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...
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...
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...