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NEWS LETTER
The 2015 SBE Chapter 52 season will kick off on Thursday, April 30,
2015 with featured speaker Don Archiable of Osborn Engineering. Don
always has interesting, exciting, and zany presentations. You don’t want to
miss this meeting! Refreshments begin at 6:45 PM with Don’s talk sched-
uled to start at 7:15 PM. Location:
MILLS — JAMES PRODUCTIONS
3545 FISHINGER BLVD.
COLUMBUS, OHIO 43026 Driving directions:
Traveling north or south on I-270 on the west side of Columbus, exit
at Exit 13 at Hilliard-Cemetery Road. Go east on Hilliard-Cemetery Road to-
ward Fishinger Blvd.—Upper Arlington. Travel approximately 0.8 miles on
Fishinger Blvd., turn right into parking lot at Mills James, 3545 Fishinger
Blvd.
Traveling north or south on Riverside Drive/US33, travel to Fishinger
Road. Go west on Fishinger Road, crossing the bridge over the Scioto River.
Fishinger Road becomes Fishinger Blvd., travel approximately 1.2 miles to
3545 Fishinger Blvd. Mills James is on the left. Turn left into the parking
lot.
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Don Archiable will be presenting
a Post NAB 2015 'State of The Union'
report on the latest and greatest tech-
nology, as he has done in the past
years for our chapter.
Don began his broadcast career
in 1982, working for John R. Owen VP
of Engineering at Taft Broadcasting in
Cincinnati. He started as Chief Engineer
at WKRC-TV and was soon promoted to
assist John with the Gulf Western ac-
quisition which grew to 36 stations.
With an offer of ownership and equity
position and to be a Vice President of
The Nebraska Television Network, NTV,
Don rebuilt their 4 ABC affiliate sta-
tions, preparing for their subsequent
sale upon completion.
In 1985 Don was hired by NBC
NY as Director of Architecture, Engi-
neering and Capital Projects for the
new $110 million budget, WMAQ - NBC
Tower in Chicago. When the 44 story broadcast center was completed Don was promoted to
Managing Director: Architecture & Engineering, for the NBC Network in NYC. After projects; To-
day Show, SNL, Letterman and 2 Olympics, Don joined The Austin Company as VP Strategic
Industry Group again with John Owen.
NBC called Don back in 1994 as Station Ops Mgr at WRC-TV under Tim Russert , Presi-
dent NBC News.
With the opportunities of designing and building global broadcast networks on "The
Other Side"... Don completed international network projects in: Korea. Manila. Germany.
Alaska. Bahamas. and....US projects; The Weather Channel; Discovery Channel and over 40 TV
and Radio Stations nationwide.
Presently, Don is a part owner & Executive Vice President of Osborn Engineering, a 122
year old legacy firm based in Cleveland. The primary focus of their National Practice is; The
FCC rePack, mobile LTE reverse auction and Medical Next Gen Technology.
Don has been a member of both SBE & SMPTE since 1983 and a past SBE chapter
president in Cincinnati. He has undergraduate degrees in Electrical Engineering, Architecture
and Industrial Design from the University of Cincinnati. Don has been a HAM radio operator
since 12 years of age and is licensed as an Amateur Extra Class with call sign WC8DA.
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This month we continue photo coverage of some of the 2014 OAB
Engineering Conference Exhibitors. They make so much possible
for OAB and SBE, we encourage you to patronize their firms. Con-
ference exhibitors were:
Accelerated Media Technologies
AJA Video Systems
Apantac, LLC
AVI Systems
Broadcast Electronics/Commotion
Broadcasters General Store
Calrec Audio/Studio Consultants, Inc.
Comrex
Continental Electronics Corp.
Dialight
Double Radius Inc.
ENCO Systems
Evertz Microsystems
Extron Electronics
Florical Systems
Gates Air
Gorman Redlich Mfg. Co.
Grass Valley USA LLC
Harmonic, Inc.
Hitachi Kokusai Electric America
Ikegami
Imagine Communications
iVideo Technologies
JVC
Morgan Consulting Services
Nautel
NPI Audio Visual Solutions
Paul J. Ford and Company
PESA Switching Systems
Propagation Systems, Inc. (PSI)
ProVideo Systems, Inc.
Quantel/Snell
Satellite Engineering Group
SCMS, Inc.
Shattuc Cord Specialties
Staco Energy Products Co.
The Telos Alliance
Tieline, The Codec Company
Utah Scientific
VizRT, Inc.
Weather Metrics
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Chip Schneider, Regional Sales Manager with
Imagine, one of the two new offspring of Harris.
This photo is something of a put up job but the
editor muffed the photo of Brian Szewczyk at the
conference. Brian can be contacted at
“[email protected]”. Gates Air is the
other new offspring of Harris.
Ron Caird of Florical Systems.
Tom Navaro with AVI Systems
Shown at left are Shane Finch of Music Masters
and Sumantha Matheson of Enco.
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Scott Widney and Paul Rumo of Satellite Engineering
Group explain the facts to Gene Batey of SMPTE. Ray Lego, VP Sales, Eastern North America
Pam Leffler and Andy Cole with SCMS, Inc, Chris Crump with Comrex Corporation
Lance Feder with Extron Electronics with Gene Batey. Kyle Mio Bertolo with Evertz Microsystems
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Sam Avellone and James Lynch of NPI Audio Visual Solutions with their comprehensive display.
Let the story telling begin
over lunch. If only the walls
could tell their secrets!
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National SBE Numbers
Office: (317) 846-9000
Job Line: (317) 846-9000
Fax: (317) 846-9120
BBS: (317) 253-7555
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World Wide Web
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Society of
Broadcast Engineers
9102 North Meridian Street,
Suite 150
Indianapolis, IN 46260
Resume Bank
Deposit your resume where prospective employ-
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from SBE. For information on submitting or access-
ing resumes, contact Scott Jones at [email protected]
or visit: www.sbe.org, click on Jobs then SBE Re-
sume Service.
Jobs Online
Check out the latest broadcast industry job open-
ings across the nation. For information on submit-
ting or accessing positions, contact Scott Jones at
[email protected] or visit: www.sbe.org, click on Jobs
then SBE JobsOnLine.
Now on Facebook & Twitter! Check them out!
Robert Holden, SBE Chapter 52 Webmaster, has opened a Facebook and a Twitter Account for Chapter 52 to
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Resume Bank
Deposit your resume where prospective employers can view
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CHAPTER 52
MEETING JUNE 1,
2006 AT THE OSU
AIRPORT
Marty R. Morgan
Morgan Consulting Services
Broadcast Video / Audio
Cell 740-504-7033 9770 New Delaware Rd.
martymorgan@embarqmail Mount Vernon, OH 43050
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