Howard Homonoff is a Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in their Entertainment, Media & Communications advisory practice based in New York. He has over twenty years of experience in the media business, in cable and broadcast television, digital media and regulatory management. The focus of his practice at PwC includes areas such as rights management, strategic content acquisition and distribution, and the development of new digital media businesses, and the presentation of expert witness testimony.Howard's clients have included vertically-integrated media companies; major cable operators and telephone companies; large advertising agencies; a major motion picture studio; mobile carriers; startup programming networks such as Alpha Mom TV, a new video on demand service, and American Desi, the first English-language network aimed at South Asian-Americans; and the National Cable Telecommunications Association. Prior to running his own media consulting firm and joining PwC, Howard served as Vice President and General Manager of CNBC Strategic Ventures, where he oversaw the exploitation of CNBC content on new media platforms. He also served as General Counsel of NBC Cable Networks, where he counseled the company on a range of strategic and operational matters including content distribution, and Director of Corporate and Legal Affairs for Continental Cablevision in Boston. In his earlier political career, he served as Counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives Telecommunications and Finance Subcommittee and as Legislative Assistant for U.S. Rep. Edward J. Markey, D-Mass. Howard also worked as an Associate in the Washington, DC law firm Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering.
In addition to his work at PwC, Howard recently served as Associate Professor and Program Director for the Masters Degree Program in Television Management at Drexel University. He has lectured at Columbia Business School (where he affiliated with the Columbia Institute on Tele-Information), New School University and Boston College School of Law. Howard is a frequently sought-after speaker at industry events such as the Cable Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM) Summit, the Caribbean Cable Television Association and the Practicing Law Institute on Cable Television Law, serves as Co-Chairman of the New York chapter of the Federal Communications Bar Association and is a member of the Telecommunications Committee of The Association of the Bar for the City of New York. Howard received a B.A. in government with distinction in all subjects from Cornell University and a J.D. from New York University School of Law.