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In 1979, cspan was created as a Public Service by americas Cable Television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. Host and this week on the communicators we want to introduce you to bob quinn, Senior Executive Vice President for external and legislative affairs for the at t corporation. Mr. Quinn, thats a lot of title. What does it entail . [laughter] guest well, at at t that would entail i run the regulatory shop for both the state and federal operations. Yo...

Federal operations and we do business in 50 states, so we have interactions with commissions across the country. We have those interactions that are pretty significant. I also run a Public Policy organization, and i run both at the state and federal efforts. We also have International Interest as you are probably yoy aware when we acquired directv, we acquired an ongoing satellite business. It is by a large wireless provider in mexico and we have a satellite business in mexico. We have an enterp...

In 1979, cspan was created as a Public Service and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. Host it is november 4, 2013. Tom wheeler [captions copy right National Cable satellite corp. 2017] the term comes to an end on january 20. Wheeler, during your tenure what did you get right . I hope that what we did was, we said that our job is to be the publics representative. In a rapidly changing technological environment, which is affecting the way in which everybody deals with the...

Publics representative. In a rapidly changing technological environment. Which is affecting the way in which everybody deals with the networks that connect us. And at the heart of that was consumers and competition should come first. How did that manifest . I think you can look at a list of things. You know, we of course had the open internet order. Which says that the internet should be fast, fair and open for everyone. We established privacy rules for networks as far as their relationship, for...

So the odds are that as we speak, he somewhere in the air, going to australia or china for israel or france. He is constantly on the road. We are out of time. This is a memoir called never look an american in the eye. Thank you very much. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] for free transcripts or to give us your comments about this q a. O...

Do you do for a living . Guest i worked for at t. Im Senior Executive Vice President for external and legislative affairs come at least for two more weeks post back what does all that mean transferring it means im in charge of at ts regulatory and legislative and Public Policy globally. Host youre based in washington. What is at t, what does it do try very well, i think most people class us as a Telecommunications Company but, frankly, in many ways it become an Internet Services company, unlike ...

Pay television provider, not just in the United States, but in latin america as well. It is a Premium Service that we feel we can marry up with at ts Broadband Internet can abilities to deliver a bundle to the American People that they are really going to like. We are rolling out some of those services now, taking a lot of the directv Video Services online through apps, and you will see more later in the year on that. As a Senior Executive Vice President of external legislative affairs, what are...

Honor to be director of ronald regan foundation. Please stand and join me for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the floog of flag of the United States of america, to which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty just and justice for all. Please be seated. Before we get started tonight, i would like to recognize one person in particular in the audience his name is ben sutton. Ben, thank you for coming. [applause] the matter one might practice to introduce a famo...

Theres a picture of the headquarters. I show you in the photographs here, you can see the way they look at the national what archi. When i say cut and paste, they literally did. You can hold these up and can see what the original plans were. You see which part of the attack plan evolved and what was more important. These are tucked into these folders and theyre all in George Marshalls handwriting. He would write memo to staff and change orders and he was very, very much the architect of the plan...

Joining us first is representative bob latta, republic of ohio. I want to start with what the house did just very recently, and that was reauthorizing the Satellite Television extension and localism act. What is that, first of all . Guest every five years that has to be reauthorized. What that is is, again, what it is, its for satellite. Folks out there who get their tv from satellite, we had to get this thing done by the end of year. If we didnt, we have about 1. 5 million americans who would n...