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CES all digital event scheduled to take
place Jan 11-14,
2021
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Digital Hollywood online during final day
at
CES
Will take place at
the world's most influential technology
event for all who thrive on the business
of consumer technologies. CES 2021 will be
all-digital this year and is expected to
have over 150,000 attendees worldwide. CES
will take place January 11-14, 2021, and
Digital Hollywood will be All-Digital and
Online on the final day of CES, Thursday,
January 14.
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Virtual summit to rethink the
future
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KISS THE GROUND documentary Film Available
to Stream January 6 - 8 on
YouTube
KISS THE GROUND
virtual film screening sponsored by Big
Picture Ranch, follwed by live Q&A on
January 8 with filmmakers Josh Tickell and
Rebeca Tickell, moderated by L.A. Times
film critic Mark Olson January 8 at 6 p.m.
on You Tube.
Kiss The
Ground, narrated by Woody Harrelson
unveils a game changer, the possibility to
reverse global warning and the Earth's
soil as the solution. With epic footage
shot on five continents, striking visuals
from NASA and NOAA the domuntary conveys
its critical message through the voices of
leading scientist, ecologist, and experts
including Nobel Laureates in climate,
members of the International Panel on
Climate Change, top scientists at the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Association (NOAA) as well as environments
activists. Kiss the Ground artfully
illustrates an accessible and relatively
simple solution to humanit's greatest
challenge.
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KISS THE GROUND documentary wins its 25th
Film Festival Award todate.
LOS ANGELES,
CA. -- The critically-acclaimed
environmental feature documentary, KISS
THE GROUND, recently garnered its
25th film festival award after the
Red Nation International Film Festival
(RNIFF) bestowed its humanitarian honor,
the Chief Dan George Award, to
directors Josh Tickell and
Rebecca Harrell Tickell (Oscar® short
list for "Fuel," Official Selection Cannes
Film Festival for "The Big Fix")
acknowledging their contributions and
commitment to environmental justice. To
date, KISS THE GROUND has been invited to
46 film festivals as an official
selection, including the 2020 Tribeca Film
Festival.
The Red Nation
International Film Festival's Chief
Dan George Award is its humanitarian award
named for the famous Canadian actor,
author, and activist who is known for his
advocacy for First Nations and
environmental rights, and as the first
Native American to earn an Academy
Award® nomination for his supporting
role in "Little Big Man" (1970).
Previous recipients of the award include
filmmaker Theda NewBreast and Dr. Jane
Goodall.
The KISS THE GROUND
trailer is available
on YouTube,KISSTHEGROUNDMOVIE.COM
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Virtual summit to rethink the
future
REUTERS NEXT
kicks off 2021 by gathering global leaders
and forward thinkers to reimagine
solutions to the challenges the new year
brings.
After the
extraordinary upheavals of 2020,
conference participants will take look
ahead at opportunities for change and
growth, as well as how to deal with the
rifts and problems that our world an our
societies face.
No country, company
or community can?tackle the future alone.
To build a better world, thinkers and
doers must come together to share ideas,
collaborate and act.
REUTERS
NEXT draws on Reuters global reach to
host diverse voices from around the world
who will examine topics from different
perspectives, bringing their passion,
experience and expertise to find new ways
forward.
Virtual Forum will take place on January
11-14. 2021.
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NO New Year's Day Rose Parade and Rose
Bowl football to ring in the year
2021
PASADENA,
CA -- After
Television Int'l Magazine's (TVI) 64 years
covering the Rosebowl Parade and Game, for
the first time there will be no Parade and
Rose Bowl Game in Pasadena on New
year's Day.
Under mounting
pressure over several Days, the Rose Bowl
Game will take part in the 2021
Collage Football playoff on Jan. 1st, it
was announced by the Tournament Of
Roses and Collage Football playoff
Executive director Bill Hancock.
The Rose Bowl Game
has been relocated to the AT@T
Stadium in Arlington, Texas on January 1st
2021, due to coronavirus restrictions in
Southern California. Fans and family were
not allowed to attend the game in Pasadena
as originally planned.
The Rose Bowl game
which was part of the College Football
playoffs semi-final games on New year's
Day along with the end Suger Bowl in New
Orleans.
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New Year's Day Rose Parade and Rose Bowl
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2021
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NATPE's 2021 Virtual Conference Slate
Starting With Fully Digital NATPE Miami
The
National Association of Television Program
Executives NATPE, the premier global
business association for content
producers, distributors, streamers and
buyers across all platforms announced the
creation of three new events and
completely virtual NATPE Miami. Due to
circumstances and restrictions surrounding
the ongoing pandemic, NATPE Miami will be
held entirely online. Each of these events
are a full component of the NATPE Virtual
platform, a highly interactive experience
designed to address the current content
business environment as demonstrated by
both NATPE Streaming Plus and NATPE
Budapest International earlier this year
that delivered the highest audience
engagement.
The
NATPE calendar of events for the first
part of 2021 is as
follows:
NATPE Miami -- January 19-22 (Marketplace
19-29th)
NATPE Segregation, Segmentation &
Storytelling &endash; February 16
NATPE Sports -- March 23
NATPE News -- April 7
NATPE Virtual Miami - January 19-22
(Marketplace 19-29), 2021 - The first
and largest virtual marketplace +
conference of the year will start on
Tuesday through Friday with each day
featuring a full schedule of sessions
focused on content business drivers. Key
themes for each day will cover Revenue
(Investment, Advertising, &
Subscription), Audience (Research,
Marketing & Promotion), Content
(Acquisition & Distribution Sales),
and Production (New content). Additional
topics will include Station Groups, Web
Series, Global, Latin Summit and the
renowned industry awards shows. Exhibition
will be open from Tuesday, January 19th
through Friday, 29th. More details to be
announced.
NATPE Segregation,
Segmentation & Storytelling (NEW) -
February 16, 2021 - A spotlight on
the business of BlackTV, this summit
advances the conversation about the
business of Black talent, Black
perspectives, and Black "voices" in
television programming, as only NATPE can!
Explore the role of Black talent, writers,
showrunners, producers and directors, and
the impact of their work on TV audiences
and advertisers, today.
NATPE Sports (NEW)
-- March 23, 2021 -- This 2-hour, jam
packed event will focus on the changes and
adjustments to the production of live
sports content for TV and video, and the
growth struggle to attract new sponsors
and fans and retain traditional television
audiences and advertisers.
NATPE News (NEW) --
April 7, 2021 &endash; 'Out with the
old and in with the News,' this one-day
event will explore the paradigm of "Fake
News," "disinformation," and "bots"
disrupting the traditional news cycle.
This timely event will look through the
lens of post-election insights and will
highlight best-practices grounded in
journalistic integrity to provide
attendees with a look at what's to come.
Discussions focus on the preparation
behind news perspectives, the influence
and impact of advertisers, and the
shifting audience and their taste for
various news topics.
"True to our
mission to provide connections, business
intelligence and new opportunities, NATPE
is facing head-on the new reality by
launching NATPE Virtual Miami, the first
and largest content event of the year,"
said President and CEO JP Bommel. "This is
a people's business and until we can get
together in-person, and we will, our plans
are to continue to pivot and produce a
compelling and engaging virtual series of
events to serve our members and the
expanded content community.
The NATPE brand has
long been recognized as a one-stop-shop in
the global content marketplace, and even
during challenging times, its goal remains
the same: to be an ultimate resource for
producers and distributors as the
one-stop-shop for the business of content.
NATPE Virtual delivers the key elements
that make NATPE's physical experience a
must attend event.
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SAG-AFTRA proposes 1998 Digital Millenium
Copyright Act update
LOS ANGELES
-- SAG-AFTRA thanks Chairman
Tillis for spearheading a
yearlong review to
update the now over 20-year-old
Digital Millennium Copyright
Act (DMCA). Tillis introduced the
discussion draft of the Digital Copyright
Act (DCA) of 2021. The DMCA came out
in 1998 and was supposed to balance
copyright interests with technology
interests, but it has failed to keep pace
with changes in technology.
Tillis' review clarified what we have
long known, there are far too many
deficiencies and inequities, and the DMCA
is ripe for improvement. We look
forward to
reviewing the proposed draft
and working with all stakeholders
to get this invaluable legal
framework right for the 21st
century.
SAG-AFTRA President Gabrielle Carteris
said, "Strong copyright protections are
critical to our members and their ability
to reap the benefits of their
performances. We rely on copyright owners'
fully exploiting their work to ensure our
collectively bargained residuals payments,
and corresponding health and pension plan
contributions, remain intact. The world of
entertainment has evolved dramatically in
the digital era. Our copyright laws must
evolve to keep pace, and they must be
crafted to allow the creative community to
thrive alongside the technology community.
At present, they thrive at our expense. We
thank Chairman Tillis for putting
together this forward looking draft."
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Genie Gateway - Pay with your own phone
number
Some
customers still like to use traditional
checks, but to save time and money new
technology has allowed those paper checks
to be converted into a digital version
known as Check21. This is a fast, secure,
and efficient way to offer an additional
payment option to merchants while saving
on transaction fees that are higher when
accepting debit and credit cards.
Check21
is the new way for you to receive payments
for all your goods and services! Get
Real-Time processing AND payment,
24x7x365, from any customer with a valid
US checking account &endash; whether they
buy in person, online, or by cell
phone.
Genie
Gateway holds the Key to Unlocking a
Wide-Open Opportunity by using its
patented technology to create a unique
environment where customers can
communicate and send and receive payments,
globally, in real-time through
Telecommunications, eCommerce, Cable TV,
and High Speed Internet, integrated on one
platform into One Unified Solution.
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Special Olympics Southern California
Mourns the Passing of Founder
Rafer Johnson
- By wearesosc
Special Olympics
Southern California was saddened to hear
of the passing of Rafer Johnson, founder
of SOSC, humanitarian, and Olympic Gold
Medalist. The entire SOSC community,
including athletes, volunteers, partners,
and staff, mourns this loss.
Today we lost one
of our family members and one of the
biggest champions for people with
intellectual disabilities. With the
ultimate goal of spreading acceptance and
inclusion, Rafer Johnson propelled
our community to new heights through the
power of sports.
Rafer Johnson had
been active with Special Olympics since
the very beginning. After experiencing the
positivity and energy at the first Special
Olympics Games in Chicago in 1968, he knew
he wanted to help the movement
grow.
In 1969, Johnson
helped bring Special Olympics to the west
coast by forming the Southern California
chapter of Special Olympics. What started
as a track & field and swimming
competition for 900 athletes with
intellectual disabilities from western
states has now grown into an organization
that serves 38,200 athletes in Southern
California through year-round sports,
wellness, and leadership
programming.
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October 4, marks the 50th anniversary of
Janice Joplin's
death
By
Maria
Ludwig
Her death was ruled
an accident. A heroin overdose. Joplin
died at the Landmark Hotel, at the corner
of Franklin and North Sycamore in
Hollywood, known now as the Highland
Garden. She was only 27 when she was found
in Room 105 on Ooct. 4, 1970. That was
just three weeks after guitarist Jimi
Hendrix died in London and nine months
before Jim Morrison of the Doors died in
Paris.
Janice Joplin was
known as the "hippie queen of show
business, the biggest female star in the
history of rock'n' roll when she died.
Every time I pass
the hotel in Hollywood I keep thinking of
the day in Germany when my teenage stepson
Keith came running into the room excitedly
calling out loud "Janice Joplin died!"
Obviously along with Led Zepplin she was a
favorite of him. He is not with us any
longer either, having gone from this life
at a very young age, and that's why when
passing what is now the Highland Garden I
can't put the scene out of my mind. A
young teenager almost shouting in
disbelief about the death of a young
singer.
Influenced by
artists like Bessie Smith, Otis Redding,
Billie Holiday, Ray Charles, Tina Turner
and Aretha Franklin, she possessed a
command of blues styling, phraseology and
melody. She was inducted into the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 and voted number
28 in Rolling Stone's greatest singers of
all time in 2008.
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
dies at
87
Justice Ruth
Bader Ginsburg, the demure firebrand who
in her 80s became a legal, cultural and
feminist icon, died Friday. The Supreme
Court announced her death, saying the
cause was complications from metastatic
cancer of the pancreas.
The court, in a statement, said Ginsburg
died at her home in Washington surrounded
by family.
"Our nation has
lost a justice of historic stature," Chief
Justice John Roberts said. "We at the
Supreme Court have lost a cherished
colleague. Today we mourn but with
confidence that future generations will
remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew
her, a tireless and resolute champion of
justice."
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Popular local Weatherman Fritz Coleman
calls it quits after 39 years delivering
weather
reports
- By Josie
Cory
NBC4 said good-bye
to beloved weatherman Fritz Coleman who
has delivered weather forecasts at NBC4
for almost 40 years and delivered his
final weather report on Friday, June 26
during the 5 pm and 11 pm news. His news
anchor team Colleen Williams, Chuck Henry
and sports anchor Fred Roggin offered
their words of sincere thanks with
Williams bearly holding back her
tears.
After a year of
planning his retirement, Coleman decided
to spend more time with his family,
appreciate his good health, and dedicate
more time to his comedy and working with
charities.
Coleman, who works
on the side as a stand-up comic, is known
for mixing humor with his forecasts.
Coleman joined NBC4 in 1982, and has been
part of one of the longest
running news anchor teams in Los
Angeles, working alongside co-anchors
Colleen Williams and Chuck Henry and
sports anchor Fred Roggin.
"This career has
been a gift," Coleman said in a statement.
"To work in the greatest news operation in
Southern California has been the greatest
experience of my life. I have also had the
opportunity of raising my children, while
working with a wonderful team. I have made
lifelong friends at NBC4 and in the
community it serves. I'm so very
thankful."
Coleman
has received numerous awards and honors
for community service, including an
honorary doctorate from Woodbury
University in Burbank for his extensive
public service in the community. He has
received awards from groups such as
Shelter Partnership and
the
California Hospital Medical Center. He was
named a "Treasure of Los Angeles' by the
city of L.A. and he received a
congressional "Humanitarian of the Year
Award" for his fundraising efforts on
behalf of the American Red Cross from the
U.S. House of Representatives, among other
honors.
Coleman
is the Honorary Mayor of Toluca Lake and
known to light the Christmas Tree during
'Toluca Lake's Annual Holiday Open House'
ceremony at Ramsey-Shilling with with 4th
District council and actor Joe Montegna
often in attendance
For
many years he is featured as celebrity
guest auctioneer at the St. Charles
Borromeo annual parish festival.
Coleman
appreciated for his work as a stand-up
comic, appearing frequently at The Improv
in Hollywood and The Ice House in
Pasadena. His one-man show "Defying
Gravity at the El Portal Theater in North
Hollywood and subsequently at the Gary
Marshall Theatre in Toluca Lake proved
a
hit among local residents. He also
made several appearances on The
Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and other
NBC shows.
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Nathan Stubblefield
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Proclamation by Wallace G. Wilkinson,
former Governor of
Kentucky
1992
proclaimed Nathan Beverly Stubblefield
year and
Murray,
Kentucky 'Birthplace of
radio'
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112th
Anniversary of the N.B. Stubblefield's
Wireless Telephone
Patent
1908
0512 - PATENT GRANTED: Stubblefield's U.S.
Patent, Number 887,357, All Purpose
Wireless Telephone, Filed April 5, 1907,
Granted May 12, 1908. / Click MORE STORY
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Trivia:
What other event occurred in 1902, the
year of Stubblefields's public
demonstration in 1902.
A:
The founding of J.C. Penney stores by
James Cash.
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Nathan B. Stubblefield, the Man History
Overheard
By
Harvey
Geller
In Life's current Bicentennial
issue, radio checks in, at #86 on the hot
"100 Events That Shaped America," 19
buttons behind Bell's telephone.
Erroneously, Life lists Guglielmo Marcon's
dots and dashes as the first wireless
broadcast, a fable echoed by the World
Almanac and Encyclopedia Britannica. It's
a forgivable mumpsimus, since the evidence
offered on the following pages has not,
until now, appeared in any national
publication.
The birth of broadcasting is a bizarre
soap opera saga, a lacrymal legend of
mystery, machination, ephemeral
enshrinement, decline, disillusionment and
disaster. It's denouncement dissolves six
miles north of Murray, Kentucky, in a
two-room shanty constructed of pine and
cornstalks, where radio's uncelebrated
architect is discovered 48 hours after his
death, his records scattered, his
equipment destroyed, his brain partly
eaten by rats. Even local radio fails to
mention his demise. He is Nathan Beverly
Stubblefield, the man history over-heard
and then overlooked.
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1908
0512 - PATENT GRANTED: Stubblefield's U.S.
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SMART90
SMART90 stands for Stubblefield
Nathan, Marconi Guglielmo,
Ambrose Fleming, Reginald
Fessenden, Tesla Nicola,
DeForest Lee, Armstrong
Edwin Howard, Alexanderson Ernst
Fredrik Werner, Farnsworth Philo,
SMART-DAAF
Boys,
Vol I, 'The Inventors of Radio
& Televison & The Life Style of
Nathan B. Stubblefield," by Troy
Cory-Stubblefield and Josie Cory, Library
of Congress Number 93060451. (ISBN)
1-883644-003, pgs.
580.
Copyright
© 1993
SMART-DAAF stands for
Stubblefield,
Marconi, Ambrose,
Reginald Fessenden, Tesla,
DeForest, Armstrong,
Alexanderson, Farnsworth
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Smart-Daaf
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NBS100
After the Telecommunication Act of 1996
and the prior establishment of the world
wide web
by Tim
Berners-Lee, Television International
Magazine went online in the mid-90s as
TVIMAGAZINE.COM under the distribution arm
of SMART90.COM. (
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Stubblefield
Marconi
Ambrose
Fleming
Reginald
Fessenden
Tesla
DeForest
Armstrong
Alexanderson
Farnsworth
Smartdaafboys/
(The inventors of
the Signals and Frequencies that put the
Pizzazz in the Electromagnetic Radio
Wave)
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Nathan B. Stubblefield, the Man History
Overheard
By
Harvey
Geller
In Life's current Bicentennial
issue, radio checks in, at #86 on the hot
"100 Events That Shaped America," 19
buttons behind Bell's telephone.
Erroneously, Life lists Guglielmo Marcon's
dots and dashes as the first wireless
broadcast, a fable echoed by the World
Almanac and Encyclopedia Britannica. It's
a forgivable mumpsimus, since the evidence
offered on the following pages has not,
until now, appeared in any national
publication.
The birth of broadcasting is a bizarre
soap opera saga, a lacrymal legend of
mystery, machination, ephemeral
enshrinement, decline, disillusionment and
disaster. It's denouncement dissolves six
miles north of Murray, Kentucky, in a
two-room shanty constructed of pine and
cornstalks, where radio's uncelebrated
architect is discovered 48 hours after his
death, his records scattered, his
equipment destroyed, his brain partly
eaten by rats. Even local radio fails to
mention his demise. He is Nathan Beverly
Stubblefield, the man history over-heard
and then overlooked.
"They all laughed at Christopher
Columbus
When he said the world
was round:
They all laughed when
Edison recorded sound . . .
Ha, Ha, Ha -- who's got the
last laugh now?"
--Ira Gershwin, 1937
When
an inordinately eccentric young farmer
suggested that he had invented a portable
wireless telephone that could broadcast
voice and music up over hight buildings
and down through stone walls, most of
Calloway County, Kentucky, chuckled. When
he revealed his "crazy box, and odd
assortment of batteries, rods, coils and
kegs, they howled.
85
years after, their heirs are writing songs
of love, christening radio stations,
consecrating libraries and constructing
memorial monuments in his infinite honor.
The veneration is hardly widespread.
17,000 Murray, Kentucky, tobacco farmers
may agree that Nathan B Stubblefield was
the first man on earth to transmit and
receive the human voice without wires. But
most of our world is unacquainted with his
improbable name and even his proponents
are unaware of the precise date of his
private discovery. Evidence points to a
period between 1890 and 1892, at least
seven years before Marconi sent the first
wireless telegraph message across the
English Channel.
Stubblefield's
supporters maintain that telegraphy is far
different from telephony; that they are, I
fact, diverse discoveries. Wireless
telephone is hip-to-shore radio, the
walkie-talkie, the citizen band and
portable radio, the mobile phone, the
audio arm of television, rheostats,
rectifying tubes, filaments, dials,
microphones, AM and FM radio and every
broadcasting booth on earth--not Marconi's
Code signals.
Marconi's
name is linked with Stubblefield's by
Trumbull White in a book called The
World's Progress, published in 1902. "Of
very recent success are the experiments of
Marconi with wireless telegraphy, an
astounding and important advance over the
ordinary system of telegraphy through
wires. Now comes the announcement that an
American inventor, unheralded and modest,
has carried out successful experiments of
telephoning and is able to transmit speech
for great distances without wires . . the
inventor is Nathan B. Stubblefield."
"This Fellow Is Fooling me."
"Hello,
Rainey," according to Dr. Rainey T. Wells,
founder of Murray State College, was the
world's first radio message. Testifying
before an FCC commission in 1947, Rainey
explained that he had personally heard
Stubblefield demonstrate his wireless
telephone as early as 1892.
"He
had a shack about four feet square near
his house from which he took an ordinary
telephone receiver, but entirely without
wires. Handing me these, he asked me to
walk some distance away and listen. I had
hardly reached my post, which happened to
be an apple orchard, when I heard 'Hello,
Rainey' come booming out of the receiver.
I jumped a foot and said to myself, 'This
fellow is fooling me. He as wires
somewhere.' So I moved to the side some 20
feet but all the while he kept talking to
me. I talked back and he answered me as
plainly as you please. I asked him to
patent the thing but he refused, saying he
wanted to continue his research and
perfect it."
Dr.
William Mason, Stubblefield's family
physician, described a day during that
same year when Stubblefield "handed me a
device in what appeared to be a keg with a
handle on it. I started walking down the
lane . . . from it I could distinctly hear
his voice and a harmonica which he was
broadcasting to me several years before
Marconi made his announcement about
wireless telegraphy."
Stubblefield was
born in Murray, Kentucky, 1860 the son of
Attorney and Mrs. William Jefferson
Stubblefield (Capt. Billy). In his teens
he was reportedly an omnivorous student
and researched everything available on the
new science of electricity. When Alexander
Bel phoned Tom Watson on March 10, 1876,
to say "Come here, Watson; I want you,"
Stubblefield was already experimenting
with vibrating communication devices. In
1888 (Patent #378,183) he invented a
vibrating telephone. The Murray News
Weekly carried this item: "Charlie Hamlin
has his telephone I fine working order
from his store to his home. It is the
Nathan Stubblefield patent and is the best
I have ever talked through."
Stubblefield
manufactured and patented batteries which
he later described as "the bedrock of all
my scientific research in raidio" (his
spelling).
"I have been
working on this, the wireless telephone,
for 10 or 12 years," he told a St. Louis
Post-Dispatch correspondent in January,
1902. "This solution is not the result of
an inspiration or the work of a minute. It
is the climax of years. The system can be
developed until messages by voice can be
sent and heard all over the country, even
to Europe. The world is it limits."
"Diamonds
as Large a Your Thumb."
With
the new industrial and scientific epoch at
hand and the first Roosevelt in the White
House, Stubblefield built his broadcasting
station, a tiny workshop on the front
porch of his modest farmhouse. It was
barely wide enough to hold the transmitter
and one char. The transmitting mechanism
was concealed in a box four feet hight,tow
and a half feet wide, one and a half feet
deep. "In that box," said Stubblefield,
"lies the secret of my success." Five
hundred yards away was the experimental
receiving station, a dry-good box fastened
to the foot of a tree stump.
The
St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter noted
that Stubblefield's 14-year-old son,
Bernard, was left on the porch wile h and
the inventor walked to the stump. The
writer picked up a receiver and heard
spasmodic buzzings and then: "Hello. Can
you hear me? Now I will count ten.
One-to-three-four-=five-six-seven-eight-nine-ten.
Did you hear that? Now I will whisper."
Later Bernard whistled and played the
mouth organ.
"I
heard as clearly as if the speaker were
only across a 12-foot room" wrote the
newsman.
When
the article appeared on January 10, 1902,
Stubblefield was besieged by capitalists,
financiers, stock-jugglers, hucksters and
hawkers. Dr. Mason recalled seeing a
$40,000 check for a part interest in the
invention, as titans of industry "wearing
diamonds as large as your thumb" scuttled
up industry dirt roads to Stubblefield's
flinty farm.
"You
and I will yet add luster to the
Stubblefield name," wrote Nathan to his
cousin, Vernon.
He
refused all propositions, including one
for half a million dollars. "It is north
twice that," he insisted, entrusting only
his son, Bernard, with the secret of his
mysterious keg. On occasion he repelled
over-inquisitive visitors with a
shotgun.
Invited
by leading scientist, he traveled with his
trunk of mystery to Washington, D.C.,
where he demonstrated the practicability
of his contrivance from the steamship
Bartholdy on the Potomac to crowds along
the river bank. On Decoration Day, 1902,
he broadcast words and music form the
Belmont Mansion and Fairmont Park in
Philadelphia to hundreds of statesmen,
investors and newsmen. He obtained patents
in England, the U.S. and Canada.
In the Canadian patent is a drawing of a
"horseless carriage" with a broadcasting
set, presaging the auto radio by 30 years.
But perhaps even more remarkable are
notations that by reversing a switch one
could change a broadcasting station into a
receiving apparatus.
Articles appeared in major newspapers
throughout the world acclaiming him as the
distinguished inventor of the wireless
telephone and a celebrated scientific
genius. At lease one extravagant reporter
suggested that Stubblefield ad crated "the
world's greatest invention."
Decline
and Fall.
There are three conflicting theories on
how this farmer-inventor sowed the wind of
immortality and reaped the whirlwind of
oblivion. His cousin, Vernon, claimed the
invention was stolen
"Will I ever see my
trunk again?" Stubblefield scribbled on
the back of an old map after he returned
from Washington.
"All his valuables were in that trunk,"
said his cousin.
Perry Meloan, newspaper editor of
Edmonton, Kentucky, an ear-witness to the
first public demonstration in Murray,
declared that Stubblefield was inveigled
into a partnership in the Wireless
Telephone Company of America, located at
Broadway 11, New York. Learning that the
firm was not interested in perfecting his
creation but merely in selling stock
unscrupulously, Stubblefield returned
home. "Damn rascals," was his bitter
comment to friends, and he advised them to
withdraw their investment in his project.
Soon after, he renounced his wife, nine (5
surviving) children and all relatives and
built his hermitage gut in Almo, six miles
from his family farmhouse. That farmhouse
later mysteriously burned to the
ground.
His son, Bernard, joined the Westinghouse
Electrical Corp., the firm that introduced
the commercial radio. Did Bernard utilize
his father's secrets to produce those
early sets?
Wireless lights appeared in the trees and
along the fences guarding Stubblefield's
crudely constructed shanty and, according
to neighbors, voices, apparently coming
from the air, were heard by trespassers.
"Get your mule out of my cornfield,"
Stubblefield's wireless voice was hard to
say in the night.
He curtly refused the aid of friends. "He
was never insane," they insisted, "only
queer."
Robert McDermott found the body of Nathan
Stubblefield on March 30, 1928. "Death due
to starvation," was Dr. Mason's
conclusion. In a unmarked grave in
Bowman's cemetery, one and a half miles
form Murray, Stubblefield lies alone.
In 1930 a memorial to "the first man to
transmit and receive the human voice
without wires" was dedicated at Murray
State Teachers College campus, less than
100 feet from the charred ruins of the
world's first broadcasting station.
In 1962 his tragic life was dramatized in
an epicedial folk opera, The Stubblefield
Story, composed by Murray State professor
Paul Shahan and Mrs. Lillian Lowry and
performed in the campus auditorium.
Murray's only radio station, 1 1000-watt
outlet, broadcasts "middle of the road and
some rock music as well," according to
owner Fransuelle Cole. Book-ended between
Bruce Springsteen's "Borne to Rune" a a
live commercial for Kroger's grocery, on
hears. "You are tune to WNBS, 1340 on your
radio dial in Murray, Kentucky: the
birthplace of radio."
The stations call-letters, not
accidentally, are Stubblefield's
initials.
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Magnolia Award of the 26th Shanghai TV
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and Animations.
Due to COVID-19
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Award was conducted in a way that the
Chinese judges concentrated in Shanghai
and the international judges participated
online for the first time. Zheng Xiaolong,
chairman of the jury said at the meeting
that the Magnolia Award judges are under
heavy pressure this year. He said, "As
this year's TV series first broadcast on
major video website also joined the
selection of Chinese TV drama, the
Magnolia Award considers more works with
various subjects. Obviously, the overall
shows a higher level. So, Judging TV
series this year is a difficult thing,
which is a test for our judges."
The 26th STVF had
collected more than 800 works from 48
countries and regions, among which, 60
works or dramas won the Magnolia Award,
including 15 series from China and 10 from
other countries. The five judges of
Chinese TV series have won the Magnolia
Award at previous STVF, even including the
chairman of the jury. Zheng Xiaolong, who
has served as chairman of the Magnolia
Award TV series jury for the third time,
said that Shanghai is a modern and
fashionable city, with the spirit of
contract and responsibility of Shanghai
residents, as well as their warmth and
tolerance. He added, "So I am willing to
come to Shanghai, to cooperate with my
friends here, and to do something for the
development of Chinese films and TV
series."
The Shanghai
Television Festival ( STVF),
also known as the Shanghai International
Television Festival is the first and one
of the largest television festivals
in East Asia. Held since 1986, STVF
has become one of the most influential and
prestigious international television
festivals in Asia, strengthening the
cooperation and communication between the
Chinese media industry and the world.
The festival is
also home to the annual Magnolia Awards.
Awards are handed out to both
international and national productions
through voting by a panel of award-winning
actors, producers, directors and writers,
and are the highest industry honours
given. It is considered to be one of the
most prestigious television awards,
alongside the Feitian
Awards and Golden Eagle Awards.
Since 2004, the Magnolia Awards have been
held every year.
In 1986, with the
commission of the Shanghai People's
Congress, the film festival opened with
entries from 16 countries. There were no
awards presented.
In 1988, the film
festival created the Magnolia Awards,
named after the floral emblem of
Shanghai. It awarded Best Actor, Best
Actress, Best Documentary and Best
Director. Until 2004, it has held an
awards ceremony every 2 years.
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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
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Back in the 80s, as a
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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.
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.
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,
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