Rick Howe is the host of The Friday Fireside, The #1 Television Industry Webcast.   He provides strategic, product and business development consulting services to content producers, content distributors, advertising technology and marketing technology providers.  Rick is a Cable Pioneer (Class of 2011) and patent holder and inventor for Image-Oriented Electronic Programming Guides.    He spent five years with Time Warner Cable in their formative years and twelve years at Showtime Networks (ending as SVP Affiliate Marketing). Rick just launched a consumer-oriented online companion to The Friday Fireside:  "Talk Back to Television."