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Michael S. Willner spent his entire career in the cable television industry. He co-founded Insight Communications in 1985 and served as its CEO, a director and vice chairman of the board until the company was sold to Time Warner Cable in February, 2012.

As a young boy in Miami, Florida, Michael had a fascination with the television business at a very early age. He often rode his bicycle to the local NBC affiliate after school where the staff allowed him to help out in the studio while they produced and aired a live children's puppet show and the local news. Michael began his career in 1974 as the program director and news reporter for a small suburban New York cable system after graduating from the Boston University College of Communications. Soon after, he shifted his focus to general management and eventually became the chief operating officer of Vision Cable Communications, a cable company owned by a division of Newhouse Newspapers.

After starting Insight Communications, Michael quickly developed his hands-on style of management as CEO. He is a firm believer in open, honest communication. He personally ensured that employees and customers were always well-informed and had input and influence over important Company decisions. This commitment led to a secondary career - that of a leading man in a number of Insight television commercials in which he comfortably played himself with a great sense of self-deprecating humor.

Michael also became very active in industry affairs and has been one of cable's most active and effective ambassadors on Capitol Hill, testifying regularly before Congress on industry issues and pending legislation. He has served two consecutive terms as chairman of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA), the cable industry's trade lobby and currently served on its executive committee for many years. Michael also served as chairman of the board of the Cable Center from 2007 through 2011. He served on the executive committee of CableLabs; on the board of directors of C-SPAN, and the Walter Kaitz Foundation.

A recipient of the NCTA's 2004 Vanguard Award for Distinguished Leadership and a 2005 inductee into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame, Michael has yet to achieve his greatest goal of winning an Emmy for his leading role in Insight's commercials.

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Amazon to bring Fox TV shows and movies to streaming service

Amazon Prime Streaming Adds FOX TV Shows and Movies [Gizmodo]

With the impending release of a tablet device and recent signs that Netflix is stumbling, Amazon is moving to improve its own video streaming service. The internet retailer revealed this week that it has agreed to a deal with Fox that will add some 2,000 television and movie titles to its streaming library. Since launching in February with around 5,000 shows and movies, the Amazon Prime Streaming service now has over 11,000 titles.

Amazon customers who pay the annual subscription for the Prime service receive unlimited streaming in addition to free expedited shipping for goods purchased from Aamzon.

Amazon's streaming library is still just a fraction of Netflix's more than 51,000 titles.

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After watching a few of the 80 s films foonlwilg along with FilmSack, I have come to realize that my older brothers and sister did me a favor. They must have watched some of these really bad sci-fi movies and then shielding me from their exposure. Krull was something, I will give it that. I think my favorite part of badness was the 10 minutes of rock climbing we have to endure when Colon, er, Colwyn has to get to the lava cave. As for the Glaive? WHAT A POS! Sure it was like the star in Super Mario but could it kill big and ugly at the end? NOOOOOOOO. Only the power of love can defeat that monster! Love and fire!Anyway, the show is amazing. I love every minute of it.

Posted by: Ita | Friday, August 10, 2012 at 11:39 PM

Not necessarily live, but most shows are avibaalle later in the evening. I watch Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann and Jon Stewart online. During the past winter, we picked up a couple of episodes of Lost and Flash Forward from the network's episode site. (I'm in Canada, so my episode URLs would be different than yours.) I pick up the audio for Bill Maher on iTunes for my iPod. I used to get Olbermann on iTunes, but it was easier to use the NBC site.