President of the cox communication. That is followed by a Research Analyst interview. Here is john skipper up first. What is the biggest competition for espn and in 510 years now what do you see as the biggest competition . There is a lot of competition and always have been. The leagues have their own networks. A lot of attention is playing because fox sports is going to have a new station and nbc launched one a year and a half ago. There are conference networks. Turner, cbs and we have a lot of competition and mostly competition for programming right or talent for advertising dollars and eye balls as well. Where does it go from here . Oh, i think it will get more complicated and competitive. Everybody understand that sports and live sports is the sweet spot of media and almost the only thing you have to watch live. And it might be social media sites doing tweeting about sports. Other Cable Networks and everybody understands the rights are valuable. And espn available on all devices . Yes, it is. The Perfect Question for me because the answer is yes. This goes back to live. If you have to watch it live, it is best to be in your living room with a big 70inch screen in front of you. But if you are in the office for the world cup you watch it on the computer. At a picnic you watch it on your tablet. Business meeting and you might look at your smart phone and watch there. We were first with the watch espn products. All available on whatever device you would like to watch it on. What about the deal with verizon where you could have Live Streaming that would not count against your cap. That was an exploration and we are looking at being on top of technology. As for people hitting their caps interfering with the ability to get espn, we explored and have not moved forward. We dont anticipate anything imminent. Is there a price point where people will say i cannot afford to pay for supports anymore . If we are highly aware of providing as much to fans as possible. The new College Championship is going to be on espn. All of wimbledon and the u. S. Open will be an espn starting in 2015. The brit british open will be on espn. Sunday night baseball and monday fight football. There is a lot of value. You can check scores on score center apps. We think it is appropriately price and as we survey fans and talk to distributing partners they believe it is adequately priced. What do you think about senator john cains response . I respect what he has done for the country and he has been right often but this is very wrong. This will lead to less choice. It will not lead to les expense for consumers it will lead to more expense because systems will be forced to raise their prices per channel. The channels will go out of business. It will not work. There is another myth that is being per pechated that people are not watching espn. 113 Million People watched or logged on. 88 of all households who get espn watch espn. We are not a niche channel. Go into any bar, airport, dorm ramirez, room and espn is on. We are not a niche channel i talked about a simpler user face. We rolled out a guide called trio. And it is very interesting way to see products in a window pane that is bringing up context viewers love and we put a tracking system that you can like and dislike. You can turn it off if you want, but you on the individual level, not a household level, it knows what you like and gathers that and gives you recommendation. The video ondemand had 20,000 hours and now we have doubled that to 40,000. We are bringing an ip gateway to fixed turners and two terabytes of storage. So we can bring apps to your television that is relative and important to you. And we built a tablet app we called a personal video experience. When you pick it up and tell it who it is it presents in three simple window panes your library, online demand content and other content that is relevant to you. It knows what is in your library and apps. It brings the stuff from the library and sorts it down and brings it to the top. Immediately you have at your finger tips. You can consume it all in your tablet and say i am enjoying this. You can send it to the television and enjoy it. The next person in the household picks it up and they can say i am pat and it will tell you what pat likes and going on to the next user. Very cool. All of the Cable Companies have been using market share for years. This phenomenon of cord cutting that people have been talking about for ten years, at least imparically didnt show up in till the second half of 2010. There was a watershed moment that the rate of subscription growth dropped below the household formation. And that was already suppressed from the great recession. But the paid television subscription growth was lower so you had negative penetration growth and that has now. And it will continue to excel and you have a genuine problem you are seeing unit decline. The Cable Companies share losses meanwhile are moderating a bit but in the context of shrinking so the numbers cannot expect to get much better is that because people are going wireless . The unit growth of the industry is cord cutting. And not in the way of the stereotype which is 30something master of the universe which terrific computer and access to all of the Digital Content at their finger tips. The reality the cord cutter is a low lower level income american who might not have a broadband service. And they are not switching to net flix as much as they are over the air broadcast television because that is all they can afford. So iowa seeing an affordability crisis not so much a Technology Revolution you are finally, when you think about the future of tv, what comes to mind . Well, you used the phrase the future of tv. I dont know if tv is the right phrase anymore. It is the future of video consumption. I suspect that the old adage is everything changes in less than five and more than ten than you would ever expect. Five years from now the world will be dominated by the traditional paid tv package. I think that required a willful ignorance of the eco system to believe that would happen. But it is starting to happen and you are seeing erosion around the edges. Not through a seismic change, but the leakage of people at a slow accumulating rate. Over ten years it will be a large audience the programmers and Entertainment Industry will have to observe and you are somewhere in the range of that. And you are watching the communicators on cspan. This week, we are looking at the future of television. As we continue we will hear next from brian roberts, chairman and ceo and then you will hear from marcus the ceo of time warner you said the video will change more in five than in the last 50 years. What are examples of that . We take ondemand. We started with some content and now we have 40,000 shows ondemand. We have 30 billion downloads of ondemand in ten years. But we have want to go to tablets and phones and integrate the web as well as television and twitter and facebook and social media. It is just exploding because of the Technology Options we have as consumers and different generations of consumers have different passions. We have to keep it simple and we have to recognize we are not all the same so why give one experience. Take the Program Guide we showed today rather than one guide there is six guides. One just for kids. One just for sports. One just for movies. Take the kids you have preschool age or a 10yearold. Parents know if they click 10yearold these shows are guides for 10yearolds. Having that Information Available for a conversation with kids is nice. If you want to take xfinity home and do that with one click of your remote while you are watching television you can do that. You could not do any of that a few years ago and that is the change we are excited about john mccain is talking about his al carte legislation. What is your method . I dont think we would have the diversity of channels. I dont think there would be a cspan if people bought just one channel. But how Many Americans have come upon it . If you buy a newspaper you might not read every article. Many businesses that give you choices. Should we have more packaging flexibility and options for consumers . That is something we have hopeful and we have more packages than every before. And is this a governments role or a negotiation between the contacters and the viewers . This is best served in the business relationships and not in government laws and mandates. But this is an important subject and one we want to be part of the dialogue for. One area that is a focus of time and financial resource is improving the navigation experience. We have had a very broad video offering with hundreds of linear channels and thousands of hours of ondemand. The challenge has been helping viewers find the content. We are demoing the next generation flat platform. The guide uses very rich box art valued added meta data to learn more about the shows they are are watching. An intuitive layout. A great search capability and what i think is cool is based on the show you maybe watching a recommendation of other shows you might be interested in. That combination takes it another level. The user interface is hosted in the cloud and written in a standard programming language. A lot of cable softwear was propriety but now by using standard language we can capitalize on Great Development occurring outside of time warner. There are smart people out there developing apps that make our viewing experience better. We can make modifications and updates in response to consumer feedbacks that can happen overnight with a couple strokes. In the past we had to change 15 million box and not very flexible. I think the new guide and user interphase holds great promise. And among the other things we are demoing is the latest demonstration of twc apps. About a year ago or so we launched an app for originally ios platforms which enables customers to view now 300 linear channels of live video. And about 4,000 hours of vod content on iphones or ipads rendering any screen as a television. Which is cool for the guest room o or if you are in the bathroom and want to watch in there. A subset of that content i just described is now available for customers outside of the home on their ios devices. So we have about 12 linear channels and this is the subject of rights conversation and about a thousand hours of vod content available for customers on the go. We are looking back on the regime dating back to the 1992 cable act and needless to say the competition has changed. The roles we play is different in the social eco system and we think it is time to make a fresh look. So we dont have specific proposals we are advocating, we think it is time for an overall look and the key, i think this is a fundamental principle and we have think it is critical that any regulation of lack there of keeps in mind we need to continue to invest in the physical infrastructure. If we are going to be a world leader in the high speed data with the fastest speed and most capable Access Points it is key the Regulatory Environment fosters as opposed to inhibits further investment in that plan. There is a common misconception that once it is built it is there for the taking. But year after year we have to augment the capacity amount so it can deal with traffic and speed increases would you be in favor of a rewrite of the 1996 telecom act . I think we need to a take a fresh look at the elements of the act to insure the provisions that do survive are ones that are reflective of the current environment which is very different from what existed at the time it was written. What is the future of Video Services for your company . That is a good question when you look at the problems occurring in the market place today. Our members businesses is focused on ahead of broadband and the services we provide are broadband based. Consumers will want to see more video onlines. Many members are engaging in allowing customers to see more online viewing via their online viewing plan. The issues of video and where that goes you will have to ask the big content groups. We believe the video market place is broken. As you can look at any number of disputes that are occurring in the news whether it is cbs, time warner and or any other number of disputes. Amc was claiming that several smaller Cable Operators were going to be dropped because they were not agreeing to the prices amc demanded. It all comes done to bundling. Consumers are starting to move toward online viewing because they say i dont have any choice as a cable or satellite subscriber and i want more choice. We as cable and broadband providers want to give them the chances so we are trying to work with them and give them the choices they want. But it is a huge issue that is not resolved. I can tie this become to 1992 and draw a line from that to the beginning of consolidation to where we have a program that exist where four major groups pay exorbant amounts for the right to pay sports and they all pay for it. 30 of people are real sports fans and the other 70 take it or leave it. It is as a problem that is continuing. Many have predicted the demise of the Video Industry the way it it today. In my view, there is only going to be one party to blame and that is those that own the content. And on the communicators we are focusing on the future of television. At the ces International Show we caught up with joseph taylor, ceo and chairman of panasonic. And we talked to the Vice President of samsung while we were there as well. Your television is the latest innovation. People want their content the way they want it when they want it. They want to be able to communicate with each other. They want to use twitter and see utube and shop. We are enabling that in a custom fashion on your television. There is facial and Voice Recognition when you walk in the room it notes who you are. Is it on the market . It will be this spring 4k is simple. It is four times the resolution of what you have on our Hd Television at home. It has the same qualities as digital cinemas you have been seeing. That is 4k resolution. We had crts for many years. Those are the big ole boxes. Then plasma, led, lcd and the next is oled. It is more organic and it is paper thin and we can bend it. Also, you have to go over to our booth to see it. When you organic, what do you mean . Much Lower Energy Consumption than any other display on the market. Was 3d television successful . It was all of the rage, what happened . It is still developing. There is more and more content coming out. I think the biggest impedeis the glasses. I think 3d without glasses is becoming more imminent with the new 4k. The future of television is getting bigger. It used to be we would say 40 inch was about as big as tvs go in the home. Now we are seeing it is 60 inch and above as the fastest. We are showing 85 inch and 110 inch ultra definition of television. Consumers have warmed up to the big scale televisions. And we see the growth of smart televisions. They used to be separate devices, but now they are internet. More than 60 are being connected to the television. So you can link the television to your smart phone and social media as well. So you are sitting back on the couch watching a Television Program and dont want to miss your social media updates and you can get them on the television. In the next few years big dpreth in the smart televisions growth a lot of talks about tablets and wireless and tv everywhere. How does samsung fit into that picture . We have smart phones, tablets, televisions, computers, appliances and one of the areas we are investing a lot in is the multiscreen connectivitconnecti. How do we link the devices to each other or the cloud . Our galaxy camera is one example of this. A camera now builtin with 3d and 4d technology. You can instantly upload them to a website or social media service. Linking products like that to the internet and to each other is a big opportunity for us. And we think big value for the consumer. You have been watching the communicators on cspan. We have been showing you short portions of interviews we have done. If you would like to see the full interviews go to our website. Booktv is coming up with a look at the Supreme Court. First up is marcia coyle. And then a look at thomas healys look and then interrogation of terror suspects in jess bravins book. Coming up, marcia coyle book the Roberts Court the struggle for the constitution. Thank you for coming. This feels like old home week for be. Being here again and having a chance to chat with marcia coyle. We overlap for 20 Years Supreme Court press room. Boy, are we old. We discussed substance and i hope we do tonight. I will ask you to expand on the title of the book. It isnt who is constitution is it, but who understands the real meaning of the constitution. Right . You framed this marcia made the interesting choice to frame the story of the Robertson Court through the lens of four major cases. One about guns, race, money and health care. It doesnt get much more fundamental for that. You can have lots of struggles in the constitution with those subjects. So elaborate on that a bit more. The struggle is within the court over the meaning and the scope of concern provision in the constitution. It is a struggle outside of the court as well. As i tell the back stories of the four cases i picked to draw the reader through about seven years of the robert court. This is a story about the robert court in general and then story specifically about these four cases. You see the struggle playing out every day over the constitution struggles. I would like to tell you about why i chose the four cases i did. They cover race, guns, money in elections and health care. Initially i was looking to do something i think most Supreme Court books dont always do. Most Supreme Court books focus on the