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Is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. Host and this week on the communicators we want to introduce you to Shirley Bloomfield who runs an Organization Called the ntca, the Rural Broadband association. Ms. Bloomfield be, what is that group . Guest so thank you for asking, peter. It is a national organization. We represent about 850 communitybased communication providers who actually started off as Telephone Company in areas where the Large Companies chose not to provide serv...

Two 3rds do videos and half does other things. They cover about 40 of the land mass. They are folks who live, work and raise families in communities where they provide communication services. We do everything from training, education and finding ways to create synergy that is hard for small carriers. Host who are your Member Companies and who do they represent . Guest i have carriers in 46 states. I have Community Held companie in iowa. They are folks that provide service to again Rural American...

Grandmother its my Great Fortune to welcome you to this panel, this wonderful discussion well have about the presidency of Richard Nixon and the lessons thin, and im also happy to invite you to a conversation. Well be able to have on that same theme and that same question. Before we get started in ernest, though, it is fitting that we take a moment to remember the space that were in, and who founds it. Tonight we are gathered in at the First Amendment center here at vanderbilt yard which is foun...

Of Columbia University and harry and will viciously attack seth and the book he has produced yourself will get the opportunity to defend himself. There we will take some questions from the audience and follow that same procedure. All right. Seth . Thank you dan for the introduction. And for inviting me. And this is a book everybody lies. It is about five years of research i have been doing. So i will describe what it is. And for the last 80 years if you want to know, what people want, why people...

Depending on things. It is not an uncommon place for me. What i feel and what i hope we will have Going Forward is the need to really address the communications of this nation. There is a lot of work to do when it comes to broadband coverage, mobile coverage is something i care about in particular. Really connecting communities and really bridging these digital divides. Those are the things that i care about and i trust that those will not have partisan leanings. Host peter slen do you plan on s...

What are your biggest concerns . Guest number one. Great to be here today. People have been talking about this a lot over the past week 1 2 or two or three, whos counting . But it is not a positionim unfamiliar with. As you know, i spent 11 years on my state Public Utility Commission in South Carolina and if you know anything about South Carolina it is a state that does not have the political balance on its commission. So i was either one of one or one of, one of seven or, two of seven depending...

From june, a discussion with u. S. Trade representative on the Transpacific Partnership agreement and that is followed by a look at terrorism in russia. Cspan2, created by americas Cable Companies 35 years ago and brought to you as a Public Service by your local cable or satellite provider. Host congress pickering, what is your organization . Guest it was founded 35 years ago. 1981, and what was happening in 1981 . Should we have a big monopoly or open it up to competition . Comtel was the found...

Great columnist wrote a piece saying, isnt it time we change some of these rules . I felt it was a bit of moving on up for women. What excuse did they give . Because i was a woman. They just didnt have women in the press box. They used to say that if a woman was on a ship, it was bad news for the ship. I have no idea, but they just banned them. There were a lot of places that banned women. In the press club, the women had to sit in the back when they were interviewing somebody or somebody was gi...