The Society of Television Engineers

Welcome to the Society of Television Engineers Web Site.  Established in 1940,  STE is an organization unique to Los Angeles and the surrounding areas.  Its members include key individuals involved in television broadcast engineering and the manufacture of television broadcast equipment.  The purpose of the STE is to provide a common ground for key technology  personnel to get together and discuss common technical problems, and to help each other solve them.

Meetings

STE dinner meetings are usually held on the third Thursday of each month, July and August excluded. Meeting activities include a social cocktail hour, dinner, a table-by-table industry event reports and introduction of guests. This is followed by a formal program that covers new or interesting broadcast, production and post production systems, standards, products, or techniques.  Meetings are open to anyone interested in the field. 

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Next Meeting

Our Next Meeting will be June 20th  featuring IT’S NAND FLASH MEMORY UPDATE TIME by Rob Belle-Isle of Toshiba.
Call for Officers and Board Members

It’s time to bring in a new group of board members and officers into the STE.
Please see the descriptions of positions and duties here and contact George Hamilton and/or Lloyd Ferguson if you are willing and able to serve.
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Passings

John D. Silva, Los Angeles pioneering television engineer, has passed away on Nov 27, 2012 at age 92.

John's obituary can be found here.
The KLTA newscast announcing John's passing, details, photographs and further links of some of John many accomplishments can be found on the Emmy's website.


Wm George Tokar a former STE member passed away October 2, 2012 after a short illness, he was 97 years old. George began his career in 1936 working for Earl C Anthony at what eventually became KFI radio. When Mr. Anthony started KFI-TV, which later became  KHJ-TV, and now KCAL, he asked George to move over and become a television engineer. George retired from KHJ in 1979.