[SBE] SBE members among featured speakers at NAB Engineering Conference

[chscherer at everestkc.net]

This was released by the SBE today.

Chriss



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SBE members among featured speakers at NAB Engineering Conference

April 10, 2008 -  Indianapolis, IN  - Next week’s NAB Broadcast Engineering Conference (BEC), co-presented by the Society of Broadcast Engineers, features six days of technical papers, panels and the full-day Ennes Workshop. The BEC is the longest-running conference held during the annual NAB Show in Las Vegas.

In addition to assisting the NAB in developing the engineering conference program, many SBE members will also be participating as speakers and moderators, including Barry Thomas, CPBE CBNT, SBE president, who will moderate the "Digital Radio Worldwide" session. SBE member, Steve Fluker, of Cox Radio in Orlando, Florida, serves as this year’s BEC conference committee chair.

Forty-four of the conference speakers are members of SBE. They include.

Tim Anderson, Fred Baumgartner, Lawrence Behr, John Bisset, Lynn Claudy, Edward Czarnecki, Jim Dalke, Sterling Davis, Steve Fluker, John Footen, Clay Freinwald, Al Grossniklaus, William Hayes, Tim Holt, Andrew Janitschek, Graham Jones, Chuck Kelly, Gary Kline, Wayne Kube, Jerry LeBow, Louis Libin, Gary Liebisch, John Luff, David Maxson, John Merrill, Tom Mikkelsen, Jim O'Brien, Nat Ostroff, Larry Paulausky, Karl Paulsen, John Poray, Mark Richer, Chriss Scherer, Paul Shulins, Sid Shumate, Walter Sidas, Milford Smith, Barry Thomas, John Turner, Dennis Wallace, S. Merrill Weiss, Michael Wellings, Dave Wilson and Lewis Zager.

The Society of Broadcast Engineers is the professional organization of television and radio engineers and those in related fields. SBE has more than 5,500 members in 112 chapters across the United States. There are also members in more than 20 other countries. Most chapters meet monthly and offer educational programs and an opportunity to network with other engineers. SBE offers the largest and most recognized certification program for broadcast engineers, operators and technicians, with more than 5,000 certifications currently active.

For more information about SBE, contact John L. Poray, CAE, Executive Director, at 317-846-9000 or visit the SBE website, www.sbe.org.