Proudly presenting my ColoradoBIZ profile of Mike Fries, a cable industry globetrotter extraordinaire who spends the occasional evening belting out Bon Jovi songs for charity. 
If they build it, will kids come?
The Field of Dreams analogy is irresistible for a Goliath of a ballpark complex planned for northern Colorado. Here’s a look behind the scenes at the economics of youth sports, and how developers can profit from bringing kids to the field. From ColoradoBIZ.
Wave-ing goodbye to an industry maverick
Wave Broadband, one of the more innovative of independent cable companies, is getting acquired. Here’s an interview I did not so long ago with Wave’s Steve Friedman about the outside-the-lines strategy that ended up making this smallish regional company worth $2.4 billion. From The Cable Center’s series of oral histories. 
Why video likes to stay at home
The cable industry calls video’s migration to smartphones and tablets “TV Everywhere.” But the data behind the phenomenon tells a different story: TV still gets watched at home more than anywhere else, even over hand-held screens. Here’s what’s going on out there in TV land. Published by The Broadband Library.
If you’re doing content marketing, don’t forget the content
Let there be light…
If your Internet connection is humming right along just about now, Peter Schultz is a big part of the reason why. Here’s my Q&A with the former Elvis wanna-be who came up with a way to transform fiber optics from the laboratory to the real world. Published in The Broadband Library. 
Faster Internet for all…
A behind-the-scenes profile for Broadband Library on a first-of-its-kind initiative to deploy a speedy new data delivery technology known as DOCSIS 3.1 across the entire footprint of the cable company Mediacom Communications. There’s a sweet bit of serendipity and wordplay here involving a small California town. But you hafta read it to find it.
Executive profile: Joe Ellis
The Denver Broncos CEO is big on listening and skeptical about resolving conflict through email. And he gets nervous at home games. Here’s the backstory of the 2016 CEO of the Year selected by ColoradoBIZ.
Words and wisdom from the captain of cable
Liberty Media’s John Malone opens up about Netflix, 5G, leadership and the curse of Balkanization. Here’s my interview
from The Broadband Library.
A nice guy finishes first
Prolific Colorado business publisher Pat Wiesner calls it a day. Here’s my profile of a soft-spoken but hard-driving executive who made his mark in the publishing business. And on lotsa lives.