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07/17/2006
CTAM Circuit
Day 1 of CTAM Summit kicks off at 8am today with a golf tourney. Mark Cuban will help lead "HD Marketing Made Simple" at 11:30am. The Mark Awards are set for 5pm, and don’t forget to get your groove on at MTV and BET’s "Cosmocultural Music Mashup" party starting at 9pm at The Boylston Ally. […]
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05/29/2006
Reality Pays
To millions of cable viewers, reality shows can provide an inside look at a celebrity’s home life or the daily routine of a bounty hunter. They can also help people make over their homes, faces, wardrobes and personalities. For cable operators, though, the genre that detractors years ago said would have a life span of […]
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04/10/2006
Looking in the Eye of the IPTV Threat
When AT&T announced it would buy BellSouth last month, the prospect of the former SBC Communications gaining an even bigger footprint didn’t exactly rankle the cable industry. So it’s not a surprise that AT&T’s hype machine surrounding IPTV, a next-generation architecture that uses Internet protocol technology to mix voice, video and data streams into a […]
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04/10/2006
Memo to McSlarrow: One Year Out
Just before National ’05, we asked industry figures to set an agenda for Kyle McSlarrow’s first year as head of NCTA both in terms of what he should do for the industry generally and for their companies specifically. This year, we returned to many of those same executives and asked similar questions, including: How’s McSlarrow […]
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11/21/2005
The Top 50 Most Influential Women in Cable (2005)
First the good news: There are more women in cable’s senior and middle-management ranks than ever. Now the bad news: There are still too few women in the top jobs. In addition, overall, the number of women at major cable companies is stagnant. WICT’s new PAR study shows the needle is stuck at about 37% […]
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11/01/2005
Pipeline Profile: Mark Bishop
SCTE member since 1998 Title: SVP, Hardware, NCTC Broadband background: Mark Bishop joined the National Cable Television Cooperative in 1997 and has been instrumental in growing the NCTC’s hardware business from a $4.5 million to a $130 million department. He previously worked with Sprint North Supply and HBO and began his sales career in the […]