[QuadList] Broadcast Engineering to cease publication effective Oct. 31--Reflections--

[Ted Langdell]

I've e-mailed BE's long-time editor Brad Dick to ask whether the broadcastengineering.com website will stay up as an archive of all the work produced since it went on-line. 

In addition to the website at http://broadcastengineering.com,

there are back-issues of the print product:
http://broadcastengineering.com/magazine-issues/broadcast-engineering

BE is/was a publication of Penton, based in NYC. BE appears to be Penton's only publication in the digital media/broadcast field, so it would seem the company is exiting that market.

That leaves few print or online resources that specifically target broadcasters from a technical perspective.

The one that immediately comes to mind is NewBay Media's TV Technology, where QuadList member James O'Neal is Technology Editor.

NewBay has a raft of publications aimed at electronic media, including the venerable Broadcasting & Cable, which was the other magazine that I think a lot of us pored over, even at an early age... to see where jobs were, who sold or bought what stations, and keep up with news that went beyond the strictly technical side of the business.

The magazine publishing business has seen a lot of changes in the last 20 years, as publications were sold and re-sold.  Broadcasting is one of them that went from the founder's hands back when I first started reading it in the mid-60s through a succession of owners.

Seems like that's happened to a lot of Icons in the media industry, including the three original Alphabet Nets.

Hope you're all having a good Sunday.

Ted

Ted Langdell
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On Oct 26, 2013, at 2:24 PM, Dennis Degan wrote:

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> 		On Oct 26, 2013, at 12:13 PM, Ted Langdell wrote:
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> > Broadcast Engineering magazine (and its deceased competitor Broadcast Management/Engineering) have been a part of my on-going education as a broadcaster since 1965, when I discovered a stack of back issues in a closet at a radio station I often visited as a pre-teenager.
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> 		I agree:
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> 	BE was what piqued my interest in all things electronic.  I also first discovered the magazine in the 1960's.  It's what brought me first into the radio business and then into TV.  While other mags have come and gone, I have always had a special fondness for Broadcast Engineering.  I never abandoned them, and have been a subscriber continuously since the early '70's.  I will forever hold on to the October 2013 copy I have right in front of me: The last published edition of Broadcast Engineering.  Thanks, old friend.  You've served us well.
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> 			Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank
> 					    NBC Today Show, New York
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