WABE Delegate Registration Now Open

We hope that you have enjoyed your summer and are now making plans to attend the annual WABE convention taking place in Calgary November 6-8^th. Our host hotel is the Hyatt Regency Hotel in the heart of downtown. All of the technical seminars, exhibits and social gatherings will be held there.

We will be offering both Radio and Television seminars Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Some of the topics for Radio include Streaming Audio, Working with Tieline, AoIP, and Transmitter Control. Television topics include ATSC 3.0, 4K Panel Discussion, SMTP standards and much more. Some of the joint papers will include Broadcasting History, CAB update, power handling and generators. It is our hope, that by attending these seminars, you will be better informed and equipped with practical knowledge that you can put into practice right away at your facility. Watch our website for convention schedule updates at http://wabe.ca/convention/schedule

This year, we are pleased to announce a full day training seminar by SBE on Tuesday November 8^th. Wayne Pecena, CPBE, 8-VSB, AMD, DRB, CBNE will be the instructor for “Networking Technology for Broadcast Engineer”. Space is limited for this course with only 36 seats available. So please ensure that you select this option on your WABE registration form and submit it to the WABE office soon. The cost is $99.00 which includes course materials and lunch. Attendees of the course will receive a certificate of completion. Or, if you preregister with SBE, you can challenge the CBNE exam and achieve the SBE accreditation Certified Broadcast Networking Engineer. The examination will take place early Tuesday evening. IMPORTANT: those wishing to challenge the exam must pre-register directly with SBE prior to attending this course. There will be no onsite registration. To register for the exam, click here: SBE Application For more information on certification, click here: CBNE Information.

The WABE Attitude Adjustment was such a huge success in Vancouver last year, that we have decided to continue it this year on Sunday, November 6, at 5:00pm until 7:00pm, in the Stephen Room. Join us for some cocktails and fellowship. On both Sunday and Monday, lunch will be served from 12:00pm to 1:00pm on the exhibit floor. A new event this year will be the WABE Awards Evening on Monday night. This event will combine and replace both the Awards Luncheon and the Slo Down Ho Down. Starting at 6:00pm on Monday evening, we will have cocktails. The awards presentations, dinner and entertainment will follow.

We highly encourage you to support our efforts to keep the prices of the convention down through booking your accommodations with the Hyatt Regency Calgary. To make a reservation, follow the links on our website at http://wabe.ca/convention/hotel-travel-discounts. There is also information on our travel discounts with WestJet as well as Budget Car Rentals. As we have done in past years, we negotiate the cost of the facility rental and the hotel room rates together. To do this, we need to guarantee the hotel a certain number of room nights that will be reserved by our delegates and exhibitors. This year, we negotiated a room rate of $239/night. If we do not meet our contractual agreement with the hotel, the WABE organization faces a financial penalty. We know that there are some corporate arrangements that may have other preferred hotel vendors and realize that you may not have a choice. Please do your best to support the WABE convention by booking your accommodations through the Hyatt Regency Calgary. Everyone who books before Oct 7^th and stays at the hotel will be entered to win a $300 visa gift card. The prize will be awarded at the Awards Dinner on Monday evening, November 7^th.

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