| Society of Broadcast Engineers Monthly Newsletter on Career Advancement August 2011 |
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59 jobs were posted on JobsOnline in the last 30 days.
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| Have you visited the SBE Bookstore lately? | |
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Certification Director Education Director |
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| Get Certified in 2011 |
There are only two scheduled opportunities left to take an SBE Certification exam this year.
October 23, 2011 in New York City during the AES Convention
Pre-registration is available as well as on-site registration.
November 4-14, 2011 at your Local SBE Chapter
You must send in your application to the National Office by September 16, 2011 in order to be registered for the exams.
If you have any questions, please contact the Certification Director, Megan Clappe. |
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| Upcoming Live Webinars |
Networking Technology for the Broadcast Engineer - The Next Level: Routing and Switching; with Wayne Pecena, CPBE, 8-VSB, AMD, DRB, CBNT; August 18 - 2:00 p.m. ET
SBE Members - $59; Non-Members - $79
The goal of this webinar is to provide the Broadcast Engineer with a better understanding of IP routing and switching so that the technology may be implemented within his or her own network. Design examples will utilize typical industry network equipment with configuration implementation details. Detailed configuration and implementation notes will be provided for each design example. More Info
SBE RF Safety Course; with Richard Strickland of RF Safety Solutions; October 18 - 2:30 p.m. ET
SBE Members - $85; Non-Members - $125
The course is designed for broadcast station personnel, including chief and assistant chief engineers, transmitter site engineers, ENG and SNG maintenance personnel and management that need to have an understanding of RF safety issues and regulations.
A past student of the course said, "Richard did a great job of providing examples, answering questions, and keeping the material interesting."
The course is designed for broadcast station personnel, including chief and assistant chief engineers, transmitter site engineers, ENG and SNG maintenance personnel and management that need to have an understanding of RF safety issues and regulations. More Info |
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| SBE Specialist certifications |
An area of SBE Certifications that may interest you are the SBE Specialist certifications. Developed by the SBE National Certification Committee, the SBE created the Specialists certifications in order to establish a benchmark of individual strengths.
To qualify and apply for a specialist certification, you must currently hold a certification on the Broadcast Engineer, Senior Broadcast Engineer or Professional Broadcast Engineer level.
The specialist certification exams are three hours and consist of 50 multiple-choice questions. One essay-type question will be selected for each exam. The multiple choice portion is open book and the essay portion is closed book.
There are currently three SBE Specialist Certifications available:
8-VSB Specialist (8-VSB) The 8-VSB Specialist certification is designed to help evaluate an individual's ability to perform the necessary tasks to keep facilities operating properly. The exam will cover these areas of competency: transport stream, audio (AC-3), video (MPEG-2), PSIP, DTV standards documents and transmission systems.
AM Directional Specialist (AMD) The AMD Specialist certification is designed to help evaluate an individual's ability to perform the necessary tasks to keep facilities operating properly. AM radio stations can operate as non-directional with a signal tower or directional using more than one tower. While both require knowledge and skill to maintain in proper working order, the directional antenna system involves a higher degree of skill and understanding of RF theory. The exam will cover operation, maintenance and repair of a directional antenna system, FCC rules concerning directional operation, test equipment and safety procedures.
Digital Radio Broadcast Specialist (DRB) The DRB Specialist certification is designed to help evaluate an individual's ability to perform the necessary tasks to build and keep facilities operating properly. It will qualify an individual's knowledge of digital radio broadcasting including audio processing, studio-to-transmitter links and transmission of multi-channel digital program streams. The exam will include knowledge of importers, exporters, the various methods of combining analog and digital transmitters to antenna systems, delivery of digital audio signals and data to transmitter sites, transmitter emission mask measurements, AM and FM FCC rules, monitoring of digital signals and bandwidth requirements for AM antenna systems.
If you have missed any of the past SBE Career Advancement Newsletters, you can access them here.
If you are interested in any of the other SBE certifications not mentioned here, please go to http://www.sbe.org/sections/cert_classif.php for more information. Keep in mind that you may apply for the following certifications when you qualify for them. You do not need to do one level before going onto the other.
Please visit the SBE website or contact the Certification Director, Megan Clappe, for more information. |
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| Webinars by SBE - On-Demand | |
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SBE University |
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ENG Truck Operations - coming soon!
Television Video and Audio - coming soon!
The New Lifecycle of Media - IP and File Based Architecture and Workflows - coming soon!
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