Digital Transition Assistance Program: Agenda

Monday, September 15, 2008

3:00pm to 9:00pm: Arrivals

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

7:00am to 7:15am: Continental Breakfast

7:15am to 7:30am: Opening Message

  • Djinni Field, Radio Digital Grants Manager, CPB

7:30am to 7:45am: HD Radio Overview (Kitsa Lee, iBiquity Digital)

  • What it is, how it works and what is means for your station.

7:45am to 9:45am: Planning HD Radio Conversion (Harris, BE, Nautel, Continental)

  • Implementation options, equipment, installation
  • Implications of the proposed IBOC power increase
  • Preliminary reports on elevated IBOC level field testing

9:45am to 10:00am: Summary and wrap-up

  • Don Lockett, Senior Director, CPB Media Technologies

10:00am to 5:30pm: Mini Public Radio Engineers Conference (PREC)

  • NPR Labs
  • The Association of Public Radio Engineers (APRE)

6:00pm to 8:00pm: Reception (tentative)

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

  • NAB Radio Show begins

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