Study Group: FCC Television and Cable Experts: Lawyers(?)
Council Members in this Study Group: 40
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Leading Experts in this Study Group
Dana Frix
Partner and Co-Chair, Telecom, Media & Technology
Chadbourne & Parke LLP
Dana Frix is Partner and Co-Chair of the Communications, Media and Technology Practice at Chadbourne & Parke in Washington, D.C. He focuses on corporate, regulatory and antitrust matters involving CMT companies. Mr. Frix also advises clients with regard to administrative and civil litigation matters...
Kathleen AbernathyPartner
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Kathleen Q. Abernathy is the Partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in Washington, DC, where she advises clients on a wide variety of policy and regulatory issues related to the telecommunications and media fields. Previously, she served as Commissioner at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)....
Harold Furchtgott-RothPresident
FURCHTGOTT-ROTH ECONOMIC ENTERPRISES
Harold Furchtgott-Roth is the President and Founder of Furchtgott-Roth Economic Enterprises in Washington, DC, where he consults on issues related to the communications sector of the economy. Previously, he was a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute where he completed the writing of...
President
Lathen Consulting, LLC
Deborah Lathen is President of Lathen Consulting in Washington, DC, where she specializes in providing services to telecommunications and media companies. She also serves as a Non-Executive Director of the Board of Directors of British Telecom. Previously, Ms. Lathen worked at the Federal Communications...
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Cable companies will continue to lose subscribers to AT&T and Verizon. They will have to share more of their programming with their competitors on nondiscriminatory terms and the FCC will scrutinize their deals much more closely than it has in the past. Comcast will be barred from acquiring any...
Implications are that Verizon is making progress in freeing up the MDU market which in New York according to Clinton accounts for 20 million people. This means as I previously stated Verizon will target Cable's premium customers. The Clinton letter of support is good news for Verizon and...
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