Author: Ken Pyle, Managing Editor
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Viodi View – 04/13/2011
3DTV is real and growing more rapidly than earlier technologies, such as the DVD. The market for this new format is still maturing, but there is no doubt that it will revolutionize content production, requiring new skill sets for content producers. The verdict is still out on ATSC-M (mobile video by broadcasters); no doubt, the…
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Economic Gardening Instead of Big Business Hunting
50 billion dollars; that is how much communities and states spend each year wooing businesses from outside their area, according to Dr. Glenda Humiston, USDA Rural Development State Director for California. Speaking at last week’s Western Telecom Alliance Convention, Humiston likened this jockeying for out-of-town businesses as a zero-sum game that has limited benefit in…
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Viodi View – 03/31/2011
“Change is our friend,” so said Brent Christensen president of the Minnesota Telecom Association at its 102nd Annual Convention in Minneapolis this week. With the retirement of former president, Randy Young, Christensen and the MTA have undergone many changes since last year’s conference. From the vantage point of an outsider, this was a smooth transition…
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The National Broadband Plan Was Top of Mind
It is only two years ago that the talk of the MTA’s Annual Convention was the stimulus and last year the buzz was about the broadband plan that was one of the outcomes of the stimulus legislation. This year, talk kept coming back to implementation of the broadband plan. Bill Hegmann, Chairman of NECA, provided an…
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Broadband Reform and More – Ch 16 & 40
Day 2 of ViodiTV at MTA Is on the air. In order to see this exclusive video coverage, you have to be at this event and staying at the convention hotels. Today, we have interviews with Bill Hegmann of NECA talking about the broadband plan, Mike Romano of NTCA calling for broadband operators to tell…
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ViodiTV is On at MTA – Ch 16 & 40
We just gave tonight’s ViodiTV program to the hotel to run on its internal channel. We have a collection of material from previous MTA events, as well as some favorites from recent shows and an interview with Everett Christensen talking about his book “60-40 or Fight.” Tomorrow night, we will air the second part of…