The 62nd WBA Broadcasters Clinic recently concluded with three full days of information-packed sessions for radio and TV broadcast and media distribution engineers.
Our industry is changing. At the Clinic we acknowledged our traditional broadcast distribution technology and introduced new digital and OTT opportunities. Television sessions focused on the ATSC 3.0 standard and we heard from industry experts on all digital radio.
Our committee successfully recruited industry professionals to present on relevant topics. October is a very active month for regional symposiums that challenges our ability to attract speakers. Our former Clinic chair, Leonard Charles, imparted the recipe to the secret sauce for a successful Clinic. Our committee is solid and does splendid work behind the scenes throughout the year to plan the next award-winning conference. Of course, the Clinic does not happen without the guidance, nudging, and love of Linda Baun.
Whenever I have the opportunity I like to boast of the WBA’s Board of Directors sustained support of broadcast engineering. It’s not something they say but something they do. Please encourage the Don Borchert Broadcasters Clinic Fellowship and WBA Engineering Fellowship.
The committee thanks the Wisconsin SBE chapters, Michelle, Linda, Kyle, Liz and the WBA Board of Directors for their continuing support.
We look forward to the 63rd WBA Broadcasters Clinic, Oct. 15-17, 2019, where we will host the Society of Broadcast Engineers annual meeting.
-Kent Aschenbrenner, Chair, WBA Clinic Committee
Thank you to:
Clinic Committee
Kent Aschenbrenner, E.W. Scripps Company. – Committee Chair
Patrick Berger, Cumulus – Chicago
Steve Brown, Woodward Radio Group, Inc.
Mark Burg, WLAX-DT / WEUX-DT
Greg Dah, Second Opinion Communications, Inc.
Clif Groth, New Radio Group
Bill Hubbard, UW-Green Bay
Gary Mach, GEMCOM
Marty Mangerson, WJFW-TV
Kevin Ruppert, WISC-TV
Tom Smith
Jim Steinhart, WISN-TV
Linda Baun, WBA Vice President
Clinic Speakers
Tom Allen, Quincy Media Inc.
Kent Aschenbrenner, E.W. Scripps
Don Backus, Rohde and Schwarz
Fred Baumgartner, One Media/Sinclair Broadcast
Juli Buehler, WLUK-TV
Dave Davies, Hodge Structural Engineers
Dave Devereaux-Weber, WORT-FM
Sean Edwards, Shively Labs
Anthony Gervasi, GatesAir
Kirk Harnack, The Telos Alliance
Alex Hartman, Optimized Media Group LLC
Martyn Horspool, GatesAir
Fiona James, AWARN Alliance
Jeff Keith, Wheatstone
Chief Michael Koval, City of Madison Police Department
David Layer, NAB
Katie Miller, T-Mobile
David Oxenford, Partner, Wilkinson, Barker, Knauer LLP
Don Roudebush, Electronics Research, Inc.
Jeremy Ruck, Jeremy Ruck & Associates, Inc.
Dan Shelley, RTDNA
Ray Thurber, E.W. Scripps
Chris Tobin, Newark Public Radio
Gary Timm, Broadcast Chair, Wisconsin EAS Committee
Jeff Welton, NAUTEL
Joel Wilhite, Harmonic
Kelly Williams, NAB
