Competition, Diversity, and Innovation in the Video Marketplace

Media Bureau
Federal Communications Commission
Monday, March 21, 2016
10 am -- 4 pm
http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2016/db0301/DA-1...
Agenda: http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2016/db0311/DA-1...

On Monday, March 21, 2016, the FCC’s Media Bureau will host the first of two workshops to examine competition, diversity, and innovation in the video marketplace. The first workshop will feature several panels that will explore marketplace trends as well as challenges faced by distributors of video programming.

10:00 am – 10:15 am Opening Remarks: Tom Wheeler, Chairman, FCC

10:15 am – 10:30 am Introduction: William Lake, Chief, Media Bureau

10:30 am – 11:45 am Panel 1: Evolution of the Video Marketplace and the Future of Television

Panelists:
Richard Greenfield, Managing Director and Media Analyst,
BTIG

Bruce Leichtman, President and Principal Analyst,
Leichtman Research Group

Eli Noam, Professor of Finance and Economics,
Columbia University

Marci Ryvicker, Managing Director,
Wells Fargo Securities

11:45 am – 12:00 pm Q&A Session

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch

1:00 pm – 2:15 pm Panel 2: Challenges Faced By Multichannel Video Programming Distributors

Panelists:

Tasneem Chipty, Managing Principal,
Analysis Group

Todd Juenger, Vice President, Senior Analyst, US Media,
Sanford Bernstein

Dan Vincent, Professor, Department of Economics,
University of Maryland

Ali Yurukoglu, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Business,
Stanford University

2:15 pm – 2:30 pm Q&A Session

2:30 pm – 2:45 pm Break

2:45 pm – 3:45 pm Panel 3: Challenges Faced by Online Video Distributors

Panelists:

Mark Fratrik, Senior Vice President,
BIA/Kelsey

Jeffrey Prince, Associate Professor of Business Economics and Public
Policy, Indiana University

Alejandro Zentner, Associate Professor of Managerial Economics,
University of Texas-Dallas

3:45 pm – 4:00 pm Q&A Session