Leslie Moonves (Chairman, CBS / Co-President & Co-COO, Viacom) keynotes at the 2004 Event

November 16-17, 2006
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NYU Stern School of Business
40 W 4th Street, NY, NY

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The Boston Consulting Group is an international strategy and general management consulting firm whose mission is to help leading corporations create and sustain competitive advantage. As a truly international firm, our strong global presence offers clients and employees a wealth of cross-cultural experience.


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Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz celebrates more than 25 years as a leading media, entertainment, and advertising law firm. We represent some of the world’s best-known publishers, producers, directors, distributors, celebrities, writers, athletes, financiers, online content and service providers, and many of the foremost advertising agencies, communications companies, and corporate brands. Our broad-based practice comprises fourteen practice groups and includes sophisticated intellectual property, commercial litigation, securities fraud, and white collar defense capabilities.

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IBB Consulting Group has contributed to many of the industry’s most significant initiatives. We are known for working closely with senior leadership and coordinating complex, cross-divisional initiatives.

Our team of senior industry insiders and consultants, each with 10-20+ years of experience, guide projects from strategic analysis and business model definition to design of technical architectures. We manage product development through the definition, design, trial and launch phases.

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Multichannel News reaches 18,800 industry professionals in the cable television business with an editorial focus on programming, advertising, marketing, finance, technology, broadband, and government activities for the worldwide cable television and telecommunications industries. Its readers include executives at Cable television Networks, Multiple Cable System Operators (MSOs), Independent Cable System Operators, Satellite and Wireless companies, telcos, and suppliers of technology equipment for the cable industry. Through exclusive partnerships with trade associations and the development of awards recognizing excellence in the television business, Multichannel News is recognized as the industry leader in its respective marketplace.

Broadcasting and Cable magazine (B&C), is the leading voice of the television industry, serving the broadcast, cable and program syndication communities on a weekly basis. The publication celebrates its 75th anniversary in 2006. B&C’s editorial covers the entire spectrum of broadcast, cable, satellite, telco, multimedia, broadband, and other emerging technologies. It provides its readers and advertisers with a trusted, authoritative and respected environment to build their brands and enhance their position in the marketplace. B&C’s readers include executives at TV stations, TV networks, cable systems and networks, major media companies, ad agencies, packaged goods manufacturers and professionals in the government sector related to the television industry including Congress and the FCC. In addition to a weekly publication serving 23,528 subscribers, B&C also delivers electronics news through its website broadcastingcable.com, plus a daily e-mail newsletter, as well as multiple category specific e-mail newsletters.



In these rapidly changing times, every day brings new challenges, concerns and opportunities to cable and broadband executives. In just minutes, CableFAX Daily provides timely and concise reporting of the industry’s latest mergers and acquisitions, personnel changes, technology breakthroughs, programming choices, regulations and more.

CableFAX Daily is an essential business tool packed with information and just the right amount of “attitude.” Delivered via fax or email each day, top executives stay plugged in to the latest developments with cable’s most respected daily news source.

Now in its 76th year, The Hollywood Reporter covers the business of the entertainment industry via a network of media outlets. They include the print daily and weekly editions, the web site, various electronic-media offerings and high-profile events such as the Key Art Awards and Women in Entertainment.

The Reporter’s team of reporters and news editors number more than 60, with representatives in most of the world’s major cities.

The Reporter is published by VNU Group B.V., a global information and media company whose trade publications include Billboard and Adweek. VNU also owns the media research specialist ACNielsen. VNU was acquired in May 2006 by Valcon Acquisition B.V., a group of private equity investors.

Business Wire is a trusted information source that disseminates full-text news announcements from thousands of companies and organizations worldwide to news media, financial markets, disclosure systems, investors, information web sites, databases and other audiences.

The new century is upon us and new media are here to stay. Both creatively and from a business perspective, new media content and planning must be made part of traditional production cycles, budgets and marketing, and not considered an after-thought.

To address this inevitability, the PGA New Media Council is comprised of highly qualified experts in every aspect of new media production -- including DVD production, broadband and mobile entertainment, interactive television, and console and PC gaming.

We are here to provide leadership, serve as a much-needed resource to the community, and offer educational, advisory, and networking opportunities for all members of the Producers Guild, regardless of media

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Founded in 1986, Parks Associates creates research capital for companies ranging from Fortune 500 to small start-ups through market reports, multiclient studies, consumer research, workshops, executive conferences, and custom-tailored client solutions.

Parks Associates hosts several fall events and co-hosts CONNECTIONS™ and CONNECTIONS™ Europe (in partnership with the Consumer Electronics Association) each year. www.parksassociates.com

The television business is changing daily. Emerging technology and extraordinary use of ordinary technologies are announced everyday. There are more ways then ever before to get connected: HDTV, digital television (SD), cell phones (3G), PDA’s, personal computers, TiVo, PVR’s, Broadband, Cable, Addressable Advertising, Time-shifted TV and much, much more. If it shows images and plays sound and it’s new, it’s Advanced Media!

The Advanced Media Committee of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences studies the commercial and technological potential of dvanced media and emerging technology — make recommendations to the Board of Trustees for strategy and steering, and to create events which encourage and facilitate dialogue between industry professionals.

 
 




Mark Cuban (Chairman, HDNet / Owner, Dallas Mavericks) keynotes at the 2003 Event


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