Mary Lu Onair NAB Streaming

The International Webcaster's Association and TV Worldwide.com are hosting the streaming video live from NAB. The site to launch your browser is at http://www.tvworldwide.com/event_020408_nab.cfm  Real Video and Microsoft Media Player Formats will be supported. So pick your poison folks.

Also everything including some papers and speakers materials will be available to launch from that site. Good Luck.

Back to packing...

8:03:43 PM    

Countdown to OnAir: Less than 24 hours--

In less than 24 hours NAB2002 actually begins with the pre-conference seminars and schools. This means in less than 24 hours we begin the drive to Las Vegas.  Press Conferences, what we call the Meet-and-Greets starts Sunday morning and goes through well past 8PM.

In a period of less than 14 hours I meet with Sony, Panasonic, JVC, Avid and a raft of over 12 companies and professional groups who are all vying for my time.  Many are old friends in the industry whom with meet with at least 1 or 2 times a year to catch up with on the latest industry news. Everyone has a story to tell, products and services to announce, and cooperative agreements to tout. In essence: It's a zoo.

However this year the buzz is growing around CARP, DMCA and CBDTPA. It should prove to be very interesting to experience and cover.

It's time to gather all the press releases, schedules and business cards. Hang on for the news as it happens-- we will be blogging live from NAB2002 in less than 24 hours.

Oh yeah-- one more thing: Paul McCartney is appearing live at the MGM Grand Friday and Saturday night. Here's a great article Doug Elfman's done:

A Day in the Life: (Las Vegas Review Journal): Paul McCartney visited George Harrison on his deathbed last November. It had been nearly 38 years since the Beatles began defining pop music with their first hit, "I Want to Hold Your Hand." In a way, their lives had come full circle, as McCartney remembers their final, tender moment:

Wonder if I can get a couple tickets? hmmm?

1:25:59 PM    

Mark your calendar: Sam Donaldson's Live Webcast at NAB2002

Okay, go get your Real Player upgraded. Take the freebie and get ready. You have been warned. On next Tuesday, April 9th from 3-5 PM PACIFIC TIME, Sam Donaldson, the first major newsperson to regularly webcast, is holding a town meeting live from the floor of the Las Vegas Convention Center.  Inside sources are telling me that his guests will include FCC Chairman Michael Powell and a discussion of CARP has not been taken off the table to discuss.

Also we have been told that Sam is accepting questions by email from the 'Net to be asked on the show. the link is on his site listed below and will begin accepting questions on Monday afternoon. Don't say you haven't been told.

A PSA or WORD OF WARNING: Be sure to log into the webcast via the link http://abcnews.go.com/onair/webshows/webshows_index.html  through IE or Netscape. NOT the link via your REAL PLAYER SCREEN. A nasty little thing is... REAL is pushing their premiere $ervice$, and if you log into the site via the Real Browser in their new "ONE PLAYER" they want you to anty up with your credit cards. (BS!) Go directly to the site through your browser then click on the "CLICK HERE TO SEE THE SHOW." It won't cost you a thing. ;-)

And now back to our regularly scheduled programming... (cue tone & bars! on 3 - 2 - 1! beeeeeeep!)

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