DVG’s Chuck Heffner to be a part of BEA’s 2016 NAB Panel Discussions

Mar 16, 2016

DVG is pleased to announce that Chuck Heffner, Director of Sales Engineering at Digital Video Group, has been asked to be a part of the of the Broadcast Educational Association’s 2016 NAB Panel Discussion, “Transitioning to a Networked TV Studio Operation and the Effect on Newsroom and Production Workflows, Best Practices, and Curriculum”.

This discussion, open to all, will be held Sunday April 17th in Ballroom F in the Las Vegas Convention Center. Panelists will offer practical advice and guidance for designing 21st century networked facilities and operational workflows and best practices to support them. This session start at 4:30 pm and will run just over an hour.

About Chuck Heffner:

Mr. Heffner has been within the broadcast business for 29 years. Chuck is responsible for working with the client, DVG sales, and engineering personnel to develop the overall concept and design of the project.  His role is to interface with client personnel to determine the exact project requirements.  Along with the system design engineers, he will develop the workflow and equipment list for projects.  Previously, Mr. Heffner has been employed as a broadcast account manager for Miranda technologies, a senior applications engineer for Professional Products, an account representative for the Grass Valley Group and Peirce-Phelps, and as a product manager for Dynatech Broadcast Group.

About the Broadcast Education Association (BEA):

“BEA is the premiere international academic media organization, driving insights, excellence in media production, and career advancement for educators, students, and professionals. The association’s publications, annual convention, web-based programs, and regional district activities provide opportunities for production competition and presentation of current scholarly research related to aspects of the electronic media. These areas include media audiences, economics, law and policy, regulation, news, management, aesthetics, social effects, history, and criticism, among others. BEA is concerned with electronic media curricula, placing an emphasis on interactions among the purposes, developments, and practices of the industry and imparting this information to future professionals.  BEA serves as a forum for exposition, analysis and debate of issues of social importance to develop members’ awareness and sensitivity to these issues and to their ramifications, which will ultimately help students develop as more thoughtful practitioners.”

For more information about BEA please visit http://www.beaweb.org/wp/.