NAB 2014

Super Session, titled “Consumers, 4K, and Next Generation Home Entertainment: Which Experiences Will Most Excite Them?,” moderated by The Carmel Group’s chairman and CSO, Jimmy Schaeffler; including Disney/ABC’s CTO Vince Roberts; Technicolor’s CTO, Vince Pizicca; Vubiquity’s CEO, Darcy Antonellis; CEA’s Sr. VP, Brian Markwalter; LG’s Sr. VP, Communications, John Taylor.” Read More

Next TV 2013

Location: San Francisco Panel titled “Original Premium Content for OTT & Internet Channels,”moderated by The Carmel Group’s chairman and CSO, Jimmy Schaeffler; including panelists Allison Girvin of the Huffington Post; Joe Michael of Microsoft; Michael Vree or PBS; Tom Ashley of Flightflix; and Joanne Waage of MobiTV.” Read More

Some Post-IBC and -Automechanika ’14 Show Thoughts…

My 10-day European excursion ended a week ago Monday (following another horrendous experience with United Airlines), with visits for three days each to the International Broadcasting Conference 2014 in Amsterdam; Messe Frankfurt’s Automechanika 2014 in Frankfurt; and to one of the world’s largest (and best) fixed satellite services (FSS) providers, SES, in the tiny principality between Francfe and Germany, called… Read More

Some Post-IBC and -Automechanika ’14 Show Thoughts…

And a Bit of World-Class Satellite Distribution, As Well My 10-day European excursion ended  a week ago Monday (following another horrendous experience with United Airlines), with visits for three days each to the International Broadcasting Conference 2014 in Amsterdam; Messe Frankfurt’s Automechanika 2014 in Frankfurt; and to one of the world’s largest (and best) fixed satellite services (FSS) providers, SES,… Read More

ACA/NCTC 2014: 2 Top Leaders

The Future of Small-To-Midsized Cable The Pittsburgh-headquartered American Cable Association (ACA), and its sister organization, the Lenexa, Kan.-based National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC), have been, for many decades between them, advocating for and representing their hundreds of cable TV, phone, and broadband members in their business and governmental endeavors.   In the case of the NCTC, it stands as an… Read More

CMO Today: FCC Eyes Over-the-Top TV Players

Here’s your morning roundup of the biggest marketing, advertising and media industry news and happenings. Send tips, suggestions and complaints tomike.shields@wsj.com. Click here to read CMO Today in your email inbox daily. WEB TV, MEET FCC: A slew of companies are looking to disrupt the cable TV universe with Web-delivered TV packages. But just how disruptive companies like Sony, Dish… Read More