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Celebrating 'A Community Full of Jobs' This Labor Day

As Labor Day approaches, we wanted to take the opportunity to celebrate the significant economic impact that America's broadband providers and TV networks are making nationwide. The industry has contributed an astounding $421 billion to the U.S. economy and supported millions of American workers in jobs that are strengthening communities and local economies. Job creation only continues to grow and
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Internet Adoption Programs Are Setting People Up for Success

As we learned earlier this month, the release of Comcast's seven-year progress report of the Internet Essentials program indicated that internet adoption programs have reached more than six million Americans. But Internet Essentials—the largest broadband adoption program in the U.S.—is doing more than just expanding internet-connected households across the country. It's helping to improve the lives of low-income families and
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TV Shows Are Boosting America's Economy

The best shows on TV are known for captivating and thrilling viewers. But a lot of these same shows are doing much more than providing quality entertainment. The TV industry is contributing to communities all over the country. When a show films outside of a studio and on location, the towns, cities, and states where production crews decide to set
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How TV Networks and ISPs Are Teaching Kids to Be Good Digital Citizens

Adults aren't the only ones who are connected to the internet practically every minute of the day. According to a recent Pew survey, 45 percent of teens (ages 13-17) say they are online almost constantly, up from 24 percent in 2015. With peer interaction right at their fingertips and the ability to share videos and pictures in mere seconds, it's
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Comcast's Broadband Adoption Program is Making a Difference for Six Million Americans

Broadband adoption among low-income Americans has reached a new milestone, as many people will now have one less barrier to gaining access to an internet connection. Comcast announced this week that its Internet Essentials program—the largest broadband adoption program for low-income families in the U.S.—has now reached more than six million Americans. While Internet Essentials originally began as a program
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Consumers Saved $3.5 Billion in Energy Consumption Thanks to Set-Top Box Energy Efficiency Agreement

The industry's green efforts to reduce energy consumption through voluntary agreements are paying off. Last month, D+R International's audit on home Internet equipment found that devices such as modems and routers were nearly 20 percent more energy efficient than they were prior to the voluntary agreement for small network equipment, and the good news continues. D+R released its latest report,
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Number of Scripted TV Shows on Course to Break Yearly Record

At the TV Critics Association Summer Press Tour last week, FX CEO John Landgraf informed audiences that since the beginning of 2018 and up until now, 319 scripted series have premiered on linear and streaming television. According to FX's research, this mid-year number is already up 5 percent from the same time last year. By the end of 2017, viewers
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Connecting Rural America Through Fixed Wireless Technology

In places where there are more livestock than people and where miles of land separate one household from the next, finding an internet connection can sometimes be challenging. The length of time it would take and the amount it would cost to build a fiber network in certain remote regions can make it nearly impossible to bring high-speed fiber connections
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CableLabs Shows How Broadband Networks Will Power the Future of Education

Kids today already learn much differently than their parents did in school. They've grown up with Smartboards and iPads in classrooms—technology tools that have revolutionized how people learn, their desire to learn, and the way information can be retrieved with a simple finger swipe. But what about their children? What will schools look like a couple of decades from now?
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U.S. Internet Speeds Just Keep Getting Better

According to Ookla, the leaders in internet speed testing, from June 2017 to June 2018 the average download speed in the U.S. went from 69.47 Mbps to an astonishing 93.98 Mbps. This upswing is also related to Ookla data reporting how U.S. speeds are far ahead of the global average download speed of 46 Mbps. Over the past two decades,
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