[inaudible conversations] we will now come to order. The chair now recognizes himself for five minutes. Good morning. Id like to welcome everyone to the subcommittees first hearing of the new congress on the evolving media marketplace. It also like to thank her witnesses for appearing before us today to discuss these important issues. Five years ago this committee passed reauthorization act this spill extended the operation for Satellite Television companies to provide broadcast content to unserved households. According to the satellite tv industry this provision enables roughly 870,000 customers in mostly rural amenities to receive over the air broadcast Television Signals. These customers fall into a few categories per the first is household they cannot receive broadcast content using an antenna for the second as markets where satellite providers do not offer local to local service and the third is short markets where there are no local affiliate stations with any of the records and
Welcome. And we are delighted to have all of you with this today. The committee gathers to examine this state of the television and video marketplace. Im glad to convened this hearing with my colleague, se senator cantwell, hours established panel of witnesses and thank them for appearing. The honorable michael powell, president and ceo of an cta the internet and television association. The honorable gordon smith, president and ceo of the National Association of broadcasters and our former colleague. Mr. David kinney, ceo of nielsen. Mr. Craig aaron, president and ceo of free press. Americans are living in the golden age of television. Weve never had more choices and access to video content. When viewers tend to be home at a certain time to watch their favorite show, they are gone. Television experience is moving away from dependence on fixed schedules, programming links and the confines of the Family Living room. With the development of overthetop technology, digital programming and s
Vladikavkaz in 1883, in a wealthy patriarchal family of tobacco manufacturer bagration sergeevich vakhtangov, an armenian by nationality, his mother Olga Vasilievna , nee lebedeva, was from a russian merchant family. The first 20 years of his life Evgeny Vakhtangov. He lived in this house on the armenian street, opposite the armenian church. St. Gregory the illuminator, while still a student at the vladikavkaz gymnasium, was fond of playing the mandalin and participated in amateur drama circles. As an actor and director of performances. Especially loved the characteristic islands roles, including womens liked to write stories and articles, some of which were published in the local newspaper terek in 1903. Bagration sergeevich sent his son to riga to study at poly. Nothing constitutive, but becoming a member of an amateur theater, he failed the entrance exams, soon vakhtangov moved to moscow entered the law faculty of Moscow University and again fascinated the theater as a chronic illne
Cspan. Org landmark cases. Thursday morning were live in montgomery, alabama, for the next stop on the cspan bus 50 capitals to work. Alabama Senate President pro tempore del march will be our guest on the bus during washington journal. Starting at 9 30 a. M. Eastern. Witnesses from facebook, youtube and twitter talk about what the companies are doing to prevent criminal activity by users and the tech sectors cooperation with Law Enforcement. The Senate Commerce and finance Committee Held a hearing last week. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good morning. I want to thank everyone for being a to examine what social Media Companies are doing to combat terrorism including terrorist propaganda and terrorist recruitment efforts online. The positive contributions of social media platforms are well documented. Youtube, facebook and twitter among others help to connect people around the world, give
Comics of his generation. Now on bbc news, all the latest Business News live from singapore. Netflix subscribes to record highs. Investors hope to cash in on its latest success. And find out why chinas strategy to be a world leader in electric cars is an Industrial Solution to an economic problem. Good morning, asia. Hello, world. It is tuesday. Thank you forjoining me on Asia Business report. Im rico hizon. We start the programme with netflix and the video streaming pioneer did it again. They exceeded analyst expectations as more people subscribed to watch programmes in the latest season of narcos. Earlier i spoke with Media Partners asia and asked how content can make or break online services. Of course it starts with content and consumers have to move to it but netflix have scaled distribution globally. A big reason for their growth in the last few quarters has been International Scale in particular and whats driving growth is a lot of scale and momentum in parts of europe and latin