Americas Cable Companies. The, a discussion on the changing landscape of television, technology, and the internet. Then new york city mayor bill de blasio unveils what he is calling a Progressive Agenda to combat inequality. After that, former transportation secretary host an event on a longterm infrastructure funding. Then a Senate Hearing on technology aimed at helping to secure u. S. Borders. Sunday night on cspans q a, veteran canadian astronaut produced many videos on his activities on the International Space station and shares scientific and personal aspects of life in space. The only time i felt fear was on the dark side of the earth looking at the one side of australia in the darkness and watching a shooting star come in between me and the europe. And the earth. At first i had the reaction of wishing upon a star and then realized it was a huge rock on the universe going 20 miles a second, that ms. Us missed us. It was big enough that you could see it, if it hit us, we would have been dead. Sunday night at 8 00. Next, a discussion on the changing landscape of television, technology, and the internet. Industry leaders spoke on the latest innovations and gave their insight on what the future may hold for consumers. Held at the internet and tv expo in chicago, this is one hour 20 minutes. You may be wondering what these chairs are doing here. We decided to do Something Different with the association. Michael, i know last year put on a show. This year, he thought he would snatch at the whole thing or perhaps periscope it. I know you do not want another powerpoint, as exciting as those can be. We decided to do an actual interview with a real reporter me, and i play one on tv, on hbo. We will do an interview and later do a bunch of interviews. Peter cost the, who works will be interviewing figures. We wanted to start off by talking to michael. I brought my own chairs, the red chairs of the code conference. Before that many people have sat in these chairs. Including, steve jobs, bill gates, president obama. We thought it appropriate we put michael on the hot seat to begin the show. Michael, come on out. [applause] were you scared . No. We have them clean. Some of those internet billionaires can be messy. We will talk about a range of things today and all kinds of things that have happened in the cable industry. Lets start off with the concepts of what youre trying to change. The industry is changing rapidly and suddenly more than it seems, especially with the digital challenges you are facing. The central reason we branded this show, if i were to put it in a sentence, peripheral vision. I think video has become so much more dimensional, much more textural and there is this vaccinating intersection of television and technology brought about by internet personality, and wireless internet functionality and wireless. It was time to look beyond the industrys traditional bounds and players and invite them and include them and show the attempts to be a seminal place to have a conversation about trends taking place in this exciting time. This internet thing has been a big deal with the kids for a while. People seem to be using these crazy technologies. When you talk about peripheral vision, is that enough . What is happening now has been happening for a while, in the music industry, all kinds of industries have been disrupted. Even in san francisco, the food industry, due to technology. Have they responded quickly enough . The people are talking about millennium millennials cutting cable. It needs to be with more urgency. We are seeing leads and transformation as children who have grown up begin to move into the older generations and they are setting the tone for a new kind of behavior that is nontraditional. When i look at kids today, i think you can get fascinated by the technology but should look at behavior. Teenagers are doing the same things they have always done passionate about community their friends, passionate about watching each other and building a friendship friendship surround that. What is coming into their world is the ability to have real life entertainment, to have the video or moving pictures, people doing things profound and idiotic. They are able, through the creation of new screens and devices, and a connective tissue to the internet to continuously plugged in to their friends and community. What is impeding the Traditional Television is real life. The ability to document, share. What happens to an industry in that situation if people are not linking to cable, not having a relationship with cable, they have bad feelings toward it or do not use it. My kids watch they have a different attitude towards things and my son was 4, we bought a new large television, when he got home he started hitting it. I thought he had mental problems. I said what are you doing . He said, it does not move, it does not do what i wanted to do. My older son, vine is entertainment, now his parents coping all the time. Have you meet that challenge when the behaviors change so rapidly . The first thing you have to be thoughtful about is to go to the physical locations they are going. For the better part of Television History there was one consumer Electronic Device that was central to being able to consume content and it was the television set. And recent studies have shown real declines in people watching on that vehicle. It is been in the last decade that we have had had it kids smartphones, tablets laptops,. What is missed is intimate streams, meaning my kids can come up cuddle up. One of the things cable has tried to do is report their content into those devices. That is the first step that is important. You have to think about how you exist as a companion to the self published selfcreated content. That lives on the internet and if you want to be a part of that experience or companion to that experience, i do not think it is enough to have a completely changed ecosystem. You will see more integration. A lot of people periscopeing game of thrones, and the ceo of twitter talking about what a victory it was, seemingly. Do you look at that as a they drink the ability to live stream anything you want and reach the other day i did with my lunch and got 5000 viewers. A gripping episode of strips out of. Shrimp salad. It does create problems for the industry. A lot more people watched it because of that. The way i think about disruptions is they come with good and an element of bad. Like all things. The good is an amazing experience and what you can have a dynamic spontaneous experience with people from around the world who are document in and cataloging evidence you would never had access to. What comes with that is in the instance youre talking about the opportunity to violate intellectual property and copyrights. Opportunity to frustrate models that have been built. A lot of people have invested in those fighters were paid hundreds of millions of dollars on the Television Rights associated with funding that fight. The second thing that i find to be worrisome is what privacy means in a space like that . I have been playing with periscope and staff chat stuff and im intrigued by, the people being caught. The people who didnt agree to be broadcast, having a drink or doing something else. Society will be working through the meaning of that for a long time. That has a negative side. What companies will be important . You talk about bringing Digital Companies and is it google with the ability to do a lot about things, or amazon, or apple . I do not know if i would say who is the most powerful, i think google, you have to follow, not only because of their dominant position in the search ecosystem, they are how we mostly fine things and always looking for ways to index tax and identified anything in the digital space. Through their algorithms. That is a powerful function. The youtube property is fascinating. The first time i ever saw a youtube with my 12 euros my 12yearold showed it to me and i was amazed. You look at the soaring of video clips and miniseries and shows i think it is something to watch. I think amazon, for a similar reason, what i am intrigued by i both of those companies, the video is not necessarily their primary business. They are using video to drive very profitable businesses. Amazon want you to be a prime consumer and by my shaving cream as well as watch a television show. They can take certain risks burn money in certain ways that would be harder for a traditional company. They are not very profitable. The market lets them take risks, that if you are an incumbent company it would be harder to get market permission to take those risks. You have to watch the real ground up digital destructors you have not seen the discovery functions on snap chat and have never played with vine, you only to yourself to look. There is amazing creativity going on, i do not know how much of a business it is, i know it is meaningfully you would be bullish not to be an observer of. Foolish. Watching people fall down. When you are in this environment, what is the modern Cable Network look like and what does the modern Cable Company look like . At some point it will be the dumb pipes if the connectivity is important and everything thrives on top of that. The first thing cable distribution is about, the countries leader in the broadband infrastructure. As the demands for video disruptive applications soar the nexus of high quality, increasing capacity, heavily invested in, will be easier. The greatest ship the cable industry has as distributors is providing that infrastructure and growing it, currently at a rate of 50 increase of speed per year, 60 billion last year alone in investments 16 billion. That will be an important part of the cable business. I think we should not declare its demise prematurely. There are 102 million cable multichannel subscriber households in the country, that will not drop down to five overnight. There are high quality premium programming and live events that continue to be driven by an interceptor that has a proprietary quality of Service Service commitment that a cable infrastructure does. The internet is wonderful, but you get what you get, as sling discovered. When it had congestion problems, when you get a huge man did it had legal problems as well. Your bits are competing with all kinds of other debts. There is not a lot of permission to manage them in any kind of priority. There will be needs for high quality proprietary networks that can take advantage. Customer Service Issues customers liking the internet. Net neutrality had a lot to do with that, as customers they played that well. Sure they did. I am a Firm Believer that words and messages do not work if they are not like. When i was in the army, patton said, i do not have to be like to lead, that is foolish. You have to be well regarded by your Customer Base and have a trusted relationship. If that is fragrant guest fragrant, you are right for policy i think the good news, the industry is highly conscious of that problem. They are selfaware. They are not delusional. There are very important, committed efforts to change that perception over time, improve the quality of the product and improve the experience. What they have to recognize is that even if you are proving at a rate of three times, the consumer has expectations increasing faster. One thing the internet has done is raise the expectation of consumers in a way they consume digital content, they wanted here, now, on any device, reliable innovate every six months, not every 18 months. If you will be in the game, you have to have goals twice as fast. I was on a plane yelling about the internet and activity. Connectivity. You are not if it is not fast enough. That is what people expect. When you are looking outward, we have a few more minutes. When you look outward at the industry what is there a cable industry i know you you put the x on the end and it is a nice looking better modern. Looking letter. Look at that . We use a slash. Punctuation is everything. Should it be called a cable industry . It is sort of like saying we are a motorized horse . A driverless car . That is an opportunity for you, you can text, drink, and watch television. I turned on the local news in las vegas and the only thing they were talking about is whether the open carry law should be eliminated and a driverless car. Leave it to vegas to be ahead of banks. Is a great question. I hate the name. I think it has a proud history but it needs to be retired. You are past can be part of your glory and a weight around your ankle. With new challenges, and i think it does not fairly capture what they do. This industry has successfully deployed the most sophisticated infrastructure in the history of the world and the fastest amount of time in any technology in the world. It increases the capacity to do that. It should be more centered around the future associated with the internet and less in the minds of consumers with great descriptions it made what it revolutionized tv, and i think that is a cultural change. It matters what you look like, not what you call yourself. It matters that i did not wear my tie. A huge move. That was mark zuckerberg. My last question. What do you think what would you like to see invented . Give me a prediction of the most eyepopping . Holographics. I think there will be a day where it pays are played out in three dimension. Few have to be dismembered . [laughter] you get to play with them. I hope that is after me. Thank you. Thank you for coming. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the chairman and ceo of comcast corporation, Brian Roberts. Great to be back and hearing michael talk about how not to wear a tie. Here we are. You are who you are. We had earnings yesterday at comcast, we had a terrific quarter, i want to thank our team, got a lot of momentum. Let me address my friends at time warner cable, and say thank you very much, you are completely gracious, same with charter, a we are moving on. Being here today allows us to show you what we have been cooking up in the labs. I am excited to show you a few things and invite you to come to the floor of the convention and see live firsthand a fabulous booth. The cloud has changed everything. It allows us to keep innovating at a pace that is unprecedented for our industry. We will not call ourselves the cable industry. Here is the x1 operating system, clean, simple, elegant. You have the save features, new enhancements they are. On demand continues to grow and get better and usage is incredible. We have had 38 billion orders since we launched ondemand. Search is what i want is show you today. The key as the constant quantity increases, we are up to Something Like 2. 4 million searches everyday using x1, and we have apps and we will expand that. Today, i am excited to say we are officially launching the Voice Control remote. Let me explain what that means it takes search to a whole new level. There are no extra charge to have a voice remote. We hope we purchased 5 million to 6 million devices alone and if you are a customer at the convention, come by our booth and we will get you a voice remote and you can take it home or we will send it to. There is more than 3 million commands possible, just the beginning. We have shown you changing channels and searching by name, we are now taking voice to a new level. Today, june to any movie, a what if you cannot remember the name of the movie . You can say life is like a box of chocolates, and it will figure that out my mama always said life was like a box of chocolate. Tom hanks looks a lot younger than, so you can say, how old is tom hanks . We built search box and allie into the remote search functionality into the remote. The next thing if you are working on find the forest gump running scene. This would involve working with content companies that could take you right to the section of the movie where the show or sporting event you want to do. Great song, what is this song . I was 17 i dont know where to run to the product continues to come with new ways to allow you to enjoy one show, getting answers. Our people at the lab have been amazing. Show me the comcasttime warner cable merger. It down. Get down. [applause] that pretty much sums it up. We are moving on. Let me switch gears. Lets show something completely different available for parents and their children. If you say, go to kids mode using your Voice Control, you are in a zone completely safe for any child under 12 years old. If you pick a show, i will pick icarly we have a Wonderful Partnership with common sense media, you can have the specifics of that show, see what age is appropriate. From here, i could say create an icarly playlist. This is a new feature we are working on that shows you could send set for your children, a whole set nation of shows and pick a different episode, let it play, and he episode begins to play. If you leave and your kids want to switch out of safe zone, you will need a password. All easy for customers, within their control and using voice. You are happy with that and want to go back and watch a movie. Pull up jurassic park. Continue watching. The movie begins and you get a notification that says, someone is at the door. You click and the camera comes up. You can activate the door lock and someone can come in. We think that is really cool and have been saying, ok, where do we take this as we have integrated it and have more features. Today, we are announcing taking the platform to a new level and working with third parties to try to help integrate it and make it easier for consumers using, using voice or your mobile app. We have a partnership with a company where all of their lighting and home controls will be available on your app. The same with nest, where your thermostat it will revolutionize that. And with other devices. August lock, which is making locks cool. You can use one at an it will control any device, including our devices or the third party devices. We are also focused on Customer Experience. We talked about x1, and others. We want to make the Customer Experience the number one priority and our best product we have taken a lot of the innovation and are putting it over here. Let me tell you some of the things we will announce and we will be doing a precedent later on. The goal is to make it easy for customers to do business with us, easier than ever before. It starts right here with my account app. We have added a feature called text tracker, it lets you know in real time, that james is 15 min