Rehr Keynotes at CBA; Pizzi, Fybush Also on Agenda

Registration is open for the Connecticut Broadcasters Association 2006 Annual Convention.
The event is Wednesday Oct. 25 at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford. The keynote speaker is NAB President/CEO David Rehr. Cost is $35 per person.
Engineering presentations include Ted Szypulski, senior director project development for ESPN, talking about HDTV in its Bristol digital center; Bill Harland, director of marketing of ERI, discussing implementation of IBOC program streams, space and diversity combining of separate analog and digital transmitters; and Scott Fybush, a Radio World contributor who is editor of NorthEast Radio Watch and publisher of the yearly “Tower Site Calendar.”
A panel on the future of broadcasting includes attorney John Garziglia; Adam Thierer, senior fellow and director of the Progress and Freedom Foundation’s Center for Digital Media Freedom; and Skip Pizzi of Microsoft, contributing editor for Radio World.
Also among topics of interest on the agenda is a session on homeland security, EAS and Amber Alerts.
Also scheduled is a Broadcast Opportunities Job Fair, 2–4 pm. The job fair is free.
For info e-mail Mike Rice at [email protected].