By Stewart Schley — The President and CEO of SCTE•ISBE talks about technology, leadership, Susan Sarandon, and why he’s not a huge fan of the Flat Earth Society. Mark Dzuban’s parents were concerned. The kid spent inordinate amounts of time in the basement…
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By Stewart Schley — Larry Wolcott’s perfect day goes like this: Summer morning. Brilliant Colorado sky. Birds chirping. And Wolcott in a trench, splicing cable. “That,” he says, “is what I love.”
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By Stewart Schley — Turns out that was the peak year for pay-TV in the U.S. Leichtman Research Group points out 87 percent of U.S. homes were connected to a cable or satellite TV system.
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By Stewart Schley — Among the 25 inductees to the Cable TV Pioneers class of 2018, one individual almost assuredly deserves bragging rights for lifelong commitment — Altice Technical Services Senior Vice President of Technical Operations Andy Parrott.
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By Stewart Schley — The Turner Broadcasting System founder was displaying his industry bona fides in response to a competitive affront from a new network called the Satellite Newschannel, which for a brief time challenged Turner’s CNN and its offshoot, Headline News.
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By Stewart Schley — More than 30 years ago Rouzbeh Yassini, the CEO of a then-unheralded tech company named LANcity, began leading a 13-person team that worked tirelessly to develop the first-ever cable modem.
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Midco’s CTO, Jonathan Pederson, is leading the Sioux Falls-based company into the technology big leagues with a network-wide DOCSIS 3.1 implementation, an eye toward IoT and a focus on cultivating innovation from within. Here’s how he sees a shifting technology landscape — and Midco’s role in it.
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When a 27-year old, red-bearded, infinitely curious MIT protégé named Bob Metcalfe joined the research team at Xerox’s legendary Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in 1972, he had his first encounter with an emerging curiosity: the personal computer. Metcalfe and his team established the first experimental Ethernet specification
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The American Cable Association held its 24th annual summit, themed “Navigating a Sea of Change,” in Washington, D.C., March 28th-30th of this year. The confab’s FCC Keynote featured Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai, who was named to the post in January by President Donald Trump
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The Inside Story About the Dawning of the Fiber Optic Era, from Pioneering Inventor Peter Schultz – Before 1972, the southern New York company Corning was known mainly for making TV picture tubes and for the iconic cookware bearing its name. But behind the scenes, the work of a small group of scientists was about to dramatically change the company’s legacy while
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