Thursday, February 16, 2006

Press stories on yesterday's franchise hearings.

Senate Commerce Committee Video Franchising Testimony

Watch Archived Video -- Senate page on hearing

Panel 1:
Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn (R-Texas)

Panel 2:
Mr. Ivan Seidenberg
Chief Executive Officer, Verizon Communications
Mr. Edward E. Whitacre, Jr.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, AT&T
Mr. Tom Rutledge
Chief Operating Officer, Cablevision Systems Corporation
Ms. Lori Panzino-Tillery
President, National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors
Mr. Brad Evans
Chief Executive Officer, Cavalier Telephone
Mr. Anthony T. Riddle
Executive Director, Alliance for Community Media
Mr. Gene Kimmelman
Senior Director of Public Policy, Consumers Union
Ms. Gigi B. Sohn
President & Co-Founder, Public Knowledge

Saturday, February 11, 2006

Testimony to FCC on Verizon in Keller

Friday, February 10, 2006

The NCTA response

Link to FCC Study

Here is the link to the new FCC study stating that Ala Carte programming choices will actually cut consumer bills.

http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-263740A1.pdf

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Inspiration to launch.

The domain name AlaCarteCable.com was purchased several years ago as a first step in a business plan with a dream of bringing more freedom of programming choices to the cable and satellite television consumer. Well, alot has changed over those years, and much has stayed the same.

While the business plan has not evolved as hoped over this time, today's AP wire story on Ala Carte Cable marked what may be a tipping point for those trying to make Ala Carte Programming choices a reality.

So today we relaunch AlaCarteCable.com with the mission to gather information, analyze the tradeoffs, and support where it makes economic sense the ultimate goal of letting the consumer pay only for the content we want, when we want, where we want.

Sounds simple enough?