The Amateur Radio Operators Reception — a traditional part of the NAB Show experience for many broadcast engineers — will not take place in 2025.
“With our longstanding partner no longer operational, we’re taking this opportunity to reinvent the event for next year by exploring fresh partnerships and innovative ideas,” an NAB Show spokesperson told us in an email.
Radio World isn’t certain when the reception tradition began, but it has been part of the show for at least 35 years. We’ve seen engineers lined up outside eager to get in, and the reception is noted for its full table’s worth of door prizes.
The annual event was not a program of sessions, but rather a networking reception, prompted by the fact that many radio and TV attendees to the NAB Show also are licensed amateur operators.
“In the meantime,” the spokesperson wrote, “attendees can look forward to exceptional broadcast programming and networking in the TV and Radio HQ, a firsthand look at cutting-edge technology in Futures Park and valuable industry insights at the Broadcast Engineering and IT (BEIT) Conference.”
