My personal experience: The networks are locked up tighter than a 15-year-old Mormon girls vagina on prom night.
NYC is expensive as fuck too, especially for corporate reservations. The party we had planned would have cost between $14k-20K, and the most any network wanted to sponsor was $3500. (DISCLAIMER: Some networks held big ass events for affiliates this Spring/Summer/Fall, so a LOT of budget money went to those events. My statement doesn't imply they're cheap, but rather that networks are gonna drop the coin on the people who already send them volume, not so much potential affiliates.)
Vegas will be another story, it's UBER cheap to host there and TONS of better looking bitches. Will for sure plan one for January.
:action-smiley-052: Agree with you