March Meeting Info

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.

January Meeting Info

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.

December Meeting Info

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!