AMSTERDAM – September’s International Broadcasting Convention has been cancelled due to the Covid-19 crisis. With large vendors such as Panasonic and Canada’s Ross Video already saying they will not attend, IBC 2020 organizers have decided to go virtual, with details to follow. “(A)s governments announce the route forward, it has become clear that a return to (a new) normal is unlikely to be achieved by September,” said IBC CEO Michael Crimp in statement Friday. This would have been the 53rd year of IBC, a gathering which regularly draws over 50,000 delegates from around the world. “It has also become evident,...
