This world-class, six-day Conference featuring technical papers addresses the most recent developments in broadcast technology and focuses on the opportunities and challenges that face broadcast engineering professionals around the world.
BEC Opening: Developing Technology Solutions for a Changing Landscape Kevin Gage Executive Vice President and CTO NAB
Technology Luncheon Keynote: Brian Cooley CNET.com
NAB Engineering Achievement Award Recipients: Paul Brenner, Emmis Communications; Glenn Reitmeier, NBC Universal
Workshops & Tutorials include:
SBE Ennes WorkshopThe Broadcast Engineer in an IT World: What Do I Need to Know and How Do I Learn IT?
The modern broadcast engineer is immersed in the world of Information Technology like it or not. This presentation will identify the knowledge and skills likely to be required in an IP networked broadcast environment, examine methodologies and approaches to gain the necessary knowledge and skills, and prepare the manager to perform informed assessments. MORE
IEEE Tutorial: Broadcast and the Internet Connected TV
This Tutorial will present a picture of the state-of-the-art practices of various industry projects offering Internet connected TV services. Technologies behind the interoperability of Internet enhanced TV, including various set-top-box implementations, middleware options and user services for web-based content will be presented. MORE
HD Radio 101: Making It Happen At Your Station
This workshop will provide an in-depth education on HD Radio from non-technical management and engineering perspectives including actual facility design and implementation case studies from broadcasters who have met the challenge to move their stations into the future. MORE
Graphics for Radio
Chair: Martin Stabbert, Cumulus Media Inc. Papers from: Clear Channel Radio, Radio Free Asia
Mobile TV Update: Domestic and International
Chair: Jeff Andrew, Fox Television DC Papers from: Communications Research Centre, DVB Project Office, Harris Corporation, Mackenzie DTV Lab, Rogers Communications Centre, Roundbox, WRAL-TV, WGBH
Green Engineering for Broadcast
Chair: E. Walden, CBS Radio Papers from: Dialight, Gates Service Group Inc., Harris Corporation, Hitachi Kokusai Linear, Radio Free Asia, Rohde & Schwarz
Hybrid Television Chair: Brett Jenkins, LIN Media Papers from: Audible Magic, IP Action Partners Inc., KBC, mDialog.com, Nippon Television Network Corp., Pixelmetrix Corporation, Triveni Digital
Sessions/speakers subject to change.
Future of Broadcast Television
We are continuing the discussion that started at the inaugural Future of Broadcast Television Summit held last November in Shanghai, China how terrestrial broadcasting is evolving and integrating into the broadband ecosystem. This session will look at the next generation of television broadcasting from the perspective of consumers' expectations, spectrum issues, and the urgent need for global cooperation on television standards. MORE
Ben Keen, Screen Digest; Keiichi Kubota, NHK; Mark Richer, ATSC; Lieven Vermaele, European Broadcasting Union; Wenjun Zhang, National Engineering Research Center of DTV, China
Registration Packages
SMART Pass
Your BEST value! This package gives you access to just about everything NAB Show has to offer, including post-show online education. MORE
Conference Flex Pass
This package gives you access to 200+ sessions across seven
conferences. MORE
Exhibitor Spotlight Come see WO MASTER CONTROL, the first, fully-integrated IT and DTV Master Control Solution that provides up to 16 HD channels of HD/SD, Master Control Switching, Graphics,Automation and Video storage in a single IT server rack named Broadcast Engineering's 2011 Pick Hit!