Top Media Execs Headline Cable Show

April 21, 2010 World Screen
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WASHINGTON, D.C./LOS ANGELES: Philippe Dauman, David Zaslav, Jeffrey Bewkes and Brian Roberts are among the leading media executives slated to take part in the general sessions at The Cable Show in Los Angeles next month.

The National Cable & Telecommunications Association’s (NCTA) 59th Annual Convention and International Exposition takes place May 11-13 at the Los Angeles Convention Center and Nokia Theater. The convention co-chairs, Showtime’s chairman and CEO, Matthew Blank, and Time Warner Cable’s chairman, president and CEO, Glenn Britt, will welcome the opening general session on May 11 at 1:30 at the Nokia Theater. The theme of Storytelling 3.0: Audiences, Creators, Content & Connection will be discussed by Britt; Dauman, president and CEO of Viacom; Zaslav, president and CEO of Discovery Communications; Kevin Tsujihara, president of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group; and Patrick Esser, president of Cox Communications.
 
The second general session, on Wednesday at 9:15 a.m., will be on the topic of Media Everywhere: Implications of the Always-On Network. The panelists are Bewkes, the chairman and CEO of Time Warner; Roberts, chairman and CEO of Comcast Corporation; Leslie Moonves, the president and CEO of CBS Corporation; Stacey Snider, the co-chairman and CEO of DreamWorks Studios; and Marc Andreessen, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz.
 
The third general session on Thursday at 9 a.m., will see Julius Genachowski, chairman of FCC, interviewed by Kyle McSlarrow, president and CEO of the NCTA. Then, Showtime’s Blank will moderate a panel under the theme of Conversation 2.0: Community, Collaboration & the Future of Media, featuring Ari Emanuel, CEO of William Morris Endeavor Entertainment; Amy Pascal, co-chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment and chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment Movie Picture Group; Tom Rogers, CEO and president of TiVo; Thomas Rutledge, COO of Cablevision Systems Corporation; and Evan Williams, founder and CEO of Twitter.