- Get the Most Out of Your Next Business Convention
Business conventions can be a wonderful opportunity to win new customers, network with others in your field, and keep abreast of important changes in your industry.
- Quick Hits: SCTE Notebook
Houston—From the scene at last week's Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers' annual Conference on Emerging Technologies, as reported by technology editor Todd Spangler. Admission of the Week Laying fiber-optic cable all the way to subscribers’ homes is the superior option for getting lots of capacity in a video, entertainment, data ......
- In Big D, SCTE Gets Futuristic
Cable engineers head to Dallas this week for the Society of Cable Telecommunications' Engineers' annual Conference on Emerging Technologies 2004, three days of tutorials on such front-burner issues as the all-digital network, operational support systems for triple-play networks and consumer devices and OpenCable. The conference (Jan. 13 to 15) is ......
- Broadband Briefs
‘Young’ Randy Horn, Others Honored at ET Huntington Beach, Calif. — The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers honored five executives during two awards presentations at the Emerging Technologies conference last week. Dan Pike, chief technology officer of General Communication Inc., won the chairman’s award. Michael Emmendorfer, corporate director of advanced ......
- Ops Say: Stress VOD, Not PVRs
Los Angeles— While cable operators are seeing a huge demand from subscribers for digital video recorders, some executives at the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing Digital & Broadband Conference here last week stressed that the industry should focus more on video-on-demand programming. "The more content we bring on-demand, the ......
- Cable’s Melting Pot
Cable marketers completed the annual CTAM summit in Boston two weeks ago with no shortage of topics to tackle. The agenda for the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing gathering included digital/pay-per-view/broadband content — owing to the closure of the annual digital conference earlier this year — and demonstrated the ......
- CTPAA Sessions Tackle Serious Tech Issues
While cable operators and programmers have come a long way in introducing advanced products like video-on-demand, some feel cable public-affairs people need to make it easier for subscribers to understand the new technology. That will be a key focus this week in Washington, D.C., where the Cable Television Public Affairs ......