2025 TAB Show Aug. 6-7 Spotlights Revolution in Tech, Marketing, Programming

posted on 7.28.2025

- From AI and Cloud-Based Platforms to Marketing and Recruitment

- PLUS The Biggest Night in Texas Broadcasting!

The largest state or regional broadcast industry conference and trade show in the country rolls out Aug. 6-7 when the 2025 TAB Show unveils a robust agenda of 32 sessions led by seasoned broadcasters and technologists tailored for Radio programmers, engineers, marketing teams and managers, as well as a 120-booth exhibit hall showcasing the latest gear powering the industry.

It all wraps with the biggest night in Texas broadcasting as CBS’s Natalie Morales emcees the Awards Gala celebrating the Radio and TV Stations of the Year and bestowing honors for lifetime achievement, exemplary leadership, engineering and broadcast excellence, and distinguished service to the industry.

With a late registration fee of $155 for TAB members, the 2025 TAB Show is the most cost-effective industry learning event in the country and plays out at Kalahari Resorts & Conventions in Round Rock. It’s a perfect place to close out summer with the family in one last splash at the popular resort, water park and indoor arcade portion of the facility opposite the state-of-the-art convention center.

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Charting the Future, Celebrating Wins

As Texas broadcasters take deep dives into revenue, management, recruitment and technology strategies, they’ll also celebrate TAB’s successful court challenge of the FCC’s Form 395-B employee data collection scheme and separate victory in preserving the important free speech protections in the Texas Anti-SLAPP law.

While the two dozen GMs and engineers planning the 32-session agenda avoided counter programming within content tracks, there’s no way anyone can take in all the sessions offered which will not be recorded or streamed.

 

 

 

Programming highlights include:

• Keynote Presentations:  Futuri CEO Daniel Anstandig, productivity guru Aaron Davis and legendary sports broadcaster Dale Hansen
• Revenue-Building Strategies:  Six sessions by Derron “Swagger On” Steenbergen, and JDA Media’s Tom Ray and Pat Norris
• Building the Broadcast IP Content Network:  Four sections by Wayne Pecena, CBDE
• Virtualization of the Radio and TV Broadcast Chain:  Seven parts by multiple presenters
• Radio Programming:  Five programs from “Doing More with Less” with Tracy Johnson and building Spanish/Tejano formats, to audience data available in the Connected Car and building your station’s YouTube brand, to interfacing with musicians live in-studio and mining listeners’ metadata for programming and revenue insights
• SmithGeiger Sales Workshop:  Mining the 2025 Texas Media Consumption Study findings for sales strategies
• Broadcast History:  The fifth installment in this wildly popular program by Sinclair’s David Ostmo
• Bonus Content:  25 Ideas in 50 Minutes Idea Exchange, Hiring and Recruitment, Drone-Based Tower Maintenance, SNMP for Remote Control
• State of Play Annual Business Meeting:  Ben Downs and TAB President Oscar Rodriguez share insights into the industry’s top policy priorities in DC and outcomes of the 2025 Texas Legislature.

Questions? Contact Oscar Rodriguez or call (512) 322-9944.

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