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Cable360.net gives cable professionals more scope on their industry by combining the reporting of three print titles in a web environment engineered for Cable 2.0. As the online home to CableFAX Magazine, CableFAX Daily and Communications Technology, Cable360.net delivers the big picture on cable, from politics and programming to innovation and technical deployment. Finely tuned to the needs of cable executives in today's highly competitive market, Cable360.net provides more perspective on the industry with video and daily updates in addition to offering the magazines' content and exclusive analysis, and additional online-only features.

Cable360.net Content Production Staff

Steve Goldstein
Web Editor, Cable360.net
Steve joined CableWorld in 2001 after serving as executive editor of World Screen News, which covers international television programming. He also was editor of Film/Tape World, which covers film, television and commercial production in the San Francisco Bay Area. Steve's writing has appeared in Variety and RES magazine.

Christine Hardtman
Video Editor/Web Designer, Cable360.net
Before joining Cable360.net and StudioDaily.com as video editor/Web designer, Christine worked at NBTY Inc. as senior designer for online advertising, encompassing e-commerce, site builds and redesigns, rich media landing pages, and banner advertising campaigns. Her background includes communication design in web and print media, animation, film, software interface design, and fine art. A painter in her spare time, she received a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and has also worked as a 3D animator and as creative director on a series of animated science films.


Group Editors

Seth Arenstein
Editorial Director/Assistant Vice President
Seth oversees the editorial content for Access Intelligence's Broadband Group, edits CableFAX Magazine and writes CableFAX Daily's Programmer's Page. Prior to his work in cable, Seth led Access Intelligence's Defense Group for more than a decade, during which time its products garnered national awards for editorial excellence. A former White House Bureau Chief for Access Intelligence's Defense Daily, Seth joined the company in 1986 as a reporter for Soviet Aerospace after receiving an M.A. in defense and international relations from The Paul H. Nitze School of The Johns Hopkins University.

Steve Goldstein
Managing Editor, CableFAX Magazine
One of the best wordsmiths in the business, Steve joined CableFAX Magazine in 2001 after serving as executive editor of World Screen News, which covers international television programming. He also was editor of Film/Tape World, which covers film, television, and commercial production in the San Francisco Bay area. Steve's writing has appeared in Variety and RES magazines.

Michael Grebb
Executive Editor, CableFAX Daily
Michael has written extensively about the cable industry, telecommunications, the internet, and general information technology and business issues for more than a dozen years. His writing has appeared in Wired, Wired News, Business 2.0, Silicon Alley Reporter, Upside, Forbes, Variety, Billboard, Bank Technology News, U.S. Banker, Wireless Week, CableVision magazine and Multichannel News, among others. His expertise includes consumer electronics, the media, the music industry, e-commerce, B2B/e-business, interactive television, online marketing, broadband/telecom infrastructure, and regulatory and legislative issues. Also a musician and songwriter, Mike's first solo record, Resolution, was released in February 2005.

Amy Maclean

Editor-in-Chief, CableFAX Daily
Amy is responsible for the day-to-day editorial operations of CableFAX and contributes her DC expertise to CableWorld. Before joining Access Intelligence in 2000, she was a reporter in the Atlanta and Montgomery, AL, bureaus of the Associated Press, covering politics, education and a variety of other issues. Her articles appeared in papers across the country and sometimes the world. A graduate of the University of Georgia, Amy has written for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Macon (GA) Telegraph.

Chad Heiges
Associate Editor, CableFAX Daily
Prior to joining CableFAX in April 2006, Chad worked as a staff writer for the South Florida Business Journal in Fort Lauderdale, where the industries he covered included sports, tourism, restaurants and real estate. An interest in the pay TV industry led him to his current post. Chad is a graduate of the University of Maryland at College Park.

Jonathan Tombes
Editor, Communications Technology
Jonathan joined CT in 1999 and has covered video, voice, data and wireless technologies as deployed at consumer premises, on the distribution line, and in the node, headend and network operations center. He also has written on standards, training and regulation that impacts the cable industry, has moderated panels and served on the SCTE Expo program subcommittee. Jonathan was editor of CT’s Interactive Quarterly and now edits CT’s Pipeline. He previously worked as a research associate at a public policy institute and as Washington correspondent of the Vietnam Business Journal. His writing has also appeared in The Washington Post, The Asian Wall Street Journal and other leading publications.

Ron Hendrickson

Managing Editor, Communications Technology
Ron manages the day-to-day editorial operations of Communications Technology, CT's Pipeline, CT's Web site and related custom publishing. Ron has more than a decade of publishing experience, primarily in the cable industry, including a previous stint with Communications Technology, several years at NCTI as a curriculum editor/developer and numerous freelance projects. Prior to entering the publishing field, Ron was at various times a construction worker, steel fabricator and U.S. Marine.

Ron Hranac

Senior Technology Editor
Cable Pioneer Ron Hranac's cable career began in 1972. Over these three decades, he has published more than 200 technical papers and articles, including his contributions to Communications Technology and Communications Technology International. In addition to his editorial endeavors, Ron is a Technical Leader for Cisco Systems, specializing in RF engineering in cable and wireless technologies. Ron has served SCTE in a variety of leadership positions for more than twenty years, was its first Fellow Member and was named Member of the Year in 2004.

Jay Junkus
Telephony Editor
Jay Junkus has more than 30 years of telecom experience. He is president of KnowledgeLink, Inc., a telecommunications consulting and training firm, and author of Digipoints: The Digital Knowledge Handbook (Volumes 1, 2 & 3).

Contributors

M. C. Antil
With more than 25 years experience in the cable industry, M.C. Antil is truly a "cable triple-threat." He has held key positions at an MSO (Newhouse), a trade association (CTAM) and a programmer (ESPN), doing both marketing and public relations. Indeed, M.C. may be the only person writing about cable who used to install it. This broad experience serves him well when he places pen to paper to create his Tuesday column "CableFolks," a celebration of interesting cable people and their unique contributions to the industry.

Peter Caranicas
Peter is not a stranger to cable. He traces his cable roots to 1980, when he helped start View, a monthly that focused on the burgeoning cable programming business and its impact on operators. He has also served as editor of publications covering film, television, advertising and technology, including Videography, Millimeter, Film&Video, Shoot and Below the Line. Peter's writing has appeared in The Hollywood Reporter, World Screen and The New York Times Encyclopedia of Television.

Stephen R. Effros
Steve, an attorney, is President of Effros Communications, a strategic communications and consulting firm. He was president of the Cable Telecommunications Association (CATA) for 23 years until it was merged with the NCTA in 1999. While with CATA, he was known for his periodic-and often controversial-CATA faxes. From 1971 to 1976 Steve was at the FCC's Cable Bureau, writing the original federal rules on cable television. Steve's popular "Think About That for a Minute" column appears Thursdays in CableFAX Daily. In 1999, Steve received CableVision's "Image Maker" Award, was the recipient of NCTA's first Vanguard Award for Government and Community Relations and received a President's Award from CTPAA.

Paul Maxwell
Paul has reported on cable since 1969. In addition to founding CableFAX Daily, he launched what is known today as Multichannel News. CableVision and SkyReport are among the cable-related publications Paul founded that he now calls "eleemosynary activities." Paul's "MaxFAX" column Mondays in CableFAX Daily is considered a must-read as is his work in CableWorld. Among his many honors, Paul received a Vanguard from NCTA in 2000, was named to the Cable Pioneers board in 2001 and inducted into The Cable Center Hall of Fame in 2004.

Catherine Applefeld Olson
Cathy has been following the cable industry since 1994 when she covered cable and interactive television at the Telecom Publishing Group and Telecommunications Reports. While at TPG, she authored the book Inside TCI. In addition to her work at CableWorld, Cathy is a contributing editor at Billboard and Medialine, and covers television, film and music for Child. She's written for The Hollywood Reporter and CES' Vision magazine, and writes about home technology for Home + Design.

 

 

 

 

 



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