[16][17][18] As senior counsel to the House Telecommunications Subcommittee, he wrote many of the nation's key laws that governed the development of today's media industry.
[19] Today he serves as chairman of Oorbit Gaming and Entertainment, as well as Editor-At-Large of Newsweek, a digital and print publication covering news, analysis, politics, business, and technology, reaching some 100 million unique users online per month, is also a CNBC Contributor, along with being chairman and CEO of TRget Media.
[20][29] In announcing the appointment of Rogers, Ash Koosha, President and CEO of Oorbit, said: “From steering TiVo as the first company to stream Netflix and Amazon to the TV set, to providing the marketplace with advanced measurements of streaming gaming and esports at Engine, it is clear that Tom has had a major impact throughout the media world.”[20] Rogers is Editor-at-Large for Newsweek, and writes columns on policy and political issues for the publication.
[22][37] Appointed in May 2016, Rogers was Executive Chairman of WinView Games, Inc., a Silicon Valley company, until the merger creating Engine Media.
[38][23] WinView provided a platform for competitive social games for money while watching live sports on TV, backed by a substantial patent portfolio.
[39][24] Rogers was appointed in March 2017 as chairman of Frankly, Inc., a publicly traded company that managed the digital and mobile news distribution for local broadcast stations and other media properties, including Newsweek, throughout the United States.
[41] Rogers was chairman of Captify, Limited, a UK based advertising technology company with offices in New York, Paris and Madrid.
Captify's primary offering is aggregating over 40 billion pieces of internet search data a month to enable major brands around the world to effectively target their marketing efforts.
[27] Rogers served as vice chairman of Supermedia (NYSE: SPMD), a spinoff of Verizon Communications Yellow Pages print and digital business.
"[65]Lesley Stahl of CBS News, in announcing his induction into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame, said, "Rogers is a guy who gets things done... and he transforms companies along the way.