Category: Content
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Living His Destiny – Uncaged Book Review
Paul McKellips is living his destiny to help defend his country. Like the asymmetric enemies we face, Paul’s weapons are unconventional and leverage his strength in telling a story. Knowing Paul, his motivation for what he is doing is love; love of his fellow-man, love of his family and love of his country. Having run…
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Telling the Whole Story
Soundbites from experts or concerned parties are powerful for telling a story through video. The soundbites fit the narrative of the person who is constructing the story, however, and don’t necessarily paint the entire picture. This is understandable given the time constraints of a 30 minute news program (more like 22 minutes after commercials) where…
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Multi-Screen Video Presents Challenges & Opportunities for Global Service Providers
Introduction Multi-screen video content and capabilities are becoming ever more important to pay TV operators, such as AT&T U-Verse. Multi-screen video content is usually transmitted over IP networks (often referred to as Over The Top or OTT video). The video content is received by multiple devices, such as notebooks, tablets, and smart phones. Ken Pyle has…
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Follow the Money – Sports Programming, Golden Goose & Possible TV Revolution
Although not explicitly stated by any of the panelists, the political adage, “follow the money,” was an underlying theme to the Broadband Unlimited Webinar on Retransmission Consent held on Friday 11/30. There seemed to be agreement among the panelists – all of whom have been involved in the retransmission/must-carry regulatory game since it was enacted…
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FCC Allows Prohibition on Exclusive Cable Programming Contracts to Expire
[Editor’s Note: Paul Feldman is an attorney with the communications law firm Fletcher, Heald and Hildreth, Washington, D.C. (feldman at fhhlaw.com)] Recently, the FCC released a Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that will likely impact the ability of some cable operators and telco video providers to obtain cable TV programming. In the…