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From the Vault · 2014 – 2021

ON-CAMERA ARCHIVE

For seven years our team carried cameras through NAB Show, IBC, SVG, and dozens of regional production gatherings, capturing booth walkthroughs, product unveils, and exec interviews on the show floor. Today our coverage is all written reporting — but the video archive lives on, preserved as a record of an industry that moves faster than memory.

These clips are kept for reference. We're not producing new video at this time.

Why we stopped shooting video

The video era — bullpens of camera crews on the NAB floor, B-roll runs through manufacturer booths, same-day edits uploaded from press rooms — produced thousands of hours of footage. It also produced a very specific kind of coverage: surface-level, sponsor-friendly, optimized for trade-show buzz.

We made the call to step away from on-camera coverage and rebuild Broadcast Beat as a written publication — deeper reporting, more original analysis, fewer canned booth tours. Most of our peers in the trade press are doing the opposite. We think the readers (and the industry) are better served this way.

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