Exhibitor registration is now open for this year’s conference, which returns to the Greater Columbus Convention Center on Thursday, Nov. 7.

The OAB Executive Development Seminar Fellowship will allow one promising OAB-member station employee the chance to increase managerial effectiveness at the National Association of Broadcasters Education Foundation (NABEF) Executive Development Seminar, being held at the NAB headquarters in Washington, D.C., from July 21-24.  

Applications will be accepted until Saturday, March 2, 2013, at 11:59 p.m.

Applications will be accepted until Saturday, March 2, 2013, at 11:59 p.m. Contact the OAB's Katie Lovellat 866.OAB.5794 with questions. 

The 10th Annual Ohio Broadcast Engineering Conference was held Thursday, Sept. 27, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Greater Columbus Convention Center.

The OAB has created a new election page on our website to provide our members with information about the Nov. 6 general election. 

Earlier this month the OAB joined 44 other state broadcasters associations joined in filing Reply Comments in the FCC's rule making proceeding to implement certain provisions of the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010 that would require television stations to caption television programming disseminated over the Internet.

The OAB is offering members a number of sales events and webinars over the next three months, including free access to Jim Doyle’s national satellite and online auto sales conference on November 11, and Customer Focused Selling Solutions with Pat Bryson (the OAB's Fall Sales Seminar in Columbus) on November 15.

The OAB recently joined in with other state associations to send joint letter to the Congressional Budget Super Committee.

The OAB has created a special members-only page focused on this transition. On this page you will find a ton of information on this transition, including special pricing on EAS/CAP equipment for OAB member stations and links to additional resources.

Information about the 9th Annual Ohio Broadcast Engineering Conference, which will be held in conjunction with the SBE National Meeting.

The OAB recently joined all 50 state broadcasters associations in filing joint comments with the FCC on its rulemaking regarding the EAS-CAP conversion.

The OAB recently joined with the Maryland/DC/Delaware, North Carolina and Virginia state broadcasters associations in filing comments on the FCC's current notice of public information collection.

Winners of the 2011 Ohio Broadcasters Foundation scholarships.

Applications for the upcoming “Bridging the Gap” workshop for journalists are now being accepted. The workshop, funded by the McCormick Foundation, allows journalists to embed for a week with officers at the Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and soldiers at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.

The Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB), BMI and Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Radio Group (MIW) are accepting applications for the fourth annual “Rising Through the Ranks" course.

The OAB now offers an expanded list of resources for engineers at Ohio radio and TV stations.

CareWorks Consultants, Inc. and RiskControl360°, the administrators for the OAB's workers' compensation group rating plan, are offering numerous two-hour safety training webinars and online training courses.

The OAB's online legal and regulatory calendar has been updated for 2011.

The OAB recently joined 49 other state broadcast associations in filing an ex parte letter in the FCC's proceeding examining the data collection practices of the Media Bureau.