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Media and Telecommunications
Worldwide, the pace of urbanization is accelerating. Cities Enhanced connectivity, content delivery and interactivity are changing customer behavior and presenting strategic challenges for decision-makers in the media and telecommunications industries. As this brave new world unfolds, service providers and brand-owners face the extraordinary opportunity of harnessing customer relationships with unprecedented customization, richness and
reach in a new era governed by the power of the individual.
PODER analyzes the challenges ahead for traditional media as the sector reinvents itself in order to survive. |
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Above: Alberto Ibargüen, former Publisher of the Miami Herald and president and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; Dan Rather, news anchor for 24 years on CBS and who today directs a current affairs show on HDNet, the high-definition television network owned by billionaire Mark Cuban; Don Browne, president of Telemundo, one of the two largest Hispanic Networks in the U.S.; Alfonso de Angoitia, executive vice president of Grupo Televisa; Enrique Senior, executive vice president and managing director for Allen and Company, the New York-based investment bank; Ralph de la Vega, group president of Regional Telecommunications & Entertainment at AT&T and Jason Pontin, former editor of Red Herring magazine and current editor of the MIT publication Technology Review. |
| Left: Michael Eisner left Disney Co. in October 2005 after more that 20 years as CEO of the country’s biggest entertainment company. His achievements say it all. Between 1984 – the year he landed at Disney – and his departure, Disney’s enterprise value had increased 32-fold from $2.8 billion to $69 billion. Its tax-free cash flow had increased 29 times to $2.9 billion. Today, Eisner remains on the Disney board and he is one of the company’s major shareholders. Eisner is now dedicating most of his time and money to the Internet. |
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