Taste of NAB Roadshow – June 2010
Engineers, grab your Blackberries. Scroll down to an open summer date on your calendar and plug in The Taste of NAB Roadshow. It’s back!
Co-sponsored by LBA Technology, the roadshow is returning for a 9th year, bringing to broadcast engineers and technicians where they live the latest electronic equipment and ideas showcased in Las Vegas at the National Association of Broadcasters convention.
In the month of June, host Larry Bloomfield and his fellow roadshow presenters will traverse Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana, including a 2 day stop at the New Mexico Broadcast Association Convention.
Fifty-three one-day programs are scheduled at stops in about 30 states. It is an ambitious undertaking, which Bloomfield justifies as necessary “so that some of the new technology from the NAB convention will get out to the grassroots engineers that didn’t make it to the big one in the desert.”
Organizers stress that the roadshow is not a sales event. Rather, it is an informational platform. The team of presenters will introduce such breakthrough technology as the Kathrein-Schomandl ADAM3000 analog / digital TV Analyzer and MSK-200 DTV Signal Analyzer and health-protecting SafeOne Personal RF Monitor, as well as the new Taref3 high-precision master clock by German manufacturer R.A.M. Gmbh. Because these pieces of equipment are exclusively distributed by LBA Technology, an LBA consultant will be on hand at many of the presentations.
The programs often are coordinated with local chapters of the Society of Broadcast Engineers, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Society of Motion Pictures and Television Engineers. Some chapters have been known to turn the event into a barbecue social. Yet food is not why thousands of engineers have turned the roadshow into a main attraction; they show up each year to see the newest equipment, hear technical presentations, compare notes with their peers – and only then maybe eat a little.
Attendees also will have a chance to win door prizes. LBA Technology is sponsoring two $50 Amazon gift cards.
The calendar of local presentations is at http://tech-notes.tv/Taste_of_NAB.html. Check the itinerary for contact details and specific addresses.
Bloomfield is a broadcast industry consultant and for 10 years has been host of an online industry forum site – www.Tech-Notes.TV – from which the annual roadshow sprang.
June 4th, 2010 – Pheonix, AZ
June 7th, 2010 – Tucson, AZ
June 9th, 2010 – El Paso, TX
June 11th-12th, 2010 – Albuquerque, NM
June 15th, 2010 – Wichita, KS
June 17th, 2010 – Tulsa, OK
June 21st, 2010 – Dallas, TX
June 22nd, 2010 – Bryan, TX
June 23rd, 2010 – San Antonio, TX
June 24th, 2010 – Rio Grande Valley, TX
June 25th, 2010 – Houston, TX
June 26th, 2010 – Beaumont, TX
June 28th, 2010 – Shreveport, LA
June 30th, 2010 – New Orleans, LA
