Michael Willner
 MICHAEL S. WILLNER Michael S. Willner is the co-founder, Vice Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Insight Communications Company, Inc., a company that has owned and operated cable television systems since 1985. The 9th largest cable operator in the United States, Insight owns or manages approximately 1.3 million customers in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio. Active in industry organizations, Mr. Willner served two consecutive terms as Chairman of the National Cable and Telecommunications Association (NCTA), the cable industry's trade organization, and currently sits on its executive committee. He also serves on the executive committee of CableLabs and on the boards of directors of C-SPAN and the Walter Kaitz Foundation. Mr. Willner is a recipient of the 2004 Vanguard Award for Distinguished Leadership, presented by the NCTA, and he was inducted into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame in 2005. Mr. Willner began his career at Vision Cable Communications, Inc. in 1974 as Program Director, followed by positions as General Manager, Vice President of Marketing, and Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. Vision was an independent cable company until its sale to a division of Newhouse Newspapers in 1981, after which Mr. Willner remained to run the company for Newhouse until 1985. User Stats
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Michael WillnerRecent PostsLessons Learned at CESJanuary 18, 2007 | Link This | Email this | Comments (2) I was in awe last week as I walked around at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. It’s truly an amazing experience. The sheer size of this convention is mind-boggling. It’s the one trade show that actually challenges the tourist industry infrastructure of America’s biggest tourist town. The convention center was filled with multiple pavilions, each holding display booths of companies showing their goods. Some were about video, where I spent most of my time. Others were about cell phones, audio, photography and just about anything else considered consumer electronics. It’s so big, so overwhelming, it’s hard to remember much of what I saw. But I did come away with a few impressions. I went into a small screening room and put on some goggles to watch TV. The goggles were much more sophisticated than the cellophane-lens glasses han...Read More Recent PostsGo Wide, With A ProblemNovember 15, 2006 | Link This | Email this | Comments (9) We've been having a recurring debate lately. It started back in May, when we were hurriedly forced to migrate the backbone of our Internet service from an outside provider to our own network. We tried to do 120 days' worth of work in 60. It didn't go well. For several weeks, many of our customers experienced slow, spotty connections and unreliable e-mail delivery. We knew that some customers did not experience problems; we simply didn't know who they were or how many. We quickly did some market research and learned that one-third of our customers did not perceive that they had any issues, one-third perceived a series of small problems and one-third perceived a significant set of problems. With that information, we were confronted with that classic public-relations question: "Wha...Read More
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