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Education Programs
The Society of Broadcast Engineers is raising the bar by providing more and more relevant, affordable education to its members using various instructional methods. These programs are designed to help broadcast engineers keep up with the ever-changing demands of the job and the industry, help prepare for SBE Certification and qualify for SBE recertification. Click on any of the links below to learn more about these programs.
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Here is a list of courses, including live, recorded, Internet-based or otherwise, available through the SBE:
Online, on-demand courses
Click here for a PDF that provides a high-level overview of all the courses on SBE University.
Perspectives I: Broadcast Engineers and Station Management
Adaptive Media Systems Engineering
Computer Networking for Broadcast Engineers
Television Video and Audio - a Ready Reference for Engineers
The New Lifecycle of Media - IP and File Based Architecture and Workflows
Use of the Simple Network Management Protocol in Broadcast Monitoring and Control Systems
SBE University Frequently Asked Questions
Online seminars, typically 60-120 minutes in length
Click here for a .pdf file which provides a high-level overview of all the
webinars and courses available through SBE.
Upcoming Live Webinars
Thursday, October 15, 2020
AoIP Module 8: Troubleshooting IP Systems
It has been said that the future of audio and video is on packet-switched networks. In the past, a label on a cable and the points it was connected between told you almost everything you needed to know about the circuit and signal flowing. The circuit and the signal were almost one in the same. As system topologies for professional audio & video progressed from analog to digital, much of broadcasting technology remained connected by point-to-point circuits. To change a signal path, you changed a circuit path.
Join us for this webinar as Edwin Bukont, M.Sc., CTS, CSRE, E2 Technical Services & Solutions and Shane Toven, CSRE, CBNT, Senior Broadcast Engineer, Educational Media Foundation, discuss the advances in modern packet-switched networks or IP Networks. This webinar will help you understand how to trouble shoot IP networks and differentiate between physical and logical concerns. Participants should already have a grasp of the basics of modern networking through Layer 4 of the OSI model.
Members $62.00, MemberPlus Members FREE and Non Members $92. Register Here.
Thursday, October 29, 2020
Virtualization: How It Applies to Your Infrastructure
Virtualization has been around for years, yet some companies still aren’t utilizing it. Is it due to the thought of needing IT staff on premise, the potential cost, the fear of the unknown, or something else? Virtualization product available are now in a very mature phase and ready to be used to help you minimize physical infrastructure. Listen as Erik Sheldon, Sr., sstems administrator, Hope Media Group in Houston, TX, describes virtualization and how your can choose what’s right for you in your infrastructure. He will review what products are available and how to decide the level for your needs. We will discuss these, give some real world examples, and have plenty of time for Q&A to get your questions answered!
Members $62.00, MemberPlus Members FREE and Non Members $92. Register Here.
Thursday, November 12, 2020
Broadcasting During and After a Pandemic: What Works and What Doesn't
What started with “two weeks to stop the spread” is now “we must wait for a vaccine”, so staying on-the-air is an ever-changing challenge for radio broadcasters. During March, 2020, many broadcasters moved quickly from their familiar and busy corporate studios to individual home-based studios.
As the working-from-home paradigm has extended even longer, what are engineers envisioning as longer-term solutions? What equipment, software, or workflows are rising to prominence as we’re settling into this work paradigm?
In this presentation we’ll hear and see directly from broadcast engineers in large, medium, and small markets. We’ll see how their signal paths and workflows have morphed over time, and learn their predictions for the future of quality and timely content creation from home.
Members $62.00, MemberPlus Members FREE adn Non Members $92. Register Here.
NOW AVAILABLE
ATSC 3.0 Tutorial Videos from SBE@PBS TechCon 2019
Please note numerically the videos are out of sequence as content was combined appropriately to produce fewer videos. Thus, the complete series includes Parts 1, 2, 4, 6, 7 and 8 and all are now available.
Part 1: The Physical Layer
The fundamentals of transmission change dramatically compared to 8-VSB. Originally, this alone was the motivation for replacing ATSC 1.0. It is the Physical Layer (PHY) that enables single-frequency networks and mobile reception. Beyond OFDM, a bootstrap signal and Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs) empower NextGen over-the-air (OTA) TV to reach receiving devices in an extremely broad set of circumstances and for a multiple of uses. Presenters include Madeleine Noland, Consultant, LG Electronics and President, ATSC; Luke Fay, Senior Manager Technical Standards; Sony Electronics US Technology Standards Office; and Bill Soreth, Senior Systems Development Engineer, Acrodyne Services.
Members $62, MemberPlus Members FREE and Non Members $92. Register Here.
Part 2: Broadcast Regulations
NextGen regulatory and contractual deployment requirements include simulcasting carriage mandates, program hosting agreement issues for 1.0 and 3.0 stations, government applications and notifications. Meeting these obligations and preserving station cashflow require broadcast engineers to know how far ATSC 1.0 content compression can be pushed and at what cost. Partnering through channel sharing is a big part of broadcasters' deployment plans. Broadcast engineers must provide the technical specifications competently in these legal arrangements.
Jerry Fritz, Executive Vice President for Strategic and Legal Affairs; ONE Media 3.0 presents.
Members $62, MemberPlus Members FREE and Non Members $92. Register Here.
Part 4: NextGen/ATSC 3.0 Transmitter Conversion
Converting transmitters and STLs to ATSC 3.0 service and performing the proof-of-performance and acceptance testing are covered by the engineers that build the transmitters. Presenters include Doug Lung, VP Engineering, Telemundo Group; S. Merrill Weiss, President, Merrill Weiss Group; Joe Seccia, Principal Architect, TV Transmission Products; GatesAir; Thomas Barbeau, Vice President of Engineering; Comark Communications; Greg Martin, Account Manager Broadcast & Media; Rhode & Schwarz USA; and William Smith, USA Sales Director, Avateq Corp.
Members $62, MemberPlus Members FREE and Non Members $92. Register Here.
Part 6: NextGen Broadcast/ATSC 3.x Scheduler
The Gateway, System Scheduler and Manager is the central piece of a NextGen broadcast transmission system that aggregates all the IP content and assigns it to the proper Physical Layer pipes (PLPs), adding low-level signaling, control, announcement and configuration information that becomes the studio transmitter link (STL) stream that in turn feeds the modulator/exciter of the over-the-air (OTA) transmitter. Presenters include Richard Lhermitte, VP, Solutions & Market Development, ENENSYS TeamCast, Inc.; San Jin Yoon, Senior Vice President, DigiCAP; and Jerome Floch, Product Marketing Manager, Enensys.
Members $62, MemberPlus Members FREE and Non Members $92. Register Here.
Part 7: Monitoring and Display
An ATSC 3.0 station's first piece of NextGen test equipment might be a dongle with an array of analytical and decoding/player/display software. The first home gateways with limited capability and storage are in the prototype stage. All the aspects of monitoring and display are covered in this section. Presenters include Myra Moore, Founder and President, Digital Tech Consulting; Bonnie Beeman, CEO and Founder, Airwavz.tv; Michael Minakami, Koherence, LLC.; Ralph Bachofen, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Triveni Digital; Jason Justman, Senior Principal Architect and SinclairDigital; and Joonyoung Park, DigiCAP Co., Ltd..
Members $62, MemberPlus Members FREE and Non Members $92. Register Here.
Part 8: The NextGen Broadcast Station
Stations will first focus on transmitting current content via ATSC 3.0, but the service provides new sales opportunities as well. Operationally, an additional transmission system will be monitored in master control, digital and linear workflows meld, and informing becomes important for processing, validating, curating, and archiving information then distributing it on platforms that now include AEI receiver apps.Presenters include Winston Caldwell, Vice President of Advanced Engineering; Fox Networks Engineering and Operations; Jim O'Brien, President, Aveco, Inc.; Tim Carroll, Senior Direcotr Technology, Office of the CTO and Dolby Laboratories, Inc.; and Michael Guthrie, Director, Sales Engineering, Harmonic.
Members $62, MemberPlus Members FREE and Non Members $92. Register Here.
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On-Demand Webinars
Broadcast Technology
AoIP Series, Module 1 - IP Networking for Real-Time Media Networks
AoIP Series, Module 2 - AoIP Basics
AoIP Series, Module 3 - How AES67 Builds on 15 Years of AoIP Success
AoIP Module 4 - Audio Codecs for Broadcast Applications
AoIP Module 5 - Dante Based Products, Deep Dive Webinar
AoIP Module 6: AES67 Basics: What It Is, and What It Is Not
AoIP Module 7: Interconnecting AoIP Systems, Making It All Work Together
50 Tips for the Broadcast Technical Professional
Cybersecurity Module 1: Introduction & Network Security Principals
Cybersecurity Module 2: Understanding the Firewall
Cybersecurity Module 3: Understanding Secured Remote Access
Cybersecurity Module 4: Security Verification Thru Penetration Testing
2017 IP Networking, Part 1: Introduction to IP Networking Standards & the Physical Layer
2017 IP Networking, Part 2: Ethernet Switching Fundamentals and Implementation
2017 IP Networking, Part 3: IP Routing and Internetnetworking Fundamentals
2017 IP Networking, Part 4: Building a Segmented IP Network Focused on Performance & Security
Fiber Optic Cables for HD Broadcast
FM Broadcast Antenna and Combining Systems
Fundamentals of IP Networking Series, Part 5: Cybersecurity Fundamentals & Securing the Network
Transmitter Maintenance Checklist
AM Directional Antenna Modeling
BXF: Improving Broadcast Operation Workflow
IP Microwave STLs Free to SBE Members, thanks to
Deploying Artist Experience (Album Art) via HD Radio
IP Networking, part 1 - the OSI Model and Layers
IP Networking, part 2 - Routing and Switching
IP Networking, part 3 - IP Address Management
IP Networking, part 4 - the Fundamentals of IPv6
IP Networking, part 5 - Building the KSBE Network
IP Networking, part 6 - an Introduction to IP Multicast
Advanced IP Networking: The Network of Networks
Advanced IP Networking: Routing the Network of Networks
Advanced IP Networking: Securing the Network of Networks
Networking Technology for Broadcast Engineers -
Webinar 1 - TCP/IP & UDP Fundamentals, IP Addressing - IPv4 focused
Webinar 2 - IPv6 Fundamentals, Switching and Routing, QoS Basics, Controlling Traffic and Security Concerns
Broadcast Operations
The Business of NextGen Broadcast
The Manager's Engineering Notebook
Advanced RF Series: RF 201: Module 1 - FM Transmitter Systems
HD Radio Advancement and Trends
Updated! Chief Operator Responsibilities - What should I be doing?
Creative Strategies for Translators and Boosters
KREX - the Real World of Disaster Recovery Free to SBE Members, thanks to Harris Broadcast
Radio World's Workbench Tips with John Bisset FREE TO SBE MEMBERS AND NON MEMBERS thanks to the Telos Alliance.
1) The Function and Nature of Leadership
3) Motivation
Managing a Project and Outside Contractors for Success
Management Skills for Broadcaster Engineers
RF101: Terrestrial Transmission Systems Course: Module 1 - Introduction to Radio Frequency (RF)
RF101: Module 2, Transmission Lines
RF101: Module 3, Towers, Antennas and Transmission Systems
RF101: Module 4, Antenna Gain - Feed-Line Loss
RF101: Module 5, Modulation Fundamentals
RF101: Module 6, AM, FM, TV RF Propagation
RF101: Module 7: Transmitter Measurements
RF 101: Module 8, FCC Regulations
Springtime Maintenance to Keep You on the Air Free to SBE Members, thanks to
Streaming Radio: a Tutorial for Broadcasters
Using Drones in Broadcast Operations
Wireshark Webinar: Part 1 - Introduction
Wireshark Webinar: Part 2 - Troubleshooting
Advanced RF Series: RF 201: Module 1 - FM Transmitter Systems
Advanced RF Series: RF 201: Module 2 - FM Antenna SystemsAdvanced RF Series: RF 201: Module 3 - AM Directional Antenna Systems
Advanced RF Series: RF 201: Module 4 - Transmitter Site Grounding
Advanced RF Series: RF 201: Module 5, Television Transmitters
Advanced RF Series: RF 201 Module 6: RF System Diagnostic Measurements
Advance RF Series: RF 201: Module 7: FM Filters and FM Combiners
Advanced RF Series: RF 201: Module 8: AM Multiplexed Antenna Systems
Advanced RF Series: RF 201 Module 9 - TV Combiners
Power Meter Accuracy and Management of Multiplex Over AES Standard
ATSC 3.0 Webinar: Module 1 - Introduction to ATSC 3.0
ATSC 3.0, Module 2: Overview of the Physical Layer
ATSC 3.0, Module 3: Understanding and Implementing of the Transport and
ATSC 3.0, Module 4: MPEG Media Transport Standard and its Use in ATSC 3.0
ATSC 3.0, Module 5: ATSC 3.0 ROUTE Protocol
ATSC 3.0: Module 6: Advanced Emergency Information System
ATSC 3.0 Networking: Module 2: Ethernet Switching
ATSC 3.0 Networking: Module 3: IP Routing
FCC Rules and Regulations
C-Band in the New Shared Environment
FCC Enforcement Actions - an Analysis of Broadcast Violations
The Nuts and Bolts of the FCC FM Allocation Procedures
TV White Space Devices & Wireless Microphones Free to SBE Members, thanks to
SBE Leadership Development Course
This three-day course challenges you to refine your leadership skills as you better understand and improve how you interact with others.
These one-day workshops were created in 1991 through the Ennes Educational Foundation Trust in an effort to bring affordable education to members locally.
Web-based Audio Training Courses through Synergetic Audio Concepts (SynAudCon)
SynAudCon is the business of teaching the technical principles of audio.
Our web-based training courses are designed to give you the information that you need in a way that you can understand it. You will learn the principles to all audio products. You will not just learn how but why. You can spend the lifetime pouring through textbooks learning audio and acoustics but we have done that for you.
We deliver the concepts in a visual and interactive way. We don't just show you the picture, we make the picture move by combining animations, graphics and sound into multimedia demonstrations. We explain highly technical concepts by relating them to principles in everyday life. When math is needed, we use visual interactive calculators.
We have courses for audio practitioners of all experience levels. SynAudCon courses are recognized by most organizations and approved for continuing education units.
SBE members save 10% off any of their courses.
Online Project Management Courses from the Project Management Institute
The SBE offers online project management courses from the Project Management Institute® at a discount to members of the SBE.
Each course integrates text, graphics, interactive exercises, videos, practice exams, web references, readings and more to help learners quickly retain lessons. An “Ask the Expert” feature also provides on-going support, allowing you to ask questions about course content and receive an answer from a subject matter expert within 24 hours.
Participants successfully completing the PMP Exam Prep course earn 35 Professional Development Units and are well prepared for the PMP® certification exam. Or, if you already have your PMP® certification, select from many other online courses and simulations to earn 3.5-25 PDU’s to maintain your certification. Click here for a full listing of available courses.
SBE Technical Presenters Group
The Society of Broadcast Engineers works with select industry professionals to participate in the SBE Technical Presenters Group. For a reasonable fee and travel expenses, groups such as state broadcasters associations, broadcasting companies, SBE chapters and others have the opportunity to include one of these presenters in their engineering conferences, or as a trainer for their engineering staff. Speakers from the SBE Technical Presenters Group are generally available to speak across the country. Click here for details on the current presenters and programs being offered.
Career Advancement Newsletter
The Certification and Education departments produce a monthly career advancement newsletter. Check out archived issues, where you can find information on SBE Certification, upcoming educational opportunities and more.
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