because people recognize particularly with one of our key objectives providing a more umbick to us broad band pportunity in this nation. communities know how enabling this is. i'm pleased at the level of engagement. i am pleased people have figured out i'm at the f.c.c. and not the f.t.c. they recognize how important this agency is and it can be a partner to progress. the word is pleased for me in this context. >> turning back to broadcast. some groups in town have been circulating concerns turnover lack of diversity among the owners of broadcast stations. the broadcast market has consolidated quite a bit in the last couple of years and by some counts there are no stations owned by african-americans. as somebody who was a media entrepreneur yourself, is this a concern and do you see the internet filling this gap at all? >> that is absolutely a concern. i am looking at the internet and other platforms to august meant. it's not a substitution. and i will not be satisfied until there are pathways to parody in terms of engagement. it is important by way of programming and ownership that the ameri

on that deal we told you about at the top of the program with netflix paying comcast to use its high speed broad band to speed up digital downloads. julia boorstin has more, who benefits from it and whether this opens the door to similar doors with other content and internet providers. >> reporter: netflix and comcast deal aims to be a win/win giving better service to subscribers of both, addressing concerns customers have suffered from slowing broad brand speeds. with this deal netflix and comcast will cut out the middleman. netflix paying comcast to direct it. it's a valuable partnership between the nation's largest internet provider about to become much larger and streaming video netflix. >> you have a company that represents 1/3rd of the traffic on the internet strike a deal with a company that represents as much as 1/3rd of the internet subscribers. >> reporter: youtube have similar arrangements to work directly with internet providers, but this is the first time a content company like netflix paid an internet provider like comcast directly. that doesn't mean netflix will face higher cost, it's

and change for consumers and for businesses and, hopefully, someday, health care and using monitoring all on broad band we want to bring those exciting products to time warner markets and help accelerate their growth. >> all right brian roberts and robert marcus, congratulations. thank you both. great to have you on the show this morning. >>> up next, we head to on sochi for some men's olympic hockey. alexander ovechkin leads team russia against slovenia. that is coming up right here. have a great day. ♪ >>> mother russia, meet your newest olympic champion, jamie anderson claims gold in slopestyle! >>> it's late afternoon on a picture-perfect olympic thursday. temperatures got up into the mid-60s today in sochi, but at olympic park, there is business indoors at bolshoy ice dome, as the russian men's hockey team gets under way in search of olympic gold. welcome inside bolshoy ice dome, katherine tappen alongside keith jones. jonesy, the atmosphere is already electric in this arena. there's no question that these

us is speed. we have tem douse assets between cloud and security, our mobile and fios tf and broad band. what the customers want, integrate the services and get them to market. we see huge opportunity. >> when you're talking about speed, you here not talking about what you're delivering to my phone. >> it's speed to market. customers trends, just take a look. you and i were talking about health care. how you feel about the affordable care act is going to be very disrupt pif tif. you see security squb machine to machine, you need mobile, having broad band for security conference is important. that's a huge opportunity for us we can mo rapidly to see customer needs and meet >> it why now rather than previously? >> it was a matter of affiliate transactions. it was, as i said, they never said we couldn't do anything. but by too time you go through and account for every revenue and capital expense. it makes us more nimble. >> if terms of delivering speed and band width to your customers, over this last year there was some belief amongst your customers that you had network deterioration. >> abs

fact that overseas it is not a broad band band so from that perspective it mary's of very well with other systems that if we went into other countries we would be able to use that frequency without interference from host country systems. that is why it is a useful ban from our perspective and better than the 1755-1850 band which goes back to 5 gigahertz. by virtue of the interference you're talking about because of some of the things. and i can guarantee you on that. i would be premature to comment on it even though i probably worked on it for two days of my weekend this weekend. some guys are chuckling because they were with me on that. >> so cyberspace wires and routers are basically flashes of light and spectrum. how does your spectrum merge with the department's cyber way ahead? >> the electra magnetic spectrum is all a piece of the par. they go hand-in-hand together. when you talk about white, optical. and cyber electronic warfare, all of that together are one part of it. it weaves everything through, that is the critical point. if we don't get it right. cyberradio, optical. that will cause some kind of incompatibility issue or safety of life issue. a

us to compete better by bringing the products into new products. >> time warner's ceo agrees. ono reduction in competition, improved customer experiences. >> comcast is a major player in broad band and comcast deal is bringing a focus to net neutrality, the right of the content to have equal access to the internet and that is in limbo right now after the court of appeals struck down the fcc regulations and saying they do have the authority but using the i don't think justification and now they can rewrite the rules or congress can act. the planned acquisition is coming at a critical time in the history of cable television, the subscriptions and ratings are on the decline and demand services are on the rise. a new wave of chord cutters and opting out of cable television are putting the pressures on. time warner losing a million subscribers in 2013 and 5 million overall between 2010 and 2013. >> the merger that seeks to join the two big players in american communication comcast and time warner. from new york david a reporter with the new york times who corpses mergers and acquisitions for the paper and deal book, and barren, a lawyer and president of tech freedom. david, let's sta

that would rebuild roads and bridges, constructing by laying broad band and mass transit infrastructure. at the end of the day the money was usednfrastructure. >> pathetic. and have things been rebuilt? no. the proof is so obvious. i don't know why the white house is alibiing like this. the shovel ready jobs were never ready the president complained about it a year and a half later. maybe we made a mistake shovel ready jobs were not ready 10% after all this time has been spent on infrastructure is pathetic. another misrepresentation like you can keep your insurance. you can keep your doctor. or this money is going to be used for something useful. it never was. but there is something harmful. this adds to our debt. this is the reason why our budget is seriously out of balance. >> and, you know, when you say you can keep your doctor and all of that and even joe biden was saying we are remaking the landscape. it's going to be the biggest investment in our infrastructure since eisenhower. how could they be so out of touch? >> i don't know. this is an administration that first of all has the wrong ideas, has moved us seriously to th

fact that overseas it is not a broad band band so from that perspective it mary's of very well with other systems that if we went into other countries we would be able to use that frequency without interference from host country systems. that is why it is a useful ban from our perspective and better than the 1755-1850 band which goes back to 5 gigahertz. by virtue of the interference you're talking about because of some of the things. and i can guarantee you on that. i would be premature to comment on it even though i probably worked on it for two days of my weekend this weekend. some guys are chuckling because they were with me on that. >> so cyberspace wires and routers are basically flashes of light and spectrum. how does your spectrum merge with the department's cyber way ahead? >> the electra magnetic spectrum is all a piece of the par. they go hand-in-hand together. when you talk about white, optical. and cyber electronic warfare, all of that together are one part of it. it weaves everything through, that is the critical point. if we don't get it right. cyberradio, optical. that will cause some kind of incompatibility issue or safety of life issue. a

actually adopt an approach that we use very much and standards, to act as a convener and act as a facilitator, if you will, of a very broad multi-stakeholder come getting the band together to have that critical discussion. because it had to be aligned with business, it means that the framework in the end was both what you would expect and something new. what you would expect is a set of controlled solutions and standards that were drawn from best practices against -- across all the sectors. in the framework, in a very indirect way, because it points to a whole set of standards and reference standards. meaty detailsthe are. the other part of the framework is a structure to put all of those things into practice. in particular, to integrate this practices into the way the organization runs. so it specifically is designed to not only talk to the st, but to the leadership. it is designed to align with risk management, designed to , and designed to look at your maturity as an organization. like many other risk mitigation behaviors in an organization, you get better. that was important to knowledge, you draw the analogy with safety management. you start by implement i

actually pro consumer, helping innovation and could potentially drive higher broad band speeds, which is the reason people like and use these days. >> i think the supposed benefits of this merger are being vastly overrated. the one thing you never hear is that prices might go down. they won't. cable prices go up and up and up some more and this this merger is allowed to go through, that's going to be the consumer experience. this deal will also give the new giant comcast so much control over what we watch, hear, read and download, really unprecedented control. this is also about your broad band connection beside cable t.v. and it would be number one in all categories. >> is it your feeling that they will be signing off an a monopoly? >> i certainly would call ate near monopoly, unprecedented media power certainly in the cable business, comcast would be the dominant company, the number one internet service provider which they already are. this combined company would offer service to with it thirds of americans. that's an incredible amount of gate keeper power if you want to get a cable channel, access internet content,

enassured the infrastructure used to conduct content through the internet would be open to providers and consumers. supporters of newt neutrality argued allowing major broad bandcharge a toll or through thele delivery will limit consumers choice and possibly undermine internet freedom. >> the beauty of the open internet is you can innovate without permission. this deal suggests it's getting a lot harder to do that. proponents argue that charging providers will upgrade networks, creating a better experience for end users who have grown accustomed to watching shows like "house of cards" at the push of a button. >> netflix users take up 32% of the internet traffic in north america especially at night. >> breaking news, home depot reporting earnings of $1 billion in the last three months of 2013. that beat wall street estimates, but the winter weather did hurt sails which fell 3% from a year ago. >> a closer look at the housing market this morning with the price index. forecasters expect housing prices to flatten, but housing soareddability has fallen considerably in 2013 as prices and interest rates both increased. one economist said first time homebuyers are sti

approach that we used very often in standard setting to act as the convener and to act as sort of a facilitator, if you will, of a very broad, multistakeholder, you know, getting the band together to sort of have that critical discussion. but, you know, because it had to be aligned with business, it means that the framework in the end was both what you would expect and, i think, something new. and the what you would expect is the set of of controls and technology solutions and standards that were drawn from best practices across all the sectors. we call that the core. and that's in the framework in a very indirect way, because it points to a whole set of standards and reference standards, and that's where a lot of the meaty details are. and the other part of the framework was really a structure to put all a of those things into practice. and in particular, to integrate those practices into the way organization runs. and so it's specifically designed to not only talk to the technologists within organizations, but to talk to the leadership. and so it's designed to align with risk management, it's designed to provide tools like profiles where you can basically self-assess

using the band that you've been hearing about from 1755 to 1780. it was a long and hard road and we still have a way to go. there was a lot of work on the broad piece from 1850. i think that in the end we made a decision the difficulties of the reallocation and at the expense when compared to the benefits really down the path but it's not an easy task as general wheeler mentioned there is a need to transition out of the spectrum and there will be some systems that remain and we have to find ways to -- we've already identified with ways to share what will be there for some time. part of the solution was sharing with the van at 2025 that is used for electronic news gathering on the federal side. but it is not used constantly. it's between the broadcasters and the departmen department ofe and working out a way to share spectrum as a part of the solution. so what we have ahead of us is working on the transition plans and making sure all of the parties understand how things are going to be shared with and what the transitions are going to look like overtime. the second band i will talk about his 3.5 gigahertz and i agree completely with the genera