Nobody Announced a Media Merger Last Week!

Now Iamp8217ll get to watch Netflix on TVs and laptops and iPads in Portugal in September when we head there to kayak down the Duoro River from the Spanish border to Porto amp8230 stopping of course at vineyards along the wayamp160International is the right playground now as even the audit companies are expanding thereamp160 Discovery Netflix and some others remind me of the time in 1982 we tried to take Multichannel News overseas with Multichannel Europe editions as BSkyB launchedamp160 Made for nice trips but not much elseamp160 Even before that with Paul Levine and Communications Technology we tried to help get the SCTE Europe chapter activeamp160 That worked European editions didnamp8217tSpeaking of mergers two things the Federal Confusion Commission did towards the end of the ComcastTWC saga helped me win a nice bet that it wouldnamp8217t go through despite David Cohen and lots of lobbying No 1 Januaryamp8217s 25 mbps definition of broadband No 2 The April promotion of Public Knowledge founder Gigi Sohn from Special Counsel External Affairs to Counselor to Chairman Tom WheelerIt pays to watch the people and the personalities making decisions about mergersIn Other Items of InterestThereamp8217s a great Layer3 amp8220adamp8221 in McNews with amp8220Six Reasons Your TV Everywhere Isnamp8217t Workingamp8221 by Sean Riley who knows whereof he writesamp160 While written to help the impending launch of Layer3 the column is worth reading both for conduit and content providers and hereamp8217s why amp8220For years your distributors have controlled nearly all the marketing of your brand to subscribers including the channel neighborhood you are in the frequency of your crosschannel promos and promotion of your VODbroadband offeringsamp160 Now you have the opportunity to extend your content and brand directly to your viewers They have arrived in the TVconnected device space and they are searching for your content Donamp8217t disappoint themamp8221Pole attachment rates are going up because utilities hope to charge ISPs and cable ops because they are broadband providersamp160 ACA has asked FCC to fixamp160 Something they really need to doamp160 Seems whenever the FCC amp8220decidesamp8221 something there are unintended consequencesMy new book amp8220The Revolutionary Evolution of the Mediaamp8221 continues Go here to read the latest chapter or here to start from the beginningThe opinions and points of view expressed in this commentary are exclusively the views of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of MediaVillage management or associated bloggersamp160

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