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Than 50 Debuts at 2016 LA Auto Show's
AutoMobility LA Nov.
14-17
By Gary
Sunkin
LOS ANGELES, CA--The LA Auto Show®
expects more than 50 vehicles to be
unveiled in front of media, analysts and
industry executives during its trade show,
AutoMobility LATM, taking place November
14-17, 2016, at the Los Angeles Convention
Center.
AutoMobility LA 2016 will take place at
the Los Angeles Convention Center Nov.
14-17, with manufacturer vehicle debuts
intermixed.
• LA Auto Show will be open to the
public Nov. 18-27.
••••
While nearly every automaker is slated to
unveil products and/or make significant
announcements, a few have begun to share
their plans for vehicle reveals. Among the
more than 20 world debuts will be
introductions by Alfa Romeo, Mazda, MINI,
Subaru, Volkswagen and a compact SUV from
Jeep. Other reveals confirmed are
those from Infiniti, Jaguar Land Rover and
smart. Audi, Mercedes-Benz and
Nissan will have multiple reveals, while
Porsche has confirmed five debuts.
••••
General Motors (GM) will have multiple
global and North American debuts,
including two reveals from Chevrolet.
Cadillac's debut lineup will include the
Escala concept car, which has only been
seen on the Concept Lawn at the 2016
Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance.
••••
In addition to production and concept
vehicles in the luxury and performance
segments, this year's unveilings will
include a significant showing of SUVs and
electric/hybrid options across several
makes and models.
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AT&T Buys Time Warner for
$86Billion
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In a mega-deal a of
such enormity to not only the TV and
entertainment industry but also
politically, AT&T has bought media and
entertainment giant Time Warner.
••••Under
the terms of the takeover, Time Warner
shareholders will receive $107.50 per
share, implying a total equity value of
$85.4 billion and a total transaction
value of $108.7 billion, including Time
Warner's net debt. Not surprisingly the
acquisition -- approved unanimously by the
boards of directors of both companies and
expected to close before year-end 2017 --
will be subject to a multitude of
regulatory requirements. AT&T and Time
Warner are currently determining which
licences subject to rule by US regulator
the FCC will be transferred to AT&T in
connection with the transaction.
••••
If it does go through, the transaction
will leave the communications giant with a
market-leading portfolio of infrastructure
assets in telecoms, internet and satellite
assets (through its previous acquisition
of DIRECTV) and also some of the leading
global TV and film brands. These include
HBO, which consists of US premium pay-TV
and streaming services; Warner Bros.
Entertainment, which consists of
television, feature film, home video and
videogame production and distribution;
Warner Bros. film franchises include Harry
Potter and DC Comics, and its produced TV
series include Big Bang Theory and Gotham;
Turner consists of US and international
basic cable networks, including TNT, TBS,
CNN and Cartoon Network/Adult Swim.
••••Explaining
the rationale for the mega-deal, AT&T
said the newly merged company would have
the complementary strengths to lead the
next wave of innovation in converging
media and communications industry
positioned to create new customer choices
-- from content creation and distribution
to a mobile-first experience that's
personal and social. It added that the new
company will offer more relevant and
valuable addressable advertising; innovate
with ad-supported content models; better
inform content creation; and make over the
top (OTT) and TV everywhere products
smarter and more personalised.
••••"This
is a perfect match of two companies with
complementary strengths who can bring a
fresh approach to how the media and
communications industry works for
customers, content creators, distributors
and advertisers," said Randall Stephenson,
AT&T chairman and CEO. "Premium
content always wins. It has been true on
the big screen, the TV screen and now it's
proving true on the mobile screen. We'll
have the world's best premium content with
the networks to deliver it to every
screen. A big customer pain point is
paying for content once but not being able
to access it on any device, anywhere. Our
goal is to solve that. We intend to give
customers unmatched choice, quality, value
and experiences that will define the
future of media and communications."
••••Added
Time Warner chairman and CEO Jeff Bewkes:
"This is a great day for Time Warner and
its shareholders. Combining with AT&T
dramatically accelerates our ability to
deliver our great brands and premium
content to consumers on a multi-platform
basis and to capitalise on the tremendous
opportunities created by the growing
demand for video content… Joining
forces with AT&T will allow us to
innovate even more quickly and create more
value for consumers along with all our
distribution and marketing partners, and
allow us to build on a track record of
creative and financial excellence that is
second to none in our industry… This
is a natural fit between two companies
with great legacies of innovation that
have shaped the modern media and
communications landscape."
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AT&T Mega-deal Merger with Time
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115-AFI
FEST Gala Tributes to Annette Being and
Isabelle
Huppert
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This year, AFI FEST highlights
Bening's role as a single mother in 1979
Santa Barbara in Mike Mills' "20th
Century Woman" -- one of her best
performances yet. As Dorothea, Bening is a
force of nature, channeling a smart,
resourceful woman who anchors a rambling
bohemian house with a slew of perfectly
era-specific itinerants. Additionall, in
"Rules Don't Apply," the festial's
Opening Night Gala directed by and
starring Bening's husband Warren Beatty,
she brings her sparkling charisma to a
crucial supporting role.
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MIPCOM
makes it's 2016 theme "The New
Television"
The global entertainment
content market, MIPCOM takes place in
Cannes, France from 17-20 October
2016.
•••••
Keynote speakers --
A stellar
line-up of Media Mastermind Keynote
speakers include Sean Cohan, President,
International and Digital Media, A+E
Networks; Susanne Daniels , Global Head of
Original Content, YouTube; Marion Edwards,
President, 20th Century Fox Television
Distribution; Adi Hasak creator and
executive producer; Kazuo Hirai, President
and CEO of Sony Corporation; David Linde,
Chief Executive Officer, Participant
Media; Ben Sherwood, Co-Chair, Disney
Media Networks, President, Disney-ABC
Television Group; and Sophie Watts,
President, STX Entertainment, all of whom
will give their own vision on the MIPCOM
2016 theme of "The New Television."
••••
Kiefer Sutherland,
Award-winning actor and executive
producer, will deliver the Media
Mastermind Keynote on Monday October 17th
at 4:40pm in the Grand Auditorium at
MIPCOM 2016.
Kiefer Sutherland is an Emmy and Golden
Globe award-winning actor who starred in
the groundbreaking Fox drama series "24"
as special agent, Jack Bauer. He will next
be seen starring in "Designated Survivor"
from The Mark Gordon Company and ABC
Studios, distributed internationally by
eOne.
••••
"Designated
Survivor" is a conspiracy thriller and
family drama about an ordinary man in an
extraordinary situation. The series
follows a lower level United States
Cabinet member, Tom Kirkman (Kiefer
Sutherland), who is suddenly appointed
President after a catastrophic attack
during the State of the Union kills
everyone above him in the Presidential
line of succession.
••••
• About
MIPCOM &endash;
MIPCOM is the year's most anticipated
global market for entertainment content
across all platforms. Each October, the
industry's major players converge in
Cannes to turn every moment into an
opportunity, transforming four days of
meetings, screenings and conferences into
deals, from blockbuster programming to
ground-breaking partnerships. -- And
MIPJunior is the leading showcase for kids
programming, uniting the world's most
influential buyers, sellers and producers
the weekend before MIPCOM. Over two days,
these influential players, along with
publishers and licensing executives,
present, discover and screen the very
latest content, giving them the edge on
concluding deals at MIPCOM.
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MIPCOM's Theme "The New
Television
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Who invented the Earth Battery ?
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It
was Nathan Stubblefield, in
1998
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Who Invented the Wireless
Telephone?
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102-WIRELESS
TELEPHONE Industrial School of Arts &
Sciences -
1902
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Excerpts
from: Smart Daaf Boys,
Stubblefield's 1993 "All-in-One
Radio/Television & Desk Top Almanac
Encyclopedia-Dictionary. (456 Pages )
• ISBN No.
10883644-04-6Library of Congress Catalog
Number 93-060451 Volume IV, A Source
Book for Comminications Executives &
Researchers
Copyright 1993: By Telvision International
Publishing (TVI Publishing)
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Dodger Voice Vin Scully Retires - end of
an
era
By Gary
Sunkin
Fans send Vin Scully off with a teary
good-bye and a key to the city by LA mayor
Eric Garcetti -
"It's time for Dodger baseball!
Hi, everybody, and a very pleasant good
(afternoon/evening) to you, wherever you
may be." Scully's signature introduction
to Dodger games.
••••
After 67 years as the radio and tv
voice of the Dodgers, Vin Scully
retires.
• He preferred to
not stand under much of a spotlight in
this final season-
so his farewell tour came to him. It has
long been a tradition that umpires, before
the first game of every series at Dodger
Stadium, look up at the booth and
uniformly salute Scully. But this season,
both players and umpires, sometimes in
uniform, have taken elevator rides to the
fifth floor to visit his booth to simply
say thank you.
••••
Scully
stories? -- there are many.
Writer Bill
Plaschke remembers his Scully stories
began when he was a young reporter
covering the Dodgers for the LA Times in
the late 1980s. "I would sneak a radio to
my place in the Dodger Stadium press box
and stick headphones into my ears and
listen to him broadcast the final three
innings. I was typing so furiously under
deadline pressure I couldn't really watch
the games, so Scully watched them for me,
and taught me baseball in the
process."
••••
Vincent Edward
"Vin" Scully was born November 29, 1927 in
The Bronx and grew up in the Washington
Heights section of Manhattan
••••
Scully discovered
his love of baseball at age 8, when he saw
the results of the 2nd game of the 1936
World Series at a laundromat and felt a
pang of sympathy for the badly defeated
New York Giants. Since he lived near the
Polo Grounds and was able to attend many
games for free, he became a "very big
Giants fan." Scully decided at eight years
old that he wanted to become a sports
announcer, when he became fascinated with
the football broadcasts on the radio
••••
In
1950, Scully joined Red Barber and Connie
Desmond in the Brooklyn Dodgers radio and
television booths. When Barber got into a
salary dispute with World Series sponsor
Gillette in 1953, Scully took Barber's
spot for the 1953 World Series.
••••
At
the age of 25, Scully became the youngest
person to broadcast
a World Series game (a record that stands
to this day). Barber left the Dodgers
after the 1953 season to work for the New
York Yankees. Scully eventually became the
Dodgers' principal announcer and announced
Dodgers games in Brooklyn until 1957
••••
In 1955 Scully
announced Brooklyn's first world
championship -- "Ladies and
gentleman, the Brooklyn Dodgers are the
champions of the world.'' Later Scully
accompanied the Dodgers to their new
location in Southern California beginning
with the 1958 season, and quickly became
popular.
•••••Vin
Scully has been with the dodgers for
67 years since its days in Brooklyn,
retiring as the radio and television voice
of the Dodgers, and greatest announcer in
the history of broadcasting. Recently,
Scully called most Dodger home games (and
selected road games) on SportsNet LA
television and KLAC radio.
••••During
the last three years, a greedy stalemate
has kept the Dodgers off television in
more than half of Los Angeles-area homes,
costing fans a chance to say good-bye to
Scully until a deal was struck
that KTLA would broadcast the team's
final six regular-season games.
Through it all, Scully has openly
acknowledged sadness but refused to show
anger or place blame, and fans have not
complained about his lack of intervention.
They want him to be neutral. They love him
for who he is.
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Vin Scully
retires after 67 years with the
Dodgers
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106-FCC's
Proposal on Set-Top Boxes up for Vote,
Sept.
29
• Hardware costs are
down yet fees still seem to climb.
•••The
new rules would require companies covering
95% of U.S. TV subscribers to comply by
September 2018.
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FCC's
Proposal on Set-Top
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Osgood leaves "Sunday
Morning"
Charles Osgood, who has
made the CBS show "Sunday Morning" a
weekly ritual for many viewers, will be
leaving at the end of September after 22
years as the program's anchor.
•••News
of his departure comes after months of
speculation. On Sunday Aug. 28, Mr.
Osgood, who is 83, used a part of the
"Sunday Morning" broadcast to tell his
viewers that the rumors were true.
•••On
his last Sunday, Mr. Osgood assured
viewers that they could still find him on
the radio. He will contribute to his
long-running program "The Osgood File,"
where he has been known to read vignettes
and poems about the day's news.
•••
He ended his
farewell to his viewers with a few wistful
bars from a folk song, written by Woody
Guthrie: "So long, it's been good to know
you/So long it's been good to know you/So
long it's been good to know you/A long
time since I've been home/And I've got to
be drifting along."
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Charles Osgood leaves "Sunday
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Cory's Road to
China>
First American to perform on Stage in
China, PRC.
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Troy Cory was among the first
international entertainers and the first
American entertainer to perform in the
People's Republic of China, beginning in
1988. In itself a notable
culture-historical feat, in view of
China's closed door policies of the late
70s and well into the 80s. The PRC's
administrative climate in comparison is
much less restrictive now and China's open
door policy enables many entertainers to
introduce themselves to the populace
Chinese audiences.
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101- Cory Meets JiangZemin, former
President PRC
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•  Back
in the 80s, as a goodwill ambassador
representing the U.S.A., Troy Cory and his
back-up dancers and singers, "The Brooke
Sisters," were the first entertainers from
the United States to appear in a full
staged program in the People's Republic of
China during the Shanghai TV Festival, and
televised on  China's
National Television (CCTV), viewed by over
300 million
people.•
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• It was there
Cory met Jiang Zemin, then mayor of
Shanghai, and who later became the 5th
President of the People's Republic of
China.
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The '88 Shanghai
Concert was the beginnings of Troy's
concert tours in China for the next two
decades. The concerts, just to name a few,
included the following cities: Shanghai,
Beijing, Anshan, Harbin,
Fuzhou and and Tsingtao
(Qingdao)
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Sept.
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Sept.
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Oct. 16
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at
Detroit
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10:00
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Oct. 23
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AT New
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6:30
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Nov.
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CAROLINA
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1:05
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Nov.
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MIAMI
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