Concrete Goals and Numbers Urged at NAMIC Conference.

The idea of diversifying employee ranks took center stage last week as executives from around the country converged in New York for a series of diversity-centric events kicked off by the 16th National Association of Minorities in Communications conference.

As in years past, various cable executives admitted during the NAMIC forum they could be doing a better job of hiring and retaining minorities as well as marketing services and creating programming aimed at them.

"This industry has to do a better job ingraining in its culture that more diversity better ser