re: Caspar Weinberger's World Business Review on CNBC
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Dynarc, the company whose principal technology is dynamic transfer mode, or DTM, was one of the featured companies today on the Caspar Weinberger Sunday World Business Review show on CNBC.
wbrtv.com
What I'm about to state has nothing to do with Dynarc or the other companies listed below, or their technologies. It has to do, instead, with the nature and being of show, itself.
I don't know about this show. It claims to be a news service with side features which delve into the topics of the day. But I don't know. It would appear to me that the only thing that it lacks is a studio filled with an audience which is paid to applaud on cue.
From their web site, url above:
"THE ONLY TELEVISION SOURCE FOR FACTUAL
INFORMATION ABOUT THE LATEST TOPICS, TRENDS
AND SOLUTIONS TO INDUSTRY PROBLEMS."
"World Business Review is hosted by Caspar Weinberger, Chairman of
Forbes magazine and former Secretary of Defense for President Reagan,
and directed by Emmy Award winner Alan Levy. The show's format is a
combination newsmagazine and panel discussion featuring leading
corporate executives and industry experts, as well as informative field
reports.
"World Business Review is independently distributed by MultiMedia
Productions to public television stations in all 50 states, as well as to 30
countries worldwide by an international consortium of programming
professionals."
The other companies featured today were Champion, Multilink and LightPointe. LightPointe is a laser optic line-of-site system which uses free space as a medium, similar to LU's OpticAir system which their president claimed will be ready for gigabit speeds in the not too distant future.
Nothing revealing concerning any of these companies' specific technologies worth mentioning, as one would imagine, only a lot of superficial promotional language concerning how they each were going to make the world a better place for us to live.
What took me somewhat by surprise this time -although, in the past Caspar W. has had Vint Cerf in the role of guest co-host, too- was the presence of the Telecommunications Industry Association's chairman, Timothy (?) Flanigan, as a panelist who neither advocated nor challenged Dynarc or any of the other vendors. He was as careful and generic as could be, in fact, providing only that amount of lead-in questioning to each vendor guest that would allow them to fill in the blanks as they saw fit. Hmm.. |
