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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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Mr. Polka Goes to Washington #WEC2019
As the lone telecom representative at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing last month, ACA’s Matt Polka stressed the importance of reliable and robust broadband for the U.S. to maintain its competitiveness. In the above interview, he points out that broadband is also critical for the operation of other infrastructures, from ports and waterways to trucking…
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How Can You Make Video Relevant? #TIS18
“How can you make video relevant,” asks Tom Whitaker Senior Vice President of Shentel. He answers his own question by suggesting that operators need to find different ways to add value to the video product, including having features like whole home Wi-Fi and whole home access to video content. Whitaker brings his take on…
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Satellite Texting Without a Subscription #CES2019
[Added 8/26/22 – It appears that the FCC’s order opening the 5.925 to 6.425 GHz band meant the end of Sat Paq. Rob Reis writes on Higher Ground’s website that the service will be discontinued by September 2023.] The ability to send an emergency text with GPS location information is what Higher Ground offers with…
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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…
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The Self-Contained IoT Weather Station for Precision Agriculture #CES2018
Understanding and reacting to the weather can be the difference between a profit and loss for a farm or orchard. Arable displayed their solar-powered, self-contained weather station, the Arable Mark, at CES2018, which provides a farmer with an understanding of multiple parameters on their farm and not what is happening at someone else’s weather station.…