Thanks for your recent editorial entitled “NATPE Take-Home: Change Is Imperative” (TelevisionWeek, Feb. 2). We understand that to be true. We are all dealing with economic stress and there is no segment of our business immune from the pressure of trying to find a better business model for the future...
The biggest annual event in the syndicated television industry wasn’t so big this year, reflecting the struggles TV stations face as the economy contracts and local advertising dries up. Attendance fell 14% this year at the Las Vegas convention of the National Association of Television Program Executives...
NATPE President and CEO Rick Feldman estimates that attendance at the syndicated television industry’s biggest conference this year fell 14% to about 6,000 registrants. That represents a drop of nearly 1,000 from last year. Mr. Feldman said the attendance loss was in part the result of TV companies limiting...
While most executives at NATPE said attendance at this year’s conference will be lighter than most, the sparsely populated convention floor is still a shocker for most veteran attendees. The floor itself, which opened Tuesday at NATPE ’09 in Las Vegas, appeared to have little foot traffic, while the...
Anxiety is a common emotion at this year’s National Association of Television Program Executives conference in Las Vegas, as the shaky economy and thin station budgets threaten participation and attendance. Rick Feldman, president-CEO of NATPE, is well aware of that, but he’s tempering concerns with...
Sometimes it seems as if the death knell for syndication has been sounding since the days of “Donahue.” Hand-wringers have been writing off the genre for years, declaring that daytime is dead or that off-net half-hours are endangered due to the drought of hit sitcoms on the broadcast networks. The only...
The National Association of Television Program Executives will present two content panels at the MacWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco this week. The panels, which mark NATPE’s first foray into presenting panels at MacWorld, will offer first looks at new interactive mobile video technologies...