Today we’ve got a guest entry from KSAN/San Francisco Program Director Larry Sharp:
I found where all of the hip, eager, young people that years ago would have been into radio are. The Oracle convention right next door at the Moscone Center here in San Francisco. As I walked through the crowd, I saw the kind of faces that I remember seeing at radio conventions years ago. The Internet and high-tech have become the cool place to be. Radio is old school.
The convention also has that energy that the NAB and R&R have lost. It’s so big they have shut down Howard Street between 3rd and 4th for 9 days! Big outdoor TV screens touting everything Oracle. Lots of excitement, very show biz. The NAB/R&R looked like an insurance industry convention by comparison.
Wow.
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Well then…wait till NEXT year, when our convention
besieges the banking mecca of Charlote. You’ll be
lucky to escape with only two new checking accounts
while you’re being served bar-be-que. Hey…both my
mom and brother live in Charlotte and I grew up in
nearby Greensboro. The city knows how to land
conventions (very slick, very aggressive…after all, they beat out superb competitors for a “crown jewel” money-magnet…the NASCAR Hall of Fame). As Bill Jacobs proposed in his blog here within the past month, we quickly need to change the host city to one with more sex appeal and media glitz…if only for the purpose of better showcasing stuff like HD radio. Any takers to help (and it will take a concerted, vigorous, quick effort) get NAB 2007 moved?
Let me correct my own blog submission.
It was PAUL Jacobs who first broached the
subject of it not being real bright to hold
next year’s NAB in the relatively “off the
national media radar screen” (my words) city
of Charlotte, N.C.
You can go back and read his well-written
piece from September 28th by clicking onto
the JacoBlog archives to the left.