Brad on Broadcast

What do you get when 75,000 enthusiastic music fans per day converge in the center of Austin, TX’s Zilker park for three hot days, and then add 130 bands playing across eight stages for almost 12 hours per day? In Texas, you get what’s called Austin City Limits Music Festival, or using the common local moniker, ACL. In this part of the country, this is a big deal. In addition, much of this event’s content becomes a core component of the PBS show, Austin City Limits.

I was fortunate to be invited to attend ACL, which was my first outdoor music festival. To call the event impressive doesn’t do justice to the festivities—or the behind-the-scenes technology.

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New research says that consumers are putting the brakes on purchases of new TV sets. Perhaps in response to lost jobs, foreclosures and other financial factors, American viewers’ plans to buy new TV sets have plunged to record low levels.

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