Technorama President John Maizels ran a tech workshop for station managers, board members, and other non-technical people. Why? Because radio is a technology business, and you need to understand something about the technology if you’re going to be a good decision maker. The session covered just enough that participants came out knowing a bit more about what they don’t know.
And we got good feedback: “Very informative as always – John hosts a great workshop and was able to take away a lot of content to take back to my station” as well as “Really great presentation. Entertaining, informative and entirely relevant. Thank you.”
What did you miss this year? Read the full CBAA event program here
CBAA 2017 Links
Shaun Dennis takes Tech gong
Shaun Dennis of the Technorama IT team just picked up the 2017 CBAA award for Excellence in Technical Services. Yo Shaun!!!
You need to know what you don’t know
Here is the printable version of charts from the session that Technorama’s John Maizels and Michelle Brown ran at CBAA 2017. We haven’t added script notes yet, but you’ll get a lot of the the idea. Key points: block diagrams are GOOD. You need to know enough to adequately question whether the advice you’re given is good or not. Broadcasting is a Technology Business. We must invest in training. No question, get your Tech Team into the strat plan, and get them to Technorama each year. Join now. Get on the mailing list. Now read on…
BA Pro-Bono support
Stephen Farrugia from Broadcast Australia announced a new program to help stations with tricky RF and technical planning challenges. BA will offer two days of pro-bono engineering support per month to support CBAA Members, and the CBAA will schedule requests. The aim of the support is to provide advice and guidance, but most particularly to provide access to tools that BA uses for spectrum and transmission planning, which would otherwise be unavailable to the average community broadcaster. Steve’s presentation is here, and Technorama will provide more information as it comes to hand.
Station Health Check
Not strictly tech, but certainly a part of establishing good governance: how does your station rate, and how well is it working? CBAA and CMTO have announced a tool to help stations identify how the station stacks up against best practice governance. You can check out the process here. The recommendation is that you spend some time as a board, and if you would like help it’s available through the CBAA (Nadia Elkholy) or CMTO (Giordana Caputo). By the way, currently you need to be in the list of stations to get past page 1. There will be an “other” category shortly, to allow other sector bodies to use the tool.