they are for students and faculty/staff but open in the evening
for us.
