ESPN Good Sports Award 11/02/2009
The Negro League Baseball Project — Cox Communications Cox Communications in Florida wanted to take a large and bold step to enrich understanding of diversity among employees and in the community. The goal of Cox leadership was to create a program that would capture hearts as well as stimulate minds; to tell a story that would demonstrate the pain that can result from exclusion, the riche...
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Golden Beacon Award 11/02/2009
Annually, ACC presents the Golden Beacon Award, the association's highest honor, to a communications and public affairs initiative that has made an impact within the cable industry, while enhancing cable's image nationwide. The association is pleased to announce that Nickelodeon's The Big Green Help is this year's Golden Beacon Award winner.
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Cable Communications Achievement Awards 11/02/2009
The Cable Communications Achievement Awards recognize individuals who have made outstanding contributions to cable communications and public affairs. Nominated by their peers and colleagues, the two honorees have used communications concepts and techniques to successfully solve problems, take advantage of opportunities and contribute to the bottom lines of their companies.
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ACC's 2009 President's Award Winners 11/02/2009
The President's Award recognizes those industry leaders who, by their guidance and support, advance the role of communications and public affairs in our industry. The Award honors individuals who have developed and implemented communications and public affairs initiatives, not only within their own companies, but also throughout the cable industry.
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ACC Community Bridges Award 11/02/2009
The ACC Community Bridges Award, sponsored by WE tv’s WE Volunteer campaign, recognizes outstanding, non-cable industry partner organizations and individuals taking part in cable communications and public affairs initiatives. The cable industry is committed to improving the communities in which it serves, and partner organizations are often instrumental to the success of cable’s eff...
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ACC 2009 20th Anniversary Beacon Awards 11/02/2009
This year the Association of Cable Communicators (ACC) proudly celebrates two decades of excellence in cable communications with the 20th Anniversary Beacon Awards. The Beacon Awards were founded to guide and nurture the relatively new field of public affairs in the cable industry. By showcasing methods and campaigns pioneered by practitioners, the founders hoped to strengthen the profession as...
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Where Are They Now? By K.C. Neel - 10/26/2009
Many of the men and women who helped shape the cable industry are now leaving their mark in a variety of other areas. In the second of two reports, Multichannel News looks at some of the industry’s most influential names, with a look back at their careers in cable and what they’ve been up to since.
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Always Ahead of the Curve by K.C. Neel - 10/26/2009
Tom Wheeler, Managing Director, Core Capital Partners As an entrepreneur and policymaker in the cable and cellular spaces, Tom Wheeler has been smack-dab in the middle of some of the most explosive growth in the telecommunications industries. From 1976 to 1984, Wheeler worked at the National Cable Television Association, assuming the trade group’s presidency in 1979.
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Anchoring the New World of News by K.C. Neel - 10/26/2009
Bernard Shaw, Anchor Emeritus, CNN Bernard Shaw didn’t need a job when Ted Turner came knocking on his door in 1980. As a television reporter, Shaw had already had a great career working for Group W Broadcasting, CBS and ABC. But Turner’s proposition was enticing: He wanted Shaw to work as an anchor at his startup 24-hour news channel, CNN.
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The Cable Industry’s Mr. Fix-It by K.C. Neel - 10/26/2009
Tom Rutledge, Chief Operating Officer, Cablevision Systems Tom Rutledge’s first cable job was as a lineman with Eastern Telecom. He worked there summers to help pay for college. He was an economics major and hadn’t planned on cable as a career. But he liked the business and when he graduated in 1977, he saw an ad in the paper for a management trainee job with American Television &a...
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Prime Cable’s Primetime Player by K.C. Neel - 10/26/2009
Robert Hughes, Founder, Prime Cable Like many cable leaders, Robert Hughes didn’t exactly seek out a career in the business. But once involved, he became passionate about cable — and remains so, even into retirement. “I stumbled into the business,” Hughes said. “It was blind luck.
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Building Toward the Best by K.C. Neel - 10/26/2009
James Cownie, Co-founder/Past President, Heritage Jim Cownie didn’t know much
about the cable industry in 1970 when he and high school pal Jim Hoak decided to get into the business. But that didn’t stop the pair from eventually building the ninth-largest U.S. cable company, with more than 1 million customers in 22 states.
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A Cable Original by K.C. Neel - 10/26/2009
Matt Blank, Chairman and CEO, Showtime Networks Ask Matt Blank why he got into the cable business, and he’ll tell you it wasn’t because of any special calling. Indeed, when he joined HBO in 1976, he figured he’d stick around for a year or two and use the job as a springboard to a broadcast-network gig.
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A Woman of Influence by K.C. Neel - 10/26/2009
Char Beales, President and CEO, CTAM Char Beales has been involved in some of the cable industry’s most important and influential programs over the past three decades. At the National Cable Television Association, she was instrumental in convincing Hollywood that cable programming was worthy of recognition.
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Honoring the Past, Looking Ahead 10/26/2009
The Cable Center this year will induct seven industry titans — figures whose contributions have shaped the cable sector into what it is today — into its Cable Hall of Fame. Among those taking center stage Oct. 27 are a policymaker, a programming leader, three operators and a storyteller. Induction into the Hall of Fame — part of this year's Cable Connections Week in Denver ...
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WICT Gala Honors 2009 LEAs by George Vernadakis - 10/05/2009
The Southern California Chapter of Women in Cable Telecommunications this week will present the 2009 LEA Awards, recognizing five individuals’ achievements in the areas of leadership, education and advocacy. “The LEAs are the WICT Southern California chapter’s pinnacle event,” said Colleen Dillaway, WICT Southern California Chapter president and marketing director, Brigh...
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Keeping the Multiplatform Faith by Stuart Miller - 10/05/2009
For religious television programmers, adapting to new technologies is nothing new. But as the pace of change has quickened, there’s a growing need for sophisticated responses on alternate platforms, executives agreed. “The landscape has been changing for a while, but the change has certainly been accelerating in the last year,” said Gordon Robertson, CEO of the Christian Bro...
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Through the Years by Staff - 09/28/2009
1898 James M. Cox, a former schoolteacher and reporter for the Cincinnati Enquirer, purchases the Dayton Evening News for $26,000. 1913 James Cox is elected governor of Ohio. 1934 Cox enters broadcasting with the establishment of WHIO in Dayton, Ohio, the first radio station in the Miami Valley. 1939 Cox enters the Atlanta market by acquiring The Atlanta Journal, which includes radio station WSB.
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Managing People Change by Kent Gibbons - 09/28/2009
Cox Communications consolidated 18 cable markets into 14 during 2009. Partly by allowing employees to relocate — with more opting to move several hours away, to keep their jobs, than might be the case in a better economy — the overall reduction to Cox's 22,000-employee workforce was “minimal,” senior executives said.
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Cox’s Retail Rollout May Get 'Digi’ Assist by Kent Gibbons - 09/28/2009
Atlanta— Digis, the little digital helpmates featured in Cox Communications brand commercials in Cox cable markets, have become a popular mascot for the company. Can Digis also help bring people into Cox Solutions stores to buy wireless phone service? Cox might soon find out. The colorful little creatures — who look a little like Star Wars R2-D2s crossed with the Doozers from HBO...
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