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November 11, 2009: Rick Ducey, Chief Strategy Officer, BIA/Kelsey Advisory Services
Rick Ducey will visit the department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media to speak to undergraduate classes and PhD students.
Rick Ducey is the Chief Strategy Officer for BIA Advisory Services. Rick assists clients with their business planning and sales models, strategic research and market assessment, designing and implementing IT strategies.
A known expert and frequent speaker on the transforming media ecosystem, Rick is the program director for BIA’s conference, “Winning Media Strategies” and for the continuous advisory service called Transformative Media Strategies (TMS). Both programs address how new technologies, competition, shifting consumer demographics and media usage trends are driving changes in the media ecosystem and what traditional media companies must do to be successful in the new environment.
Prior to joining BIAfn in 2000, Rick was a top executive at the National Association of Broadcasters. He was Senior Vice President of NAB’s Research and Information Group. In this position, he was in charge of the association’s new technology assessment, audience and policy research, strategic planning, information systems, including all Internet operations and he also developed publications and seminars.
Before joining NAB in 1983, Rick was a faculty member in the Department of Telecommunication at Michigan State University where he taught and did research in the areas of emerging telecommunication technologies and strategic market research. He also served on the graduate management faculties of George Mason University and George Washington University in telecommunications management and the University of Maryland, where he taught strategic market management and research methodologies. He published a number of research articles and papers in these areas and serves on editorial boards of leading scholarly journals in the communications field. He worked at radio stations WSOQ-AM/WEZG-FM and Upstate Cablevision in North Syracuse, NY.
Rick received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University; M.S. from Syracuse University and B.A. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
NAB Event Honors Jim Quello and Quello Center Anniversary
March 31, 2009 | Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Washington, DC
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The Quello Center and the NAB are honoring Jim Quello and the Quello Center’s 10 year anniversary as part of the NAB 2009 State Leadership Conference. The reception for Jim Quello will begin after the NAB reception and dinner at 7:00 pm.
2009 Michigan Forum on Economic and Regulatory Policy
January 30, 2009, 8:30 am-4:45 pm | Kellogg Center, MSU
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Moving Michigan Forward
Together with other leading experts, Quello Center Co-Directors Johannes M. Bauer and Steve Wildman will participate on the Telecommunications Issues Roundtable. For more information please visit http://ipu.msu.edu/programs/miforum/index.php.
2008 Quello Center Lecture: Eli M. Noam
November 17, 2008, 1:30 p.m. with reception following | MSU Union Gold A/B Rooms
“If Fiber is the Medium, What is the Message? Next Generation Content for Next Generation Media”
Abstract: The nature of content is critical for the economic viability of a next-generation infrastructure. This talk asks what types of media content will arise when we achieve widespread fiber optic networks. In the past, an expansion of transmission capacity led to a ‘widening’ of the TV medium. But the impact of ultrabroadband will be a ‘deepening’ of the content to a richer, more bit-intensive content. The talk investigates, for 25 media, the price and capacity trends over the past century. This enables us to identify the trend of bits per second delivered – the ‘richness’- of the media over time. It grows at about 8% per annum. Projecting this rate permits us to predict the type, style, and genres of media content of the near future. It also enables us to determine the time when media will become visually richer than 3-D real life in terms of sensory experience. Finally, the lecture derives regulatory implications of this kind of content.
Bio: Eli Noam has been a Professor of Economics and Finance at the Columbia Business School since 1976. In 1990, after having served for three years as Commissioner with the New York State Public Service Commission, he returned to Columbia. He is the Director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information. CITI is a university-based research center focusing on strategy, management, and policy issues in telecommunications, computing, and electronic mass media. In addition to leading CITI’s research activities, Noam initiated the MBA concentration in the Management of Media, Communications, and Information at the Business School and the Virtual Institute of Information, an independent, web-based research facility.
Besides the over 400 articles in economics, legal, communications, and other journals that Professor Noam has written on subjects such as communications, information, public choice, public finance, and general regulation, he has also authored, edited, and co-edited 27 books.
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Noam Lecture Presentation Podcast
James Quello Honored as Giant of Broadcasting
September 25, 2008 | Grand Hyatt, New York, NY
James H. Quello will be inducted into the ranks of Giants of Broadcasting by The Library of American Broadcasting. The honor is presented to Jim in recognition of his distinct career in broadcasting and public service. The 98 Giants include industry founders such as Guglielmo Marconi and David Sarnoff as well as broadcasters like Edward Murrow and Walter Cronkite. Congratulations!
Quello Center Initiates NSF-Funded Study of Media Localism and Ownership
August 2008 | Michigan State University
Beginning this Fall an interdisciplinary team of five MSU researchers will initiate the largest study of local media performance to date, examining coverage of local affairs by traditional media and on the internet for selected cities in 100 U.S. Metropolitan Statistical Areas.
The study is funded by NSF for two years at the level of $500,000.
The Quello Center will play a major role in this project as the PI is Quello Center Co-Director Steve Wildman and two of the Co-PIs (Professor Stephen Lacy and Professor Emeritus Thomas Baldwin) are Quello Center faculty associates and the project will utilize Quello Center facilities and student research assistants.
Information and the Information Economy
May 2-3, 2008 | Fordham, University, New York
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Co-sponsored with the McGannon Center at Fordham University and the Intellectual Property Law Program at Michigan State University.
