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Welcome to our Chapter!
Our new,
interactive website is now available to better serve the great
technical people in our electronic media industry who participate in
the food, fun, and fellowship the group offers each month. We have many
participants, both local and from around the state that enjoy the
networking and information exchange that comes from participation in
the SBE meetings and programs.
History
The
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Society of Broadcast Engineers Chapter
number 85 was officially announced as a Chapter on September 30th,
1981, by our first Chapter Chair, Chester Grubbs. The history of SBE
Chapter 85 begins in the late 70’s when the Oklahoma SBE
contingent was
known as the Oklahoma Chapter of the Society of Broadcast Engineers
(northeast) 56. Chapter 56 headquartered out of Tulsa. To facilitate
the organizational needs of the Oklahoma engineers, the meetings were
held at Hillcrest Recreational Center, in Stroud, Oklahoma. Stroud is
the half way point between Tulsa and Oklahoma City. By 1980,
discussions to split Chapter 56 were opened to facilitate a new Chapter
in Oklahoma City. It took over a year to finalize the concept and an
organizational meeting was called on August 4th, 1981. The focus of
this meeting was to increase membership by reducing the driving
distance for potential members. The leadership then brought the issue
before the membership on August 26th, 1981 and ballots were mailed.
Announced on September 30th, 1981, it was unanimous, SBE Chapter 85 had
been born.
Purpose
Today,
SBE Chapter 85 is a non-profit engineering chapter society which
gives its members the opportunity to develop and improve their
engineering skills and knowledge through local chapter meetings,
training seminars and workshops. SBE Chapter 85 is a professional
organization for members of the broadcast industry.
National
The
Society of Broadcast Engineers maintains chapters in more than 100
cities across the United States. All major broadcasting markets have a
chapter, as do most medium-size markets. Even some smaller markets have
active chapters. The SBE was established in 1963. With more than 5,000
members, SBE National provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and
the sharing of information towards helping its members keep pace with
the rapidly changing broadcast industry. SBE members are made up of
studio and transmitter operators and technicians, supervisors,
announcer-technicians, chief engineers of commercial and educational
stations, engineering vice presidents, consultants, field and sales
engineers, and anyone interested in furthering their knowledge of the
technical aspects of media and broadcasting. Many broadcast engineers
from recording studios, schools, CCTV and CATV, production houses,
corporate audio-visual departments, Government audio/video and research
departments and other facilities are also an important part of the
group. Youth interested in the broadcast engineering profession are
also encouraged to apply for the inexpensive youth membership.
Local
Anyone
interested in keeping up with the rapidly changing broadcast
industry or who wants to sit in on a forum for the exchange of ideas or
simply just wants to network, is welcome to join us at any of our
monthly meetings. We meet at
Johnnie’s Charcoal Broiler located at 2652 W. Britton Road in north Oklahoma
City. Johnnie’s can be contacted at 751-2565. We meet on the 4th
Wednesday of each month at 12PM Noon. Everyone is welcomed.
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