MCN Online Extra | April 2, 2018

COVER STORY

TV's Scary New Threat

Fully-loaded Kodi boxes, paired with a sophisticated criminal ecosystem, pose a major danger for programmers, studios and pay TV providers

SPECIAL REPORT

Cable Hall of Famers Take Manhattan

Top executives, ‘Breaking Bad’ to get the big-city spotlight at Ziegfeld Ballroom

2018 Cable Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, April 4

MCN's MOST READ STORIES

multichannel.com | March 23-30

1.Cable Industry Vet Wilt Hildenbrand Dead at 70

2.Chris Satchell, Comcast’s Chief Product Officer, Is Departing

3.PwC: Consumers Will Pay More for Better Experience

4.New Netflix, Hulu Subs Gravitate to TV Series

5.Moffett: Comcast's Sky Bid Could Hinge on Stock Decline

PLATFORMS

Connections Blog | The Bauminator, Jeff Baumgartner

Retro Atari Box Gets a New Name

MCN Guest Blog | 3-Part Series by Glen L. Friedman 

OTT: The Exciting, Scary, Wild West (Part 1)

Watch This Space for Parts 2 and 3

NEED TO KNOW

Blockchain | Special Report

What Blockchain Means to Media

What You Need to Know About Bockchain

Blockchain | Online Resources

"Some Simple Economics of the Blockchain," by Christian Catalini and Joshua S. Gans (Sept. 21, 2017; Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 2874598; MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 5191-16)

Coindesk

The Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies 2017

Practical Blockchain: A Gartner Trend Insight Report

Tractica: Three Myths About Blockchain

Understand the Fundamentals of IBM Blockchain