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NATPE's Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Award is
presented each year at a special reception
during the annual NATPE Market &
Conference. Ebersol, Mary Hart, Regis
Philbin and Gerhard Zeiler will receive
NATPE||Content First's 8th annual Brandon
Tartikoff Legacy
Award, to be
presented on Tuesday, Jan. 25 during the
NATPE 2011 Market & Conference, at the
Fontainebleau Resort in Miami
Beach.
Proceeds benefit the NATPE
Educational Foundation.
Named in honor of Brandon Tartikoff,
arguably one of television's greatest
programmers, the Brandon Tartikoff Legacy
Award was created to recognize the
extraordinary passion, leadership,
independence and vision in creating
television programming that defined
Tartikoff's character and career.
Tartikoff
spent 11 years as head of entertainment
programming for
NBC.
To
consider all that Brandon Tartikoff
accomplished as president of NBC
Entertainment, it's important to remember
how bad NBC was in 1981, when, at 31,
Tartikoff took over. But in a few short
years, after hits like
Cheers, Hill Street Blues, The Cosby Show,
Family Ties, Golden Girls and St.
Elsewhere, NBC was not only on top of the
ratings but did so with the creation of
programs that were to this day among the
best in TV
history. Part
02/
About
the Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Award
Recipients.
Tartikoff passed away in 1997, at the age
of 48, from Hodgkin's disease, which
he had fought-unknown to all but a few
close friends-since he was just out of
college. The Brandon Tartikoff Legacy
Awards began in 2004, and have become an
honor that program executives and creators
treasure.
Individuals
are nominated for Award consideration with
the oversight of NATPE's Executive
Committee and the executive editorial
staffs of Broadcasting & Cable,
Multichannel News and Variety.
Broadcasting & Cable, Multichannel
News, Variety and NBC Universal are proud
sponsors of this prestigous
event.
Those
who knew Tartikoff appreciated his sense
of humor and his respect for the creative
process. He made the television industry
better, as this year's four
winners.
"We
believe that this year's recipients, Dick,
Mary, Regis and Gerhard have remarkably
shaped the global television industry on
both business and pop cultural levels, and
truly embody the spirit of the Brandon
Tartikoff Legacy Award," said Rick
Feldman, NATPE President &
CEO. "Both
NATPE and Lilly Tartikoff Karatz are
delighted to honor the recipients' storied
careers through this special
celebration."
Dick Ebersol - A prolific producer and
executive, Dick
Ebersol is currently the Chairman of NBC
Universal Sports & Olympics, and in
the past three decades has produced eight
of the top 10 most-watched television
events in U.S. history. Responsible for
award-winning sports, entertainment and
news productions, Ebersol negotiated an
unprecedented number of Summer and Winter
Olympics broadcasting rights deals for
NBC, establishing NBC as "America's
Olympic Network." Not only a powerhouse
sports broadcasting executive, Ebersol
also conceived and created Saturday Night
Live with Lorne Michaels. He was awarded
the Olympic Order in 1992 by the
International Olympic Committee and is a
part of the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame.
Mary Hart - is the host of the No. 1
syndicated entertainment newsmagazine show in the
world, ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT. For the past
29 seasons, Hart has interviewed some of
the most distinguished personalities in
entertainment while providing compelling
coverage of global events and major news.
She was the only journalist granted access
to Quincy Jones' all-star recording
session for "We are the World," and the
only entertainment journalist who
interviewed all presidential and
vice-presidential candidates during the
2008 presidential
campaign.
She
is a member of Broadcasting & Cable's
Hall of Fame and was awarded a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame. She is also
actively involved in several philanthropic
organizations dedicated to children.
Earlier this year Hart announced that the
2010-2011 season will be her last as host
of ENTERTAINMENT
TONIGHT.
Regis Philbin - is an Emmy Award-winning
broadcasting industry
icon. Since
first stepping in front of the camera more
than 40 years ago, he has ambitiously
tackled talk shows, game shows, the
literary world and even the music
industry. Philbin is best known for his
many years as co-host of the
nationally-syndicated morning program
"LIVE! with Regis and Kelly." He later
took his
daytime success to primetime as host of
ABC's ratings juggernaut "Who Wants To Be
A Millionaire." 03 Regis Philbin will
resign from his daily talk
show"Live!
With Regis and
Kelly." After 28
years, Philbin said he will step down
around the end of the summer or fall, but
he didn't specify a departure
date. The
National Academy of Television Arts &
Sciences honored Philbin with a Daytime Emmy as
Outstanding Talk Show Host for "LIVE," and
another Emmy award as Outstanding Game
Show Host for "Who Wants To Be A
Millionaire." He has been inducted to the
National Association of Broadcasters Hall
of Fame and the Academy of Television Arts
& Sciences Hall of Fame, and was
honored with the Lifetime Achievement
Award at the 2008 Daytime Emmys. He also
holds the Guinness World Record for
"Most Hours on Camera."
Gerhard Zeiler - is CEO of the European
television and radio network RTL
Group and
member of the Bertelsmann AG Executive
Board. He is the first international
recipient of the Award. During his tenure
RTL Group has impressively grown to have
shareholdings in 45 television channels
and 32 radio stations in 11 countries,
becoming Europe's leading family of
entertainment channels. Nearly 200 million
people tune into RTL networks every
day.
Under
Zeiler's leadership, RTL Group has become
actively involved in worldwide content
production through its production arm,
Fremantle Media. The company currently
produces more than 300 programs and 10,000
hours of programming yearly in 57
countries including film and series.
Zeiler was named Media Personality of the
Year at MIPCOM in
2004. 04.
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NATPE||Content First is a global,
nonprofit organization committed to
serving as a catalyst for the content
revolution. Evolving to meet the needs of
a changing media landscape, NATPE, through
its many activities including exclusive
videos, live streaming events and vibrant
annual market, is at the nexus of the
multiplatform content
world.
WHAT NATPE DOES /
NATPE does
provide valuable -- information and
resources to its membership, which is
comprised of companies and individuals
involved in or wanting to become involved
with the creation, development and
distribution of television
programming;
NATPE
does serve as a catalyst for idea sharing,
discussion and debate regarding trends and
practices in the television industry as it
relates to programming.
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NATPE does provide its members with 24/7
-- access to
accurate databases of global information,
worldwide industry news, trends, and
creates opportunities for its members to
advance themselves and the industry
through its annual Conference &
Exhibition, regional workshops and
seminars, demonstrations, gatherings and
other means of overall support.NATPE is a
global, non-profit organization dedicated
to the creation, development and
distribution of televised programming in
all forms across all mature and emerging
media
platforms.
NATPE develops and nurtures opportunities,
both -- commercial and
educational, for buying, selling and
sharing of content and ideas.
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STORY
NATPE||Content First is a global,
nonprofit organization -- committed to serving as a catalyst for
the content revolution. Evolving to meet
the needs of a changing media landscape,
NATPE, through its many activities
including exclusive videos, live streaming
events and vibrant annual market, is at
the nexus of the multiplatform content
world.
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101GoldenGlobeAwards2011
'P- The
2011 Golden Globe
Awards
GOLDEN GLOBE AWARD 2011
WINNERS
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association,
ªHFPAº
-- has selected actress Gia
Mantegna, as Miss Golden Globe 2011 for
The 68th Annual Golden Globe® Awards.
HFPA President Philip Berk made the
announcement at The First Party of the
2011 Golden Globe Award Season, hosted by
the HFPA and
InStyle.
Chosen
by the HFPA, Miss and/or Mr. Golden Globe
is traditionally the child of a well-known
celebrity and assists during the Golden
Globe Awards
ceremony.
Previous
Miss Golden Globe honorees include Laura
Dern (daughter of Diane Ladd and Bruce
Dern), Joely Fisher (daughter of Connie
Stevens and Eddie Fisher), Melanie
Griffith (daughter of Tippi Hedren) and
last year's honoree Lorraine Nicholson
(daughter of Jack
Nicholson). Previous Mr. Golden
Globes include John Clark Gable and
Freddie Prinze, Jr.
The Golden Globe Award is presented by
--
the Hollywood Foreign Press Association
(HFPA) in recognition of excellence in
film and television, domestic as well as
foreign production. These prestigious
Globes awards are one of the three most
popular, widely acclaimed and most watched
award shows on
television.
This
year's annual January event, the 68th
Annual Golden Globe Awards was hosted by
Ricky Gervais, the British comedian and
creator of The Office and the ceremony was
telecast live from the Beverly Hilton
Hotel in Los
Angeles.
About the Hollywood Foreign Press
Association
--
The
Hollywood Foreign Press Association is
known worldwide for its glittering Golden
Globe Awards ceremony held every January
and its multi-million dollar donations to
charity. The Hollywood Foreign Press
Association had humble origins that
stemmed solely from a group of
journalists' desire to cover all aspects
of the world of
entertainment.
Today's
organization has its roots in the early
1940s when Pearl Harbor had drawn America
into World War II. Audiences, hungry
for diversion, were seeking out films
offering escape, inspiration and
entertainment; and filmmakers such as
Orson Welles, Preston Sturges, Darryl
Zanuck and Michael Curtiz were working
hard to fulfill the
need.
Amid
the turmoil of war and the difficulties
with communications, a handful of Los
Angeles-based overseas journalists banded
together to share contacts, information
and material. The idea was not a new one:
previously, in 1928 the Hollywood
Association of Foreign Correspondents
(HAFCO) had been formed and, in 1935, the
Foreign Press Society appeared. Both were
short-lived.
In 1943 the journalists, led by -- the
correspondent for Britain's Daily Mail,
formed the Hollywood
Foreign Correspondents Association
and conceived the motto "Unity Without
Discrimination of Religion or
Race." It was an uphill struggle at
first as the film industry had not yet
realized the importance of foreign
markets. At first the members held
informal gatherings in private homes. As
the membership grew, HFPA meetings were
held in larger quarters, with the
association selecting the Hollywood
Roosevelt Hotel as the location for group
functions.
The
group's first special event was a luncheon
in December 1947, at which a meritorious
plaque was awarded to Harry M.
Warner.
As
representatives of the world press, the
group's members felt it was incumbent upon
them to give their audience their
judgments as to Hollywood's finest
productions. The organization's first
awards presentation for distinguished
achievements in the film industry took
place in early 1944 with an informal
ceremony at 20th Century
Fox.
In
1945, the members of the association held
a contest to find a design for a statuette
that would best represent the overall aims
of the organization. Marina
Cisternas, president (1945-46) presented
the idea for a golden globe encircled with
a strip of motion picture film, and
mounted on a
pedestal.
In
1950 differing philosophies among members
-- created
a schism within the organization,
resulting in a split into two separate
groups -- The Hollywood Foreign
Correspondents Association and the Foreign
Press Association of
Hollywood.
For
a time, the two organizations existed side
by side, with one group handing out Golden
Globes while the other awarded Henriettas,
named for their president, Henry
Gris.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association,
ªHFPAº --
The
separation ended in 1955 when the
journalists reunited under the collective
title "The Hollywood Foreign Press
Association" with firm guidelines and
requirements for
membership.
During
its early years the HFPA established
itself with the studios by innovations
such as its World Favorites awards, which
it came up with by polling more than 900
newspapers, magazines and radio stations
around the world. The group also came up
with the idea of "bon voyage" interview
lunches with actors and actresses who were
leaving to make films in countries
represented by the
members.
In
1955 the Golden Globes began honoring
achievements in television as well as in
film.
The HFPA is currently celebrating its 66th
-- anniversary
in Hollywood. Today, the Golden
Globes recognize achievements in 25
categories; 14 in motion pictures and 11
in television. dick clark productions
has produced the Golden Globes ceremony
since
1983.
GOLDEN GLOBE AWARD 2011
WINNERS
Cecil
B. DeMile Award
- Robert
De Niro
Best
Picture (Drama)
- The Social Network
Best
Performance by an Actress in a Motion
Picture (Drama)
- Natalie
Portman - Black Swan
Best
Performance by an Actor in a Motion
Picture (Drama)
- Colin Firth - The King's
Speech
Best
Picture (Musical or Comedy)
- The Kids are All Right
Best
Performance by an Actress in a Motion
Picture (Musical or Comedy)
- Annette Bening - The Kids are All
Right
Best
Performance by an Actor in a Motion
Picture (Musical or Comedy)
- Paul Giamatti - Barney's
Version
Best
Performance by an Actor in a Supporting
Role
Christian
Bale - The Fighter
Best
Performance by an Actress in a
Supporting Role
Melissa
Leo - The Fighter
Best
Animated Feature Film
Disney
Pixar; Walt Disney Studios Motion
Picture - Toy Story 3
Best
Foreign Language Film
The
Country of Denmark - In a Better
World
Best
Director
David
Fincher - The Social
Network
Best
Screenplay (Motion Picture)
The
Social Network - Aaron
Sorkin
Best
Original Score
The
Social Network- Trent Reznor and
Atticus Ross
Best
Original Song- Motion Picture
Diane
Warren - You Haven't Seen The Last of
Me
- Winners of the Golden Globe
Prime Time Television
Awards
Best
Television Series (Drama)
- Boardwalk Empire
Best
Performance by an Actress in a
Television Series (Drama)
- Katey Sagal - Sons of
Anarchy
Best
Performance by an Actor in a Television
Series (Drama)
- Steve Buscemi - Boardwalk
Empire
Best
Television Series (Musical or
Comedy)
- Glee
Best
Performance by an Actress in a
Television Series (Musical or
Comedy)
- Laura Linney - The Big C
Best
Performance by an Actor in a Television
Series (Musical or Comedy)
- Jim Parsons - The Big Bang
Theory
Best
Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for
Television
Carlos
Best
Performance by an Actress in a
Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made
for Television
Claire
Danes - Temple Grandin
Best
Performance by an Actor in a
Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made
for Television
Al
Pacino - You Don't Know
Jack
Best
Performance by an Actress in a
Supporting Role in a Series,
Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for
Television
Jane
Lynch &endash; Glee
Best
Performance by an Actor in a Supporting
Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion
Picture Made for Television.
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101- Event: CTIA Wireless 2010 - MARCH
22-25 - Las Vegas Convention Center
101CTIA-reported
that WiTel Mobile phone usage keeps
growing
Americans used more
than 1.1 trillion minutes in the last half
of 2009, an increase of 38 billion from
the same period in 2008.
U.S. mobile phone
users are talking, texting and surfing the
Web more than ever, according to new data
from a wireless industry trade
group.
CTIA's latest
semiannual industry survey by CTIA -- the
Wireless Assn. showed that in the last
half of 2009, consumers used more than 1.1
trillion minutes, up 38 billion from the
same period in 2008.
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101-
Arts Entertainment - VRA To Release New
WebPlay
vContent å
Universal City, CA -- March 2010 /
Video Record Albums of America, (VRA
TelePlay) announces the release of more
than 100 new CD and DVD volumes of
vContent, and software for WebPlay sales,
that include the license for
RadioPlay.
Each CD and DVD features musical stylings,
and seamlessly software to play the Troy
Cory Show, including Troy's vMusic Stage
Concerts performed in the U.S., China,
England, Germany - EU -- since 1968. His
TV-shows went into syndication in 1972.
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101CTIA-reported
that WiTel Mobile phone usage keeps
growing
Americans used more
than 1.1 trillion minutes in the last half
of 2009, an increase of 38 billion from
the same period in 2008.
U.S. mobile phone
users are talking, texting and surfing the
Web more than ever, according to new data
from a wireless industry trade
group.
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101
-TCS CloseUp-TakeTwo.htm. A year ago, I
wrote a D-Diary memo identifying long-term
barriers to permanent transformation of
the Service Mark
Collections.
Since that time I've written a lot of
memos and direct story about the
transparent fraudulent activities created
by those certain rule makers over the
years in preparation for the collection of
moneies now all due and payable by Telco
organizations. To prevent Lawsuits, and
any misunderstanding between existing
Telcos, the Library of Congress, the
USPTO, FTC, and FCC, the new series of
TVInew aticles, "CloseUps," and Take2, was
prepared at the request of the WTQCA
association. That's something that never
would have happened before the Monetary
Crash of 2008.
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Back then, in the pre-Obama era, I and my
many D-Diary memos would have been
summarily shredded. But under Pres. Obama,
not only is outside criticism invited, he
assigned himself as the chief salesman to
work through the issues. While the road to
permanent transformation stretches a long
way in front of us, there is a key reason
that we are on it at all.
Pres. Obama has been an extraordinary
leader who has recast the White House's
approach to governing. In my opinion, and
with a talented team, a determined federal
judge and an unusually capable congress,
Pres. Obama will accomplished a remarkable
turnaround of a government that had defied
all previous interventions to rein in its
both Pro and Con Hot Topic behavior.
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Financial Reforms
But no president could completely alter
the DNA of the goodtime Charlie's of Wall
Street. Permanent reform will take much
longer, and it will happen only if the
president can continue to drive the
mandate down to the financial, foriegn
trade, and health industries, where there
are still holdouts itching to reverse
course.
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- Todays
Priorities.jpg These must be the next chief's
top priorities:
Make Service Your First Priority,
Not Success and Success Will Follow
Your tviNew HotTopic list might
look like this:
1. Family
2. Meaningful work
3. Health and well-being
4. Financial freedom
5. Travel and adventure
Your list might look like
this:
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< Photo Ambros Band &
Troy
101s-
Ambros Seelos Orchestra Tours the
Globe
Ambros Seelos, and Troy Cory shown in
photo, colaborated on a host of original
songs recorded in
Munich.
The
Ambros Seelos Orchestra featured
Sylvester Levay,
Grammy winner for "Fly Robin, Fly," who
later had great success with his musical
"Elisabeth," and was the co-writer with
Troy, and Ambros on Troy's BBC recordings,
"Hurricane," "Hey, Sweet Honey, Honey,"
and "Relax."
During the last two
decades of Troy Cory's China concert
tours, Ambros Seelos delivered the
big-band background sound for many of
Troy's TV-stage performances, "Jeepers
Creepers" being a favorite amongst the
Chinese
audiences.
Back in 1972 Ambros was chosen as the
official band for the Olympic Games in
Munich. Having toured the whole world, he
also performed together with giants of
Jazz like Louis Armstrong, Count Basie and
Ella Fitzgerald, Grammy-winning Hollywood
film composer and musical writer Sylvester
Levay ("Hot Shots," "Airwolf,"
"Elisabeth,") who also worked as a
producer for the living music legends
Elton John and Donna Summer.
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102-
Google TV project at I/O 2010. The Open
Platform will Bring the Internet to the
big TV
Screen.
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (May 20, 2010)
&emdash; Today at the Google I/O developer
conference in San Francisco, leading
industry players announced the development
of Google TV&emdash;an open platform that
adds the power of the web to the
television viewing experience, ushering in
a new category of devices for the living
room. Intel, Sony, and Logitech, together
with Best Buy, DISH Network and Adobe,
joined Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) on stage to
announce their support for Google TV.
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VEGAS HILTON CELEBRATES IT'S 40TH
ANNIVERSARY / By Pete
Allman
The Las Vegas
Hilton, which opened as the International
on July 2, 1969 is celebrating its
40th anniversary with a special day
for employees, special casino promotions,
commemorative gaming chips and a 24/7
happy
hour.
It's been about 10 years since I
met William Barron Hilton,
co-chairman of the Hilton
Hotels chain, paternal grandfather
of Paris. For me, The Las
Vegas Hilton has been one of my preferred
places for celebrity interviews, which
include my interviews with Dennis Miller,
Nancy Wilson, Wayne Newton, Bob Parker and
late James Brown "The Godfather of Soul",
to name a few.
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Viacom vs YouTube - Viacom Appeals
Copyright Infringement Ruling/ P- 1 /
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Appeals Copyright Ruling P- 1
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- Owner of Paramount and MTV asserts that
the video site's founders operated outside
legal bounds to build traffic quickly so
they could sell the site for a huge sum.
YouTube owner Google vows to fight the
appeal.
- Media giant Viacom Inc. has challenged a
June ruling that video website YouTube did
not violate federal copyright laws when it
allowed users to upload thousands of
pirated clips to the wildly popular
site.
- In a 72-page appeal filed Friday, Viacom
asserted that YouTube's founders
aggressively operated outside legal bounds
in an effort to build traffic quickly so
they could sell the site for a huge sum.
Google Inc. bought YouTube in October 2006
for $1.65 billion.
- Google has said it has spent $100
million to defend against the suit. Viacom
recently hired former U.S. Solicitor Gen.
Ted Olson to help guide its appeal. CLICK
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106Google
Sues U.S. to break Microsofts
Monopoly. -
Google Inc. - is suing U.S. to break the
Software monopoly, rival Microsoft Corp,
and Adobe has on the U.S. Government.
Google, the U.S. Department of the
Interior for allegedly excluding Google's
bid to provide its e-mail system.
-
Google sues U.S. over bidding for e-mail
contract
-
But Google has run into difficulties in
its attempts to loosen the tight grip that
Redmond, Wash., software giant Microsoft
has on the e-mail market, which includes
decades of relationships with some of the
world's largest businesses and government
agencies. CLICK
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106pa
Microsoft Sues Motoroloa Patent THEFT on
the handset maker's line of Android
phones.
Microsoft said Motorola had infringed nine
Microsoft patents in the Android-based
smart phones, which run on Google Inc.
software. Microsoft makes its own Windows
phone software.
The patents relate to synchronizing
e-mail, calendars and contacts, scheduling
meetings and notifying applications of
changes in signal strength and battery
power, Microsoft said.
The Redmond, Wash., company said it filed
actions in the U.S. District Court for the
Western District of Washington and at the
International Trade
Commission.
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106pa Gov
Q
- Did Google's YouTube Really Infringe on
Viacom
Copyrights?
NO,
Says. U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton in
New York ON Jun 24, 2010.
As
U.S.
District Judge Louis L. Stanton in New
York explained,
Congress recognized that the Internet
couldn't function if broadband providers,
search engines and hosting services were
held liable for every unauthorized copy
made on their networks. The Digital
Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 protected
those companies from liability as long as
they acted quickly to remove any
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#106GoogleanditsChinaproblem
106Google, and its China problem will it
eventually wear
off?
Google reported --
that it would delay rolling out in China
mobile applications that run on Android
phones after its Chinese partners came
under government pressure to pull out of
deals with
Google.
Access to Google's
Hong Kong search site has been spotty.
Google responded to mounting concerns of
business users of Gmail and other Google
services with a blog post that offered
some technical solutions that would allow
business users in mainland China to access
a corporate network offshore, similar to
what other businesses do. @
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106CarbonMonoxideLaw
/ New law to require home carbon monoxide
detectors
May 7, 2010 /
California homeowners will be required to
install carbon monoxide detectors starting
in July 2011 under a bill signed Friday by
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger that is aimed
at preventing deaths and injuries caused
by poisoning from the odorless, colorless
gas.
The bill requires
that alarm devices, which can cost less
than $30, to be installed in existing
single-family homes that have a
fossil-fuel burning appliance, fireplace
or attached garage, starting in mid-2011.
All other residential units will have to
have the detectors in place by Jan. 1,
2013.
In addition to the
firefighters association, the legislation
also was supported by the California Alarm
Assn. and Home Depot.
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106
- Can an Arab get a bill passed in
Israel?
During the last
Knesset, Ahmad TiBi passed four
[Israel Kaws]. "Before that, I
passed another four or five," he said in a
recent May 2010 LAtimes interview. ("But
it's very difficult for an Arab MK to pass
even one motion. Mine were all universal
laws that were good for both Jews and
Arabs, about medical issues, environment,
anti-corruption. But if I brought a law on
the issue of land allocation or cessation
of discrimination, it would immediately be
brought
down.
I tried it three
months ago with a motion that said simply
the allocation of land by the state should
be equal for all citizens. I didn't
mention "Jewish" or "Arab" citizens.
Automatically the vast majority of the
Knesset voted against me. Any motion with
the principle or word "equality" will
fail. There is not one basic law in the
Knesset talking about the value of equal
rights. Every Knesset I try to pass it.
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106FCCRoadMapToWiTEL-VoIPMix
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May 6, 2010 / The Federal Communications
Commission plans to unveil its road map
for regulating braoadband providers in
response to a feederal court ruling last
month that cast doubt on the agency's
authority over high-speed Internet
access.
TheFCC
is expected to impose additional rules on
broadband providers to ensure that the
government has the authority for a plan to
bring high-speed connections to all
Americans and prohibit Internet providers
from discriminating against some kinds of
online traffic.
The
agecy now treats broadband as a lightly
regulated information service. But since
the ruling, the FCC has been debating
whether to impose "common carrier"
obligations that make telecom services
share their networks. The agency says it
will seek a third
way.
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/ September 21, 2009 / FCC Ensuring
Net neutrality. Julius Genachowski, the
new FCC chairman is right to want new
rules that would keep service providers
from limiting selected data traveling
through their networks. Lobbyists
for phone and cable TV companies argue
that there's little evidence of ISPs
playing unfairly or violating Powell's
four freedoms. Yet when the FCC moved to
stop Comcast from surreptitiously
interfering with a legal file-sharing
application last year, Comcast sued,
claiming the commission had no power to
enforce the principles.
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106CTIA-reported
that WiTel Mobile phone usage keeps
growing
Americans used more
than 1.1 trillion minutes in the last half
of 2009, an increase of 38 billion from
the same period in 2008.
U.S. mobile phone
users are talking, texting and surfing the
Web more than ever, according to new data
from a wireless industry trade
group.
CTIA's latest
semiannual industry survey by CTIA -- the
Wireless Assn. showed that in the last
half of 2009, consumers used more than 1.1
trillion minutes, up 38 billion from the
same period in 2008.
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106Google, and its China problem will it
eventually wear
off?
Google reported --
that it would delay rolling out in China
mobile applications that run on Android
phones after its Chinese partners came
under government pressure to pull out of
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102.09iiiFCCRulesInternetNeutrality
(210) /
IT WAS ON September 21, 2009 THAT
MONDAY FREEBIES - Google, Yahoo WiTEL
vs AT&T, etc. -- began to think about
"recurring fee" structure."
Internet 'net neutrality' is endorsed by
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski proposes
formalizing rules and adding mandates that
he says would keep online traffic moving
freely. The proposals would also cover
wireless Internet service..'
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106
AT&T and Cable Telcos Rejects project
But
the telecommunications and the cable
companies that control both land-line and
wireless access to the Internet argue that
some customers who download large amounts
of data, such as a continuous flow of
movies, can jam their networks.
Regulations that prevent the companies
from restricting such bandwidth hogs, they
contend, would hamper their networks, harm
innovation and delay
upgrades.
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106-Patent
Suit Johnson & Johnson Wins Stint
Claims
February
2, 2010 / LITIGATION $1.73-billion
settlement in stent
suits.
Johnson
& Johnson said Boston Scientific Corp.
would pay $1.73 billion to settle two
suits related to patents for medical
stents.
Natick,
Mass.-based Boston Scientific faces
additional court challenges to its Promus
stent products, including a lawsuit by
Cordis
Corp
Stents
are mesh-wire tubes used to hold arteries
open after they are surgically cleared of
blockage. @
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107
Charles (Chuck) W. Fries - About
January-2011 Cover
Feature.
Godfather
of The Television Movie - Charles
(Chuck) W. Fries, Senior Executive and
vContent
Producer.
Chuck is a longtime film and television
producer and serves as CEO and Executive
Producer of Chuck
Fries Productions. His autobiography,
Chuck Fries -- Godfather of the
Television Movie -- A History of
Television, traces Fries' rise in the
entertainment industry and details his
role in its evolution.
A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Fries
graduated from Ohio State University and
moved to Hollywood in 1952 to launch his
career in entertainment. His first
opportunity came when he joined Ziv
Television, where he reported to
California Studios (now Raleigh Studios).
Ziv produced pioneer syndicated shows such
as "The Cisco Kid," "Highway Patrol,"
and "Sea Hunt," among others.
In 1960, he was appointed vice president
in charge of production for Screen Gems,
the Columbia Pictures' television arm and
was involved in the production of series
such as "Father Knows Best," "Naked
City," "Route 66," "Bewitched" and and
many other standout comedies of the 60s.
Fries later became vice president of
feature film production for Columbia
Pictures and worked on films such as
"Castle Keep," "The Horseman" and "Five
Easy Pieces." In all, Fries has
participated in the production of more
than 5,000 series episodes, 275 hours of
television movies or mini-series, and more
than 50 theatrical films.
Fries received an Honorary Doctor of Fine
Arts Degree from the Ohio State
University. He was named one of fifty
outstanding Cincinnatians on the 200th
anniversary of the City along with
luminaries such as Ted Turner, Dr. Albert
Sabin and Neil Armstrong. And he was also
one of the top 50 students of Elder High
School, where he gave the commencement
address on the 50th anniversary of the
school. Additionally, Fries was awarded
the Frederic W. Ziv Award, established by
the pioneering syndicator, for his
outstanding accomplishments in television
by the University of Cincinnati Electronic
Media Division of the University's
Conservatory.
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107 People: Ted
Turner - Chairman of the United Nations
Foundation.
Throughout his
career, Ted Turner has received
recognition for his entrepreneurial
acumen, sharp business skills, leadership
qualities, and his unprecedented
philanthropy. Whether in billboard
advertisement, cable television, sailing,
environmental initiatives or philanthropy,
Turner's vision, determination, generosity
and forthrightness have consistently given
the world reason to take
notice.
Turner is Chairman
of the United Nations Foundation,
Co-chairman of the Nuclear Threat
Initiative and Chairman of the Turner
Foundation. He is the founder of numerous
cable networks including CNN, TNT and
Cartoon Network, and a partner in the
Ted's Montana Grill restaurant chain.
Turner is also Chairman of Turner
Enterprises, Inc., which manages his
business interests, land holdings and
investments, including the oversight of
two million acres in 12 states and in
Argentina, and more than 50,000 bison
head.
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107-
OSCAR®
ACADEMY
/ ABOUT THE ACADEMY
CLICK
ToGo Direct to
oscar.go.com/
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences is the world's preeminent
movie-related organization, with a
membership of more than 6,000 of the most
accomplished men and women working in
cinema. In addition to the annual Academy
Awards &endash; in which the members vote
to select the nominees and winners
&endash; the Academy presents a diverse
year-round slate of public programs,
exhibitions and events; provides financial
support to a wide range of other
movie-related organizations and endeavors;
acts as a neutral advocate in the
advancement of motion picture technology;
and, through its Margaret Herrick Library
and Academy Film Archive, collects,
preserves, restores and provides access to
movies and items related to their history.
Through these and other activities the
Academy serves students, historians, the
entertainment industry and people
everywhere who love movies.
Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland
Center®, and televised live by the ABC
Television Network beginning at 5 p.m. PT/
8 p.m. ET. The Oscar presentation also
will be televised live in more than 200
countries worldwide. CLICK
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107 - The Berlin Wall - Road To
Europe,
and
"Starmaker"
and
SantaTales."
In 1968, before Troy Cory teamed up with
famous German Orchestra leader, Ambros
Seelos in 1970, Troy had already
co-starred with Wendell Corey, Rolf Eden,
and Barbara Valentine in the Berlin AFI,
John Harris, movie production,
"Starmaker."
It was in 1970, that Troy, Ambros Seelos,
music arranger, composer and songwriter,
Sylvester Levay, (Lysy, Levy - "Fly,
Robin, Fly," ), and lyricist and
translator, Jossi Sigl produced the
origianal recording sessions and the
Cory/Seelos concert performances in
Germany, Innsbruck, Austria, and Basel,
Switzerland.
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Vine
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The String section on the Munich Sound
recordings was provided by "The Munich
Philharmonics," piano and arrangements by
Sylvester Levay. Several years later it
was Levay who garnered a Grammy Award for
"Fly, Robin, Fly," and wrote the music
scores for the film "Howard the Duck" and
the Vienna musical
"Elisabeth."
Troy Cory collaborated
with Cinema Prize Records and Agil Musik
and co-wrote the song material with the
Seelos/Levay/Michalke/Sigl/ team, in
producing the album, entitled, "Today's
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108-Patent
Suit Johnson & Johnson Wins Stint
Claims
February
2, 2010 / LITIGATION $1.73-billion
settlement in stent
suits.
Johnson
& Johnson said Boston Scientific Corp.
would pay $1.73 billion to settle two
suits related to patents for medical
stents.
Natick,
Mass.-based Boston Scientific faces
additional court challenges to its Promus
stent products, including a lawsuit by
Cordis
Corp
Stents
are mesh-wire tubes used to hold arteries
open after they are surgically cleared of
blockage. @
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108-Patent
Suit Johnson & Johnson Wins Stint
Claims
February
2, 2010 / LITIGATION $1.73-billion
settlement in stent
suits.
Johnson
& Johnson said Boston Scientific Corp.
would pay $1.73 billion to settle two
suits related to patents for medical
stents.
Natick,
Mass.-based Boston Scientific faces
additional court challenges to its Promus
stent products, including a lawsuit by
Cordis
Corp
Stents
are mesh-wire tubes used to hold arteries
open after they are surgically cleared of
blockage.
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108brin&PageToSellGooglestock
.
Google
Inc. co-founders Larry Page and Sergey
Brin plan to sell 5 million shares apiece
of their company stock, worth $5.5 billion
combined at current prices.
According to regulatory documents, Page
and Brin will still own 47.7 million
shares or 48% of the voting power,
combined after their personal stock sales.
Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt
controls nearly 10% voting power. The trio
will still continue to control the
company. CLICK
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108Editor&PublisherRevived.
/ EDITOR & PUBLISHER MAGAZINE, The one
hundred year old publishing company is
back in business again.
EDITOR & PUBLISHER MAGAZINE, founded
in 1901 and merged in 1907 with The
Journalist, a weekly founded in 1884 is
back in business again, "seamlessly" . . .
says Josie Cory, publisher of tviNews.
Long the bible of the U.S. newspaper
industry, the publication has been
revived" under a new publisher just two
weeks after Nielsen Co. shut the venerable
trade magazine down.
Duncan McIntosh Co., an Irvine, CA-based
company that ironically publishes FishRap
News, and titles such as Boating World,
has acquired it for undisclosed terms.
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USvsSecretSwissAccounts Flipping
STORY
U.S.
and Swiss reach deal over secret UBS bank
accounts. The agreement will end a legal
case in which the U.S. sought names of
Americans suspected of evading
taxes.
U.S.
and Swiss negotiators have initialed a
settlement that averts a legal showdown
over the U.S. government's landmark
challenge to Swiss bank secrecy, a
government lawyer said
Wednesday.
The
U.S. government had sought a federal court
ruling compelling Switzerland's largest
bank, UBS, to turn over the names of
Americans suspected of dodging taxes
through the use of 52,000 secret
accounts.
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108JockeyClubCityCenterL5BillionOpens
-
The
Forbidden Ciy Project.
"The only names
retained by the Chinese 'Forebidden City'
project are the the words "City" and
Mandarin Oriental," says Troy Cory, of the
Jockey Club Alliance Group,
Thanks
to MGM, Dubai World, the massive
CityCenter walk, formerly knows as the the
1993 China Expo Las Vegas Jockey Club
Forbidden City Boardwalk Project, opend
its door on
December 17,
1009.
TVI's Pete Allman, and the associated
press reported Las Vegas "visitors by the
thousands" streamed into the newest
casino-resort on the Las Vegas Strip on
Thursday.
Fireworks and fanfare greeted the official
opening of the Aria Resort & Casino,
the 4,000-room, 61-story centerpiece of
the $8.5-billion CityCenter complex.
Crowds began swarming through the doors
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109s - TVImagazine
Photo Ops - 18w and
interviews.
The panel will explore the potential of
the combination of the TV, the set-top,
the broadband connection and digital video
recorder and how every player in the
entertainment and technology food chain
&endash; from content owner to middleware
and headend operator, to the subscriber
service provider and finally to the CE
manufacturer, all play an equally key
role.
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MAY 22, 2010 / Google
Inc.'s $750 million acquisition of mobile
ad service AdMob cleared its final hurdle
Friday with a boost from AdMob's jilted
suitor, Apple
Inc.
The Federal Trade
Commission said it unanimously decided to
approve Google's AdMob deal mainly because
of Apple's recent push into the $600
million mobile advertising market in the
U.S. The ruling closes a six-month
antitrust investigation.
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OCT 23, 2009 /
110-MicrosoftTimelineWindo
ws 7 launched -
STANDBY
Microsoft has taken two parallel routes in
its operating systems. One route has been
for the home user and the other has been
for the professional IT user.
Microsoft Windows version 2.0 was released
in November, 1987 and was slightly more
popular than its predecessor. Windows 2.03
(release date January 1988) had changed
the OS from tiled windows to overlapping
windows. The result of this change led to
Apple Computer filing a suit against
Microsoft alleging infringement on Apple's
copyrights
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111s-TCScloseUp-TakeTwo.htm.
A year ago, I wrote a D-Diary memo
identifying long-term barriers to
permanent transformation of the Service
Mark
Collections.
Since that time I've written a lot of
memos and direct story about the
transparent fraudulent activities created
by those certain rule makers over the
years in preparation for the collection of
moneies now all due and payable by Telco
organizations. To prevent Lawsuits, and
any misunderstanding between existing
Telcos, the Library of Congress, the
USPTO, FTC, and FCC, the new series of
TVInew aticles, "CloseUps," and Take2, was
prepared at the request of the WTQCA
association. That's something that never
would have happened before the
Monetary
Crash of 2008..
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Legends
of Poker - More Then Vegas / By
Pete
Allman
The game of poker is truly a game of skill
and in todays society, thanks to
television coverage and all those
celebrities indulging in the game, it is a
household word.
Legend has it, that poker dates back
to 900 BC in China when Mu-Tsung was said
to have played a form of '' domino
cards''. It has also been said
that poker evovled in the 1400's as
a European game. However, Poker
in America started in Mississippi on
riverboats and was a compliment
to three card Monti , which was dealt
with a 20 card deck that only
contained aces, kings, queens, jacks
and10's.
The big step in the evolution of poker was
in Neveda where it was declared
illegal in 1910.
In California the Attorney
General declared it a game of skill,
thus anti-gambling laws couldn't stop the
masses from playing poker. Then,
in 1931 poker was declared
a legal game in Nevada.
What's not to like with a chef from Italy,
a diversed staff, and an all new
State-of-the-Art Grand Poker
Ballroom. It's an impressive and
exciting place to visit. A place where
younever know who's playing poker or for
that matter Pai Chi.
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- China-USwinsMediaWar
| China's limits on entertainment imports
violate free trade practices, WTO
rules
The
ruling is seen as a win for U.S.
industries working to distribute films,
music and books in China. Still, trade
experts say not to expect big
changes.
Workers
make repairs to the display at a Beijing
movie theater near a model of a character
from the "Transformers" films. Wednesday's
World Trade Organization ruling could help
open the Chinese market to more U.S.
movies. (Ng Han Guan / Associated Press)
The
decision was seen as one of the toughest
against China by the WTO since it joined
the trade body in 2001 and agreed to give
equal treatment for domestic and foreign
companies. And it comes as the U.S.
continues to face a massive trade deficit
with China -- $103 billion through June of
this year -- an issue that the Obama
administration has yet to tackle head on
but which looms large in the coming
months. August
13, 2009 / Washington. The LAtimes
reported that . . . in deciding that China
broke international trade rules by
restricting imports of movies, music and
books, the World Trade Organization handed
the U.S. a victory in a contentious issue
that has long rankled purveyors of
copyrighted media products.
But
it doesn't mean Hollywood or Silicon
Valley will be cashing in any time soon.
The
ruling, issued Wednesday by a WTO panel in
Geneva, called on China to stop requiring
foreign media suppliers to go through the
costly process of distributing goods
through Chinese state-owned entities. It
also urged China to allow foreign
companies to sell music over the Internet,
a potentially huge opportunity for
companies such as Apple Inc., with its
iTunes. China has the largest number of
Internet users, but piracy online and in
the streets is rampant.
Although
China has complied with past WTO rulings
against it, analysts say Beijing could
appeal the latest decision, which could
drag out the case for many more months.
The complaint was first brought by the
U.S. in spring
2007.
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115-Consumer
Electronic Show / January -6th to 9th
2011, Las Vegas, Nevada
The
Association's Mission: To serve as the
definitive source for information about
the consumer electronics industry. EVENT
COVERED BY TVI MAGAZINE JOURNALIST / Gary
Sunkin / Josie Cory / Pete Allman.
///THE OFFICIAL
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Event: FILMFEST MUNCHEN - 2010 June 25th
July
3rd
Special Events: Munich, Germany 24 June
2010
filmtonart.
Film Music Day
26 June
/
Bozen Film
Festival Sören Bauer 8.30
pm
28. June /
teamWorx
Reception 9.30-11.30 pm
29. June /
ZDF
Reception 11.30 am /
30. June
/
ARD Brunch
11.30 am - 2.00 pm
01. July to 03 Closing
Event
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115.09-AmericanFilmMarket-AFI-fest When:
2010: November 4 - 11 / The business
of independent motion picture production
and distribution - a truly collaborative
process - reaches its peak every year at
the American Film Market. Over 8,000
industry leaders converge in Santa Monica
for eight days of deal-making, screenings,
seminars, red carpet premieres, networking
and parties.
Each fall, AFI FEST presents a survey of
the year's most significant films.
Featuring international work from emerging
filmmakers, global showcases of films from
the great masters and red-carpet gala
premieres, AFI FEST brings world cinema to
the heart of Hollywood.
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