SOCIETY OF BROADCAST ENGINEERS, INC.

Chapter Meeting Report

Date of Meeting- June 8, 2004 Meeting Place- WSKG-TV46 Vestal NY

Chapter No.- 1 Location- Binghamton, NY

Presiding Chairman- James Pratt

Total Attendance- 9 SBE Members- 7 SBE Certified- 2 Guests-2

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BUSINESS:

Meeting started at 7:48 PM

Raffle was won by ? $13.00 was donated to the Chapter 1 treasury.

Secretary’s Report- Reading of the May 11, 2004 minutes was accepted as read.

Treasurers Report- $XXX.51 with the $13.00 current raffle proceeds. Jim Pratt presented the National SBE 2003 rebate check in the amount of $167.00 to Steve Miller. Total treasury is now $XXXX.

Old Business-

The memorial service was held May 12th for Tom(Tommy) Ichikawa at 11:00 AM from the Estey & Munroe Funeral Home in Owego, NY. Many members from SBE Chapter One were in attendance.

Dave Allen is chairing the buffet supper arrangements at Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY. Monday, July 19th at 5:00pm. A selection has been made with the cost to be $20.00 a person. A motion was made to supplement each Chapter One SBE member with a $5.00 off the buffet supper. Jim Pratt will send an email to have all those who wish to attend; to email David with a headcount for food and seating arrangements.

Helping Larry Bloomfield to help set up the mini NAB show will be Jim Pratt and Dave Allen. The show itself will begin around 5:30pm.

Tom Siglin requested $60.00 to defray costs for the annual "never rain" picnic on July 17th . Beginning at 4:00 PM till dusk, the food and fun will be at Tom Siglin’s house, 108 Clark St. in Vestal, NY. Larry Bloomfield will be our special guest.

New Business-

In August, National SBE certification night is planned. September will be a noon time luncheon. October-November is open, and our holiday dinner in December.

Adjournment at 8:08 PM

PROGRAM: David Allen from Acterna provided a technical presentation on MPEG-2 "An Introduction for Digital Cable". Also present was Fred Ingerson from 4th Wave, representing Acterna.