I was really honored to be invited to be here and i cant wait to hear what all of you had to say. Heres for a successful 2018. [applause] while doctor stewart is getting miked up i just want to say thank you to the chairman for getting us kicked off and to doug jason for those great remarks. Commissioner masterson mentioned the panel that we have here is called election efficiency and integrity, improving the Voter Experience, but most of this panel will be focused on data and the importance of data and how we use it in the Election Community. Weve got a great panel for you, you have biographies in front of you that my staff has provided some abbreviated biographies which i will read and we will start hearing from the panel. Ive asked each of them to speak for about five minutes, from their perspective on this panel and then i have some questions for them and then we will go to questions from you. Before i get started i want to thank you all for being here, im very excited to kick off
Decemb december k putting together two companies that in terms of programming are similar. Its not like were going from one network that does reality or that type of programming to sports or lots of scripted work or whatnot this is putting those two things together the question is are you better off putting those two together or in this new age of media trying to go into scripted gore into a premium thing scripted. Scripted. But this has been bandied about. For a long time they were two sort of theyre not like outliers that deserve to get together. If it was going to happen, would put these together for scale thats where the synergistic value is some analysts would question this how much more power does a discovery scripps together have in terms of carriage agreement Going Forward . How much value proposition, if you want this channel you have to take this channel that was more scripps problem than a discovery problem zaslav yesterday admitted we are managing through the new times, dau