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To date, national annual set-top box energy use has decreased by $1 billion

Security issues have evolved far beyond the simple cable box

How far will viewers go to capture the signal?

Nov. 16, 2017 could go down in the annals of the U.S. television broadcast history as a fateful day for our industry.

When it comes to OTT programming, content is king—no matter the source or the delivery.

The 2017 hurricane season has been especially lethal with Harvey and Irma wreaking havoc of historic proportions across wide swaths of the U.S. most notably in Texas and Florida.

A look at May 2017 TV trends from Pivotal Research Group showed that consumption via internet-connected devices rose by 47 percent from 2016 numbers, bringing the total to 12 percent of total TV use among 18-49 year olds on a total day basis.

I watched some amazing fireworks this past Fourth of July weekend, with powerful rockets screaming skyward to burst among the clouds and fantastic fountains erupting brilliantly at ground level.

As we look beyond 2020 we can see a world where a cloud utility model will turn broadcasting into a software driven business—often with the leading broadcasters becoming Broadcast Orchestrators in a larger eco-system.

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s intention to re-reclassify broadband as an information service rather than a utility is not going so well.

Television broadcasting today is being redefined in the age of mobile, OTT and viewer expectations.

“The power’s off.” “Is it off everywhere?”

A problem we don’t know we have (yet).

Most broadcasters and media businesses are now on their second or third generation asset management system.

From phony customer accounts created by Wells Fargo to Mylan’s sky-high pricing on the EpiPen device, “bad behavior” by employees was a hot business topic in 2016.

I posted a meme on Facebook a while back—a cross-stitch saying, “Journalism. It’s a tough job with insane pressure and pretty crappy pay. On the other hand, everybody hates you.”

A day before Pres. Donald Trump was sworn into office, reports of sweeping cuts to or outright elimination of certain programs such as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities sent many in the noncommercial media world, especially some who thought funds were safe, into a tailspin.

On January 18, two days before he left office, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler released a statement lauding the completion of the incentive auction.