2013 felt relatively quiet for cable on a public policy front. No big fires or hot button issues that drew a lot of Hill attention. And there was still plenty of work being done, much of it in tax policy, cyber security, energy consumption, basic tier encryption. Read on for comments from NCTA chief Michael Powell regarding what’s to come in 2014.

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With a messy CBS-Time Warner Cable dispute, growing calls for retrans reform and rising sports costs making headlines, the age-old question of whether NCTA can really continue to exist with a membership base of programmers and operators reared its head once again in 2013.
 
With nearly 28K WiFi hotspots, Time Warner Cable has grown WiFi hotspot coverage by 160% since a year ago.
 

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While there was obviously plenty of press at Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner to share their perspective on what went down, it’s worth reminding folks that every television camera in the hotel ballroom was a C-SPAN camera.

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