The sessions are a major part of the NAB Show. Here's a condensed list of the sessions from the Broadcast Engineering Conference, plus a few other sessions that may be of interest to the radio broadcast engineer.
The name of each session is a link to an ICS file, which can place the event on your Outlook or Google calendar.
| Saturday April 9 | Room |
| SBE Ennes Workshop - Infrastructure: Keeping it Going in Challenging Times | 8 a.m. -
9 a.m. | Infrastructure 101, Part I | S219 |
9 a.m. -
9:15 a.m. | Opening
Remarks |
9:15 a.m. -
10 a.m. | Infrastructure 101, Part II |
10 a.m. -
10:45 a.m. | Broadcast Engineering in Modern Economic
Times |
10:45 a.m. -
11:30 a.m. | Keeping it Going in the Real World |
11:30 a.m. -
12:15 p.m. | Monitoring and Control |
1:30 p.m. -
2:15 p.m. | IT Infrastructure and the Accidental
Administrator |
2:15 p.m. -
3 p.m. | Improved Tower Management |
3 p.m. -
3:45 p.m. | KREX -
Real-world Disaster Recovery |
3:45 p.m. -
4:30 p.m. | Maintaining Power for Broadcast
Facilities |
4:30 p.m. -
5:15 p.m. | Transitioning to IPv6 |
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| Sunday April 10 | Room |
| - | 9 a.m. -
9:30 a.m. | Broadcast Engineering Conference Opening
Keynote | S219 |
| The Future of Radio Broadcasting | 9:30 a.m. -
10 a.m. | Next Generation of Radio
Content Collection and Delivery Tools | S228 |
10 a.m -
10:30 a.m. | Media on the Move: From Applets to
Craplets |
10:30 a.m. -
11 a.m. | Migrating Radio Call-in Talk
Shows to Wideband Audio |
11 a.m. -
11:30 a.m. | Adding Visual Communications to
Radio Broadcasts |
11:30 a.m. -
Noon | The Impact of
Consumer Devices on Radio Content Development and Engineering |
| Improving HD Radio | 1 p.m. -
1:30 p.m. | PAPR and Asymmetrical Sidebands Field Results: HD
Radio Coverage Technologies | S228 |
1:30 p.m. -
2 p.m. | A Standardized
Method for Radio Program Service Data Distribution |
2 p.m. -
2:30 p.m. | New Developments in Master FM Antenna
Systems |
2:30 p.m. -
3 p.m. | Decision
Points and Implementation Considerations for Elevated HD Radio Power |
3 p.m. -
3:30 p.m. | Using
the IBOC Quality Metric to Optimize the Transmission System for HD Radio Reception |
3:30 p.m. -
4 p.m. | New Vector Power Enhancement (VPe)
Scheme |
4 p.m. -
4:30 p.m. | Transmitter Cooling Technologies and
Tradeoffs |
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| Monday April 11 | Room |
| - | 9 a.m. -
10:15 a.m. | All-industry Opening
Keynote | Hilton |
| Cloud-Based Technologies for Broadcast | 10:30 a.m. -
11 a.m. | Planning for the
Cloud - Essential Concepts and Applications for the Media Facility | S228 |
11 a.m. -
11:30 a.m. | Does Cloud Computing Matter? Or, is there a Cloud in
Your Future? |
11:30 a.m. -
Noon | Cloud-Based Graphics Creation Offers
Broadcasters Lofty Rewards |
| Mission Critical IT for Broadcast | 1 p.m. -
1:30 p.m. | XML, WSDL, SOAP, SOA and REST | S226 |
1:30 p.m. -
2 p.m. | Wireless HD Secure
Streaming Media Application and Case Study |
2 p.m. -
2:30 p.m. | 10 Gigabit Networking for Audio and
Video |
2:30 p.m. -
3 p.m. | Seamless Audio Over Imperfect IP |
3 p.m. -
3:30 p.m. | Using SNMP in Broadcast Facility
Control |
3:30 p.m. -
4 p.m. | Building Redundancy and
Resilience into Broadcast Networks |
| 4 p.m. 4:30 p.m. | Integrating Audio Over IP (AoIP) with
Program Automation |
| 4:30 p.m. 5 p.m. | Real-time Professional
Broadcast Signals Over IP Networks |
| - | 10:30 a.m. -
11:45 a.m. | Making Localism Sound
Great | N235 |
| - | 1 p.m. -
2:15 p.m. | Radio-ready Cell
Phones: Benefiting Consumers and Broadcasters | N235 |
| - | 4 p.m. -
5:15 p.m. | The FCC's Consolidated Licensing
System | N239 |
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| Tuesday April 12 | Room |
| Radio Engineering Forum I | 9 a.m. -
9:30 a.m. | AM Directional Antenna
Pattern Performance Improvement Using Power Dissipation within the Phasing and Coupling System | S228 |
9:30 a.m. -
10 a.m. | An
tenna Base Region Geometry and Voltage Sampling Techniques for Moment Method AM Directional Antenna Proofs |
10 a.m. -
10:30 a.m. | MOM
Methodology |
10:30 a.m. -
11 a.m. | Test and
Evaluation of an AM Directional Antenna Tower Base Voltage Sampling System and MOM Proof Methodology for the WAOK Array |
11 a.m. -
11:30 a.m. | KRKO-AM: 50kW Upgrade, Antenna Destruction, Reconstruction, and 50kW Diplex |
11:30 a.m. -
Noon | Building an AM Array on a Landfill |
| - | 12:30 p.m. -
2 p.m. | Radio Luncheon | Hilton |
| Radio Engineering Forum II | 1 p.m. -
1:30 p.m. | Monitoring and Control
Systems for Broadcast Transmitting Sites | S228 |
1:30 p.m. -
2 p.m. | Quality Radio Engineering on a Tight
Budget |
2 p.m. -
2:30 p.m. | Field Trials of Digital Radio
Technologies |
2:30 p.m. -
3 p.m. | Performance Analysis and Field
Measurements with DRM+ |
3 p.m. -
3:30 p.m. | Automation Strategies for Sharing
Resources and Talent |
3:30 p.m. -
4 p.m. | Get the Most Out of Your Tower:
Effectively Using Design Codes to Your Advantage |
4 p.m. -
4:30 p.m. | Full Duplex for Your RPU Adds IFB |
4:30 p.m. -
5 p.m. | Bend
Radius |
5 p.m. -
5:30 p.m. | A New Approach to Solid-State High-Power FM Amplifiers |
| - | 2:30 p.m. -
3:45 p.m. | Washington Showcase | N232 |
| - | 4 p.m. -
5:15 p.m. | The
FCC and You | N239 |
| Media Devices in a Connected World | 2:30 p.m. -
3:15 p.m. | The Next Generation | . |
3:15 p.m. -
4 p.m. | This Year's Gadget Buzz |
| - | 5 p.m. -
6 p.m. | SBE Membership Meeting | S220 |
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| Wednesday April 13 | Room |
| Implementing Regulatory Issues for Engineers | 9 a.m. -
10:30 a.m. | Joint EAS Panel with Legal | S226 |
10:30 a.m. -
11 a.m. | When the Inspector Comes Knocking |
11 a.m. -
11:30 a.m. | FCC Broadband Plan the Potential
Impact on Television Broadcasting |
11:30 a.m. -
Noon | Transforming Closed-Captioned TV into Closed-Captioned Web Video |
| - | Noon -
1:45 p.m. | Technology Luncheon | Hilton |
| Emergency Operations - Planning & Implementation | 2 p.m. -
2:30 p.m. | Case Histories in Lightning
Protection and Grounding | S226 |
2:30 p.m. -
3 p.m. | Cellular Wireless as a Video
Streaming Transport |
3 p.m. -
3:30 p.m. | Keeping the Lights On - Business
Continuity Planning for the 21st Century |
3:30 p.m. -
4 p.m. | Proactive Transmitter Service
and Support Strategies |
4 p.m. -
4:30 p.m. | Master FM Antenna at the Empire State
Building |
4:30 p.m. -
5 p.m. | Implementation of N+1
Technology for Improved Cost Efficiency While Maintaining Service Integrity |
| Internet-Enabled Radio and Television | 2 p.m. -
2:30 p.m. | Implementation
Example for Use of Smooth Streaming and Adaptive Streaming Technology | S228 |
2:30 p.m. -
3 p.m. | An
Advanced Hybrid Broadcast and Broadband System for Enhancing Broadcasting Services |
3 p.m. -
3:30 p.m. | Weather in a Multi-Channel, Multi-Screen World |
3:30 p.m. -
4 p.m. | Tapping into the Blu-ray Potential |
| RDS Implementation | 4 p.m. -
4:30 p.m. | Maximizing the Potential of the RDS
Bandwidth | S228 |
4:30 p.m. -
5 p.m. | Understanding and
Optimizing RDS for a New Generation of Receivers |
5 p.m -
5:30 p.m. | The Latest RDS/HD Datacasting
Trends & Developments |
| - | 6 p.m. -
8 p.m. | Amateur Radio Operators
Reception | Hilton |
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| Thursday April 13 | Room |
| Green Technology | 9 a.m. -
9:30 a.m. | Facility Planning R & R | S228 |
9:30 a.m. -
10 a.m. | Do You Have it in Green? Points to Consider When
Choosing Production Hardware |
10 a.m. -
10:30 a.m. | Dynamic Carrier Control |
10:30 a.m. -
11 a.m. | Going Green and Seeing
Black: Mainstreaming Green Technology into Broadcast Engineering and Programming |
