2015 Top Ops Awards MSO CONTENT INNOVATION AWARD Film Festival Collective Presented by Xfi nity Comcast Cable You hear it at parties and other settings: 'I have 500 channels but there's nothing on TV.' While discerning viewers know this is untrue, the 9 million+ Xfi nity customers in Comcast's Central Division have even less reason to utter that phrase. In May 2014, the division inaugurated The Film Festival Collective Presented by Xfi nity, a free, regional Video on Demand (VOD) offering featuring short fi lms from a variety of genres that have been screened or will be at fi lm festivals across the eastern U.S. The effort began in Comcast's Atlanta market, with about one million customers. Appropriately, Atlanta plays a large role. The Atlanta Film Festival is one of the MSO's partners on the project and curates the shorts to place in the VOD queue. It also acts as Comcast's agent, approaching other festivals to get them involved in the Collective. It's no accident that the Collective offers shorts instead of feature-length fi lms. " We took into consideration the average viewing time of on-demand Congratulations Adele Skolits! Independent Financial Executive of the Year Your friends and colleagues at Shentel salute you and your many accomplishments at Shentel. Congratulations on this well-deserved honor. www.shentel.com 12 cablefaxmag.com July 2015 Cablefax: The Magazinehttp://www.shentel.com http://www.cablefaxmag.com