SBE Membership: The Road to Success

Membership Drive 2016

Help your colleagues get the advantage: have them join the SBE today.

The SBE wants your help in recruiting new members, and you can win rewards for your efforts. Sponsor a new Member, Associate Member or Sustaining Member between March 1 and May 31, 2016, and you will be eligible for the prize drawings. For each approved new member application you sponsor you will earn $5 off your 2017 membership dues, up to $25. Each new member application may have only one sponsor. Applications must be received at the SBE National Office between March 1 and May 31, 2016, to be eligible. Drawing for all prizes will be completed by June 7, 2016.

New members are welcome throughout the year. Here's the link to the member application: SBE Membership application

Grand Prize

A trip to the SBE National Meeting held in conjunction with the annual Ohio Association of Broadcasters Engineering Conference Columbus, OH, October 26 - 27, 2016. Prize package includes round trip airfare for one from within the continental US to the meeting; all SBE National Meeting and Engineering Conference events; and two nights at the host hotel, the Crowne Plaza Columbus, OH.

Additional Prizes donated by Sustaining Members and our bookstore publishers:

Deva Bandscanner Pro courtesy of 305 Broadcast (1)

FM-55 audio processor courtesy of Wheatstone (1)

Pebble Time smart watch courtesy of Davicom (1)

SKN425 UPS courtesy of Superior Electric

Shure MVi USB audio interface courtesy of BSW (1)

Spark-E HDMI-IP encoder courtesy of DVEO (1)

Cable Assembly Three-Pack courtesy of Belden (5)

Stadium blankets courtesy of Heartland Video (3)

Tieline barbecue set courtesy of Tieline (1)

Directional Antennas Made Simple courtesy of Layton Technical Services (1)

Networking Beginner's Guide Book courtesy of McGraw-Hill

The SBE Broadcast Engineering Handbook courtesy of the SBE (1)

SBE logo merchandise courtesy of the SBE

Logoed shirts courtesy of 305 Broadcast, DVEO, Heartland Video, ProAudio.com, Tieline

Logoed hats and caps courtesy of Heartland Video

Golden Recruiter award

This award recognizes a chapter in each size division recruiting the most new members during the Membership Drive.

Category A and B are based on chaper enrollment, Class A represents chapers whose membership is less than the national median. Class B includes chapters with a membership greater than the national median. Plaques will be awarded during the SBE National Awards Dinner on Oct. 27 in Columbus, OH.

Membership Drive FAQs

Where do I find new members? Prospective members can be non-members attending chapter meetings, fellow engineers at work or other stations, suppliers or educators.

How do I get credit for new members? Direct prospective members to the SBE website to join online or provide them with a copy of the membership application and ask him/her to fill in your name on the line "Sponsor's Name/Who introduced you to SBE". Once the new member's membership application has been approved, your name will be placed in the prize drawing, which takes place in June 2016.

Official Rules: Only members of the SBE in good standing (national dues paid) are eligible. All applications are subject to approval by the admissions committee per the SBE By-laws. Only sponsorships of new applications for Member, Associate Member and Sustaining Members are eligible for the prize drawings. Each approved application will earn $5 off the recruiter’s 2017 membership dues, up to $25. Each new member application may have only one sponsor. Applications must be received at the SBE National Office between March 1 and May 31, 2016, to be eligible. Drawing for all prizes will be completed by June 7, 2016. Winners will be notified by mail. Grand prize winner may choose $500 cash in lieu of the trip package. There are no other prize substitutions. Winners are responsible for any taxes on prizes. Employees of the SBE and their family members are not eligible to win. Contest void where prohibited. Entrants agree that their name and likeness may be used by the Society of Broadcast Engineers, Inc. for promotional purposes.