The SBE and Los Angeles Chapter 47 present an Ennes Workshop on Saturday, February 21.
Don’t miss the SBE Ennes Workshop by SBE Chapter 47-Los Angeles on Saturday, February 21! Breakfast and registration open at 8 am and the workshop starts promptly at 9 am and takes place at KPCC Headquarters, 474 South Raymond Ave., Pasadena, CA 91105. Register TODAY!
THE COST IS $25 FOR SBE MEMBERS AND $35 FOR NON-MEMBERS. REGISTER HERE!
Students are FREE – Register Here
The event includes a light breakfast and lunch and ends at 3 p.m. A studio tour from 3 to 4 p.m. follows.
JOIN US FOR THIS EXCELLENT ENNES LINE-UP:
Calculating Reliability for Broadcast Engineers; Fred Baumgartner, “Retired” Broadcast Engineer
No one wants down time. But highly reliable systems come at a cost and that cost is driven by design and environment. We can calculate the reliability of a system with some simple mathematics.
When you propose a project or expense that is meant to reduce down time, it often is useful to present this as competing costs – the cost of doing nothing versus the cost of investing in reliability – and the cost of down time. What does it mean to have 5-nines (99.999%) of availability versus 2-nines (99%)? A big part of broadcast engineering is keeping things running. This is how to calculate the return on investment for various design approaches. Your gut feeling might be far from reality for some subtle and not very obvious reasons. Never again will you have to pull a number out of the air or guess — you will be able to support your decisions with real numbers.
This is a skill and a mindset that every broadcast engineer can benefit from. And the rules are few and the math fairly basic.
Leadership Side of the Industry from a Business Perspective
Mike Pappas, Field Engineer and VP of Business Development, Orban
It’s time to hear from the vendors! The leadership side of the industry is from a vendors perspective is a really interesting topic one you start looking from if from both the inside and outside of the top four or five markets. For example, DOE in major radio markets like LA can pretty much do as they please. Those same groups in Gainesville have a completely different role. Hear how vendors deal with each of these markets in quite a different way.
Lynn Duke is a well-known, long-time Chief Engineer in Los Angeles, having recently retired from the Audacy group will discuss What does it take to run a cohesive engineering department, especially in these days of reduced staffs and increased station load? How is success measured in doing so?
Assistant Chief of the LA County Fire Department Pat Sprengel will talk about organization leadership inside the fire service.
Look for future announcements of additional speakers.
Ennes Workshop attendees receive One Credit Category G by attending the entire workshop (4 sessions).
THE COST IS $25 FOR SBE MEMBERS AND $35 FOR NON-MEMBERS. REGISTER HERE.
Students are FREE – Register Here
Questions?
Contact Education Director Cathy Orosz at corosz@sbe.org.
