The Quello Center Advisory Board identified the future of content delivery as one of the Center’s most critical issues for research. Late in 2014, Professor Steve Wildman provided an overview of the prospects for new forms of content delivery to a group of visiting executives. Prior to his lecture, Bill Dutton interviewed him about the key points he planned to cover. You’ve find this video of this interview to be a succinct summary of major issues facing the future of broadcasting and the media more generally. We’d welcome your comments – whether you agree to disagree with the future painted […]
Founded in 1949, the MAB held its 65th Anniversary celebration from 25-27 August at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island. While focused on business meetings and the presentation of awards, there was a substantive afternoon session that provided broad overviews of the landscape for broadcasting. Speakers included Congressman John Dingle, also a Special Honoree, and Senator Gordon Smith, President of the NAB, and David Oxenford, with Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP. US Senator Carl Levin was also a speaker and received MAB’s 2014 Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award. The MAB includes public broadcasting as well as commercial, so a number of awards were […]