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Analysts:
- Raymond
L. Gifford (Moderator), PFF Senior Adjunct
Fellow and Partner, Kamlet, Shepherd &
Reichert
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Aryeh B. Bourkoff, Managing Director,
Media/Communications/Entertainment Equity
& Fixed Income Research, UBS Investment
Research
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Blair Levin, Managing Director, Telecommunications,
Tech and Media Regulatory Analyst, Stifel
Nicolaus & Co.
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Craig E. Moffett, Vice President and Senior
Analyst, U.S. Cable and Satellite Broadcasting,
Sanford C. Bernstein & Co.
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Brian Roberts
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On
September 21, 2006, PFF featured a luncheon with
Brian Roberts, Chairman and CEO of Comcast Corporation,
and Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens.
The CEO Luncheon, the 9th luncheon hosted by The
Progress & Freedom Foundation, focused on
the topics of competition and convergence in communications
and related legislative reform efforts. Following
remarks from Roberts was a question-and-answer
session between Roberts and a panel of financial
analysts.
Brian
L. Roberts is Chairman and CEO of Comcast Corporation,
one of the nation's leading providers of cable,
entertainment and communications products and
services. Mr. Roberts is also Chairman of the
Board of Directors of the National Cable &
Telecommunications Association (NCTA) and previously
served as Chairman of NCTA from 1995 to 1996,
when the landmark deregulatory 1996 Telecommunications
Act became law.
Stevens
holds the title of Senate President Pro Tempore
and is third in line for succession to the presidency.
He became Chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science
and Transportation Committee in January of 2005,
and previously he had been Chairman of the Senate
Appropriations Committee. He has also chaired
the Senate's Ethics, Rules, and Governmental Affairs
Committees. He has served in the Senate for 37
years, the longest of any current Republicans.
This Progress and
Freedom Foundation event will be archived in Real
Player and Windows Media Player. For more information
or technical difficulties please call 703-961-9250
x229, or email [email protected].
About
The Progress & Freedom Foundation
The Progress & Freedom Foundation is a market-oriented
think tank that studies the impact of the digital
revolution and its implications for public policy.
The Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization
founded in 1993.
About
TV Worldwide
As a leading global Internet broadcasting and streaming
media company, TV Worldwide (www.tvworldwide.com)
is developing a network of video channels that is
an affiliation of community-based Internet television
stations, each underwritten by a strategic partner,
"aimcasting" SM to targeted demographic audiences
worldwide. TVWorldwide.com works with strategic
partners to develop the latest in live and archived
state-of-the art video streaming content applications.
TVWorldwide.com was recently named one of the streaming
video industry's "Hottest Streaming Companies” by
Streaming Magazine, www.streamingmagazine.com,
and CEO Dave Gardy was honored by the magazine as
one of the 50 Most Influential People in Streaming
Media. Mr. Gardy currently serves as the president
of the International Webcasting Association (IWA).
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