Section Officials
Chair
David Siegler
Turner Studios
404-885-0314
david.siegler@turner.com
Secretary/Treasurer
Zandra Clarke
Turner Networks
zandra.clarke@turner.com
Membership Chair
T.J. Scott
Thomson Multimedia
770-338-4273
tj.scott@thomson.net
Program Chair
Ron Caird
Miranda
770-578-0096
rcaird@miranda.com
Managers
Sterling Davis ’04
Cox Broadcasting
404-843-5230
sterling.davis@cox.com
Earl Higgins ‘04
AVID Broadcast
770-889-4591
earl_higgins@avid.com
Roger Hatcher ‘05
Georgia Technology Authority
404-656-2919
rdhatche@doas.state.ga.us
Ron Caird ‘05
Miranda
770-578-0096
rcaird@miranda.com
Jim Edwards ‘05
Tektronix
jim.w.edwards@exgate.tek.com
Webmaster
Andy Funk
FOX5 News, WAGA-TV
404-898-0116
andyfunk@foxtv.com
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Next Meeting:
Monday,
March 8, 2004
Spiced Right BBQ at 6:00 PM
Program Starts at 7:00 PM
(Note: Non-Standard Times —˝-hour
earlier than usual)
Hosted By
and Held At:
WSB-TV
1601 West Peachtree Street
Atlanta, GA 30309
404-897-7000
Topic:
TV Town Hall, SignaSys'
first national tour, is directed at both public and commercial station
personnel interested in the current state of the industry. After a brief
presentation by Jim Boston, TV Town Hall provides a forum for
engineering & management staff to share their views on "hot topics" facing
broadcasters today as well as what's next in the future of broadcasting.
This road tour also serves as research for a follow-up book to Jim Boston's
previous bestseller, DTV Survival Guide. Want a sneak peek at what's
in store at TV Town Hall?
Click here to
view the TV Town Hall 30-second promo video...
Jim Boston's presentation topics
include:
- Multi-Channel
Broadcasting
- New facility topology,
architecture & workflow
- New technologies such as HD and
the major strides in graphics & servers
- Traditional routing vs. the
push towards "video networks"
- Encoding & multiplexing
- Automation & traffic
- PSIP & other metadata
- Centralcasting, the new master
control & other new workflow approaches
- The application layer that ties
the hardware into a DTV facility
- Sundry emergency and other
backup systems
After the presentation, Mr. Boston
will open up the floor for an in-depth discussion, including topics like:
- Will terrestrial broadcast
eventually go away?
- What's going right & wrong
about the transition?
- What will your station look
like in 5/10 years?
- Will cable and broadcasters
reach a working relationship?
- What is your legislation wish
list?
- Is the killer app HD?
- Will there still be television
techs in the future, or will we all become IT folks?
- Will our content be considered
television or simply "rich media" in the future?
- How does the broadcaster
compete with everything else trying to get through the portal onto the
viewers "home network"?
- Doing DTV in markets smaller
than 100 requires...?
- What technology is still
missing, what is being misused, & what is being ignored?
PLEASE
POST
Invite
your Friends And Colleagues
Job Postings:
The DeKalb
County school system is looking for a Chief Engineer. This is a new
position for a new educational access service. Details are available
online.
BBC
Technologies in Atlanta has an opening for a Senior Broadcast Systems
Engineer (with BSEE, BSCS or coding experience) to lead a small team of
system engineers to design and commission a broadcast network and
operations center. For further information please see the Atlanta SMPTE
web site or contact Mark Apton
at BBC Technologies, 408.241-1603. Details are available
online.
Program
Suggestions:
Is
there a topic that you would like us to cover or want to present? Do you
have new equipment or a facility you would like to show off?
We
are always looking for hosts and presenters for our meetings.
Please
contact:
Section
Internet Mailing List
We have a full-featured Internet
mailing list for support of Section activities. List members receive
meeting notices and other appropriate announcements. The list is easily
administered via the web. You can subscribe, unsubscribe, and change your
list options —yourself— on the list
Info Page, or view past list messages kept the list
Archive.
And
now there's another list that may be of interest —
AtlTech — created for those in the Atlanta area interested in
broadcast, television and motion picture engineering. It is a "place"
online where SMPTE members interested in the SBE can learn of what they're
doing, and where SBE members can learn of SMPTE activities, etc.
You can subscribe, unsubscribe, and change your list options —yourself—
on the list
Info Page,
or view past list message kept in the list
Archive.
Comments?
Send
your announcements, job openings, or other information of general interest
to Program Chair Ron Caird:
Have
comments or suggestions for the Section web site? Send them to Andy
Funk, andyfunk@foxtv.com or
kb7uv@arfunk.com.
For
more information on the Society visit the SMPTE Home Page.
Related
sites can be found on our Internet Links page.
Many
of our past meeting announcements can be found in our
archives directory.
News of Related Organizations:
The
Peach State Chapter of the Society of Broadcast Engineers web site at
www.broadcast.net/~sbe5/
has information on the activities of this related group.
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16 April 2004
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