i thinks so many people get espn and say you have promote competition, and famous for saying it's because no one else looks like us per say but when you look at the aggregate of the components, when you look at each one, competition is fierce and it's just i think it is the monster of the value that the sports genre has to the consumer and driving not only the linear fact points but the other platforms and i think it's also important to note that with the proliferation of the viewership and the consumption beater on computers and internet connected smart phones the consumption of media isn't a zero sum game. it's much more additive and making things like fantasy being able to access content and creating new markets in the time with people's brand it's all getting facts to the court and we are seeing the consumption of

the linear plot form grow as a result. >> the competition for sports rights and the dollars involved with that seems to be in direct competition with consumers who are wanting to pay less and less because they have got so many options. how do you manage that going forward? >> we tried to program esop and across all the platforms with a complement it content that drives the most value that we can and we try to be smart about the investments we make. we don't buy everything. we don't have everything. so, i think we have a very good handle of what is reflected of the value in terms of the relationship with distribution partners but espn has no direct influence in terms of retail pricing to the consumers, so i'm probably not the best person to ask about the retail pricing and the consumers' bills. >> i'm just thinking about all of the device is people are watching things on and having options, and someone used the

expression yesterday trading analog dollars for digital pennies. >> what we are doing is taking the digital times and we are adding them to the analog dollars because you cannot get the espn services on any of these new platforms unless you are a paying video subscriber to a multichannel content company, and you also have, you know, george espn or espn2 you have to have the basic if you want to get four-tuner to. it's all attitude and we are trying to drive the price value relationship and support the entire ecosystem. >> what are you taking away from this, did you learn anything new this year? >> i was encouraged by the interoperability of the devices and encouraged by and the myriad partners in one end and there's

a lot of opportunity to exploit technology from the contant holders perspective to continue to drive the brand of business models and support the distribution partners. >> sean bratches of espn, thank you for standing a few minutes with c-span communicators. >> thank you. nice to have you. good to see you. >> we are on the floor of the cable convention in chicago with the fcc commissioner clyburn. thanks for spending in the net with us. i'm curious about walking around the floor for your eyes as the commissioner what do you see here? >> it's incredible for all of us that any one in america can see a field experience in on the floor. you have programming options on all types of platform options, and that is what we want. we want every single person matter where they are financially, no matter where they are in terms of intellectual engagement to see and people to experience to

entertain and educate them and we've got them at the show. as the man and a society right now it's all about jobs, jobs. in your role as the commissioner, what type of regulatory approach the one to take to encourage the innovation and the self regulatory? >> to make sure we have the right type of balance to make sure we have the right type of regulatory engagement that a person will be comfortable in terms of their interactions especially online and especially with organizations and companies and with companies make sure that we are suggested partners as well as regulators in the process we get the regulatory balance right to encourage innovation, encourage investment, to encourage that type of interaction of the consumer that all of us benefit as the engagement is healthy. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> we are in chicago on the floor of the cable show 2011 and we are with amy tykeson who runs

bin and broadband. >> we serve about 30,000 customers in oregon. we also have a why your list service that serves more of their rural areas. it's a great fixed wireless product, so we are getting broadband out there to those folks who don't have it as well as serving our community. >> i want to ask about a new business as you are getting into the cloud computing service business tell me more about it. >> we are looking for a new network operations center to serve our own needs and at the same time, our area hospital was also looking to do some things differently with their own serving capabilities from the servers standpoint, and moving those needs locally to central oregon, so we, and our discussions and grow so that we could accommodate them and as a result, we also have some other

outside customers in the center including financial institutions and now technology companies in addition to serving our own needs. at the facility is very unique, susan. it's carbon to neutral and as you know data centers are known for being very high and users of power and they've made a lot of efforts and our facilities to make sure that it's a green facility that has some appeal for the customers and we are very excited about it. ..

i think the direction things are going from a stamp line, many businesses are at a point where they are trying to figure out to do with their own server farms and their facilities. they need to upgrade those facilities and do they want to move into a facility like ours, move into the cloud, or send the resources on? we are very excited to be on the front edge of this with technology that is very efficient, and secure it and save. we also have tier 3 uptime institute rating, which really talks about how reliable the facility is and i think we are the only one in oregon to have both the operation and the design of a tier 3 rating. we are very excited about the opportunity. >> host: how many new jobs did you create? >> guest: we created 10 new jobs with this investment in our

region and i think it is a nice piece of the economic puzzle for our region to attract businesses into the area to get experience with some of the benefits that central oregon offers to businesses without relocating there. >> host: let me move because i know your time and chart here. you run the board of the national cable television association and sponsor the cable show. you have been to a few of these. what are you are sensing on the floor this year that is new and different? what is the message coming out of the show? >> guest: susan you are right. i have been coming to these for about 30 years and i have to say the energy is terrific. it is terrific. i think it has to do with a lot of the excitement around the new services that we are offering. tv everywhere, kind of the conversion to our sector with new competition, new opportunities, new ways to engage with our customers through video experiences that maybe they haven't had before.

so we are really delighted with the energy at the show. the turnout is slightly ahead of where we have been in the past couple of years, and i was here at 4:30 in the afternoon and it was the height of activity activities one thrill. >> host: a member of c-span's board of directors for which we thank you for your contribution. >> guest: happy birthday to c-span. >> host: thank you for your time. we are at the ncta show in chicago and caught up with michael von there who has been a long member of the board and c-span board. nice to see you, sir. we have seen you in a lot of public sessions around the show. you are certainly on stage talking about this business. it seems to be a real period of transition now. tell me what is going on. >> guest: an enormous transition. is a breathtaking amount of change going on in the industry. i just left the general session where the brian roberts

demonstrated the next generation of user interface on the affinity project which will be a leading indicator of where the cable industry's user interface world is going and the only way of navigating the endless choices of channels and programs that consumers now have available to them. >> host: i keep hearing about listening to consumers. the technology is going to be also new. what is the relationship between people's options versus consumer demand? >> guest: consumers are telling us what they want. the formula is pretty simple. if you open your ears and listen, they have unlimited resources available to them to choose programming from all kinds of different places and we that can make it easier or harder for them to get it. the heart of a make it the more people will look for alternatives and that his train is out of the station. >> host: what devices are using on a regular basis right

now but you want -- warrants a year ago? >> guest: me? well, and ipad and i use that quite regularly and i live in new york city. i am able to watch "morning joe" on my ipad with my earphone in so i don't wake my wife up before even get out of bed. so, that is kind of a pretty neat addition to my cable service, but there are smartphones, the set-top box is dramatically changing to be able to interface with car bases applications and interfaces. it is just a breathtaking change. >> host: let me bring it back to a big concern for the country which is jobs and the economy. what do you see happening here that might be encouraging for the country with regards to economic power and/or job creation?

>> guest: we are still creating jobs in the worst recession since the great depression. the cable industry continues to create jobs and growth employment-based. i think, and understanding of what we are living for right now, despite the general economy and telecommunications in general is no less important than the development of the future of the planet than the industrial revolution was 100 years ago. >> host: mike willner thank you for spending time with us on the show. david porter's executive director of the walk -- walter kaitz foundation. thanks for being with us at the cable show for 2011. the new head of the national cable television association has suggested that cable hasn't told his stories very well and how much good work it is done. the walter kaitz foundation is one of those good stories. tell me about it. >> guest: the walter kaitz foundation was formed 30 years

ago for our workforce, for programming content, for our supplier, and it really represents the commitment of the industry that the ceo's of most of the major company server and our board of trustees and it allowed us over the years to create a number of programs and activities and provide funding for organizations within the industry to continue to advance the work of diversity across the entire industry. >> host: how does it work? give me an example of a major program that you do. >> guest: we find leadership development programs for senior executives are women of color sponsored by the national association of -- communication. we found a large program for the foundation designed to get high school students and freshman in college interested in our industry and we get get give them internships and scholarships that goes throughout their undergraduate

experience. we also have an annual dinner which is one of the best-known events in the industry called the kates dinner world industries come together to recognize and reward the company which is done significant work in the area of diversity. >> host: how is the cable industry doing overall in terms of diversity employment, not just in programs to help people get associated by the employment within the companies of the industry? >> guest: the industry is doing a good job. certainly every company will admit there is more work to be dumb but our companies are actively involved and continuing to not only recruit and develop additional programs to retain our employees but also move them up to senior rank. so much of the industry has women and people of color over the last decade or so that have made great strides. almost everyone of our companies. >> host: let me flip safor last question to the other side. people of color were women who are watching this interview, so

much focus on jobs and our economy right now. what would you tell them they need to do to be prepared for the job in the cable industry? >> guest: well i think this first thing i reduced reduce to tell them remember cable is content so you want to have a technological background. if you can do that is great. cable is big business so if you are interested in any of the business deals, finance, marketing, operations and all those things we are a great place for that as well. finally of course if you want to be on tv, we are aware of most of the content being created this days. >> host: dr. porter thank you for talking to us about the walter kaitz foundation. >> guest: thank you. it's been my pleasure. >> "the communicators" attended a technology fair in capitol hill sponsored by the consumer electronics association. we talked with some of of the innovators who were showing their wares. >> host: another one of exhibitors here at the consumer electronics show on capitol hill is a company called syncbak.

jack perry is the founder and ceo of syncbak. mr. perry, what do you make? >> guest: what we have created is an authentication technology to move broadcast television over the top of the internet so when you look out of the landscape out there, you have netflix and hulu and google tv and those are extraordinary products. the one thing that is missing on the internet is live broadcast tv and the reason it is not there is we have not been so we built the technology to do so there hasn't been a platform to do it. >> host: what kind of technology do you use? >> guest: we use the digital broadcast spectrum as a catalyst to engage if you are on line. we are essentially listening for the over the air broadcast and when a consumer has a connected tv or a connected device at home, and we hear those broadcast, we then turn that consumer rather than getting content over the air or over cable or satellite, we than transition them to getting

content on the internet instead. >> host: you have a chart down here in the middle that shows -- walk us through that very quickly. >> guest: essentially we install a piece of hardware at the station that then creates a proprietary broadcast sending out a broadcast of our data over the air and then the household you have a new connected tv or you have this device here a single link or good here's the broadcast and then catches them, sends them send them back through the internet and when it passes through the internet, it creates a unique consumer i.d.. that unique consumer ideas then send up sent up to the sink box which is here, and then it is sent out over the air and what is really important and special about the their technology is when that happens, there is only one household in the world that knows that broadcast is coming so we have taken the broadcast medium that we know and we have embedded kernels of data in

there so each individual household has the equivalent of keys to on line content sent to them over the air. so then they can watch anything they want over the internet on their smartphone or their ipad or their laptop because we have sent their rights to them over the air to do so. >> host: now is this also mobile technology? >> guest: it is absolutely mobile in that it uses any wireless device can now access your home television regardless of where you are to get the content that is going on in your home. what is different about the way we do it is as opposed to say a slingbox which is great technology but it gives content in and around your home upstream in the downstream, we just reach into the home with their smartphone, find what content you are entitled to and then go back to the cloud if you will, the internet, and deliver the content directly down to you. so it is more efficient way of delivering content over the web.

>> host: is this product on the market now? how did you develop and what is your background? >> guest: i created a technology that sits between echostar and directv and the major networks and all of the affiliates and really answers the question what channel should the subscriber get? as we fast-forward, that was 1996, 22011 the question is, how do we move broadcast television now out to this new platform perhaps an even better platform, which is over-the-top over the top or over the internet? so we started at two years ago developing the technology where today we are deployed at 12 stations. we have 38 stations in queue for the month of june so we will be at 50 stations here area very soon and we expect our commercial launch of the technology to happen at cef 2012. so this coming january. >> host: where you base? >> guest: we are based in cedar rapids iowa. >> host: how many u.s. jobs

are with syncbak? >> guest: we are basically a building full of engineers that we have 14 engineers running around our building but as we become a more consumer oriented business, we theoretically could create hundreds of jobs to manage the whole notion of tv over the top of the internet. >> host: where your boxes manufactured? >> guest: we manufacture our boxes right in cedar rapids, iowa. we kept everything right here at home. we are building 1000 of these right now that we will deploy it all of the stations, the first 1000 stations and we plan on keeping everything here. >> host: jack perry why are you here the capitol hill show to show this to legislators? >> guest: one of the issues with respect to broadcast television today is how do you enable is to play on the internet so it is as much a business issue as a policy issue so we are here to make sure that when anyone says boy we can't move broadcast television on the

internet, we respond to that person by saying yes to canon here is how. we are here to make sure everyone inside the beltway knows that technology exists. >> host: what is the national association of broadcasters view of your product and are you using a lot of spectrum when you do this? >> guest: two great questions there. one, both the consumer electronics association and the n.a.b. are investors in our company so in getting their endorsement about do you like the way i'm doing this, they ended up with becoming an investor in the company or investors in our company. the spectrum we are using is zero because we are embedding our tokens into essentially the null package or the leftover data that isn't filling up that 1939 that he station has. so it is very spectrum efficient to do this and we can move 100% of the households over the web from over the air and over the web with very few bits being used to do it.

>> host: jack perry founder and ceo of syncbak showing us some of the new technology on display here at the capitol electronics consumer electronics show on capitol hill. anthony fornito double agent with the geek squad at best buy, what are we looking at? >> guest: basically this is a representation of the product that best buy recycles on every given day of every minute the source go so far to date we have taken in approximately 500,000 tons. hopefully by 2014 we will reach our goal of 1 billion tons of recycled material. >> host: these are all old computers and related electronic equipment? >> guest: computers, tvs, some cell phones, basically anything related to your technology needs of today. >> host: is e. ways to growing problem? >> guest: yes, it's a so. many people take their old tvs to landfills where they get broken down but the parts to get

reuse which is what best buy tries to do to limit our carbon footprint as well as being able to replace those products for the consumers and the home. >> host: mr. fornito this laptop, this laptop we have right here on top, this compact, what will happen to this to get a recycled? >> guest: it will get broken down in this screen will get torn out. the internal parts will be torn out. some will be sent back to manufactures and the rest will be broken down and used in another fashion in industrial or for farming or something like that. >> host: are there dangerous chemicals or products in these computers? >> guest: every laptop you recycle you have the lcd screen which are chemicals inside of that which aren't good for landfill so they get broken down and also the batteries on the inside of both laptops and desktops are toxic. they sit in the ground too long they can leak into the ground and that can cause environmental issues for everyone. >> host: why do you feel it is

important best buy to have this display for members of congress to see and their staff? >> guest: just that companies are working towards recycling. best buy is, we do work closely with their manufactures of our own products. we have a couple of products we sell that we manufacture ourselves and this display we are trying to limit our carbon footprint and to show that we can take a product and recycle it and hopefully it will inspire people to bring in their products to best buy. sometimes a hassle to bring it in but you can talk to the sales representative in that ward will be good for everybody in the long run. >> host: now you have three containers over here. describe of these are starting at the top. >> guest: at the top we have an older -- this is a newer tv, and lcd tv. >> host: in a container? >> guest: in a container. i don't know the size of it when it came out but that is how much internal stuff that is taken out

in you can imagine that egg square hanging out verses that. that is actually an older computer monitor. >> host: in the middle? >> guest: in the middle. once again i don't know what size it is but you can imagine how much it is then broken down. it will be set out to manufactures in the parts that are usable in the rest gets turned into something else. in the on the bottom is an old crt tv. you may remember those, the bigger ones in once again once the glasses been removed and the toxins have been removed that is what is left over and that is where it all ends up. >> host: anthony fornito the products that we buy, the electronics products that we buy gotten greener over the years? >> guest: yes, they have especially in our points us. everything has got to energy star appliances to help defuse the energy needs. a lot of tvs and cell phone companies have also moved to longer lasting batteries so they don't get thrown away as much. we want to get out of race that

don't go right in the trash. you want to bring it into we can recycle it and take care of it for you. >> host: what is the double agent on the geek squad for best buy? >> guest: primarily we are responsible for going into the homes and taking care of our clients needs in the home. i particularly do business at nbc. i go to businesses and take care of their computer needs. pretty much anything they want and use the resources at my disposal. >> host: anthony fornito with the best title ever, double agent with the geek squad of us by. thank you for your time. >> guest: you are welcome. thank you are ghostly with titles like slander, godless, guilty and her latest, demonic ann coulter has something to say.

>> my term as fbi director is due to expire later this summer. in early may the present is that i would be willing to serve an additional two years. >> for the first time since the death of j. edgar hoover 1972 congress approved an president obama signed into law legislation allowing fbi chief robert muller to remain in his post an extra two years. congress limited terms to 10 years after hoover led the fbi in its predecessor for 48. learn more about j. edgar hoover, the fbi and robert muller on line at the c-span video library. search, watch, clip and share. is washington your way. >> about an hour ago or so the u.s. house passed the debt ceiling bill, the budget control act by a vote of 269-161. 95 democrats voted in favor of it. 66 republicans voted against th bill and theow houses wrapping p its work for the august recess. we will open up our phone lines in aa moment to get your thougs

on the debate on capitol hill as the measure heads to the u.s.ou senate. they will pick itt of up tomorre 910 tog to 30 with a vote set fr noon and that will be on c-span2. the numbers are in your screen. republicans s 202-58-5385,ere a democrats (202)585-3886 and independents and othersoth havet (202)585-3887. asideud from some vote switching at the very end and parties voting in different ways, not an whole lot of drama about the final vote itself they require d decisions. a balanced budget amendment creates a moment we have to focus on the fiscal house. to force us into the tough decisions. itrotects future generations. i'm a firm believer that the reason we saw freedom of religion in the united states is because it's in the constitution. the reason we still have freedom of speecis because it's in the constitution. we know so many people in politics do not like what's written about them in the press.

many times they tried to push back on the press and limit the press but we still have a free press because that's guaranteed in the united states constitution. if we added in a balanced budget requirement for the federal government, it would give to our posterity for centuries to come the gift of a parent in the legislative room to say, we are going to have a balanced budget. we are going to honor this. at $220 billion a year that we've been throwing around wasting on our interests would come back to reinvest into our economy. it's the right thing for us to do, it will require difficult decisions, i'm well aware. i'm so grateful for the gentleman from arizona for leading out a conversation on the house floor on this topic. [applause] [applause]