Radio Today colleague and owner of Radio Scilly Keri Jones is blogging from the NAB Radio Show at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia. Visit this page regularly for updates to this content over the next couple of days.
DAY 1
Here we are at the NAB in Philly.
It's going to interesting to see how the U.S radio market is bearing up with the global economic downturn and whether any mention of the cancelled NAB Europe convention will be made. It was always a strange affair and I had the impression that people were parachuted in with a view of a generic, homogenous Europe. I remember the sniggers in the 2005 session in Rome where the lunch was sponsored by a US HD radio firm whose spokesperson started a full-on sales pitch over the din of lunch being served, despite no HD availability in the U.S format.
I'm sure there will be the big pitches and sales flannel here. I'll try and bring you that and the overview of developments in 2009, particularly in relation to small markets.
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