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
In Episode 11 of TMT With Mike O’Rielly, former FCC Commissioner and Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Free State Foundation Michael O’Rielly discusses WISP’s wireless broadband offerings and BEAD funding with David Zumwalt, President and CEO of WISPA.
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
In Episode 14 of TMT With Mike O’Rielly, former FCC Commissioner and Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Free State Foundation Michael O’Rielly discusses the role and treatment of today’s news and media industries with Danielle Coffey, President & CEO of the News/Media Alliance.
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.”
*The selection of guests and the content of the the TMT With Mike O’Rielly videocasts are under the sole control of Michael O’Rielly.