NASHVILLE - We arrived here last night for the National Religious Broadcasters Convention which begins Sunday at the Gaylord Opryland, and we apparently brought the snow with us. The whiteout conditions we experienced yesterday in Kentucky arrived here in full force around 7:00 pm as we were walking down Broadway. We stopped off in Ernest Tubb's record store and then made our way down to Big River for dinner. By the time we left 90 minutes or so later, the snowstorm was so intense there was lightning accompanying it.
Nashvillians are about as adept as Atlantans are at handling snow, which is to say they stink at it. The streets were empty except for a occasional car or truck you would see sliding toward you. (We were in an Audi equipped with Quattro, which gets high marks from me for keeping us between the white lines, at least those you could see.) I-40 was closed in both directions because of a nine car pile up, so we had to make our way back to the hotel on secondary roads which were rapidly becoming difficult to navigate.
We got back to the hotel in one piece, although we did have to dodge one Dodge truck (hence the name, I suppose) that was coming down the hill sideways toward us. Bubba don't do snow apparently, and Bubba also don't understand that it takes BOTH four wheel drive AND common sense to drive safely in heavy snow.
The NRB Convention should be interesting. At it's core, the NRB represents and exists for mostly traditional TV and Radio broadcasters. That means we are a new media company at an old media event. Multicast is sharing a booth with Adobe. Our partnership with them has been mutually beneficial to both companies in the deployment of live Flash. Adobe has embraced Vidego because it combines ease of use with powerful CDN delivery of video content.
One of the rewarding things for me about working for Multicast has been to see some of the church media market be on the leading edge of new media technology. We've noticed the NRB folks have been a little slow to embrace new media, but that is somewhat understandable since they are so heavily invested in more traditional broadcast technologies.
It will be interesting to see the blend of new vs. old media at this year's convention.
It's raining. It's snowing.
The old man is snoring.
Isn't cool to be apart of the few (who are still awake)?
Hope the convention is a great one.
Posted by: Milan | Saturday, March 08, 2008 at 04:33 PM
Yeah, dodge 'em or you get rammed lol! Drive safe, guys! Roads are still one of the biggest contributors to accidental deaths. A white blanket over Nashville must be wonderful, except it doesn't ring the same when you're driving.
Posted by: Lucas Rosenzweig | Monday, July 11, 2011 at 01:30 PM