44/100ths

NAB Celebrated its 100th Convention in Las Vegas

I’ve attended the last 44. My first was Dallas, 1979. I was a young CFÖ of ABC affiliate WVII in Bangor Maine. A lot has changed in television and broadcast since then.

The hot topic in 1979? Remote news broadcasting. How to take a studio and four-hundred-pound cameras to a remote location. Today, a reporter armed with an iPhone and a hand-held steady-ri…