Usually, you meet Hollywood types on every flight to Las Vegas during CES — the executives shopping “content” for new devices, or the looky-loos from production. This year, many of those people didn’t go, if my admittedly unscientific conversations in the last few days are an indication. “Unless there is a very specific reason to go, travel has been chopped,” one talent agency exec told me.  Certainly that’s true for TV executives,  who have seen budgets slashed 5% to 10% across the board as advertising has plummeted. Overall, attendance is expected to drop at least 22% from last year’s 141,000.

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