Speaker
Tom Rogers 
President and CEO
TiVo
Tom Rogers, a well-rounded media executive, has had his work cut out for him at TiVo, the iconic but often-struggling pioneer and leader in the digital video-recorder market. Before coming to TiVo, Mr. Rogers was chairman and CEO of Primedia, which pub- lishes 200 magazines, operates more than 400 Web sites and runs a wide range of television and video businesses. Previous to that, he was president of NBC Cable and executive vice president at NBC, as well as its chief strategist. While there, Mr. Rogers helped found the CNBC business cable channel and established the NBC/Microsoft cable channel and Internet joint venture, MSNBC. He also worked in politics, as senior counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives' Telecommunications, Consumer Protection and Finance Subcommittee, and has previously worked as a Wall Street lawyer.
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TiVo's Q3 Isn't a Pretty Picture
Analysts were expecting bad news out of TiVo’s third-quarter results today, and the company delivered. Citing higher operating expenses, the DVR pioneer posted a loss of of $20.6 million, or 18 cents a share (three times the loss of a year ago), on revenue of $41.3 million. Consensus estimates were looking for a loss of 17 cents a share on $41.4 million in revenue. CEO Tom Rogers said the company’s distribution deals will start paying off in subscriber growth eventually, but for now, the fourth-quarter forecast was for more of the same.
There! Pause It There–The Expression on Randall Stephenson’s Face Is Priceless.
AT&T and Verizon have run afoul of TiVo’s video patents. Reporting a second-quarter loss and projected results below Wall Street expectations Wednesday, the digital video recorder pioneer said it is suing the two telecoms for infringing on its patents for technology that allows DVRs to simultaneously store and play back programs, pause live television and deliver other features.
The Entire D6 Interview With TiVo's Tom Rogers (4 of 4)
We’re posting all the interviews from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place in late May. Here’s an interview I did with TiVo President and CEO Tom Rogers about the iconic but often-struggling pioneer and leader in the digital video recorder market. This is part four of four parts. In it, Rogers takes questions from the audience about difficulties in installing TiVo with new cable cards, watching television over the Internet, TiVo’s plans internationally, and other subjects.The Entire D6 Interview With TiVo's Tom Rogers (3 of 4)
We’re posting all the interviews from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place in late May. Here’s an interview I did with TiVo President and CEO Tom Rogers about the iconic but often-struggling pioneer and leader in the digital video recorder market. This is part three of four parts.The Entire D6 Interview With TiVo's Tom Rogers (2 of 4)
We’re posting all the interviews from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place in late May. Here’s an interview I did with TiVo President and CEO Tom Rogers about the iconic but often-struggling pioneer and leader in the digital video-recorder market. This is part two of four parts.The Entire D6 Interview With TiVo's Tom Rogers (1 of 4)
We’re posting all the interviews from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place in late May. Here’s an interview I did with TiVo President and CEO Tom Rogers about the iconic but often-struggling pioneer and leader in the digital video-recorder market. This is part one of four parts.D6 Conference Recap
Here are all of the highlights from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference, organized by day and speaker: Day One Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, Microsoft You would have loved Windows 1.0. Walt. You would have LOVED it.” –Ballmer Session post | Videos: One and Two Windows 7 Demo Day Two Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com People loved their horses, too. But you don’t keep riding your horse to work just because you love it.” –Bezos on the difference between physical books and digital ones Session post | Videos: One and Two Bobby Kotick, Activision The social element has really transformed the gaming experience.” — Kotick on the impact of games like Guitar Hero Session post | Video Guitar Hero IV Demo with Tony Hawk and Paula Abdul Howard Stringer, Sony If we were any more successful, we’d be bankrupt.” –Stringer on the success of Sony’s LCD business Session post | Video Barry Diller, IAC Hollywood is a community that’s so inbred, it’s a wonder the children have any teeth.” Session post | Video Michael Dell, Dell I could take him.” –Dell on his chances of success in a brawl with Apple CEO Steve Jobs Session post | Video Jerry Yang and Sue Decker, Yahoo I will never be a CEO again.” –Yang Session post | Videos: One and Two Jeff Bewkes, AOL AOL is the Rodney Dangerfield of the Web. We don’t get no respect.” Session post | Video Nathan Myhrvold, Intellectual Ventures We invest in the creation of ideas… It’s like Baby Mama, with me as the mama.” Session post | Video Demo: G.ho.st Web Operating System Lets users access their desktop from any computer with an Internet connection. Session post | Video Tom Glocer, Thomson Reuters We have one great advantage over bloggers: we write once, and sell many times to many different media outlets.” Session post | Video Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook I won’t ever stop until you’re either the biggest thing around, or you’re dead.” –Kara Swisher on her relentless coverage of Facebook Session post | Videos: One and Two Rupert Murdoch, News Corporation I want to meet Obama. I want to know if he’s going to walk the walk.” Session post | Full Session Videos: One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six Day Three Demo: evri An application that graphs the Web via grammatical information. Session post | Video Demo: 23andMe Web-based, direct-to-consumer genome services. Session post | Video Melinda Gates, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation All lives are equal.” Session post | Videos: One and Two Demo: TransMedia’s Glide A mobile-operating system that cuts across all operating systems. Session post | Video Tom Rogers, TiVo The TV set and its primary position in the home isn’t going anywhere in the future.” Session post | Videos: One and Two Demo: Deka The “Luke Arm” prosthesis, a state-of-the-art bionic arm. Session post | Video Kevin Martin, FCC and Lowell McAdam, Verizon Wireless You’re the chairman of the FCC. How did you allow this to happen?” –Walt Mossberg grills Martin on the lousy broadband situation in the States Session post | Videos: One and Two
Special D6 Tab in The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal published a special tab about our sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place live two weeks ago. The Journal editors selected about half of the interviews done there by Walt Mossberg and me, either separately or together, and edited the longer transcripts down to the parts they thought readers would like best.MicroHoo: A Deal Must Be Done
While Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer and Yahoo’s CEO Jerry Yang hemmed and hawed about what had happened in their disastrous takeover battle that ended not with a bang, but a whimper, everyone else who appeared onstage at the sixth D: All Things Digital conference last week was a bit more definitive about what should occur now: Get it done.Video: Tom Rogers Highlight Reel, Part Two
Here are a few video highlights from the second half of the D6 interview of Tom Rogers, President and CEO, Tivo, conducted by conference co-host Kara Swisher.
