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Even with the economy in recession, even with television distribution models in upheaval, even with the advertising business suffering, business was surprisingly good at the Cable Show ’09. Beating predictions of a serious attendance drop, the National Cable & Telecommunications Association’s annual...
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The cable industry’s push to add value to its advertising by making it addressable may go public in as little as six weeks. Canoe Ventures, owned by the big cable operators, will allow marketers to buy a national ad and send different messages to different demographic groups simultaneously. Canoe President...
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Executives at the National Cable & Telecommunications Association’s Cable Show ’09 last week were relatively upbeat about their prospects. “We’re an industry that is still growing customers,” said Pat Esser, CEO of Cox Communications. Consumers see their broadband connection and their cable TV connection...
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Steve Burke, chief operating officer of Comcast, said the top cable operator plans a national test of system to authenticate that consumers are cable subscribers before allowing them to view cable programming online or on mobile devices. Authentication emerged at the National Cable & Telecommunications...
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Disney CEO Bob Iger said he's “open to exploring” running entire cable networks online if it was possible to authenticate that users were subscribers. Speaking at the National Cable & Telecommunications Association’s Cable Show in Washington Thursday morning, Mr. Iger said, “With authentication...
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Brian Roberts, CEO of Comcast, the nation’s largest cable company, says that Web video can be a friend of the cable industry. Taking part in the opening session at the National Cable and Telecommunications Association’s Cable Show in Washington, D.C. Wednesday, Mr. Roberts said that consumer demand for...
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Keynote Remarks of Kyle McSlarrow, NCTA President & CEO, at The 2009 Cable Show Good afternoon. We are in Washington, D.C., this year, in part, because we knew that with a new President and a new Congress, it would be a time of change. But we had no idea . . . For those of us at NCTA, this is also...
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Outdoor Channel HD has expanded its reach. The network has been added to select Comcast, Time Warner Cable, RCN Corp. and U.S. Cable of Coastal Texas markets. The HD network already has made its debut in several markets, including Comcast New Mexico and Time Warner Cable systems in North and South Carolina...
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Like most conventions this year, Cable Show ’09, which kicks off Wednesday in Washington, is bracing for a big drop in attendance. The event’s host, the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, expects about a 20% slide from last year’s tally of 12,000 attendees. But those cable networks...
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A strong visionary with remarkable finesse—that consensus pretty well sums up TelevisionWeek ’s 2009 Cable Executive of the Year, National Cable & Telecommunications Association President-CEO Kyle McSlarrow. While the adjectives “smart” and “decent” frequently are applied to Mr. McSlarrow by friends...
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On March 1, 2005, when former Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy Kyle McSlarrow began his tenure as president and CEO of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, he could hardly have picked a more challenging time to enter the cable picture. Lawmakers were threatening to...
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Kyle McSlarrow is a consummate connector, collaborator and communicator. When I first met him four years ago, like so many people new to the cable business, he asked, “Why doesn’t cable tell its story?” I responded that we just needed more singers in the chorus and invited him to join the choir. Since...
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It takes a special person to be an industry’s chief representative in Washington, D.C., today. Policy-making has become a 24/7 business, with legislative and regulatory developments springing from early breakfasts to late-night text messages—and news breaking around the clock, from bloggers to cable...
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Each year at the Cable Show, the National Cable and Telecommunications Association presents its Vanguard Awards, recognizing industry leaders who excel both in business and in personal commitment to their colleagues. Nomi Bergman, president of Bright House Networks—the nation’s sixth-largest cable television...
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The recipient of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association’s 2009 Distinguished Vanguard Award for Leadership (Man) is one of the cable industry’s most successful executives, Rocco Commisso, chairman and CEO of Mediacom Communications Corp. Under Mr. Commisso’s guidance, Mediacom Communications...