Two years later I was at the Atlanta show, perhaps best known for coinciding with the Grateful Dead’s 1989 spring tour. ![]() At the time I was a green PR guy working for an agency that counted Ampex among its clients. Mine was in 1987 in Dallas, the year a freak spring blizzard nearly shut down the city. Today, I would call NAB an overarching content creation and distribution show.”įor me, my career wouldn’t be the same without the NAB Show. Minicomputers were controlling tape decks and switchers to perform edits in real time and record on tape decks. The two dominant vendors were RCA and Ampex. “When I went to my first show as a 19-year-old in 1979, it was clearly a broadcast show. What keeps him coming back after all these years? For starters, the change in the scope of NAB, says Van Hoy. I’ve now been to more than 25 NAB shows during my career, which pales in comparison to some industry folks, like Dave Van Hoy, president of post solutions provider Advanced Systems Group, who has been to more than 40 of these events. ![]() ![]() While I hadn’t attended the show since 2019, the year before the pandemic, it felt strangely natural to be back at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The 2023 NAB Show wrapped up its 100 th anniversary on April 19th, with what NAB says were 65,000 registered attendees and 1,200 exhibitors.
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