​​Central Minnesota Chapter 17 
Society of Broadcast Engineers
There are no strangers, only engineers you haven't met.
​Broadcast Engineer is spoken here.

​We are a non-profit professional organization of radio and television engineers who build, repair and update radio and television broadcast facilities.  All broadcast engineers are welcome to join our group.  ​Chapter 17 has 70 members, of which about 20 are SBE certified.  Most live and work in Minnesota and Wisconsin.  We meet monthly to exchange ideas and increase skill level.  There is also an annual summer picnic and holiday party in December.  Many meetings are being held online as well as in person.
Upcoming:
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Taylor Barker
The next SBE 17 meeting is on Thursday, October 17, 2024: We’ll hear from Jeff Williams, head of Yellowtec’s North America wing. That’s taking place at the WCCO Radio studios in the Cambria Building (625 Second Avenue South), between the Nicollet Mall and Government Plaza light rail stations in Downtown Minneapolis. We’re hoping to get started around 11:30 a.m., since Mr. Williams will have a bit of a time zone difference. Lunch will be served, you can join us virtually, and if we’re lucky, we might even get to tour the place.

If you can make it, I’d like your RSVPs by Tuesday, October 15, please. Program Chairman Taylor Robert Barker  [email protected]​ 
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Nov. 20, 2024:
Minneapolis
​Tech
Expo
News:
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Sept. 28, 2023:
Joe Conlon
SBE National 
Engineer of Year
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Nov. 16, 2023:
Ricki Lee
of Aiir
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Oct. 5, 2023:
The
Sourcerer
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Mark Persons
New photos are needed to refresh this website. We're particularly after Shoreview climbers in action looking towards the city skylines. In particular, pictures happen to include the other area tower(s), or any other notable landmarks off to the side.

If you have anything at all, regardless of where they are from, please send the highest-grade resolution available to Mark Persons, [email protected].
Job Openings:
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Hubbard is looking for a vice president of IT, and an RF Maintenance Engineer.

An LPTV station with a transmitter on the IDS is looking for options for a LPTV contract engineer.  If you have any suggestions, please contact  Joe Conlon, Engineering Manager, Townsquare TV.  651-352-6112.

Twin Cities PBS is looking for people.  If interested, please apply by visiting our Career Center at http://www.tpt.org/careers/job-openings/

K-LOVE and Air 1 Radio Networks are looking for people.  See: https://careers-kloveair1.icims.com/jobs/search?hashed=-435656068

​SBE is an organization with 114 chapters and 4500 members world-wide.