AWS-3 Auction Resumed on Monday – Paul S. Maxwell

Comment Not over yet Just before Thanksgiving hope your turkey was terrific the bids closed at 3747200000000 Tuesday and 38196517300 Wednesday amp8230 so what does this maybe mean other than Falcone flew the coup and Charlie Ergen seems prescient again Among other things banks are happy bonds are being issued here and in Europe borrowings are underway and the reality of bountiful wireless broadband seems more certain amp8230 someday Maybe even someday in this decadeIt also probably means more overtheairheads will make their spectrum available for bids amp8230 if the Federal Confusion Commission can make the upcoming auctions make senseThen maybe broadcasters can count all that revenue as retransmission consent as they agree to must carry across the board and MVPDs build out everywhere even if by satelliteSeems like a good deal to meamp8220The Revolutionary Evolution of the Mediaamp8221 ContinuesThis is a book in progress amp8230 how a changing world has made media what it is today amp8230 Or from a grunt to too much connectivityChapter 2 Why the Romans Really Built All Those RoadsOK thatamp8217s a bit facetious But the Roman roads had a big hand in creating newspapers amp8230 sort of Like the Interstate highways President Eisenhower started in order to make certain military equipment could move freely the Roman road system amp8220was built to move large bodies of troops around a militarized domain that stretched from whatamp8217s now Spain to Germany and from Britain to Asia Minoramp8221 as Andrew Pettegree wrote in The Invention of News How the World Came To Know About Itself Not long after the roads the Emperor Augustus created a courier service to keep in touch across the EmpireMuch much later after the Dark Ages began to lighten Maximilian I Holy Roman Emperor between 149 and 1519 harnessed the power of printing and the network of roads in his domain by charging Francesco and Janetto de Tassis with creating a regular postal service that crossed Europe from Innsbruck to Brussels via Rome The de Tassis brothers were sons of Alessandro Tassis who had organized the papal courier service Maestri dei Corrieri The postal service allowed for the development of a commercial market for news and the first serial news publicationsContinue reading Chapter 2In an almost 50year career writing and reporting on media Paul S Maxwell started andor ran some 45plus publications ranging from CATV Newsweekly to Colorado Magazine to CableVision to Multichannel News to CableFAX and The BRIDGE Suite of daily newsletters and research publications In between publishing stints Maxwell served as an advisor andor consultant to a number of major media companies and media startups including running a unit of MCI and managing a partnership of TCI and McGrawHillSend any and all criticisms suggestions rants threats corrections etc to him at cablemaxmaccom He has a new Web site coming soonCheck us out on Facebook at MediaBizBloggerscomFollow our Twitter updates at MediaBizBloggerThe opinions and points of view expressed in this commentary are exclusively the views of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of MediaBizBloggerscom management or associated bloggers MediaBizBloggers is an open thought leadership platform and readers may share their comments and opinions in response to all commentaries

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