UPSTATE SHOW
Friday May 4th – Sunday May 6th
Mount Brickington Hotel, Paddington’s Purchase
Up to 60 Vendors, mostly resellers
Outdoor convention for news gathering and filming technologies
Seminars:
SATURDAY MAY 5th:
Opening Keynote: Stephanie Brickenelli – Garcia (BSBS-TV Miniland)
9:00 AM – Main Hall Stephanie Brickenelli – Garcia – BSBS-TV/BRCK-TV News Anchor, on the future of local media in the Minibrick State region
Do Your Blanking Job: How Broadcasters should use Social Media ONLY to provide station and news information and no silly chat.
10:00 AM – Clickivan Conference Room Eleanor Communications head of Public Relations will be at the MISAB Upstate Show; to discuss the only things broadcasters and talent should be posting on social – Do your F—–g Job!
Avoiding Audio Watermark Fails
10:00 AM – Davison Conference Room – BNWW-FM Clickcord’s chief engineer speaks about how to properly compress audio watermarks for radio ratings systems such as the portable people meter (PPMs) and other similar technologies for the digital age
Caution. Wreck Ahead. The Road Ahead to ATSC 3.0
11:30 AM – Brickley Conference Room Are you still skeptical about ultra high def? We know that ABS plastic engineers have had more clients than Botox, but the Minfiig Chapter of the SMPTE will debunk the many myths that was brought up at the fall Downstate Conference about ATSC 3-0. Will you be stalked by big data? Will your TV crash? Will CG vendors go out of business? Will engineers loose their jobs? Will viewers be overwhelmed and throw their TVs out of their window because of screen clutter? The fall show brought a lot of sparks amongst the engineering community. We don’t condone the behaviors but go at your own risk!
Using 802.11n to replace your ENG and STL solution
12:30 PM – Crawford Conference Room – With the magic of minifigures and the ability of distance of an 802.11n WLAN, would using such 11G networking be your IP solution acting as a WAN? BLBA Radio (Labrickia) Engineering Director has replaced point to point microwave and went all IP.
How We Went to IP & Didn’t Look Back
12:00 PM – Davison Conference Room
A 90 minute presentation from BCOP-TV (Channel 6) in Copenhagen and their nine month journey from proof of concept to first day of on air programming, on the day they “Marched Forward” on 3-13-2016. The IT Director and Head of Engineering will discuss the challenges faced at Ch 6 and what caveats are needed to ensure full reliability and security.
How to Aggressively Market in a totally fractured business
1:30 PM Conference Room C Social, Augmented Reality, and digital media is eating your lunch. How to maximize profits for your station while adapting to new media.
Emergency Broadcasting System Improvements
2:00 PM – Conference Room A
How the Minibrick State Police (formerly Department of Safety) has improved processes for delivering Emergency Notifications.
Using Voice Over IP without ditching your office telephones
2:00 PM – Brickley Conference Room
Expanets of Copenhagen has marketed to businesses to adapt to IP without needing to extend to your desktop. A wide variety of session initiation protocol or SIP based technologies can be used for field journalists, and for telephone lines while retaining your existing investment. SIP’s deployment can be a disaster if done improperly, but the ability to use a 25 year old office telephone with a mobile VOIP app has been done in other business without compromise
Sunday May 6th
9:00 AM – Inductees to the MISAB Station of the Year
The State of Public Access/Community Media
10:30 AM – Brickley Conference Room
The MISACM will be discussing the future of community media in MIS, particularly in the changes of funding these programs.