June Meeting
(NOTE: We will not have a May Meeting)
Monday June 11, 2012
Dinner: 6:30 PM Presentation: 7:15 PM
Turner Techwood (Prior Security Clearance Required)
"Are We CALM Yet?"
A Joint Meeting with the AES Atlanta Section
Presented by Mr. Patrick Waddell
Manager, Standards & Regulatory, Harmonic Inc., San Jose
Broadcasters and Content Providers alike are now painfully aware of the presence of the U.S. Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act (CALM Act) of 2010.
What may not be clear, however, is the impact of the Act, and the FCC Rules it spawned, on the daily operations of content providers and their “downstream” customers: the TV stations and MVPDs. Additionally we will investigate the effects on ad creation and distribution, as well as take a look at the background of both
the CALM Act and the ATSC Recommended Practice A/85 it mandates. Our thanks to Harmonic Incorporated for providing the evening's dinner.
Our speaker, Mr. Waddell, is a 30 year veteran of the broadcasting industry, a SMPTE Fellow, and is currently the Chair of the ATSC’s TG1/S6, the Specialist Group on Video/Audio Coding (which includes loudness). Additionally, he was the founding Chair of SMPTE 32NF, the Technology Committee on Network/Facilities Infrastructure, and represents Harmonic at a number of industry standards bodies, including SCTE, DVB, SMPTE, and the ATSC. In 2010
he was the recipient of the ATSC’s Bernard J. Lechner Outstanding Contributor Award.
Please sign up by Friday, June 8, so we have a headcount for food. And by Monday, June 11 at 1 PM, so your name will be on the list sent to Turner Security for access to the Techwood campus.
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