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Seeing double at IBC

Posted by Kathleen Maher on September 16th 2008 | Permalink
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Welcome to Amsterdam, welcome to the International Broadcast Conference. For whatever reason the IBC seems more susceptible to the waves of fashion and new technology than its more stable US counterpart, the National Association of Broadcasters who throws their big show every spring in Las Vegas. Every year it seems there are several consistent themes underlying the show and the conference no doubt because the conference is dominated by a fairly homogeneous crew of industry insiders—so what every gets these old boys in a tizzy is going to be “the issue.” But, I can’t say that this is really such a…