MEDIA ROOM

The critical global transition to new Internet Protocol (IP) addresses will be the focus of an industry summit at The Cable Show 2011.

The PROTECT IP Act ("Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011") has been introduced by Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa).

Meredith Attwell Baker is leaving the Federal Communications Commission to join Comcast as Senior Vice President of Government Affairs, NBCUniversal.

A panel of top cable and entertainment industry leaders will discuss how their companies are approaching the ever-evolving and increasingly competitive telecommunications marketplace during the opening session of The Cable Show 2011.

Rep. Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) introduced the Broadband Conduit Deployment Act of 2011, legislation that would require the inclusion of “broadband conduit” – plastic pipes which house fiber-optic communications cable – during the construction of federal highways

With recent projections for national cable advertising showing growth at faster rates than almost all other U.S. media, The Cable Show 2011 will feature a timely discussion focused on a number of advertising issues and opportunities for cable operators, programmers, advertising agencies and buyers. 

Mae Douglas, Executive Vice President & Chief People Officer, Cox Communications, and Tom Rutledge, Chief Operating Officer, Cablevision Systems Corporation, are the 2011 recipients of the cable industry’s top honor, the Vanguard Award for “Distinguished Leadership.”

Geena Davis, Academy Award-winning Actor and Founder of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, and Deborah Taylor Tate, former FCC Commissioner, today joined together to launch Healthy MEdia: Commission for Positive Images of Women and Girls.

Eight executives of vendor companies for cable industry Information Technology (IT) services have been chosen by a selection committee of cable Chief Information Officers (CIOs) as finalists in the second annual CIO.IT | Competition, a program of solution-based presentations scheduled for the CIO.IT program at The Cable Show 2011 in Chicago.

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski to Appear at The Cable Show 2011