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Happy Halloween from the Pyle’s Pumpkin
The user-generated content phenomenon is about niche content, where the audience size might be in the thousands, the hundreds, or the tens. The audience for this next video is probably three or four people. Still, it speaks to that audience as powerfully as any other form of communication could because it has a personal message…
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Reception for a Cause
An array of cable programmers co-sponsored a lavish evening at the Georgia Aquarium anchored by NRTC, NTCA and SES Americom. This party was different from traditional bashes, as it included a silent auction fundraiser, benefiting the Foundation for Rural Service and the Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
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GPON Builds Momentum
In this exclusive video shot at the Occam Networks User Group meeting in early September, Russ Sharer, Occam Networks’ Vice President of Marketing, announces their intention to bring a G-PON offering to the market. The surprise element of this video was somewhat given away by Occam’s announcement of the purchase of certain assets from Terawave…
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Youth Our Are Present – The Video
The following video is from the OPASTCO 2007 Summer Convention. The decision to film this was made at the last minute and there wasn’t time or resources to obtain a better audio feed. Additionally, there were several technical problems with the microphones. Despite the technical difficulties, the insight provided by the youth on this focus…
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Youth Are Our Present – The Results
The report and video, available below, provide commentary and the responses to a survey regarding communication trends among today’s American rural youth. The purpose of this survey was to understand how rural youth from OPASTCO-member (or equivalent) communities consume media and technology. Sharing of some of the results from this survey took place during the panel,…
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HD Overlay
An HD Overlay – that is how I would describe the SES Americom and Entone joint marketing effort of a high definition solution that promises to solve the problem of how an operator with an existing MPEG-2 system can upgrade to high definition, MPEG-4. This approach, which requires minimal headend equipment, promises capital expenditure savings of…
