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Our final meeting of 2025 brought SBE Houston members together on December 9 at Escalante’s for a festive Holiday Gathering. The evening was filled with good food, great conversation, and plenty of holiday cheer.

A highlight of the night was Mike Thompson of LumenServe, who gave an engaging presentation on tower lighting. Members learned about LumenServe’s innovative Tower Lighting as a Service® (TLaaS®) program, which provides complete LED tower lighting systems along with installation, maintenance, 24/7 monitoring, and compliance support. Their full-service approach helps tower owners stay safe, efficient, and compliant without the hassle of managing it all themselves.

We want to give a special thanks to LumenServe for sponsoring the evening and sharing their expertise with our chapter.

It was a fun, educational, and festive night — a perfect way to celebrate the season with our SBE Houston family.

Members of our chapter recently attended the Highway Marketing Road Show, a compact and engaging regional tradeshow that packed a lot into a single day. The event featured informative presentations by Shure, dBTechnologies USA, and datavideo, showcasing new technologies and solutions relevant to the broadcast and AV industries.

In addition to the sessions, several vendors were set up in the exhibit hall, offering hands-on demos and insights into their latest gear. From microphones to video production tools and speaker systems, there was a wide array of tech to explore.

The best part? They even fed us! Great food, great conversations, and a convenient location made this a very worthwhile outing. Kudos to Highway Marketing and all the participating manufacturers for putting on such a smooth and informative event.

Working with many TAB Associate Member companies, John Lackness has been a longtime broadcast equipment salesman to Texas stations and many others across the country. Always offering to help with projects, John never misses a TAB (or NAB) Show. He also served as emcee of the inagural Texas Broadcast News Awards ceremony! John grew up in Floresville, where he helped build, and later signed on KWCB-FM in 1977. He went on to DJ for several San Antonio stations, and also worked in other station positions such as engineer, salesman and voice acting.  With close to 50 years of industry experience, he previously sold for Marti Electronics, Tieline Technology, SCMS, RF Specialties of Texas and BE/Elenos. Based in the San Antonio area, John serves as the DOS for RADIO GEARHEADS, a Radio technology service and equipment sales company.

A broadcast engineer since 1975, Paul Easter has owned five broadcast engineering companies during his career. At Fort Bend Broadcast Services, he strives to keep his clients operating with the latest technological advances both in the studios and at the transmitter site. He’s a lifetime SBE Certified Professional Broadcast Engineer who has won many industry awards, from Univision’s Corporate Engineer of the Year to SBE’s Steve Schott Excellence in Engineering Award, all while taking time to enjoy ham Radio. Paul and his wife Anita do field work across Texas, but still find time to mentor young engineers new to the industry.

December 7th, 1943 will always be a date which will live in infamy as the United States was attacked by Japan at Pearl Harbor, and in the Houston Broadcasting community, it will be remembered as one of the worst disasters in our History. On its final day of construction, the Senior Road tower, which broadcasts multiple FM stations on one antenna, snapped at a weak point during the hoisting of the 2nd half of the antenna. Upon the snap, the antenna fell onto the guywires holding the tower and broken them upon impact, and therefore began a chain reaction as the 1971′ tower came crashing down. More devastating was the 5 men who were riding the antenna during its ascension and those on the tower lost their lives.

Univision recently finished a complete remodel of their show floor.

Never miss out on having great food with your fellow broadcasters and their friends and families.

President of the Texas Association of Broadcasters (TAB) Oscar Rodriguez visited the Chapter meeting.

Houstonian Dan Giesler of Giesler Broadcast Supply was the recipient awarded this year.