Macenstein is reporting that Apple has pulled out of this years National Association of Broadcasters tradeshow. The conference which will run from April 11-17 will be held in Las Vegas as with past years.

Macenstein received the following response from Apple PR on the news:

“Apple is participating in fewer trade shows this year,” said Anuj Nayar, senior manager of PR at Apple. “Often there are better ways to reach our customers. The increasing popularity of our retail stores and Apple.com Web site allows us to directly reach more than 100 million customers around the world in innovative new ways.”

In past years Apple has used NAB to host special events at which it has released multiple versions of Final Cut Studio and even updated MacBook Pro models.