Message from the Executive Director: How Do We Navigate?

What’s the future of a membership association when the industry consolidates? That’s the profound question that I ask myself as I read about a new consolidation in the media ecosystem. The most recent one is the news of AT&T taking on the behemoth Time Warner. You also have Disney and Comcast vying for Fox, and Belden taking on Grass Valley, Miranda, ThinkLogical, and SAM. In every case, these consolidations impact SMPTE. The memberships of multiple companies consolidate into just a single membership.