associated with using the tent, including transportation, setting up, and maintenance. Scheduling conflicts also factored into Barrett-Jackson's decision not to return. Having outgrown the California site, Barrett-Jackson added a new auction site in Reno, Nevada in 2013, in partnership with Hot August Nights. While the Las Vegas event focuses on exotic vehicles, the Reno auction would focus more on hot rods and muscle cars. Barrett-Jackson held its final Reno auction in 2015, announcing that it would not return the following year. Despite record sales in 2015, Reno was still Barrett-Jackson's least profitable auction site. According to the president and CEO of the local convention and visitors authority, Barrett-Jackson also preferred to work alone rather than with partners. Barrett-Jackson expanded to the northeastern U.S. for the first time in 2016, with an annual auction held each June at the Mohegan Sun resort in Uncasville, Connecticut. The event's success prompted the resort to open a new convention center for the auctions in 2018. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Barrett-Jackson canceled its Connecticut auction before the fifth annual event got underway. A Texas auction site was added in 2021, at the NRG Center in Houston. Notable sales Barrett-Jackson typically features vehicles once owned by celebrities, such as Howard Hughes, Debbie Reynolds, Lucille Ball, Paul Walker, and Simon Cowell. It also features vehicles used in film series, such as Fast & Furious and Transformers. Film-based replica vehicles are also auctioned, including a recreation of the Ecto-1 from Ghostbusters and a 1993 Ford Explorer tour vehicle from Jurassic Park. In addition, Barrett-Jackson has also auctioned vehicles used in television shows, such as The Sopranos. Broadcasting In 1996, Craig Jackson made an agreement to broadcast the auction on the new Speedvision network, later known as Speed Channel. It became the first collector car auction to be televised. The initial coverage consisted of taped highlights aired after the auction concluded. The following year, due to its popularity on the network, Barrett-Jackson was broadcast live for the first time with six hours of coverage. Jackson said, "When I first brought the auction to television in 1996, I wanted to bring the collector-car industry in front of a wider audience. Prior to that it was covered only by niche publications". In 2001, Speedvision was purchased by Fox Entertainment Group, which renamed it Speed Channel a year later. The network continued to broadcast auction coverage for the next decade. In 2004,