Updated: The Radio Television Digital News Association has produced a four-day conference at the National Association of Broadcasters for years, but coming after this year’s convention in April, RTDNA plans to cut back to a single-day event. Meanwhile, RTDNA says it’s in “continued talks” with the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) to hold a joint convention in the Fall of 2011, RTNDA’s new annual event.
“Our annual convention is going back on the road as it used to do, traveling to different sites,” says Stacey Woelfel, RTNDA’s chairman, in response to an email from Lost Remote. “We’re still working on details with SPJ so I don’t have a location or dates to release yet. But I do know we are planning on keeping the length and programming robust and at a volume which people have come to expect.” Woelfel admits the attendance at RTDNA@NAB has been in decline — last year’s attendance was just under 600. “But overall, I didn’t feel too bad about those numbers, considering the financial state of the business last spring,” Woelfel says. RTDNA’s single-day event at NAB will be called “RTDNA Day.”
