Dashboard 06-11-21
Twitter Hits
A "back to normal" White House press briefing room… 100% capacity pic.twitter.com/HxmmwFlxFJ
— Howard Mortman (@HowardMortman) June 7, 2021
Our outgoing President has many reasons to smile during Tuesday evening's reception held at Hershey CC in his honor. Congrats to Dan Tunnell and wife Gail on his retirement after guiding our Association since 2001. Thank you Dan, for 20 years of outstanding leadership! Cheers!🍷 pic.twitter.com/p2cq4zkY6K
— BCAP (@BCAPisBroadband) June 9, 2021
Awesome day at SCTE headquarters today. @philmckinney , Pres/CEO @CableLabs is visiting with us this week. Great lunch time chat and the staff is having fun getting to know Phil. #wearefamily #leadership #networking pic.twitter.com/yOTq43Ss6Z
— SCTE® a subsidiary of CableLabs® (@scte) June 7, 2021
Research
(Source: Vericast 2021 Consumer Optimism Outlook Study)
➢ Consumers have acclimated to life at home with 63% saying they are content with staying home more
➢ 61% report watching more streaming videos and TV shows than ever before
➢ Only 36% of consumers are comfortable attending outdoor sporting events and 26% are comfortable attending indoor sporting events.
➢ Those comfort levels indicate that acclimation to homelife means consumers will choose watching sports on TV over going to the event for the foreseeable future.
Up Ahead
June 22: Media Institute Luncheon with the Consumer Technology Association’s Gary Shapiro
July 16: 2021 Cablefax Diversity List Nomination Deadline
July 25-28: Fiber Connect 2021
Oct 4-6: NCTC and ACA Connects’ Independent Show
Quotable
“TV news began as public service programming that broadcasters had to carry as a condition of getting a license from the FCC. The television news business eventually turned profitable, but it will soon face an existential crisis as to how to remain so… One possibility is to create a large bundle of national and local news, made available through a single packager… Another possibility would be to find a more Switzerland-like player to act as a neutral distributor… Certain companies may be able to go it alone better than others. Comcast and NBCUniversal have a broad array of assets including CNBC… Fox is putting a lot of shoulder behind Fox Nation… Right now, there is no obvious answer to saving TV news as pay-TV subscribership declines, but let’s not allow quality television news to become collateral damage in the entertainment streaming wars.”
– Tom Rogers, the first NBC Cable president, in a CNBC op-ed on supporting news in a streaming world