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The 2024 Media Technology Summit
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The 2024 Media Technology Summit
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Welcome to
Washington DC Section

Join Our Friends List Bits by the Bay 2024
Welcome! 
 
The Washington D.C. section of SMPTE includes society members from the Washington/Baltimore metropolitan area as well as members in the Tidewater, Virginia and other nearby regions.
Section Officers include a chair, a secretary/ treasurer and six managers. There are also other volunteer positions such as Program, Membership and Publicity Chairs.
 
Our regular meeting is the third Thursday of the month at 7pm ET.  Check below for the latest update, and 
 
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Thank you to all the sponsors and attendees for making 2024 mini Bits by the Bay successful! 

The recordings will be available shortly.  We are looking forward to a multi-event in Spring 2025!

Our Next Event 

SMPTE DC does not have regular summer programming. Enjoy some well deserved R&R.  SBE and other related events are listed below.
 

Upcoming Events...

The SBE37 Annual Picnic September 21, 2024 12 noon at the WFED radio transmitter site (formerly 1500 WTOP for many decades) in Silver Spring. Enjoy the outdoor picnic barBque, and tour the “mothership” art deco building with the  veritable broadcast museum. Additional information on the sbe37.org website.     

This year, Jim Peck of SCMS gathered an impressive bevy of sponsors under their umbrella. Come talk to some tech experts and get to know our local media engineering community! If you are part of media engineering, or want to be, come on by to meet the locals. membership not required.  

If you have topics you would like us to cover, or want to ogranize an event yourself, reach out to managers@smptedc.org!

Let's hear from you! Members and friends of SMPTE-DC, what topics would you like to learn about? 

Send your ideas to managers@smptedc.org

Questions? Please send an email to managers@smptedc.org

 

Reminders & Notices

Follow SBE37 for Radio/TV specific events

Follow DC AES for all things audio

Job Openings:
 
Contact managers@smptedc.org if you have a job or need a job!

Past Events
May 22, 2024

ANNOUNCING MINI BITS BY THE BAY 2024!

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March 19, 2024

MEDIA FORWARD WKHS 50 years of broadcast instruction

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January 9, 2024

SBE Chapter 37 Virtual Meeting

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December 12, 2023

Annual Holiday Party SMPTE, SBE, AES!

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October 10, 2023

Special Online Event TOWN HALL!

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August 29, 2023

Washington DC Town Hall

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July 11, 2023

Advanced Monitoring & Control Use Cases for Broadcasting

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March 30, 2023

SMPTE Washington DC March Meeting

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December 14, 2022

SMPTE Washington DC Holiday Party 2022

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November 9, 2022

SMPTE Washington DC and SBE Chapter 37

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November 3, 2022

SMPTE Washington DC November Meeting

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October 25, 2022

SMPTE Washington DC September Section Meeting

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October 18, 2022

SMPTE Washington DC October Meeting

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September 29, 2022

SMPTE Washington DC September Meeting

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May 26, 2022

SMPTE Washington DC May Section Meeting

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March 2, 2022

SMPTE Washington DC March SectionMeeting

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February 3, 2022

SMPTE Washington DC Section February Meeting

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December 20, 2021

Washington DC Virtual Holiday Party

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April 21, 2021

Virtual tour of the new NBCU News Group

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March 22, 2021

Washington Lunch and Learn

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February 24, 2021

Washington February Event

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January 28, 2021

January meeting - esports Production During COVID

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October 29, 2020

Media Forward Student Night Town Hall

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September 30, 2020

SBGF's KidsCLICK, LTN, IMAGINE COMM.

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September 23, 2020

Soundscriber & the Recovery of the Apollo Mission Control Audio Recordings

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September 16, 2020

"The Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project: The Value and Fragility of our Historic Electronic Records”

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July 30, 2020

History of TV with Mark Schubin

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July 16, 2020

SMPTE-DC Member Town Hall

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June 18, 2020

Using PBCore Metadata to Drive Media Workflows

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June 16, 2020

Interoperable Media Format - IMF

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March 26, 2020

Media Forward: Establishing the Apollo 11 Audio Archive

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January 16, 2020

NextGen TV Summit at WETA-TV

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October 29, 2019

Media Forward event with our Student Section at Montgomery College

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September 19, 2019

Verizon Media "Doing Live Events for OTT on Scale"

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August 13, 2019

What you need to know about the 600Mhz Transition

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June 11, 2019

WTOP Radio facility tour

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May 14, 2019

The IP Workshops (2110 training)

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April 24, 2019

RagingWire Data Center VA3 facility tour

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March 21, 2019

Middle East Broadcasting Network facility tour

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January 17, 2019

Amazon Web Services

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