Silicon Valley innovation has given television executives plenty to worry about. In my years with NBC-at the network as well as in the station group-we worried about cable splintering our audience. We worried about DVRs skipping our commercials and high definition revealing our wrinkles. We never worried whether people knew how to work their TV sets. However in the new world of connected TV, finding and watching Internet-delivered shows is a challenge, even for tech-savvy viewers. So in addition to fretting about all the things we can't control, we now need to worry about one thing we can: complicated smart …

As far as media consumption is concerned, Hurricane Sandy was, for me, an old-fashioned disaster. I don't mean to make light of last week's historic catastrophe. When my neighbors and I were evacuated last Sunday from our beachfront homes in the coastal New Haven County region of Connecticut I firmly believed that it would be weeks before we could return, if indeed we had homes to return to. As the week progressed, I was able to venture out and visit friends in nearby towns who were still without power. Most of them had found ways to charge their phones, tablets …