TMT With Mike O’Rielly

EPISODE 1: TMT With Mike O’Rielly – Keynote Conversation During FSF’s Sixteenth Annual Policy Conference

March 12, 2024

This inaugural videocast of TMT With Mike O’Rielly was recorded during the Free State Foundation’s Sixteenth Annual Policy Conference held on March 12, 2024. In a Keynote Conversation, Michael O’Rielly, former Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission, and an Adjunct Senior Fellow of the Free State Foundation, moderated a discussion with Brendan Carr, Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission; Mignon Clyburn, former Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission; and Nathan Simington, Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission.

EPISODE 2: TMT With Mike O’Rielly – Conversation with FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr

April 22, 2024

In Episode 2 of TMT With Mike O’Rielly, former FCC Commissioner and a current Adjunct Senior Fellow of the Free State Foundation Michael O’Rielly discusses the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program and Broadband Funding with Brendan Carr, Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission.

EPISODE 3: TMT With Mike O’Rielly – Conversation with former FCC Chairman Ajit Pai

June 4, 2024

In Episode 3 of TMT With Mike O’Rielly, former FCC Commissioner and a current Adjunct Senior Fellow of the Free State Foundation Michael O’Rielly discusses private equity and federal broadband funding with former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai.

EPISODE 4: TMT With Mike O’Rielly – Interview with Ed Brzytwa, Consumer Technology Association

June 12, 2024

In Episode 4 of TMT With Mike O’Rielly, former FCC Commissioner and a current Adjunct Senior Fellow of the Free State Foundation Michael O’Rielly discusses the USTR with Ed Brzytwa, Vice President, International Trade at the Consumer Technology Association.

EPISODE 5: TMT With Mike O’Rielly – Interview with Floyd Abrams, renowned First Amendment Litigator

June 18, 2024

In Episode 5 of TMT With Mike O’Rielly, former FCC Commissioner and a current Adjunct Senior Fellow of the Free State Foundation Michael O’Rielly discusses The Madison Project and upcoming SCOTUS decisions with Floyd Abrams, Esq., renowned First Amendment Litigator.

EPISODE 6: TMT With Mike O’Rielly – Interview with J. David Grossman, Consumer Technology Association

June 27, 2024

In Episode 6 of TMT With Mike O’Rielly, former FCC Commissioner and FSF Adjunct Senior Fellow Michael O’Rielly discusses the Biden FTC’s processes and policies and impact on American companies with J. David Grossman, the Consumer Technology Association’s Vice President, Policy & Regulatory Affairs.

EPISODE 7: TMT With Mike O’Rielly – Interview with Ben Sperry, Innovation Policy International Center for Law & Economics

July 2, 2024

In Episode 7 of TMT With Mike O’Rielly, former FCC Commissioner and FSF Adjunct Senior Fellow Michael O’Rielly discusses pole attachments and the municipal/cooperative exemption with Ben Sperry, Senior Scholar with the Innovation Policy International Center for Law & Economics.

EPISODE 8: TMT With Mike O’Rielly – Interview with Ilya Shapiro, Manhattan Institute

July 25, 2024

In Episode 8 of TMT With Mike O’Rielly, former FCC Commissioner and Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Free State Foundation Michael O’Rielly discusses recent First Amendment cases at the U.S. Supreme Court with Ilya Shapiro, Director of Constitutional Studies at the Manhattan Institute.

EPISODE 9: TMT With Mike O’Rielly – Interview with Grant Spellmeyer, ACA Connects

July 31, 2024

In Episode 9 of TMT With Mike O’Rielly, former FCC Commissioner and Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Free State Foundation Michael O’Rielly discusses FCC regulations and the burdens of NTIA’s BEAD program with Grant Spellmeyer, President and CEO of ACA Connects.

Episode 10: TMT With Mike O’Rielly – Interview with Harold Furchtgott-Roth, Hudson Institute and Center for the Economics of the Internet

August 7, 2024

In Episode 10 of TMT With Mike O’Rielly, former FCC Commissioner and Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Free State Foundation Michael O’Rielly discusses the history, the present, and the future of the Universal Service Fund with Harold Furchtgott-Roth, Hudson Institute Senior Fellow and Director, Center for the Economics of the Internet.

Episode 11: TMT With Mike O’Rielly – Interview with David Zumwalt, President and CEO, WISPA

September 26, 2024

Episode 12: TMT With Mike O’Rielly – Interview with Richard T. Kaplar, President and CEO, The Media Institute

October 9 , 2024

In Episode 12 of TMT With Mike O’Rielly, former FCC Commissioner and an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Free State Foundation Michael O’Rielly discusses the First Amendment and today’s media environment with Richard Kaplar, President and CEO of The Media Institute.

Episode 13: TMT With Mike O’Rielly – Interview with Tom Stroup, President, SIA

October 16, 2024

In Episode 13 of TMT With Mike O’Rielly, former FCC Commissioner and Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Free State Foundation Michael O’Rielly discusses the changing satellite regulatory environment with Tom Stroup, President of the Satellite Industry Association (SIA).

Episode 14: TMT With Mike O’Rielly – Interview with Danielle Coffey, President & CEO of the News/Media Alliance

October 30, 2024

Episode 15: TMT With Mike O’Rielly – Interview with Ryan Tracy, Co-Writer at Capitol Account and a former TMT reporter at the Wall Street Journal

December 5, 2024

In Episode 15 of TMT With Mike O’Rielly, former FCC Commissioner and Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Free State Foundation Michael O’Rielly talks with Ryan Tracy, Co-Writer at Capitol Account and a former TMT reporter at the Wall Street Journal about the structural problems in the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP). Mr. Tracy is the co-author of “Broadband Affordability, What Should Change? Lessons from the Affordable Connectivity Program.”