SBE Chapter 24 - Madison, WI

The Chapter 24 Newsletter is published monthly by Chapter 24 of the Society of Broadcast Engineers; Madison, Wisconsin. Original hard copy edited by Mike Norton on Pagemaker 5.0. Submissions of interest to the broadcast technical community are welcome. You can make your submissions by e-mail to:

Mike_Norton@went.pbs.org

Information and/or articles are also accepted by US Mail. Please address them to:
SBE Chapter 24 Newsletter Editor
2029 Greenway Cross #11
Madison, WI 53713-3000

Please submit text file on DOS or Windows 3.5" floppy diskette if possible.

Steve Paugh is the editor for the Electronic Version of this Newsletter uploaded monthly onto SBE Chapter 24's web page.

Thanks to Leonard Charles for his work on the Chapter 24 WWW page and electronic newsletter.

Contributors this month:

Lloyd Berg
Vicki Kipp
Neal McLain
John Poray
Kevin Ruppert
Tom Smith
Paul Stoffel
Tom Weeden

© 1999 by SBE Chapter 24. Views expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the official positions of the Society, its officers, or its members. SBE Chapter 24 regrets, but is not liable for, any omissions or errors. The Chapter 24 Newsletter is published twelve times per year. Other SBE Chapters are permitted to use excerpts if attributed to the original author, sources, and SBE Chapter 24.

Thank you to WKOW-TV for providing copying and folding facilities for the Chapter 24 newsletter!

Thank you to WISC-TV for maintaining the web server for the Chapter 24 Web page!

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MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

Tuesday, September 21, 1999

Avid NewsCutter Demo

This month's program will consist of a presentation by Bob Fields of Avid Technology Inc. The demonstration will be of Avid's nonlinear Windows NT-based editing system designed specifically for news editing.

Dutch Treat Dinner at 5:30pm
J.T. Whitney's
647 S. Whitney Way
Madison, WI

Meeting and Program at 7:00pm
at WKOW-TV second floor conference room
5727 Tokay Boulevard
Madison, WI

Visitors and guests are welcome at all of our SBE meetings!

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UPCOMING MEETINGS

Tentative 1999 Program Subjects
DAY	DATE	TOPIC	CONTACT
Weds	Oct 20	SBE National Meeting	Broadcast Clinic
Thur	Nov 18	Student Night	Kevin Ruppert
Tues	Dec 21	TBD	Steve Paugh

Tentative 2000 Program Subjects
DAY	DATE	TOPIC	CONTACT
Weds	Jan 19	TBD	Mark Croom
Thur	Feb 24	TBD	Steve Zimmerman
Tues	Mar 21	TBD	Denise Maney
Weds	Apr 26	NAB Review/ Elections!	Denise Maney
Thur	May 25	TBD	Steve Paugh
Tues	Jun 20	TBD	Kerry Maki

If you have any suggestions for program topics you'd like to see, please contact one of the Chapter 24 Program Committee Members: Mark Croom 271-1025, Kerry Maki 833-0047, Denise Maney 277-8001, Steve Paugh 277-5139, and Steve Zimmerman 274-1234.

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AUGUST BUSINESS MEETING MINUTES

Submitted by Lloyd Berg, Secretary

Chapter 24 of the Society of Broadcast Engineers met on Thursday, August 26, 1999 at WISC-TV in Madison, Wisconsin. There were 17 members and 1guest present.

The meeting was called to order by Chair Kevin Rupert at 7:20 PM. Minutes of the July meeting, as published in the August newsletter, were approved as written.

Kevin thanked Denise Maney for orchestrating the very successful July Chapter 24 Picnic meeting.

Certification, Jim Hermanson reported that September is the deadline for applications to take SBE certification exams in November.

Frequency Coordinator, Tom Smith reported that ABC-TV was the only organization who coordinated this week’s Monday Night – Packers - Football game in Madison. Tom also announced that he has downloaded the FCC’s RPU database for the Madison area and will attempt to cross-check those records with actual frequency use.

Leonard Charles reminded all SBE members to send in their election ballots by the September 2nd deadline. Chuck also reported the national SBE membership is at 4990 and will climb back above 5000 any day now. Also, plans continue for the upcoming National SBE convention being held in Madison in October. All SBE members were invited to attend the awards banquet; please register with the national office ASAP.

Kevin reported that plans and recruiting for the Broadcast Engineering Youth Night to be held at WISC-TV in November are well underway.

The business meeting was adjourned at 7:40 PM. The evening’s program on Certification was then presented by the SBE’s National Certification Chair, Terry Baun.

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TELCOM INDUSTRY NEWS

By Neal McLain

MINOR CIVIL SUBDIVISIONS

Once pending merger of the Bresnan and Charter cable television operations closes, there will be only one cable television company left in Dane County: Charter. With that in mind, I set out to do a Newsletter article about the history of Dane County cable companies: the companies that built the original cable systems that now constitute Bresnan and Charter, and how they grew.

But any explanation of the history of cable television systems has to be rooted in an understanding of what the U.S. Census Bureau calls "minor civil subdivision": the counties, municipalities, and other political subdivisions of the states and territories of the United States. The reason: under current federal law, cable television systems are regulated at the local level: by the county or municipal governments. Only a few states (New Jersey and New York come to mind) regulate cable systems at the state level, and even in these states, cable franchises are actually issued and enforced at the local level; the state's role is primarily oversight.

So before I plunge into the history of cable television systems, here's an explanation of minor civil subdivisions.

COUNTIES
"County" is the primary civil subdivision below the state or territorial government. In most states, a county is actually called a county, but there are four exceptions:

In Alaska, the county-equivalent is a borough.
In the District of Columbia, there are no counties; however, for the purpose of cable television regulation, the District itself is considered to be one county.
In Louisiana, the county-equivalent is a parish.
In Puerto Rico, the county-equivalent is a municipio.

Virtually the entire land area of the United States is subdivided into counties or county equivalents. But again, there are exceptions:

In Alaska, only the more populated portions of the state have been subdivided into boroughs. In the rest of the state, there is no county-level government.
In four states (Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, and Virginia), independent cities lie outside of any county. For the purposes of cable television regulation, an independent city is considered to be a county.

In Wisconsin, the entire state is subdivided into 72 counties.

INCORPORATED MUNICIPALITIES
Incorporated municipalities are localities, usually urbanized, that have established their own local governments pursuant to state law. Municipal governments are legal entities with rights similar other entities: they can buy and sell property, employ personnel, raise revenue through taxation, and disburse money. They can sue other entities, and they can be sued by other entities.

Depending on state policy, incorporated municipalities may be called boroughs, cities, city corporations, municipalities, towns, or villages. The legal corporate name usually includes the type of municipality as well as the actual name:

Borough of Princeton, NJ
City of Madison, WI
Municipality of Anchorage, AK
Salt Lake City Corporation, UT
Town of Aberdeen, MD
Village of Waunakee, WI

In some states, a city and a county (or Alaskan Borough) are coextensive, and are governed by a single government:

City and County of Denver, CO
Fairbanks North Star Borough, AK

Most municipalities are located inside counties, but there are exceptions:

The independent cities in Maryland (Baltimore), Missouri (St. Louis), Nevada (Carson City), and Virginia (most larger cities) are legally outside of any county.
In Alaska, there are many cities outside the portion of the state that has been subdivided into boroughs.
The City of New York is coextensive with five counties, each of which constitutes a "borough" within the city: New York County (Manhattan Borough); Bronx County (Bronx Borough); Kings County (Brooklyn Borough); Queens County (Queens Borough); and Richmond County (Richmond Borough, commonly known as Staten Island).

There's a great deal of variation from state to state:

Boroughs (as municipalities within counties) exist only in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Boroughs (as counties) exist only in Alaska (where they also serve as municipal governments) and New York (where they're subdivisions within the City of New York).
Cities may be large or small: in Minnesota, all incorporated municipalities are cities.
With a few exceptions, towns (as municipalities) exist only in southern and western states.
Villages may be large or small: in Illinois, most incorporated municipalities are villages, including many big Chicago suburbs like Hinsdale and Skokie.

In Wisconsin:

All incorporated municipalities are either cities or villages. There are no boroughs, there are no independent cities, and there are no towns (although townships are often called towns; more about this later in this article).
In general, larger municipalities are cities and smaller municipalities are villages. But there's no firm dividing line: in terms of population, the Village of Waunakee is larger than the City of Verona.
All municipalities are located inside of one or more counties. Many municipalities straddle county lines: Belleville, Cambridge, Randolph, Watertown, Whitewater. The City of Appleton overlaps three counties: Calumet, Outagamie, and Winnebago.

Here in Dane County, there are:

Seven incorporated cities:
Nineteen incorporated villages:
- Belleville
- Black Earth
- Blue Mounds
- Brooklyn
- Cambridge
- Cottage Grove
- Cross Plains
- Dane
- Deerfield
- DeForest
- Maple Bluff
- Marshall
- Mazomanie
- McFarland
- Mt. Horeb
- Oregon
- Rockdale
- Shorewood Hills
- Waunakee

CIVIL TOWNSHIPS

Now we come to most confusing terminology of all: the terms applied to the land that lies inside counties, but outside of incorporated municipalities. These are the mostly-rural areas that lie between municipalities: farmlands, prairies, woodlands, wetlands, deserts, inland waterways.

In many western and southern states, these lands are governed directly by the county: if you're outside an incorporated municipality, you're "in the county," and the county provides the basic services: police protection, law enforcement, justice, roadway maintenance. In many areas, counties also provide numerous other services as well: fire protection, water and sewer, public education, public health, trash collection, park and cemetery maintenance. Many of these counties are further subdivided for administrative convenience; these subdivisions go by a variety of names (beats, barrios, civil districts, districts, election precincts, judicial districts, magisterial districts, militia districts, police districts, supervisorial districts, wards), but they are not separate levels of government: they are subdivisions of county government and the county government can alter their boundaries and functions at will.

But in most northeastern and Midwestern states, there's another level of government: civil townships. Civil townships cover the entire land area outside of incorporated municipalities.

Traditionally, land located inside civil townships, but outside of incorporated municipalities, is said to be "unincorporated." But that term is misleading: civil townships are legal entities just like incorporated municipalities. And, like municipalities, they exist pursuant to charters granted by state government; in Michigan, they're formally known as "Charter Townships."

The importance of township government varies from state to state:

In some states, townships are little more than names on a map. They may perform minor functions (hold periodic elections, plow snow, maintain a cemetery or two) but most services are provided by the county. In these states, many residents are barely aware that they even live in a township.
In other states, townships are well known locally and may be heavily urbanized. Many of them provide the full range of municipal services: police protection, law enforcement, justice, road maintenance, fire protection, water, sewer, public education, public health, trash collection. In New Jersey, townships like Hamilton and Willingboro are virtually indistinguishable from incorporated cities.

Civil townships are frequently called "towns." So the meaning of the word "town" depends on where you are:

In western and southern states, a town is an incorporated municipality.
In northeastern and Midwestern states, a town is a civil township outside of any incorporated municipality.
In Indiana and North Dakota, it can be either: these states have incorporated municipalities called towns and townships called towns.

To further complicate things:

Not all townships are organized as civil townships. In many rural areas, there are parcels of land which were originally designated as townships when the land was surveyed, but which were never organized. Apparently, the local residents never saw any reason to form a township government, so the county has remained the local government by default. To this day, these areas are known as "unorganized townships."
Not all unincorporated land is actually inside a township. This is particularly true in New England, where many odd land parcels date back to colonial days and go by such names as gores, grants, islands, locations, patents, plantations, points, strips, and surpluses.

In Wisconsin, all townships are organized civil townships, and they are commonly known as towns. Among their own residents, they are well known, but among the general population, they are not particularly well known.

In Dane County, there are 34 civil townships:

MAP OF DANE COUNTY

Dane County, Wisconsin. CAPITAL LETTERS indicate townships; lower case letters indicate incorporated municipalities. Unincorporated municipalities are not shown. When Dane County was originally surveyed in the 1800s, all townships were 6 miles square (except for the northwest corner which was cut off by the Wisconsin River). But, as this map shows, several changes have occurred over the years. The Town of Fitchburg is now the City of Fitchburg, although it retains the shape of the township it used to be. The north half of the Town of Black Earth is now part of the Town of Mazomanie. The Town of Madison now consists of several small parcels, including the one shown here, south of Lake Wingra. The portion of the Town of Madison north of Lake Mendota is now part of the Town of Westport; most of the rest of the Town of Madison has been annexed by the City of Madison.

UNINCORPORATED MUNICIPALITIES
Unincorporated municipalities are urbanized localities that have not established their own local governments; instead, they have remained part of a larger administrative unit -- either a civil township or a county. Depending on state policy, they are known by a variety of names: rural locality, unincorporated town, unincorporated village, village, or just plain unincorporated.
There are hundreds of thousands of unincorporateds across the country. In many western states, even large urban areas are unincorporated. The entire state of Hawaii has only one incorporated municipality: the City of Honolulu.

There are thousands of unincorporateds here in Wisconsin. Even a crossroads consisting of a general store and a couple of homes is an unincorporated if it has an established name. My favorite example of a small unincorporated: Ladoga, in Fond du Lac County, where you pass the "STOP SIGN AHEAD" sign before you pass the "LADOGA UNINCORPORATED" sign.

There are dozens of unincorporateds here in Dane County, and some of them are large enough to be well known locally:

SPECIAL-PURPOSE ENTITIES
Throughout the country, there are many special-purpose entities that are administratively independent of local governments. Land owned by these entities may or may not lie inside of any township or county; even if it does, they are legally independent of county and township government. Typically, they provide their own police and fire protection, their own judicial system, their own water and sewer, their own roadway and grounds maintenance. Many of them provide their own electric power and telephone utilities. Examples:

State Prisons, owned and administered by state governments. All prisons are located inside counties, and may be inside townships as well.
Military Reservations, owned and administered by the U.S. Department of Defense. All military facilities within the United States are located inside counties, and may be inside townships as well.
Indian Reservations, administered locally with oversight by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs. All BIA-supervised reservations are located inside counties, and may be inside townships as well.
National Parks and Monuments, owned and administered by the U.S. National Park Service. Most NPS facilities are located inside counties but outside of townships. The Montana portion of Yellowstone is outside of any county.
Walt Disney World, owned and administered by The Walt Disney Company. Walt Disney World lies inside two Florida counties, but under its contract with the State of Florida, it's a virtual fiefdom within its boundaries, with administrative and police powers equal to any county.

In Wisconsin:

State Prisons are located inside townships.
Fort McCoy Military Reservation lies inside Monroe County and overlaps four townships.
Most Indian Reservations are located inside counties and overlap townships. The Menominee Indian Reservation is coextensive with Menominee County, which contains one township, also called Menominee.

SUMMARY
So is all this confusing enough? In Alaska, a borough is a county; in New Jersey, a borough is an incorporated municipality; and in New York City, a borough is a former county that's been swallowed up by the City. In Maryland, a town is an incorporated municipality, but in the Midwest, a town is a township.
In Wisconsin:

All land is inside a county.
All land is inside an incorporated municipality or a township.
All incorporated municipalities are either cities or villages.
All land outside of incorporated municipalities is inside a township.
Townships are commonly called towns.

Sources: Morris M. Thompson, Maps for America, third edition (Washington: United States Department of the Interior, 1988). Commercial Atlas &Marketing Guide, 1999 edition (Skokie, Illinois: Rand McNally & Company, 1999).

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4th ANNUAL CHAPTER 24 BAKE OFF

By Vicki Kipp

Bring out your chefs hat, apron, and best cookie recipe! It’s almost time for the 4th Annual Chapter 24 Bake Off. The Bake Off will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday, October 19th and 20th in connection with the 1999 Broadcasters Clinic.

Every Chapter 24 member is encouraged to submit their best cookies as a show of their SBE enthusiasm. SBE chefs will compete for the prestigious "Favorite Cookie ’99" designation and a prize. Of course, we expect all Chapter 24 members to visit the SBE booth to sample and vote for the talents of our Chapter 24 bakers.

Eligibility: All Chapter 24 members are eligible to compete.

Instructions: Bake two dozen home-made cookies and bring them to the SBE Booth at the Broadcasters Clinic by 4:30 PM on Tuesday. Please keep in mind that Chapter 24 will be sharing a booth with National SBE reps. We will display one dozen of your cookies on Tuesday from 4:30 to 7:30 PM and the remaining dozen cookies on Wednesday from 10:00 AM to 1:30 PM.

Clinic attendees will sample the delicious entrees and vote for their favorites. The votes will be tallied after the exhibit booths close on Wednesday. The cookies which receive the most votes will be declared the winner. The contest results will be announced Wednesday evening.

Rules: The cookies must be made from scratch. Cookie mixes are banned. The SBE member must make the cookies themselves.

Bring on the cookies!

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VOLUNTEER TO STAFF THE SBE BOOTH

By Vicki Kipp

Chapter 24 will be sharing a booth at the 1999 Broadcasters Clinic with representatives from SBE Headquarters in Indianapolis, Indiana. The booth will need to be staffed by members of Chapter 24 from 4:30 PM to 7:30 PM on Tuesday, October 19th and from 10:00 AM to 1:30 PM on Wednesday, October 20th.

Please contact Vicki Kipp if you would like to commit to a specific time to represent Chapter 24 at the booth. Staff will help oversee the cookie bake off. Thank you!

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SBE NATIONAL AWARDS DINNER INFO

The SBE National Awards Dinner will take place on Oct. 20th at 6:15 pm, at the Broadcasters Clinic. Chapter 24 is going to be receiving several awards, so Madison SBE members will want to be there.

The Dinner is open to everyone, but you must register for it separately from the Clinic.

Please contact Linda at the National SBE office for the dinner reservations at 317-253-1640.

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SBE NATIONAL NEWS

Compiled By Paul Stoffel

• The recently concluded Harris/PBS DTV Express national touring project will be the recipient of the 1999 Technology Award by the Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE). The award represents an honoree that has "provided to the industry the best new or innovative technical item or idea to further the science of broadcast engineering and to assist the broadcast engineer to be more productive in this craft." SBE says the winning project must have been shared with others in the industry to be eligible. The award will be presented at the Madison, Wisconsin Regional and SBE Annual Meeting on Oct. 20th.

(from PBS Digital News, Published by DTV Strategic Services Group)

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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

Help Wanted: Technical

Support Engineer: WHPN-TV UPN-57, Janesville/Madison, WI is seeking hands on support engineer. Transmitter, studio, computer, LAN system planning & installation experience a plus. SBE certification and/or FCC General Class License preferred.

Send Resume to Dick Madouse, Chief Engineer, WHPN-TV, 2814 Syene Road, Madison, WI 53713 or FAX 608-270-5717.

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AMATEUR RADIO NEWS

By Tom Weeden, WJ9H

• Wisconsin’s Near Space Sciences successfully flew their balloon payload carrying amateur radio over the Madison area on August 28th. The 3 watt UHF transmitter was launched near LaValle and climbed to nearly 100,000 feet over Stoughton. At its highest altitude, TV signals from the package were received by hams from several distant locations, including Milwaukee and Mosinee. The payload landed between Janesville and Beloit after a 5 1/2 hour flight and was recovered.

"Wisconsin Public Television engineer Dean Andrewjeski, K9PT, and Paul Nelles, K9DB, use the heavy artillery in Mosinee to receive the ATV signal from the NSS balloon"

"View of Madison lakes from the 1998 NSS flight"

• Hams are helping to provide much-needed communication as hundreds of fires raged in 16 Northern California counties. Sacramento Valley Section Emergency Coordinator Jerry Boyd, K6BZ, reports that amateurs are assisting the California Division of Forestry/Fire Protection and the US Forest Service in the affected counties. Chief fire officers are being "shadowed" by hams to insure they have communications capabilities. Fire emergency command and control centers are using amateurs, as are evacuation centers in several jurisdictions.

(Excerpts from "The ARRL Letter")

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FCC RULEMAKINGS

Compiled By Tom Smith

MM Docket No. 99-25

Creation of a Low Power Radio Service

The FCC has extended the reply comment period from September 1, 1999 to September 17, 1999 on the low power FM Notice of Rule Making. This extension was at the request of the New York Thruway Authority and was adopted and released on August 31, 1999.

MM Docket Nos. 94-150, 92-51,

97-154

Broadcast and Cable/MDS Ownership Attribution Rules

The FCC has revised its ownership rules concerning the percentage of ownership of a facility one is allowed before that ownership is attributed or counted against them in ownership limits. Those who meet any of the following standards will be considered as holding ownership in a broadcast, cable or MDS facility.

An entity holding equity or debt in excess of 33% and supplies 15% of the stations programming hours or is another media entity in the same market (newspaper, broadcast, and cable). All stock will count.

Any stock held by investor with more than 5% of voting rights counts as ownership. Passive investors such as banks, mutual funds and insurance companies holding stock may hold 20% of the stock.

A broadcaster will be attributed ownership in any station that they have a Local Marking Agreement, and brokered more than 15% of the brokered stations broadcast hours. There were also some changes in cross interest rules for key employees and rules for limited partnership ownership.

This action was taken on August 5, 1999 as part of a number of rule making notices concerning broadcast and cable ownership.

From FCC Press Releases. (www.fcc.gov)

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LOCAL LEGALS

Compiled By Tom Smith

WTTN (AM) Watertown, WI 1580 KHz

The FCC granted transfer of license from Watertown Radio Inc. to Good Karma Broadcasting LLC. Announced August 29, 1999.

From FCC Daily Actions (www.fcc.gov)

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SBE'S SHORT CIRCUITS - SEPTEMBER 1999

By John L. Poray, CAE
SBE Executive Director

FELLOWS, AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED

The SBE Board of Directors has elected two members to the rank of Fellow. Douglas W. Garlinger, CPBE and Richard W. Burden, CPBE will be installed as Fellows of the Society during ceremonies at the SBE National Awards Dinner, Wednesday, October 20 in Madison, Wisconsin. The Awards Dinner is held as a part of the SBE National Meeting. The National Meeting is being held in conjunction with the annual Wisconsin Broadcasters Clinic, October 19-21.

The Awards Committee has announced that Dane E. Ericksen, P.E., CSTRE has been named SBE Broadcast Engineer of the Year. Ericksen is with Hammett & Edison, Inc. in San Francisco. The Committee also announced co-winners of the SBE Educator of the Year Award. Winners are Bruce V. Ziemienski, CPBE of Riverside, California and Michael P. Scott, CPBE of Puyallup, Washington. Scott is the Society's first three-time winner of the award. These and other Awards will be presented during the SBE National Awards Dinner, October 20.

The National Awards Dinner will begin at 6:15 CDT and will be held at the Madison Marriott West, in Middleton, Wisconsin. Tickets for the Awards Dinner are available for just $10 from the SBE National Office. Call or E-mail Linda Godby-Emerick at lgodby@sbe.org or (317) 253-1640 to order yours. Checks or credit cards are accepted. The ticket includes admission to a cocktail reception that precedes the dinner, beginning at 5:30 PM. The Awards Dinner is sponsored in large part by Leitch, Inc.

ELECTION BALLOTS COUNTED SEPTEMBER 2

Ballots for the SBE National Election will be counted by a team of volunteers from Chapter 25 on the night of September 2. Voters will be selecting officers and six of the 12 seats on the Board of Directors. Candidates for President, secretary and treasurer are running unopposed while two candidates are running for vice president. Eleven candidates are running for the six available seats on the Board. Look for results posted on the SBE Web Site, www.sbe.org, begin Friday, September 3.

CHAPTERS CAN HOST ENNES WORKSHOPS

Ennes Workshops have been providing educational opportunities to broadcast engineers across the U.S. for more than eight years. Typically held over one day, they bring together 50 to 100 engineers to hear presentations on the latest technology, presented in a manner that the working broadcast engineer can use. If your chapter would be interested in hosting a future Ennes Workshop, or have questions about hosting a workshop, contact John Poray, SBE Executive Director, at jporay@sbe.org.

BATES JOINS SBE STAFF

Angel Bates has joined the SBE National Staff as Membership Services Coordinator. She is responsible for production and advertising for SBE publications such as the SBE SIGNAL, "Membership Directory" and "SBE Connector." She will also oversee the SBE Book Store, SBE MasterCard program, Insurance Programs, Hertz and National Car Rental programs and Resume Service. Angel will provide support to chapters helping them with membership growth and program ideas. We welcome Angel to our staff!

SBE CERTIFICATON EXAM OPPORTUNITIES ANNOUNCED FOR 2000

The Certification Committee has released dates for Certification Exam opportunities in 2000. Four exam periods will be held in chapters along with an exam period during the NAB Convention, April 11 in Las Vegas. Check out the upcoming Certification exam dates below. One may be right for you. For more information about SBE Certification, see your Chapter Certification Chair or contact Linda Godby-Emerick, Certification Director at the SBE National Office at (317) 253-1640 or lgodby@sbe.org.

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CHAPTER 24 SUSTAINING MEMBERS

THANKS TO ALL OUR SUSTAINING MEMBERS:

Alcatel USA
Alpha Video
Belden Wire and Cable
BCS Wireless
CTI
Clark Wire and Cable
Harris Corporation
Hewlett-Packard
maney-logic
National Tower Service
Norlight Telecommunications
Panasonic Broadcast
Richardson Electronics
Roscor Wisconsin
Scharch Electronics
SCI Consulting, Ltd. (formerly Skyline Communications)
Sony Broadcast
Tektronix
Teleport Minnesota
Token Creek Productions
Video Images
WISC-TV 3
WKOW-TV 27
WMSN-TV 47
WMTV-TV 15

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