Covering everything “from content creation and origination to transmission and reception,” the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society hopes to highlight media delivery technologies at its upcoming forum next month.
Taking place Oct. 27–28 in Washington, D.C., the IEEE BTS Broadcast Technology Forum will be held at the National Association of Broadcasters headquarters.
For radio-focused attendees, technical program offerings we spotted of interest include sessions on studio-to-transmitter links, hybrid radio tools, AM synchronous boosters and liquid cooling for high-powered transmitters.
Bob Weller, vice president for spectrum policy at NAB, and Guy Bouchard, vice president of IEEE BTS, are co-chairing the event. The forum is the result of an evolution from the former IEEE Broadcast Symposium, which was last held in 2023.
“The format of the forum is pretty much the same as the old symposium,” Weller told Radio World. “But the forum is intended to be less formal, with no proceedings and more open discussion and Q&A.”
Weller added that IEEE BTS was able to reduce attendance costs for this year’s gathering. Early-bird pricing is available through Sept. 27.
The schedule features a joint luncheon with the Association of Federal Communications Consulting Engineers on Tuesday, Oct. 27, and the BTS Awards luncheon on Wednesday, Oct. 28, where Charlie Einolf will receive the 2025 Jules Cohen Award for Outstanding Broadcast Engineering.
Weller and Bouchard have finalized the schedule, and we’ve listed it in its entirety below.
| Tuesday, Oct. 27 — Morning Session: ATSC 3.0 Evolution | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Presentation Title | Presenter(s) |
| 9:00 a.m. | Welcome | Guy Bouchard and Bob Weller |
| 9:30 a.m. | The ATSC 3.0 MIMO Extension | Sung-Ik Park |
| 10:00 a.m. | BPS Development in South Korea | Sunhyoung Kwon |
| 10:30 a.m. | Break | |
| 11:00 a.m. | SFN Segmentation (Network) | Yiyan Wu |
| 11:30 a.m. | ATSC3 as a Universal STL for Radio | Merrill Weiss |
| 12:00 p.m. | Joint Luncheon with AFCCE: Keynote on Federal Spectrum Management | Charles Cooper, NTIA |
| Tuesday, Oct. 27 — Afternoon Session: Transmission and Antenna Technology | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Presentation Title | Presenter(s) |
| 1:30 p.m. | Compact CPol Antenna for Low-Band VHF | Jim Stenberg and Ben Gelinas |
| 2:00 p.m. | Providing BPS over SFNs | Nick Hottinger |
| 2:30 p.m. | Advanced Liquid Cooling for High-Power Transmitters | Steve Rossiter |
| 3:00 p.m. | Break | |
| 3:30 p.m. | Future of AM: Synchronous Boosters | John Kean and David Layer |
| 4:00 p.m. | Status of IEEE Emission Mask Measurement Standard for Broadcast | Jim Stenberg |
| 4:30 p.m. | Special Presentation on IEEE MOVE: Bringing Emergency Relief and Education Where and When It’s Needed Most | Maurizio Murroni |
| Wednesday, Oct. 28 — Morning Session: Radio Technology Evolution | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Presentation Title | Presenter(s) |
| 9:00 a.m. | Welcome | Guy Bouchard and Bob Weller |
| 9:30 a.m. | Hybrid Radio Tools | Juan Galdamez |
| 10:00 a.m. | Enhancing Broadcast Radio with IP Delivery | Nick Piggot |
| 10:30 a.m. | Break | |
| 11:00 a.m. | Update on Protection of AM Radio from WPT-EV | Bob Weller |
| 11:30 a.m. | RF Projector: Innovations in Visualization and Radio Propagation Analysis | Matt Stennet |
| 12:00 p.m. | IEEE-BTS Awards Luncheon: Keynote on the NAB/PILOT AI Accelerator and NextGen Newslab | John Clark, NAB/PILOT |
| Wednesday, Oct. 28 — Afternoon Session: Receiver Technology Evolution | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Presentation Title | Presenter(s) |
| 1:30 p.m. | Cellular Networks and the Broadcast Engineer | Josh Arensberg and Eric Greendyk |
| 2:00 p.m. | ATSC 3.0 in Your Pocket | Matthew Goldman |
| 2:30 p.m. | MIMO or MISO in FM, UHF and Wi-Fi | Sung-Ik Park |
| 3:00 p.m. | Break | |
| 3:30 p.m. | Closing Remarks | Guy Bouchard and Bob Weller |
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