With 4G LTE networks that offer speeds comparable...
With 4G LTE networks that offer speeds comparable to Wi-Fi on-the-go, “the future of any content, anywhere, anytime is right here, right now,” said FCC acting Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn. “These technical changes have been massively disruptive for both the news…
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and entertainment media, creating real challenges,” she said Tuesday at a Media Institute event in Washington for Freedom of Speech Week. Digital piracy has cost intellectual property creators billions of dollars, she said. “With subscribers shifting to online alternatives, and with advertisers doing the same, cash-strapped newsrooms laid off 13,400 reporters in the preceding four years.” There also are opportunities in the digital age, she said. Digital technology enables more piracy, “but it also enables the creation and consumption of massive amounts of entertainment,” like content via on-demand and streaming media platforms, she said. “No one should be left unable to access the fruits of tomorrow’s journalism or the many other benefits of the Information Age.” NAB President Gordon Smith received the American Horizon Award. House Communications Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden, R-Ore., who introduced Smith, credited him with urging broadcasters to embrace mobile DTV, allowing them to deliver broadcast signals to consumers wherever they are: “As consumers’ appetite for local TV on-the-go continues, Gordon has urged broadcasters … to meet the consumers’ desire for more live and local TV content.” Many broadcasters risk life and limb to cover emergency situations, said Smith. Whether it’s the telephone, Internet or cable business, “everything that we do drips with constitutional implications,” he said. AMC Networks CEO Josh Sapan also attended the event and received the Freedom of Speech Award.