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Leaving Las Vegas

The multitude of predictions that said NATPE 2002 (January 21 to 24) would be a slow market have proved true. The big booths were conspicuously absent, the aisles were empty, and the network spectacles of years past were relegated to stories that began with 'Remember when'. Commenting on the low flow of delegates on the event's second full day, Henninger Media Services' Steven Schupak said, 'This is Venetian [hotel] day. All of our sales people are taking their meetings over there today.' Among the programs Henninger was selling at NATPE were Defcon-2, which author Tom Clancy has agreed to host, and The Feds, a crime and justice piece that aired on Discovery in the U.S. and was produced by Washington D.C.-based Heintz Media Production. Henninger hopes to turn The Feds into a longer series.

February 1, 2002

The multitude of predictions that said NATPE 2002 (January 21 to 24) would be a slow market have proved true. The big booths were conspicuously absent, the aisles were empty, and the network spectacles of years past were relegated to stories that began with 'Remember when'. Commenting on the low flow of delegates on the event's second full day, Henninger Media Services' Steven Schupak said, 'This is Venetian [hotel] day. All of our sales people are taking their meetings over there today.' Among the programs Henninger was selling at NATPE were Defcon-2, which author Tom Clancy has agreed to host, and The Feds, a crime and justice piece that aired on Discovery in the U.S. and was produced by Washington D.C.-based Heintz Media Production. Henninger hopes to turn The Feds into a longer series.