
BROADCAST DIALOGUE WEEKLY BRIEFING — Essential Reading • April 4, 2013
The Creative Master Series will see key players in the
entertainment industry and lmmaking community ex-
plore the craftsmanship of content. Find out how industry
leaders use the latest tools and techniques in pre-produc-
tion, on location and in post-production.
The Disruptive Media Conference covers disruptive media
as well as more traditional OTT technologies and how
they affect business models for distribution and consumer
engagement.
News Corporation president and chief operating ofcer
Chase Carey will participate in a question-and-answer session
with NAB president and CEO Gordon Smith during the open-
ing event. The session will include a State of the Broadcast
Industry address by Smith.
John Tesh, entertainer, musician, author and broadcast
personality, will speak at the Radio Luncheon. Tesh has won
six Emmys and an AP award for investigative journalism. His
syndicated radio show, Intelligence for Your Life, reaches
8.2 million listeners each week in the U.S., Canada and the
UK.
Nancy O’Dell, the co-anchor of Entertainment Tonight,
will host the Television Luncheon. O’Dell has won three
Associated Press awards, two Society of Professional Jour-
nalists awards, an Emmy and has been nominated for seven
additional Emmys.
FCC Commissioner Ajit V. Pai will lead a session on AM
radio revitalization within the Broadcast Management Con-
ference. It will address possible options for sustaining and
enhancing AM radio as a unique entertainment medium. Pai
will moderate a panel of AM radio leaders, engineers and
policy experts.
Lowell C. McAdam, chairman and chief executive ofcer
of Verizon Communications, will be featured in Tuesday’s
General Session. Lowell McAdam: A Candid Conversation
will feature McAdam in a discussion with Gordon Smith on
his vision for wireless broadband, broadcasting and compe-
tition in a multi-platform world.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius
Genachowski, who recently announced his resignation, will
participate in a question-and-answer session with NAB Joint
Board Chair Paul Karpowicz. Genachowski was sworn in as
FCC chairman in June 2009 after spending more than ten
Speakers
Chase Carey
Nancy O’Dell
Lowell C. McAdam
John Tesh
Ajit V.Pai
Julius Genachowski
The Military and Government Summit aims at bridging
the gap between government needs and commercial
video applications and related technologies.
The Technology Summit on Cinema, produced with
SMPTE, provides a global view of the new wave of tech-
nology coming soon, with an eye toward how it might
later affect the broader media ecosystem.
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