National Show Attendance Down 23%
By Ted Hearn -- Multichannel News, 6/13/2001 1:56:00 PM
A slow economy and tight travel budgets apparently combined to drag down attendance 23 percent at the National Cable & Telecommunications Association's 50th annual convention, which ended Wednesday in Chicago.
The NCTA said Chicago show attendance was 24,042, compared with 31,110 in New Orleans one year ago.
The NCTA also suffered a 10 percent decline in occupied floor space. In New Orleans, exhibitors took up 349,000 square feet, but that figure dropped to 315,000 this year in Chicago.
The National Association of Broadcasters, which held its annual convention two months ago in Las Vegas, also reported a decline in attendance but nothing on a scale with the NCTA's loss.
The NAB reported a 2.1 percent decline, from 115,293 in 2000 to 112,766 in 2001.
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