Posts Tagged ‘cable’

This week’s #broaddata is a chance to test your cable industry knowledge! The cable industry has direct and indirect effects on employment, infrastructure and programming. Its capabilities and offerings are impressive and continue to grow every year.

If the first rule of real-estate is “location,” the second must be “must actually exist.” But ignoring that second rule, here’s a list of fictional cable towns we’d seriously consider if we were moving.

From their inception in the 1950’s, cable companies have been fearlessly diving into the latest technology and risking big on the future of information and entertainment.

On Monday, First Lady Michelle Obama unveiled the new Information Technology Training and Certification Partnership. The program is designed to support returning military service members by offering training for industry-recognized IT certification.

Broadband has become a critical resource for getting an education at almost any level, finding a job, starting a business and many other societally important activities.

Traffic jams are caused when too many cars all try to go to the same place at the same time. The roads are overwhelmed, traffic comes to a standstill, and no one gets to their destination on time.

The cable industry has long recognized that quality broadband services are crucial drivers of economic development in communities large and small.  When cable delivers broadband to small communities, it’s what links them to the rest of the country and the world, creates jobs, improves educational opportunities, and delivers health care more efficiently.

The smell of the grass, the crack of the bat, and an almost unbelievable number of baseballs. Let’s kick off the 2013 season with this week’s #broaddata showing off some pretty staggering stats on how many balls we’ll see go smoking over the plate.

A few days ago, using my iPhone, I tried to FaceTime my sister while I was out for a walk. For those unfamiliar with this most modern of communications methods, this is where an Apple device user uses the camera to video chat with someone else while they use their Apple device.

On February 18th USA Today published an article written by Michael Wolff called “Cable is Taking the Fast Train to Oblivion.” The article forecasts a future of the cable TV industry that almost directly opposes reality.

As Cox Communications joins Cablevision, Comcast and Time Warner Cable in offering its customers free Wi-Fi Hotspots (Cox just announcing 769 new Hotspots in Northern Virginia), it occurs to us that cable has officially provided well over 100,000 Wi-Fi locations nationwide.

Of the eleven awards given to television last night at the 70th annual Golden Globes, ten were given to cable shows. Taking most of the awards were premium channels, with Showtime’s Homeland taking three awards, HBO’s Girls with two, and HBO’s TV Movie Game Change with three.

Some of the best stuff we’ve seen at CES has been the tech that works with all types of content, with all manner of IP devices, and with an eye towards integration and collaboration.

Big screens, wide screens, ultra-mega-super-high-definitions screens. Touch screens, smart screens, 100 inch laser screens (laser screens?!). I’m sure it comes as no surprise that so much of what we’re seeing at CES is a newer, faster, brighter, bigger screen that enhances the home TV, computer, and movie experience.

This morning, we hosted the first event of a new briefing series called NCTA Connects,   which will regularly showcase national thought leaders discussing issues that are impacting the media and communications industries.