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NAB
Labs Presents Education on Critical Topics at 2013 NAB Show
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BEC
Reception Welcomes Engineers
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Be sure
to add the Broadcast Engineering Opening Reception to your
schedule, on Sunday April 7, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m., in Room
S219. Meet with your peers for beverages and hors d’oeuvres
to mark the start of the 67th Broadcast Engineering Conference.
Sponsored by Diversified Systems, Inc.
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At the 2013
NAB Show in Las Vegas, Nev. (April 6-11), NAB Labs will present
several educational sessions
and events on subjects of critical importance to
the radio industry. The sessions are as follows:
Digital Strategies
Exchange for Radio, Wednesday, April 10,
10:00
a.m. – 4:00 p.m., Las Vegas Convention Center, Room N234
This full-day program
is presented by NAB Labs within the Broadcast Management Conference,
and is targeted at radio station management and non-technical staff.
It focuses on the many new technologies affecting radio broadcasting
today, and provides recommendations on how to best leverage them
to local radio's advantage. Following its successful debut last
year, the program will present an up-to-the-minute report on alternative
delivery systems for radio content, including a comprehensive look
at radio's place within in-vehicle and handheld platforms. Strategies
will also be shared for getting the most from on-air and online
content in the new environment. The program will include an interactive
discussion of social media applications for radio over lunch, and
a forward-looking, management-centric view of what's next, including
"hybrid" radio and other emerging ideas for the medium.
Speakers and moderators include Mike
Bergman, Senior Director, Technology and Standards, Consumer
Electronics Association; Paul
Brenner, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer,
EMMIS Communications; Kathleen
Bricketto, Vice President, Interactive, Beasley Broadcast Group;
Jon
Bucci, Executive Vice President, Strategic Planning, Concannon
Business Consulting; Holland
Cooke, Media Consultant, Holland Cooke Media; Deb
Esayian, Co-President, Marketron Interactive; Cynthia
Francis, US Managing Director, Audioboo, Inc.; Mike
Henry, CEO, Paragon Media Strategies; Fred
Jacobs, President, Jacobs Media/jacAPPS; Jim
Kott, Senior Vice President of Products and Marketing, Abacast;
Nick
Piggott, Chairperson, RadioDNS; Skip
Pizzi, Director, Digital Strategies, NAB; Valerie
Shuman, Vice President, Industry Programs, Connected Vehicle
Trade Association; Milford
Smith, Vice President, Radio Engineering, Greater Media; Kevin
Straley, Vice President of Programming, TuneIn; Barry
Thomas, Vice President of Engineering, Lincoln Financial Media;
Jennifer
Williams, Director of Interactive Marketing, Greater Media;
and Danno
Wolkoff, President and CEO, Envision Radio Networks.
RF Boot Camp,
Wednesday, April 10, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., Las Vegas Convention
Center, Room S219
This full-day session offers basic knowledge regarding the operations
of a broadcast radio or television RF plant. The program will cover
the distribution of program and data content from the studio to
the RF transmission points, including the types of hardware and
software typically used at the RF plant, and remote monitoring and
telemetry. Towers, transmission lines and antennas will be the focus
of an interactive discussion tailored to attendees who are unfamiliar
with maintenance requirements and safety concerns. Specific FCC
and OSHA Rules related to RF transmission will be explained, along
with methods commonly used to ensure compliance with those rules.
It is intended for IT professionals at broadcast facilities seeking
to improve their knowledge of broadcast RF technologies, students
interested in broadcast engineering as a career, studio engineers
and technical operations staff interested in expanding their broadcast
operations knowledge, and small-market station owners and operators
needing this background.
Presenters include John
Bisset, Western Regional Sales at The Telos Alliance; Mary
Ann Seidler, Vice President, Sales at Tieline; Cindy
Cavell, Senior Engineer at Cavell, Mertz and Associates, Inc.;
Garrison
Cavell, President, Cavell, Mertz and Associates, Inc.; and Paul
Shulins, Director of Technical Operations, Greater Media Boston.
NAB Labs
Futures Park, April 8-10, 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.; April
11, 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m., North
Hall, Las Vegas Convention Center
 This
special area
of the NAB Show exhibit floor will feature numerous high-profile
media technologies in development around the world, specifically
chosen by NAB Labs for demonstration to the broad international
audience in attendance. Technologies to be shown include 4K and
8K video, 22.2-channel sound, mobile HDTV, HTML5-based “smart-TV,”
wireless broadband service using TV white spaces, emergency alerting
for digital radio, advanced file-based workflows, multi-screen and
free/multi-view TV applications, and more.
Perhaps most notable will be the world’s first demonstration
outside Japan of over-the-air broadcast transmission and reception
of 8K video and 22.2-channel audio (NHK’s Super Hi-Vision service),
using two 6MHz TV channels.
Exhibitors in the NAB Labs Futures Park are the Advanced Media Workflow
Association (AMWA), Electronics and Telecommunications Research
Institute (ETRI), Framework for Interoperable Media Services (FIMS),
Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), NHK Science and Technology
Research Labs, National Institute of Information and Communications
Technology (NICT), Project FINE, Rochester Institute of Technology
and Zaxel Corp.
Conference sessions above are open to registrants holding a Conference
Flex Pass or SMART Pass. The NAB Labs Futures Park is open to all
NAB Show registrants.
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