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Executive Vice President, Industry Affairs, National Association of Broadcasters
Forum Welcome
Welcome remarks
Forum Take Five: In-Dash Display — Radio’s New Revenue Opportunity is Easier Than You Think
Take five minutes to learn how, regardless of market size, you can engage listeners and generate revenue now while taking the first steps toward the future.
NAB Tech Brief
Highlighting the most important technological advancements happening in small and medium market radio
Forum Take Five: Mythbusters – Audience and Revenue Growth for Small and Medium Markets
Five minutes, tangible takeaways.
Table E: Radio and Digital Together: Best for Local Advertisers
Learn and share best practices for combining radio and digital into cohesive advertiser campaigns.
Table D: New Techniques for Prospecting Direct Advertisers
This discussion will reveal the latest techniques for prospecting direct advertisers and teach you how to get your sellers to buy in and evolve their tactics.
Table F: Finding Your Next RF Engineer
A discussion on how can we make a career in radio engineering enticing and where should stations be looking to fill this critical need.
Table G: New Strategies to Generate Sports Revenue
Hear from the experts and get ready to return to your stations with new winning strategies.
Table J: Systems that Create Operational Efficiencies
Emerging from the pandemic, it’s no secret that radio station operators in small and medium markets need to be more creative and resourceful than those in large markets.
Table H: Sales Compensation Models
Learn what other stations are doing to succeed in hiring and retaining sales teams.
Table A: Controversial Advertising Categories
This discussion will help expand your understanding of this ever-evolving advertising category.
Table B: Is Your Station Cyber Secure?
Learn foundational practices that make up good cyber hygiene and habits for every employee.
Table C: Promotions on a Budget… What Budget?
A place to consider how your promotions and marketing efforts evolved in the past couple of years.
Table I: Strategies to Recruit and Retain Staff
Learn what you can do to create a pipeline of prospects with proven examples from other small markets.
Table A: Controversial Advertising Categories
This discussion will help expand your understanding of this ever-evolving advertising category.
Table J: Systems that Create Operational Efficiencies
From how you staff your station to when you integrate new technologies and so much more, there is a wide variety of strategies to help your station thrive.
Table B: Is Your Station Cyber Secure?
Learn foundational practices that make up good cyber hygiene and habits for every employee.
Table H: Sales Compensation Models
Learn what other stations are doing to succeed in hiring and retaining sales teams.
Table I: Strategies to Recruit and Retain Staff
Learn what you can do to create a pipeline of prospects with proven examples from other small markets. Get tips on easy changes, ideas on where you can look and how to land new talent.
Table F: Finding Your Next RF Engineer
Discussion on how can we make a career in radio engineering enticing and where should stations be looking to fill this critical need.
Table E: Radio and Digital Together: Best for Local Advertisers
Learn and share best practices for combining radio and digital into cohesive advertiser campaigns.
Table D: New Techniques for Prospecting Direct Advertisers
This discussion will reveal the latest techniques for prospecting direct advertisers and teach you how to get your sellers to buy in and evolve their tactics.
Table C: Promotions on a Budget… What Budget?
Discussion on how have your promotions and marketing efforts evolved in the past couple of years and how does your team prioritize budgets to achieve listenership and revenue goals.
Table G: New Strategies to Generate Sports Revenue
Hear from the experts and get ready to return to your stations with new winning strategies.
Forum Town Hall
A centerpiece of the Forum, this lightning-fast discussion will center upon specific topics for short bursts before moving onto another.
Westwood One Research Brief
Learn five success strategies for your local clients including media and creative best practices and understanding marketing effectiveness.
Forum Take Five : Guarantee Digital
Five minutes, five tangible takeaways.
Legal, Regulatory and Capitol Hill Briefing
NAB’s government relations and legal and regulatory departments offer up-to-the-minute details on radio’s issues
Forum Wrap-Up
Program conclusion and summary
Improving Sales Performance through Coaching, Accountability, and People Development
Get valuable tips to improve the performance of your sales teams.
What Business are You In?
Learn what broadcasters have done to maximize results in their local market and capture additional revenue streams.
Retooling Employee Benefits to Entice the Contemporary Workforce
Learn how updating your benefits package can be used to recruit new talent.
Sip and Speak Series: Prospecting Quick Tips
Learn new ways to prospect local direct advertising clients.
What’s Now and What’s Next with NEXTGEN TV
Discover what NextGen TV is and what opportunities you can look forward to at your station.
Insights from The Futurists
Learn about emerging technologies that can help broadcasters and gain insights into the digital dashboards in vehicles.
Sip and Speak Series: Digital Content Q-and-A
Hear digital content strategy theory and ask direct questions.
KPI’s and Category Insights – Broadcast TV Wins Big
See late breaking TV insights and get inside details on selling some of broadcast TV's top categories.
Life in the Fast Lane – Today’s In-Vehicle Infotainment Insights
Join broadcasters and automotive industry experts for fast-paced presentations and conversations detailing the latest technologies coming to vehicles.
The 5 Gifts! What Local Sellers Need from their GSMs, GMs and Corporate Sales Leaders to Excel Today
Learn five actions senior managers can take to get the best out of their local sales teams.
A GPS Session for Your Station’s Car Radio Strategy
Discover actionable steps radio can take to optimize their stations look and sound in the vehicles of today – and down the road.
Sip and Speak Series: Recruitment Quick Tips
Learn a few new ways to recruit for station sales staff.
Building a Great Entertainment Brand
Hear from a group of Hollywood executives in the front line of content creation and production on how you stay relevant and profitable in an ever changing content marketplace.
Trusting the Content We See: How an Industry-Wide Effort is Battling Inauthentic Content
Learn about the industry-wide work underway to fight mis- and disinformation, the timing of technology to combat it, and what’s to come in the future.
Meet the Game Viewing Audience
Join us as we have a conversation about how livestream gaming is the new broadcast media with Thece
Sip and Speak Series: Presentation Quick Tips
Hear multiple actionable tips to make sales presentations stand out.
Sip and Speak Series: LED Studio Quick Tips
Discover the myriad of ways you can use your LED studio monitors to create local newscasts and more that rival the look of any national broadcast.
Audio Megatrends: What the Biggest Shifts in Listening Mean for Broadcasters’ Future
Audio researchers will first level-set the current marketplace and just where listeners of all ages are spending their time. Then we’ll discuss how broadcasters are already adapting to these rapid changes and how they can prepare for the future.
Local Television Audience Measurement in an D2C World
Learn to define where “television” consumption is taking place and how audience measurement is changing.
CEO Keynote: Transforming Radio in the Audio Renaissance
Hear from industry leaders David Field and Bob Pittman as they discuss how Radio has and is pivoting away from old norms to new.
Radio Saves Lives: A Conversation with FEMA
Hear FEMA’s perspective on how radio broadcasters keep Americans safe.
Capitalizing on Hollywood Technology
Join this group of technology leaders as they discuss the top trends in enterprise technology driving the future of Media and Entertainment.
Sip and Speak Series: Broadcast + OTT: A Winning Combination
Discover how pairing broadcast and OTT can lead to revenue gains.
What News Leaders Need Now
Learn how AI can make workflows easier and deliver diverse content to your TV newsroom.
Radio Small and Medium Markets Engage
Learn from a panel of your peers and one another to then bring back sales ideas to your market.
The Year That Changes Everything: How Web3 Will Evolve Media & Entertainment
Join us for this insightful session with members of the council and industry experts as they discuss Web 3 and how it will drive new ideas, new business models and new infrastructure.
2022 and Beyond – Hybrid Station Operations
Unearth a myriad of innovative solutions for working remotely that have been implemented to allow broadcasters to stay on the air.
Successful Partnerships: How to Build and Develop Successful Revenue Opportunities
Learn learn what partnerships broadcasters have forged, and companies have strategically done, to help grow their business and capture additional revenue streams for their company.
Television Small and Medium Markets Engage
Learn from a panel of your peers and one another to then bring back sales ideas to your market.
Creating Multi-Dimensional Environments for Cross-Platform Storytelling
A conversation with industry visionaries for Set Design and Technology covering how operations of any size can be more chameleon-like in their ability to rapidly adapt to developing events and demands of audiences across all platforms.
Breaking News Barriers: 175 Years of Innovation in Factual Reporting
Learn how innovation drives growth and how the lessons the AP has learned can be applied to your company.
AWM Presents: Leadership that Looks Forward
Gain insights on how to be a better leader and how to focus on the future without sacrificing immediate goals
What’s Your Radio Station’s Succession Plan?
Learn what you need to plan for when aiming to trasition ownership at your station.
Sip and Speak Series: DTS AutoStage Q-and-A
Learn how DTS AutoStage delivers a robust, consistent and engaging user experience to drivers across the globe.
How to Supercharge Advertising Sales and Maximize Revenue
Join us to learn how to simplify complexity with an end-to-end platform to accelerate advertising sales.