NAB introduced this morning that it’s cancelling the 2021 NAB Show, which was scheduled to be held in Las Vegas, Oct. 9-13. The announcement comes after quite a lot of its largest exhibitors, together with Sony, Canon, Panasonic and Ross all introduced that they had been pulling out of the present, citing issues over COVID-19. The affiliation stated it plans to supply choose digital classes via its Amplify portal. The affiliation made its announcement on its web site his morning:”For greater than a yr now we have labored tirelessly to carry our trade collectively safely in Las Vegas at NAB Show. Unfortunately, the pandemic and surge of the Delta variant has offered surprising and insurmountable challenges for our world group. As now we have all the time saved one of the best curiosity and security of the trade as our precedence, it has turn out to be obvious within the face of those challenges that we will not successfully host NAB Show or our co-located occasions, the Radio Show and Sales and Management Television Exchange, in individual. NAB Show is the premiere vacation spot for the media and leisure trade and we won’t transfer ahead with a present that delivers something lower than the excellence our group has come to count on and deserves from us. While we’re dissatisfied that we’ll not be collectively once more in individual subsequent month, we sit up for converging on the 2022 NAB Show, April 23-27, 2022, to reignite our ardour for our enterprise and deal with a vibrant future forward. Stay tuned for particulars relating to digital choices for accessing choose 2021 NAB Show content material via NAB Amplify.”
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