NHAB Awards

[ebol]

I havent been to the annual NHAB awards banquet for quite sometime. It used to be fairly wild and silly, I imagine things have settled down some.

Who got broadcaster of the year this year?

 

[radiotony]

Jeff Barlett from WMUR-TV 9.

 

[cooper]

Was it just me, or did it seem there were fewer people in attendance this year than in past years?

 

[Ozman]

I'm a dj with a weekly show. WWLR might transmit out of vt but we sure of have a lot of covrage in NH. I haven't even heard of the NHAB until Ebol posted about it...
IF WWLR transmits out of VT does that mean were excluded or included in NHAB coverage area? I have heard of VAB ( Vermont Association of Broadcasters ) but not NHAB

Was it just me, or did it seem there were fewer people in attendance this year than in past years?

 

[probuttonpusher]

trust me your not missing anything

 

[Nelz]

It has been a few years, but I had attended a number of NHAB events. Like the MAB here in the Pine Tree state, broadcaster associations were so much fun to attend. There were always lots of great and sometimes boring seminars to attend. Partying was encouraged. The events gave you a chance to let your hair down and enjoy the company of nut-jobs like yourself. It was always a hoot to see who won whatever category during the awards portion of the evening. We celebrated us. But there has been a marked change in the events since the introduction of large media companies. Like air out a balloon, the fun of "out-doing" the competition has deflated; primarily because your competition is now a part of your media group. As you all know, media companies have streamlined and downsized, which means that there are fewer broadcasters to take part in such events, and those that would like to attend have to pay their own way. I worked for a group that wouldn't even pay the $10 entry fee to enter your best commercial in the competition.

Comments?

nelz

 

[Pliff]

It's sad when the company you work for won't even support you buy paying for award entries. Unfortunately, it doesn't matter to the cheap-ass, scum-bag bean counters who run most of corporate radio today.

 

[Banjomax]

I'm a dj with a weekly show. WWLR might transmit out of vt but we sure of have a lot of covrage in NH. I haven't even heard of the NHAB until Ebol posted about it...
IF WWLR transmits out of VT does that mean were excluded or included in NHAB coverage area? I have heard of VAB ( Vermont Association of Broadcasters ) but not NHAB

I know of a host on a VT station who won an award from the NHAB 20+ years ago. They may have changed their criteria since then, but I don't know for sure. I see that it does cost a bit more to submit an entry for non-NHAB stations, and a quick glance at the membership list shows that there is one station* licensed outside NH that is an NHAB member, so it seems that they do allow for border station membership. Likewise with VAB (a few stations from across the lake in NY and across the river in NH are VAB members, i.e. WIPS Ticonderoga NY and WYKR Haverhill NH).

http://www.nhab.org/
http://www.vab.org/

* I count the listings for WNNE (Hartford VT), WNNE-DT and WPTZ (Plattsburgh NY) as one entity..since that's what it is for about 99% of the broadcast day (or so it seems to this casual viewer).

 

[radiotony]

Was it just me, or did it seem there were fewer people in attendance this year than in past years?

There were more this year than last year but I can't speak for previous years.

 

[cooper]

I was simply going by the fact that there were familiar faces, and acquaintenances who were not there this year.