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Persevere with the Grit of Yesterday’s Leaders #WEC20
“Every phase of new technology goes through a curve full of excitement upfront, initial success and, as it grows, it hits speed bumps and don’t let that discourage you,” said Rich Fickle, CEO & President of NCTC. In the above video, Fickle reflects on the grit of the pioneers who built the cable television industry…
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Importance of Investing in Your Community #Summit26
“We are truly Americana,” says Italia Commisso, EVP, Programming & Human Resources of Mediacom. As a cable industry veteran prior to being a co-founder of Mediacom with her brother Rocco Commisso, Italia understands that the investment in infrastructure is even larger than connecting individuals and businesses to the Internet. That is, their capital investments are…
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Virtual Museum Display in a Box and More #AWE2019
A zoo without a live animal, a high school lab that allows students to explore a beating human heart, or a realistic rendering of an architect’s design are just a few of the potential use-cases for the Looking Glass Pro, holographic display. Looking Glass Factory Co-Founder and CTO, Alex Hornstein, describes this unit as “a…
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Connecting Loved Ones at #CES2019 & Beyond
Finding a way to connect to her bedridden grandmother in a far-off nursing home was the impetus for Nelly Meunier and her sibling to invent a new way of sharing photos and video with people who aren’t able to navigate the smartphone paradigm. In the above interview, Meunier, CEO, and Co-Founder of Sunday, demonstrates what…
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Unique Opportunity for Retrans Reform & More #WEC2019
Speaking at NCTC’s 2019 Winter Educational Conference, American Cable Association Sr. Vice President, Ross Lieberman, suggests an idea for retransmission consent reform that may get some traction in the halls of Congress. The essence of the idea is that broadcasters would charge consumers for programming, instead of using the MVPD (Multichannel Video Program Distributors, e.g.,…
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Educating The Wannabe Cord Cutter #CES2019
Parks Associates reported in their December 2018 study that 13% of U.S. households have already fired their traditional pay television providers. FlexVU aims to grow the number of cord-cutting households. As explained by Anselmo Pilla, Senior Director of Marketing of Pixelworks, FlexVU is an ad-hoc consortium of companies with a goal of educating consumers as…
