Editor-in-Chief:
Edmund Williams
By
Graham Jones, Director of Communications Engineering, National Association of Broadcasters, Washington DC
David Layer, David Layer is Director, Advanced Engineering in the Science & Technology Department of NAB, located in Washington, DC. David has
been with NAB since 1995, and has been very active in the radio standards setting area. He is also involved in NAB's technical conference
planning and technical publication activities, and has been an author and contributing author for numerous technical publications, including
IEEE Spectrum magazine (a leading journal of the Electrical Engineering profession) and the McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology.
Thomas Osenkowsky, Tom Osenkowsky is a Senior Member of IEEE, NARTE and SBE. He has been practicing broadcast engineering since 1976. He has designed, constructed
and maintained radio broadcast facilities in the United States and Caribbean Islands, written software for engineering applications and
is a freqquent contributor to Radio World magazine.
Description
The NAB Engineering Handbook provides detailed information on virtually every aspect of the broadcast chain, from news gathering, program
production and postproduction through master control and distribution links to transmission, antennas, RF propagation, cable and satellite.
Hot topics covered include HD Radio, HDTV, 2 GHz broadcast auxiliary services, EAS, workflow, metadata, digital asset management, advanced
video and audio compression, audio and video over IP, and Internet broadcasting. A wide range of related topics that engineers and managers
need to understand are also covered, including broadcast administration, FCC practices, technical standards, security, safety, disaster
planning, facility planning, project management, and engineering management.
Basic principles and the latest technologies and issues
are all addressed by respected professionals with first-hand experience in the broadcast industry and manufacturing. This edition has
been fully revised and updated, with 104 chapters and over 2000 pages. The Engineering Handbook provides the single most comprehensive
and accessible resource available for engineers and others working in production, postproduction, networks, local stations, equipment
manufacturing or any of the associated areas of radio and television.
Audience:
Broadcast engineers in all aspects of engineering including television, radio, sound and video.
