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

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

More Convergence Than Ever Four years ago, the editors at Multichannel News asked me to create a title for my new column.   Even back then, it seemed like “Mixed Signals” made a lot of sense.   I liked “Mixed Signals” because even back then, there was so much actual or oncoming overlap between cable, broadcast, satellite, telco video and other forms… Read More

Assessing A Video Future Shaped By Those Giants Steve Jobs, quite a time before he died in October 2011, bragged about his interest in TV being something of a “hobby” in search of a real business. It was a good enough idea that Jobs’ successor and that team at Apple have continued that mission, albeit arguably without any of the… Read More