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Game of Thrones By The Numbers

Millions of people will tune into HBO this Sunday to watch the final season premiere of Game of Thrones. The massively successful series has inspired a concert tour, countless podcasts, and is even credited with increasing tourism to filming locations like Croatia and Iceland. After eight years, 73 episodes, and approximately 4,250 minutes of game-changing action, the song of ice
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How the T. Howard Foundation is Diversifying the Media & Entertainment Industry

Spring is in full swing but summer is just around the corner, and by next month, many college students around the country will embark on internships that prepare them for the workforce. The T. Howard Foundation, which began in 1993, works year-round to recruit and place underrepresented and diverse college students in internships throughout the media and entertainment industry. The
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America's Future Looks Like 10G

"The destiny of our economy and the destiny of our future is heavily rooted in how successful we are as a technological empire, as an information economy, and one that can harvest the forces of technology and physics to its greatest benefit," said NCTA President & CEO Michael Powell earlier this year. Powell moderated a panel at CES in January
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Poll: Americans Say Fast Internet is Key to the Economy

The ripple effect of a powerful broadband connection is immeasurable when it comes to how internet connectivity positively impacts almost every facet of life in America, from healthcare to education to business to entertainment to personal connections. What's even more incredible is how it affects the U.S. economy, not just nationally but locally as well. As cable operators invest billions
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Video: NCTA President & CEO Michael Powell Talks with CNBC about Facebook's Call for Increased Regulation

Last weekend in a Washington Post op-ed piece, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg called for stronger government regulations in four areas: harmful content, election integrity, privacy, and data portability. Facebook has been under fire for quite some time now for data breaches, how it collects and uses customer data, its role in spreading misinformation, and multiple privacy scandals. Yesterday, NCTA President
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NCTA President & CEO Michael Powell on C-SPAN's The Communicators

NCTA President & CEO Michael Powell sat down with C-SPAN's The Communicators this week to discuss the relationship between the cable industry and "big tech" in Washington, and how technology companies operate differently from cable businesses. "The gold for them is not the service. The gold for them is the data the service produces," Powell told The Washington Post's Cat
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The Shrinking Cost of a Megabit

Data. It’s at the heart of our daily lives and the modern economy. More data means higher quality streaming movies, it means richer more immersive online games, it means stronger long-distance relationships with loved ones, but it also means busier networks. In fact, Cisco predicts that in the U.S. alone, internet traffic will triple by 2022. That’s why earlier this
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Mediacom Ignites Innovation in Missouri

In Columbia, Missouri, business is stirring and innovation is found in just as many places as Silicon Valley. Many of these startups are taking off from the Missouri Innovation Center—a nonprofit located within the University of Missouri campus that supports business ventures—and these innovators are doing everything from finding cures for cancers to producing satellite imagery for corn fertilization purposes.
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Improving Broadband Reporting and Mapping

Federal communications policy has long recognized both the virtue of competition in speeding the rapid deployment of broadband technology and the reality that some areas of the country – whether due to challenging geography or economics – are unable to attract the investment required to support broadband access without targeted government help. The federal government spends billions of dollars each
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C-SPAN's 40th Anniversary is a Celebration of Democracy

Forty years ago today, Americans witnessed the very first airing of the House of Representatives. C-SPAN officially launched on March 19, 1979, and has been broadcasting countless federal government proceedings ever since. In honor of its anniversary, the network has donned a new look and a campaign with fresh tag lines and messaging that viewers will see over the next
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