NAB Show
Washington, D.C. (NAB headquarters); Las Vegas (NAB Show)
NAB Show is the annual broadcast, media, and entertainment-technology trade show produced by the National Association of Broadcasters, held each spring in Las Vegas with a fall edition (NAB Show New York) focused on streaming and post-production. The show's Streaming Summit, chaired by Dan Rayburn since 2018, is the central operator-side gathering for streaming-tech, CDN, and live-sports-streaming infrastructure conversations.
NAB Show is the annual broadcast, media, and entertainment-technology trade show produced by the National Association of Broadcasters — the U.S. broadcaster trade association founded in 1923 — and is one of the central operator-side gatherings for the broadcast and streaming infrastructure community. The flagship Las Vegas edition runs each April; NAB Show New York, the fall edition, is the more streaming- and post-production-focused gathering.
The reason NAB Show sits in our coverage is the Streaming Summit. The two-day program at both the Las Vegas and New York editions was co-founded by streaming-media analyst Dan Rayburn with the NAB in 2018; Rayburn serves as chairman and curates the speaker pipeline that has made the Summit the canonical primary read for streaming-tech, CDN, live-sports-streaming production, and ad-tech infrastructure conversations the trade press only intermittently covers with technical fluency. The 2026 NAB Show in Las Vegas in April 2026 ran the Streaming Summit as that central program.
The parent organization, the National Association of Broadcasters, sits separately from the show as a Washington, D.C.-based broadcaster trade association advocating on spectrum, AM-radio preservation, retransmission consent, and broadcast-deregulation policy before Congress, the FCC, and the courts. The NAB and the NAB Show share a brand and an organizational lineage but operate on distinct cadences in the trade-press conversation.