The FCC chairman’s dinner is the latest industry event to fall vi...
The FCC chairman’s dinner is the latest industry event to fall victim to the contracting economy, its organizer told us. Ticket sales in recent weeks were off 10 percent to 20 percent from the 2007 event, communications lawyers said.…
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The economy seems to be the biggest factor behind sales of fewer tables and single- guest tickets, but the government transition also plays a role, said a half-dozen attendees. Though many are going to the Nov. 18 event, others are sitting on sidelines, seeing limited benefit in drinking cocktails and dining with a lame-duck chairman and his aides and bureau chiefs, they said. “The bad economy is undoubtedly part of the shortfall,” a communications lawyer said. On the other hand, a change in presidential administration means some will show up to network with potential new employers, a communications lawyer said. Attendance at the dinner will be down from last year, when slightly more than 1,300 went, said Stanley Zenor, executive director of the Federal Communications Bar Association, the organizer.