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NCTA President & CEO Michael Powell Speaks at the 2017 Walter Kaitz Dinner

NCTA President & CEO Michael Powell delivered remarks as part of the annual Walter Kaitz Dinner 2017 on September 27, 2017 in New York City. {"preview_thumbnail":"https://www.ncta.com/sites/default/files/styles/video_embed_wysiwyg_preview…;:{"responsive":1,"width":"854","height":"480","autoplay":0},"settings_summary":["Embedded Video (Responsive)."]} Remarks of Michael Powell Walter Kaitz Diversity Dinner 2017 I want to speak to you tonight from a place of vulnerability and doubt, rather than
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Gala Dinner Raises More Than $1.6 Million for Cable Diversity Efforts

A week of networking, discussions and presentations on how to create a more diverse and inclusive workforce culminated with a star-studded event in New York City last night that raised more than $1.6 million for diversity programs. CEOs and executives from dozens of internet and television companies gathered at the 34th annual Walter Kaitz Foundation dinner to celebrate the cable
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New Survey Highlights Cable Industry Diversity Benchmarks

The results of the 2017 NAMIC and WICT Industry Diversity Survey, a study that is conducted every two years to measure diversity demographics within the cable workforce, were released this morning. This year, the companies that participated represented 67.5 percent of the industry. Highlights of the survey included an increase of people of color in the industry over the past
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Comcast Executive D’Arcy Rudnay Talks on Female Leadership in Cable

Today is the first day of the cable industry's Diversity Week, and it all kicks off at the WICT Leadership conference, where executives and leaders throughout the business will recognize the contributions made by exceptional women in internet and television. This afternoon during the WICT Touchstones Luncheon, a staple of Diversity Week, the industry will pay tribute to the Woman
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BBC America’s Top Executive Gives Her Take on Women in Television

In anticipation of Diversity Week, when thousands will gather in New York City next week to encourage and advance diverse initiatives across the cable industry, we spent some time getting to know our Woman of the Year honorees who will be awarded with WICT's highest honors at the annual WICT Touchstones Luncheon. This week, we spoke with Sarah Barnett, president
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MTV Shuga: Television That Changes Lives

Television serves as one of life’s biggest sources of entertainment, but sometimes we forget how much of a changemaker it can actually be. MTV has always been a staple in this kind of “edutainment” style of programming, with its array of reality shows that plunge into real-life issues that teenagers grapple with day in and day out. The force behind
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Diversity Programming Stands Out at the 2017 Emmys

Last night's 69th annual Primetime Emmy Awards marked another year where innovative storytelling and unique talent came out on top. But this year’s victories stood out a little more this time around. As many have noted since last night, the 2017 Emmy award winners have never been more diverse. Whether it was a lead actor or director from a minority
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Diversity Week Is Right Around the Corner

Once a year in September, organizations, business leaders and thousands of executives gather in New York City to not only recognize the programming and initiatives taking place to advance diversity in the internet and television industry, but to put their heads together and participate in serious discussions about effecting change in this area. This year is no different, and with
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Sjoberg's: How a Small Internet Provider is Transforming Rural Minnesota

If you took a road trip out through rural Minnesota, you probably wouldn’t expect much could be going on in the tiny, wood-surrounded homes in the distance, or in the small farmhouses with the quartermile driveways. But as Dick Sjoberg knows, this is far from the truth. As the president of Sjoberg’s, the small, family-owned, internet, TV and phone provider
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New Report Says Fixed Broadband in the U.S. is Fast and Getting Faster

In their latest Speedtest Market Report, independent internet testing group Ookla reveals that the average download speed of fixed wired internet in the United States has increased from 47.1 Mbps to 64.2 Mbps over the last year. Average upload speeds have also increased over the same period of time, from 15.4 Mbps to 22.8 Mbps. In the report, credit for
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