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More Than Technology: Cable Invests in Our Communities

$1.2 billion. According to a recently released study commissioned by NCTA, that's how much cable’s video and Internet providers and programmers put toward corporate giving in 2014. The impact that kind of funding has on socially responsible programs is immeasurable, but what does that even look like? Our industry has long been a contributor to philanthropic efforts, but until now,
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Four Reasons Why the FCC Set-Top Box Proposal Won’t Work

During a time when the worlds of technology, media and television are colliding and undergoing constant change and delivering exciting new services, you would think the government would focus its efforts on areas that truly need fixing. That’s why it is so puzzling that the FCC finds it necessary to propose a complicated and backwards-looking set-top box mandate that has
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Top Five Moments at #INTX2016 + VIDEO

With INTX 2016 now in the books, we can sit back and reflect on some of the exiting, surprising, even profound moments that took place this year in Boston. To help put it all in perspective, we’ve pulled our five favorite moments from the show. These are the snapshots that best embody both the spirit of INTX as a whole
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LeVar Burton Concludes INTX 2016: The Best Content Out There is Found on Cable

If there’s one big concept to take away from INTX this year, it’s that there is more opportunity and flexibility for creativity in the technology, media and entertainment marketplace than there has ever been before. LeVar Burton, who took to the stage during the closing general session of the conference to talk about his involvement with the remake of Roots,
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Imagine Park Puts Facial Recognition and Machine Learning on Display

You might remember when last year your Facebook newsfeed was flooded by people posting their results from a “guess my age” tool Microsoft unveiled. Microsoft was showing off machine learning, meaning technology that allows a computer to identify trends and make predictions based on aggregate data. The point was to give an example to developers about the wide range of
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Mashable, Periscope Talk Competition and Live Content at INTX

“It’s a great time to be a content creator,” said Mashable CEO Pete Cashmore during Tuesday’s general session at INTX. Cashmore addressed the audience from the main stage along with other big “disruptors” in the technology and television space, and described the new media landscape as being more “data-driven” and competitive than ever. CEO of AT&T Entertainment Group John Stankey’s
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Set-Top Boxes, Apps, and the Future of Entertainment

There’s been a lot (and I mean a lot) of talk lately about the set-top box. Through it all, we can see clearly that television delivery is moving in a completely new direction at rocket speed. With the inevitable switch in content distribution as the backdrop, Stephen Goldstein, VP of Business Development & Marketing at Samsung and Andrew Ferrone, VP
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TED at INTX: Innovators Disrupting and Defying the Odds

You could say the big “disruption” of the morning came when TED opened up the second day of INTX with four speakers who are shaking up the landscape around them. In classic TED-style presentations, a crowded room heard not only about how each of them got their start and the blood, sweat and tears that is often involved in launching
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New Digital Media Stars and the Phenomenon Behind Their Success

Kids and their videos these days. They’re all over the place, on Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook–those bite-sized pieces of entertainment that go viral and have everyone talking. Roll your eyes all you want at those kids, but the greatest “aha” moment in the Internet and television world is that there’s actually a strategy behind the creation and success of a lot
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The Future of Live Broadcast News in an On-Demand World

As NCTA President & CEO Michael Powell noted in his opening remarks to #INTX2016, every screen is now a television. That’s a double-edged sword. As more opportunities exist to consume video everywhere, the concept of traditional broadcasting is in upheaval. Entertainment programming has started to respond to this disruption rather successfully with shows like “Fargo” or “True Detective,” which take
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