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The Hottest Operators: 2008 Top Ops Awards
In the past we’ve honored the MSO of the Year and the Independent Operator of the Year, and left it at that. We’re expanding on that tradition for this summertime edition of CableFAX: The Magazine — there is just too much good work being done by operators to limit our Top Ops Awards to two companies. If we had done so, we wouldn’t have had the opportunity to talk with Jerry McKenna about the integration of sales and marketing at Cable One, or with Amy Tykeson about being both a leading voice for the cable industry in D.C. and a leader of an innovative independent operator, or with Pragash Pillai about small MSOs’ small margin for error when launching new...more»
Indie Best Community Service: Advanced Cable Communications How involved is Advanced Cable in its community? Enough for Coral Springs, Fla., to pronounce April 2008 Advanced Cable Month in honor of the operator’s 30th anniversary. The designation grabbed our attention. "There has been so much consolidation in the cable industry down here," notes Advanced VP/GM Jim Pagano. "In the ’80s...more»
Indie Best Community Service: Massillon Cable TV Cable operators often reach out to their communities with one-off or short-term events. Not Massillon Cable. In fact Massillon gets the nod from us for community service largely because 2007 marked the 15th anniversary of its Downtown Fun Fest. Staged in the operator’s home town of Massillon, Ohio, the festival has ballooned from a handful of booths...more»
CableFAX: The Magazine's 2008 Top 10 Places to Work in Cable We’ve all seen the headlines telling us that jobs are being lost like hair off the head of a hedge fund swindler on the lam. A July 3 New York Times headline...more»
Indie Lifetime Achievement Top Ops Award: Steve Weed, CEO, Wave Broadband This has been a benchmark year for Steve Weed. Wave Broadband celebrated its five-year anniversary and obtained a statewide franchise in California, the only cable...more»
MSO Best Community Service (system) Top Ops Award: Cox Arizona/Cox 7 Arizona Cable operators really had the misfortune to be the early leader in the pay TV game. If they’d followed satellite or the telcos, perhaps consumers would be cursing...more»
MSO Tech Innovation Top Ops Award: Pragash Pillai, VP, Strategic Engineering, Bresnan Communications Content is not king — not when it comes to the nitty-gritty competition among cable operators, satellite, the telcos and Internet and wireless distributors...more»
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