01.
The Featured
Events -
Pasadena
Celebrates the 120th Tournament of Roses
Parade.On Thursday,
January 1, 2009 at 8 a.m. (PST), millions of
spectators from around the world will celebrate the
New Year with the 120th Rose Parade themed "Hats
Off To
Entertainment."
•••
The 2009 festivities
will pay tribute to all that is entertainment. In
its many forms, entertainment touches all of our
lives. It brings family and friends together and it
brings joy to people everywhere."
•••
Renowned television
and cinema actress, Cloris Leachman, will serve as
the Greand Marshal for the 2009 Tournament of Roses
festivities.
•••
As Grand Marshal,
Cloris Leachman will ride in the Rose Parade in
front of a worldwide television audience, and toss
the coin before the 95h Rose Bowl Game.
•••
The Rose Parade will
be broadcast on ABC, NBC, Univision, HGTV, Travel
Channel, RFD-TV as well as KWHY and KTLA in the Los
Angeles area. The Parade is also seen in more than
200 international territories.
January 1, 2009 /
Trophy winners for the 120th Tournament of Roses
themed "Hats Off to Entertainment:" •
Sweepstakes
Trophy
for most
beautiful entry with outstanding floral
presentation and design: Rain Bird Corp.'s
"Entertaining Expedition"
•
Lathrop K. Leishman
Trophy for most beautiful noncommercial entry:
Sierra Madre Rose Float Assn.'s "Bollywood
Dreams"
• Grand
Marshal's Trophy for excellence in creative concept
and design: city of Cerritos' "Camelot -- A
Knight's Tale"
•
President's Trophy
for most effective floral use and presentation:
NAMM, the International Music Products Assn.'s
"Believe in Music"
•
Director's Trophy
for outstanding artistic merit in design and floral
presentation: Vera Bradley's "Hope
Grows"
•
Queen's Trophy for
most effective use and display of roses in concept,
design and presentation: Donate Life's "Stars of
Life"
•
Mayor's Trophy for
most outstanding city entry, national or
international: city of Huntington Beach's "Surf
City USA"
• Theme
Trophy for excellence in presenting parade theme:
American Honda's "Hats Off in
Celebration"
•
National Trophy for
best depiction of life in the U.S., past, present
or future: Anchorage Convention and Visitors
Bureau's "Celebrating Alaska -- Spirit of the
Wild"
•
Governor's Trophy
for best depiction of life in California: city of
Roseville's "Entertaining Dreams for a
Century"
• Bob
Hope Humor Trophy for most comical and amusing
entry: New Mexico USA's "Hats off to New Mexico --
Beep Beep!"
•
Judges' Special
Trophy for most spectacular showmanship and
dramatic impact: city of Mission Viejo's "Making a
Splash"
•
Animation Trophy
for best animation and motion: La Canada Flintridge
Tournament of Roses Assn.'s "Mechanical
Melodies"
•
Fantasy Trophy for
most outstanding display of fantasy and
imagination: Bayer Advanced's "The Garden of
Oz"
•
Founders' Trophy
for most spectacular entry built and decorated by
volunteers from a community or organization: Downey
Rose Float Assn.'s "Broadway's Golden
Age"
•
International
Trophy for most beautiful entry from outside the
continental U.S.: China Airlines Ltd.'s "Taiwan
Lantern Festival"
•
Princess's Trophy
for most beautiful entry 35 feet or under: Kiwanis
International's "Sharing the Great
Outdoors"
•
Isabella Coleman
Trophy for best presentation of color and color
harmony through floral use: National Assn. of
Realtors' "Celebrating the Dream of Home Ownership
for 100 Years"
•
Tournament Special
Trophy for exceptional merit in multiple
categories, including floats over 55 feet: Kaiser
Permanente's "Propel Your
Dreams"
• Past
Presidents Trophy for most creative use of floral
and non-floral elements: city of Glendale's "Sneak
Preview"
•
Tournament
Volunteers Trophy for best floral design of theme
35 feet or under: city of Torrance's "Mad Hatter's
Tea Party"
•
Craftsman Trophy
for exceptional showmanship and dramatic impact ,
over 55 feet only: Farmers Insurance Group's
"Family Outing"
•
Extraordinaire
Trophy for most spectacular entry over 55 feet:
Jack in the Box's
"Jack-O-Licious"
• Crown
City Innovation Trophy for best use of imagination
and innovation to advance the art of float design:
Western Asset's "Entertaining Our Imaginations"
Source: www.tournamentofroses.com/
The inaugural KTLA
Viewer's Choice Award went to the Cal Poly
universities' float "Seaside Amusement." The float
features a ocean-side amusement park, complete with
bumper cars, a roller coaster and a Ferris wheel.
The award decided by votes cast online during and
after the parade. The Cal Poly float received 3,219
votes
2009 Tournament of Roses Floats
Participants • City of Alhambra -
Salute to the USO
• American Honda - Hats
Off in Celebration
• City of Anaheim -
Crank Up the Entertainment
• Anchorage Convention
& Visitors Bureau - Celebrating Alaska &endash;
Spirit of the Wild
• Bayer Advanced - The
Garden of Oz
• Burbank Tournament of
Roses Association -3-D Double Feature
• Cal Poly Universities
- Seaside Amusement
• City of Cerritos -
Camelot &endash; A Knight's Tale
• China Airlines, Ltd.
- Taiwan Lantern Festival
• Dick Van Patten's
Natural Balance Pet Foods, Inc. - Natural
Entertainers
• Donate Life - Stars
of Life
• Downey Rose Float
Association - Broadway's Golden Age
• City of Duarte / City
of Hope - Healthy Living Is Child's Play
• Farmers Insurance
Group - Family Outing
• FTD - The Making of
an Epic
• City of Glendale -
Sneak Preview
• City of Huntington
Beach - Surf City USA
• Jack in the Box -
Jack-O-Licious
• Kaiser Permanente -
Propel Your Dreams
• Kiwanis International
- Sharing the Great Outdoors
• La Cañada
Flintridge Tournament of Roses Association -
Mechanical Melodies
• Lions Clubs
International - The Miracle Workers
• City of Long Beach -
Renaissance Revival
• City of Los Angeles -
DiscoverLosAngeles.com
• Lutheran Laymen's
League - Hallelujah!
• Macy's Queen's Float
- Presenting the Royal Court
• City of Mission Viejo
- Making a Splash
• NAMM, The
International Music Products Association - Believe
in Music
• National Association
of Realtors - Celebrating the Dream of Home
Ownership for 100 Years
• New Mexico, USA -
Hats off to New Mexico &endash; BEEP BEEP!
• Odd Fellows and
Rebekahs - Going to the Fair
• Participating
University, Rose Bowl Game, presented by Citi
• Participating
University, Rose Bowl Game, presented by Citi
• Rain Bird Corporation
- Entertaining Exhibition
• RFD-TV - Hee Haw
• Ronald McDonald House
Charities of Southern California - Time for a
Family Gathering
• City of Roseville -
Entertaining Dreams for a Century
• Rotary International
- Make Dreams Real
• Sierra Madre Rose
Float Association - Bollywood Dreams
• City of South
Pasadena - Nature's Entertainment
• City of St. Louis -
75 Years of Entertainment
• City of Torrance -
Mad Hatter's Tea Party
• Trader Joe's -
Saturday Matinee
• Vera Bradley - Hope
Grows
• West Covina Rose
Float Foundation - Hooray for Hollywood
• Western Asset -
Entertaining Our
Imaginations•
Ronald H.
Conzonire,President of the
2008-2009 Tournament of Roses. •••
Ronald H. Conzonire
(Corky) served as President for the 2008-2009
Tournament year and was leading a team of 935
volunteer members who work so diligently to
continue to evolve the Rose Parade and the Rose
Bowl Game into events that are responsive to the
needs of viewers, broadcasters and sponsors while
continuing to entertain. "Each year, the Tournament
of Roses adds new entertainment elements to the
Parade, and delivers a fun-filled, family-oriented
celebration of the New Year," says Conzonire.
•••
Corky Consonire has
been a volunteer member of the Pasadena Tournament
of Roses Association since 1987 and was elected to
the Executive Comittee in 2001. Throughout his
extensive Tournament career, Conzonire has served
on and chaired various committees including Budget
and Finance, Community Affairs, Coronation, Float
Construction, Formation Area, Membership, Music,
Parade Operartions, Post-Parade, Queen & Court
and Special Events, amoung others. He has also
served on the Tournament of Roses Foundation
Board.
•••
In addition to
Conzonire's many years of service with the
Tournament of Roses, he has been actively involved
with numerous community organizations. He is
currently a member and former president of the
Pasadena Optimist Club, and is active with the San
Marino City Club, International Council of Shopping
Centers and the California Restaurant Association.
He was a board member of the Pasadena Quarterback
Club. Professionally, Conzonire is the Chairman of
the Board for the C&J Food Company, which owns
and operates 10 restaurants in Southern
California.
•••
Conzonire is a Los
Angeles native. He and his wife, Mairlyn, have been
married for 45 years and have resided in San
Marino, California for 32 years. The Conzonires
have two children, Jodi and Joseph, and five
grandchildren. Conzonire enjoys sporting events
such as tennnis, golf and skiing, movies, plays,
reading and most of all, spending time with his
grandchildren.
02
/ Rose
Bowl Game 2009 •••
Known as the The
Granddaddy of Them All®, the Rose Bowl Game
kicked off a myriad of college football legacies in
1902. Since then, the game has showcased 18 Heisman
Trophy Winners, produced 28 national champions,
featured 189 consensus All-Americans and honored 89
college football legends by inducting them into the
Rose Bowl Hall of Fame.
•••
Continuing the
tradition, on January 1, 2009, at 2:10 p.m. (PST)
following the Rose Parade, the 95th Rose Bowl Game
presented by Citi will feature an exciting match-up
between BCS ranked No. 8 Penn State and No. 5 USC.
As home to the Pac-10 and Big Ten champions, the
game will be broadcast exclusively on ABC and ESPN
radio.
3.
Editor's Note
/Pasadena
Tournament of Roses History. The Rose Parade
will be broadcast on ABC, NBC, Univision, HGTV,
Travel Channel, RFD-TV as well as KWHY and KTLA in
the Los Angeles area. The Parade is also seen in
more than 200 international
territories. •••
The first Tournament of Roses was staged in
1890 by members of Pasadena's Valley Hunt Club,
former residents of the East and Midwest eager to
showcase their new home's mild winter weather.
••• "In
New York, people are buried in snow," announced
Professor Charles F. Holder at a Club meeting.
"Here our flowers are blooming and our oranges are
about to bear. Let's hold a festival to tell the
world about our paradise."
•••
During the next few years, the festival
expanded to include marching bands and motorized
floats. The games on the town lot (which was
re-named Tournament Park in 1900) included ostrich
races, bronco busting demonstrations and a race
between a camel and an elephant (the elephant won).
Reviewing stands were built along the Parade route,
and Eastern newspapers began to take notice of the
event. In 1895, the Tournament of Roses Association
was formed to take charge of the festival, which
had grown too large for the Valley Hunt Club to
handle.
••• In
1902, the Tournament of Roses decided to enhance
the day's festivities by adding a football game
&endash; the first post season college football
game ever held. Stanford University accepted the
invitation to take on the powerhouse University of
Michigan, but the West Coast team was flattened
49-0 and gave up in the third quarter. The lopsided
score prompted the Tournament to give up football
in favor of Roman-style chariot races. In 1916,
football returned to stay and the crowds soon
outgrew the stands in Tournament Park. William L.
Leishman, the Tournament's 1920 President,
envisioned a stadium similar to the Yale Bowl, the
first great modern football stadium, to be built in
Pasadena's Arroyo Seco area. The new stadium hosted
its first New Year's football game in 1923 and soon
earned the nickname "The Rose Bowl."
••• The
Tournament of Roses has come a long way since its
early days. The Rose Parade's elaborate floats now
feature high-tech computerized animation and exotic
natural materials from around the world. Although a
few floats are still built exclusively by
volunteers from their sponsoring communities, most
are built by professional float building companies
and take nearly a year to construct. The year-long
effort pays off on New Year's morning, when
millions of viewers around the world enjoy the Rose
Parade.
•••
Nicknamed "The Granddaddy of Them All" the
Rose Bowl Game has been a sellout attraction every
year since 1947. That year's contest was the first
game played under the Tournament's exclusive
agreement with the Big Ten and Pac-10 conferences.
The 1998 Rose Bowl Game was the 52nd anniversary of
that agreement, the longest standing tradition of
any collegiate conference and a bowl association.
Now, as part of the Bowl Championship Series, the
Rose Bowl has hosted the National Championship Game
between the top two teams in the nation in 2002 and
2006, and will host the National Championship again
in 2010.
4.
TVinews Bylines /Seven member Royal
Court will reign over the 2009 New Year's Day
festivities. The Rose Queen® Courtney Lee
and six Rose Princesses, Mary Gaule, Jasmine
Jenkins, Bridget McDonald, Molly Novell, Lauren
Valenzuela and Quinn Young, will reign over the
Rose Parade and Rose Bowl Game®.
•••
A place of honor is
reserved in each Rose Parade® for the float
carrying the Royal Court. Every September nearly
1,000 young women vie for the honor of riding that
float - participating in a month-long interview
process designed to find those participants with
the right combination of poise, personality, public
speaking ability and scholastic achievement.
•••
After selection to the
Royal Court in October 2009, the Rose Queen and
Rose Princesses were each presented with a peal
necklace and pearl earrings from Mikimoto (America)
Co., Ltd. Mikimoto is the exclusive provider of the
crown and tiaras worn by the Rose Queen and Royal
Court on Coronation Day and on New Year's Day. The
crown Queen Courtney will don is elegant and
timeless, featuring more than 600 cultured pearls
and six carats of diamonds.
•••
The Rose Queen and
Rose Princesses will attend nearly 150 public and
media functions during their year in the spotlight,
spreading the word about the Tournament and
Pasadena wherever they go.
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TeleComunication Study - Regulatory Frequency
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01.
The Featured
Events -
Pasadena
Celebrates the 120th Tournament of Roses
Parade.
On Thursday,
January 1, 2009 at 8 a.m. (PST), millions of
spectators from around the world will celebrate the
New Year with the 120th Rose Parade themed "Hats
Off To
Entertainment."
•••
The 2009 festivities
will pay tribute to all that is entertainment. In
its many forms, entertainment touches all of our
lives. It brings family and friends together and it
brings joy to people everywhere."
