Bellying Up to Cable's Buffet
By Bill McConnell -- Broadcasting & Cable, 7/14/2004 9:39:00 AM
The cable buffet table is heating up. In addition to the House hearing on the feasibility of a la carte cable service Wednesday, there have been a raft of comments to the Federal Communications Commission on the issue, a planned conference call on the subject Thursday morning by the National Cable & Telecommunications Association and, now, the FCC has released details of its July 29 symposium. It includes an A-list of cable and ad executives, plus a separate panel for academics to weigh in.
The FCC's day-long conclave (from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.) will be at the FCC's Washington headquarters.
The morning session will feature John Freulinghausen, Vice President and Partner of consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton; Bennett Hooks, CEO, Buford Media Group; Gene Kimmelman, Senior Director of Public Policy and Advocacy, Consumers Union; Geraldine Laybourne, Chairman and CEO, Oxygen Media; Philip Lind, Vice Chairman, Rogers Communications; Jon Mandel, Co-CEO, MediaCom US and Chief Global Buying Officer of MediaCom Worldwide; Michael Willner, President and CEO, Insight Communications.
The afternoon session begins as 2:30 featuring Erik Brynjolfsson, Professor of Management, MIT; Gregory Crawford, assistant economics professor, University of Arizona; David Waterman, professor, Department of Telecommunications, Indiana University; Steven Wildman, professor of telecommunication Studies, Michigan State.
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