[BC] Re: NAB???

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BUT, do you think attendance would be up in Atlanta, Chicago,  
Orlando, or New York?

NO WAY!  All of them are more expensive for both the vendors and for  
the attendees.

PLUS, none of them have a big enough convention center.

The Las Vegas Convention Center is big enough to hold TWO major  
conventions at the same time, save CES and NAB.  None of the other  
cities have a big enough convention center to hold either, and need  
overflow to other venues.

Even NAB overflows into the Hilton, and CES does too, plus some stuff  
at the Sands in the RA-RA years.

It CANNOT go anywhere else, unless it gets to be much smaller, and  
does anyone want that?

Plus, the restaurants are able to absorb the crowd.  It cannot  
anywhere else.

Hey, I have been going to the NAB convention for a long time.  I  
recall Washington, DC parking tickets!

--chip

On Mar 10, 2009, at 2:46 PM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 27
> From: patrick roberts <radiowavesokc at gmail.com>
>
> I agree with you 100 percent Larry on those points (debateable on  
> the food
> part).  The excessive costs come in more so with the vendors  
> costs.  If
> attendance stays down long enough vendors will decide to either cut  
> back to
> the bare minimum or cut the show altogether.  When that happens  
> there is
> even less of a reason for people to attend (that can).
>
> PR