2016 IEEE Broadcast Symposium Papers & Presentations
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Wednesday, 12 October 2016
8:00AM - CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
8:30AM - Registration and opening remarks
Tutorial Session 1 - Audio Metrics, Session Chair - Paul Shulins, Director of Engineering, Greater Media Boston
9:00AM - New Audio Metrics for Program Production and Distribution, John Kean, Kean Consultants LLC
10:15AM - BREAK
10:30AM -Digital Television and Audio Loudness: Requirements and Practices, Jim Starzynski, NBC Universal
Tutorial Session 2 - Man-made RF Noise Issues - Session Chair - Glynn Walden, Consultant, CBS Radio
11:15AM - The Growing Impact of Ambient Noise on Broadcasting, Steve Johnston Director of Engineering and Operations Wisconsin Public Radio
11:45AM - FCC/AFCCE Update on RF Noise-Tom King, President, Kintronic Labs
12:00PM - BOXED LUNCH, The American Radio Relay League, Keynote Speaker - Tom Gallagher, CEO, American Radio Relay League, Inc. (ARRL)
Tutorial Session 2 continued
1:15PM - Man-made Spectral Noise - Ed Hare, ARRL
1:45PM - All-digital AM Co-channel Interference Test Project - David Layer, Senior Director, Advanced Engineering, NAB
Tutorial Session 3 - The Practical Side of ATSC 3.0 - Session Chair - Rich Chernock, CSO, Triveni Digital
2:15PM - The Practical Side of ATSC 3.0 - Dave Siegler, VP Technical Operations, Cox Media
2:30PM - ATSC 3.0 Physical Layer Overview - Mark Earnshaw, Coherent Logix
3:00PM - BREAK
3:15PM - ATSC 3.0 Physical Layer Overview cont'd - Mark Earnshaw, Coherent Logix
3:45PM - Content Creation for ATSC 3.0 - Skip Pizzi, Senior Director, New Media Technologies, NAB
4:45PM - ATSC 3.0 Status and How Do We Get There from Here Q&A - Rich Chernock, CTO, Triveni Digital
5:15PM - Closing Remarks
6:00PM - WELCOME RECEPTION
Thursday, 13 October 2016
7:00AM - CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
8:00AM - Registration and opening remarks
DTV Repack - DTV Repack Opening Remarks, Session Chair - Robert Weller, Vice President for Spectrum Policy, National Association of Broadcasters
8:30AM - Advanced Modeling Method for UHF Broadcast Slotted Coaxial Antennas, Brandon George, RFS
9:00AM - Doherty Amplifiers "101" and How They Apply to DTV, Fred Stefanik, Product Development Engineer, COMARK
9:30AM - DTV Repack Update - Joe Davis, Chesapeake RF Consultants, LLC
10:00AM -TV repack implications for FM station operations - James Stenberg, Principal Engineer, RF Broadcast, American Tower Corporation
10:30AM - BREAK
10:45AM - Efficient UHF Tunable Waveguide TE10 Mode Filter, Derek Small, Dielectric, Inc.
Single Frequency Networks - Session Chair - Merrill Weiss, President, Merrill Weiss Group, LLC
11:15AM - IBOC Single Frequency Network Implementation, Philipp Schmid, Nautel
12:00PM - BTS/AFCCE LUNCHEON, So...You think you are a Televisioner? - Keynote Speaker - Mark Aitken, VP, Advanced Technology, Sinclair Broadcast Group
Single Frequency Networks continued
2:00PM -Future Antenna Technology for ATSC 3.0, Keith Pelletier, Dielectric
2:30PM -MaxxCasting™ and ZoneCasting™ Update – Boston, Tampa and Milwaukee Field Tests - Hal Kneller, GeoBroadcast Solutions
3:00PM - BREAK
Time Alignment for HD Radio - Session Chair - Roz Clark, Senior DIrector of Radio Engineering, Cox Media Group
3:15PM -Synchronizing IBOC Broadcast Components for Constant Diversity Delay, Philipp Schmid, Nautel
3:45PM - HD Radio Diversity Delay Field Observations: The Need for Automatic Alignment, Alan Jurison, Senior Operations Engineer-Engineering and Systems Integrations, iHeartMedia
4:15PM - Broadcast System Architecture for Maintaining HD Radio Diversity Delay Alignment, Tim Anderson, Manager, Strategic Radio Market and Product Development, Gatesair, Inc.
4:45PM - HD Radio Time Alignment, Ben Barber, President/CEO, Inovonics
5:15PM - Closing Remarks
6:00PM - MANUFACTURERS RECEPTION
Friday, 14 October 2016
7:00AM - CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
8:00AM - Registration and opening remarks
Broadcast Plant - Session Chair - Paul Donovan, VP Engineering, CBS Radio
8:30AM - FM RDS Field Performance in Smart Grid Application, Jackson Wang, President, e-Radio, Inc.
9:00AM - New Techniques to Efficiently Monitor, Display and Process Large Amounts of Operational Data from Multiple Sites,Peter Burk, President, Burk Technology
9:30AM - A New Way to Transmit an FM Composite Signal Reliably Over a Low-Bandwidth Connection, Hans Van Zutphen, CEO , Thimeo Audio Technology B.V.
10:00AM - BREAK
Broadcast Plant continued
10:30AM -Improving FM Combiner/Filter Efficiency and Size Using Non-Conventional Coupling, Dan Fallon, Dielectric
11:00AM - The Effects of Bit Rate Reduction on Psychoacoustic Watermarks, Paul Shulins, Director of Engineering, Greater Media
Boston
Next Gen TV - Session Chair - Rafael Sotelo, Director ICT Department, School Engineering, Universidad de
Montevideo
11:30AM - Fast Sparse Bayesian Learning based Symbol Detection for Generalized Spatial Modulation, Banghua Zhu
12:00PM - BTS AWARDS LUNCH, Navagating Broadcasting Future, Keynote Speaker, John Clark, Executive Director, PILOT
Next Gen TV continued
2:00PM - Coverage of Various ATSC 3.0 Transmission Modes, Bill Meintel, Senior Partner, Meintel, Sgrignoli & Wallace and Dennis Wallace, Senior Partner, Meintel, Sgrignoli & Wallace
3:00PM - Comparative Analysis of Different Video Compressions at Different Resolution Formats, Irini Reljin, University of Belgrade
3:30PM - BREAK
3:45PM - Optimisation of ATSC 1.0, an essential tool for the ATSC 3.0 Transition, Guy Bouchard,Senior Manager-Broadcast
Signal Transport, CBC Technology
4:15PM - Mobile Field Test Result of LDM-Based Broadcasting System, Bo-mi Lim, ETRI
4:45PM - First OTA Comparison of ATSC 3.0 to ATSC 1.0, Wayne Luplow, Vice President, Zenith R&D
5:15PM - CLOSING REMARKS