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Ultra-Cheap TVs, with Roku Streamers built
right in ••••
Roku, a maker of streaming devices
that send Internet video to TV screens, is
now building its service into the TV sets
themselves. Roku, Inc. partnered with
Hisense and TCL to build the company's
superb Smart TV platform built-in -- no
box required. The Saratoga, Calif.,
company announced that pre-orders are
being taken for Roku-equipped televisions
built by Chinese company TCL, and soon
Roku TV sets by Hisense will also go on
sale.
••••
The company's aim is to knock cable
and satellite aside and place itself
&endash; and Internet streaming &endash;
as the primary gateway for TV viewers. The
co-branded TVs will display the same Roku
menu seen by users of the company's Roku 3
and Roku Streaming Stick devices. That
menu includes programming from Netflix,
Amazon and hundreds of other channels. The
sets will also pull in digital broadcast
signals and accommodate game consoles and
cable/satellite boxes as well.
••••
Like Roku boxes and USB sticks,
each TV comes with a dead-simple remote
that was developed in collaboration with
Roku. It's not a motion controller like
the one included with the highest-end Roku
3 box, but the remotes for the TCL and
Hisense sets are much simpler compared to
your average TV remote. Buttons are kept
to a minimum, although there are dedicated
ones to quickly access Netflix, Amazon
Video, Rdio, and Vudu.
••••
The TCL sets, that start at $229
and range from 32-inch to 55-inch models,
will begin shipping soon. The Hisense
versions are expected to be available by
late September. There's no word on whether
major TV manufacturers like Samsung and
Sony will offer Roku-equipped TVs.
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Fans and peers mourn the sad and sudden
death of Robin
Williams Robin Williams, a comic and
sitcom star in the 1970s who went on to
became an Oscar-winning dramatic actor
died at his home in Tiburon, Marine
County.
••••
Channels broke into their usual
programming to make the announcement, and
within minutes, Williams dominated online
social media. Even President Obama issued
a statement about his passing.
•••Williams,
hailed by many as a comic genius, was a
star of movies and television for more
than three decades. He was known to have
also suffered from substance abuse
problems. The actor "has been battling
severe depression of late," his publicist
Mara Buxbaum said. "This is a tragic and
sudden loss."
•••Williams
came to Hollywood prominence in the late
1970s with his first major role as a
lovable alien in the TV series "Mork &
Mindy.
•••He
had a reputation for rapid-fire
impersonations -- not to mention a
seemingly bottomless talent for comic
improvisation
••••
Gary Marshall, executive producer
of the 94 "Mork & Mindy series
(1978-1982), said "I never forget the day
I met him and he stood on his head in my
office chair and pretended to drink a
glass of water using his finger like a
straw," Marshall said in a statement
Monday. "The first season of 'Mork &
Mindy' I knew immediately that a
three-camera format would not be enough to
capture Robin and his genius talent. So I
hired a fourth camera operator and he just
followed Robin. Only Robin. Looking back,
four cameras weren't enough. I should have
hired a fifth camera to follow him
too."
••••
After his TV series he graduated to films
such as "Good Will Hunting," "Dead Poets
Society," "Mrs. Doubtfire," "Awakenings,"
"The Fisher King" and "Good Morning,
Vietnam.
••••
The sign on the Laugh Factory Monday night
in Hollywood read "Robin Williams Rest in
Peace. Make God Laugh." A group of
mostly comedians milled about in front of
the Comedy Store shortly after the news
broke and the marquee there read "RIP
Robin Williams."
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Celebrity Scene's Pete Allman, known as
''the man on the scene,'' has been
involved in the entertainment business for
years, in helping escalate the careers of
Lyn Ashley, The Oscar Martinez Dancers and
Kirby Van Burch, known as The Prince of
Magic.''
••••
Allman first arrived in Las Vegas
in 1978 where he opened his own review,
''The Pete Allman Revue,'' which opened at
The Fremont Hotel, later moving up the
strip to The Marina Hotel, now The
MGM.
••••
Allman, who can still belt out a
song, segued from singing and journalism
for over 40 different publications such as
The Las Vegas Tribune, The Hollywood
Gazette, Showbiz Magazine, The Las Vegas
Hollywood Magazine, lasvegas.net,
newsblaze.com, into hosting radio
shows in California and Las Vegas, later
finding his true love in producing half
hour television shows such as The Las
Vegan Report, The Las Vegas Hollywood
Report, CMX Sports and Entertainment
and currently Talk Back at West
L.A. College.
••••
Despite his setbacks in the area of
health, he has risen to the occasion to
give back to the community of Las Vegas
and Los Angeles. In 2008 he received a
Proclamation from Mayor Oscar Goodman and
Congresswoman Shelley Berkley for his
contributions for promoting the positive
aspects of Las Vegas.
••••
From a different standpoint though,
Allman has pondered on his past with the
mentorship of individuals as independent
film producer Alvin Fast, George Douglas
of The AFL-CIO, and entertainer/producer
Troy Cory, the grandson of the inventor
and patent holder of the Wireless
Telephone, Nathan B. Stubblefield. ''Those
were memorable days and yet I have found
since that time that I've somehow grown
younger with more wisdom, thanks to those
friends."
••••
So what's so unusual about Pete
Allman growing younger with wisdom you
might ask. Simply that his God given
talent has inspired him to help others who
have a passion to succeed in their
profession of film and television.
••••
So without any questions,
Allman has brought a group of people
together to learn the art of celebrating
life. He's producing a half hour special
at The Warehouse Restaurant in Marina del
Rey on Sunday, August 31st at
6pm, with an all star cast of
celebrities and singers, to pay tribute to
his Mother, Martha Liechta Allemann, on
her 93rd birthday, along with his.
••••
''Celebration,'' the
name of the show, will feature The Blue
Henry's Band with the legendary Pat Vegas
from the recording group ''Redbone,''
which will also have Pete Allman perform
songs such as 'Celebrate'' to introduce
the show.
••••
Tom Hallick, former star as Brad
Eliot on ''The Young and Restless,'' Sy
Richardson from'' Repo Man,'' and
''Pushing Up Daisies,'' Ellyn Stern, form
the animated series, ''Wrinkles,'' Richard
Epcar, voice over artist, Eric Nelson from
''All My Children,'' Gabriel Tang form
''Vatos Locos 2011,'' Anna Easteden from
''Two and A Half Men,'' Mark Dacascos form
''Iron Chef,'' and ''Hawaii 5 0, Tony
Blondell formerly from ''The Young and
Restless,'' Jay Tavarre, Aillen Quinn from
''Annie,'' and many other actors will be
on hand to enjoy the celebration and speak
on what life means to them.
••••
When asked where the show will air,
Allman tells TVI it will be seen first on
Youtube.com/peteonthescene and other
YouTube channels as well as public
access. •
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Internet No longer
free? On
July 15, 2014, the House approved a
permanent extension of the moratorium of
the Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act ••••
From the
inception of the Internet until the late
1990s, the Internet was free of government
regulation in
the
United States at
all levels, and also free of any specially
targeted tax levies. By 1996, however, as
the Internet was becoming so fundamental
to communications and the economy, that
began to change, as several U.S. states
and municipalities began to see Internet
services as a potential source of tax
revenue. •
The 1998 Internet Tax Freedom Act, signed
by President Bill Clinton, halted the
expansion of direct taxation of the
Internet, grandfathering existing taxes in
certain states by temporarily banning any
additional jurisdictions from taxing
Internet access services, on the grounds
that such costs would deter Americans from
getting connected. In the United States
alone, thousands+ taxing jurisdictions
could otherwise have laid claim to taxes
on a piece of the Internet. The law,
however, did not affect sales taxes
applied to online purchases. These
continue to be taxed at varying rates
depending on the jurisdiction, in the same
way that phone and mail orders are
taxed.
••••
Also
the idea of taxing email is no more
popular today than when President Bill
Clinton signed the Internet Tax Freedom
Act into law. But a dedicated
congressional minority now wants to allow
states and localities to tax email--
unless these governments are given new
powers to collect sales taxes on
e-commerce.
•
This is the third time in 16 years
Congress has temporarily extended the
Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act since
its original enactment. The most recent
extension was titled the Internet Tax
Freedom Act Amendment Act of 2007, signed
into law on November 1, 2007, by George W.
Bush and extended the moratorium until
November 1, 2014
••••On
July 15, 2014, the House approved a
permanent extension of the moratorium of
the Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act, a
bill that would amend the Internet Tax
Freedom Act to make permanent the ban on
state and local taxation of Internet
access and on multiple or discriminatory
taxes on electronic commerce.
•••••
Senate Democratic
leaders, however, want to tie the
no-new-Internet-taxes bill to a measure
that would let states require online
retailers in other states to collect sales
taxes for them. Such proposal wouldn't
impose any new taxes on the Internet;
shoppers there already owe "use" taxes on
purchases from out-of-state retailers.
However, they typically don't pay them.
Despite the many differences in local
rates and rules technological advances
have made it easy for websites to collect
sales tax from any shopper. As long as
lawmakers streamline the submission and
auditing of tax payments, it's reasonable
to require online retailers to collect
sales taxes from out-of-state buyers. The
change would also eliminate an unfair
advantage that e-tailers enjoy over their
brick-and-mortar
competitors.
••••If
the Senate does not approve this bill,
states would be responsible for setting
the tax rate.
••••If
the ban on taxes is overturned, it would
not impact the local governments, it would
affect businesses. If the ban is approved,
then it would prevent state and local
governments from placing taxes on those
using the Internet.
••••
The
problem would be determining who would
actually set the tax, since there has been
no real proposal on how the rate would be
based.
••••Some
retailers for instance use the Internet
for business every single day, and they
couldn't imagine being taxed to use the
Internet, even if it is the difference
between dollars and cents, and it could
change the way online retailers do
business. They may not be able to
have
an
e-business site or sell things online.
•
The legislation is now in the hands of
the Senate,
which has to approve the bill before it
become a law . On November 1 -- and
remember, Election Day is November 4 --
the moratorium on Internet-only taxes
ends. Meaning you and I will pay the
government even more coin to surf the
World Wide Web.
••••
That
bill, which passed the House by a large
margin, would permanently entrench a
temporary moratorium on ISP taxes. The
measure is politically popular because it
means consumers won't see "service fees,"
akin to those that appear on cell phone
statements, on their broadband bills.
••••
When
you next fume at your Internet or cell
phone bill -- check the litany of taxes
tacked on -- not to forget the built-in
government costs you pay but never see.
That way you'll know at whom to
actually be angry.
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SIMON COWELL, PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR AT
MIPCOM Paris, Aug. 1, 2014
•••••
Entertainment industry creative icon Simon
Cowell is to be honored as the MIPCOM 2014
Personality of the Year.
•••••
The TV and film producer, music label boss
and internationally-renowned talent show
judge will receive his award at a gala
dinner for industry executives at the
Carlton Hotel in Cannes on Tuesday 14
October. On Monday 13 October, Cowell will
give a keynote interview in the Grand
Auditorium of the Palais des
Festivals.
•••••One
of the best-known faces on TV screens in
the world, Cowell has transformed popular
culture in the 21st century through his
wide-reaching TV and music enterprise.
•••••"Simon
Cowell is a visionary producer whose
television franchises are on air in almost
200 territories around the world,
underlining his status as a global
creative icon. In recognition of his
amazing career as a creator of
international formats and his formidable
impact on the entertainment industry as a
whole, we are honoured to welcome him to
Cannes as the MIPCOM 2014 Personality of
the Year," said Paul Zilk, CEO of Reed
MIDEM, organiser of MIPCOM.
•••••Cowell's
Syco Entertainment is a world-renowned
music, film, and television production
company responsible for some of the most
successful global music and television
franchises. Syco's television assets
include the two international phenomenon
formats: "Got Talent" and "The X Factor"
both created by Simon Cowell. The Syco
Music roster includes stars such as One
Direction, Little Mix, Susan Boyle, Ella
Henderson, Il Divo, Labrinth, Cher Lloyd,
Fifth Harmony, Alex & Sierra, and
Collabro.
•••••Under
Cowell's stewardship, Syco Entertainment
continues to develop global TV formats
that have appeal throughout the TV, Film
and digital world.
•••••In
April, "Got Talent" was officially named
the World's Most Successful Reality
Television Format by The Guinness Book of
Records. Alongside Syco's longstanding
co-production partner, FremantleMedia,
original versions of Got Talent are now
being produced in 62 territories
worldwide. Emmy-nominated "America's Got
Talent" has been the No.1 rated summer
programme ever since its launch in June
2006. Now in its ninth consecutive season,
the show currently airs in 193 countries
worldwide.
•••••
"The X Factor" is
now produced in 49 territories around the
world since its launch in the UK in 2004
where it remains the #1 entertainment show
and a cultural phenomenon. The format has
launched more superstar artists' careers
than any other TV format. Artists
discovered by the show worldwide have sold
more than 160 million records, including
170 No.1 hits, and 380 Top 10 records.
•••••In
2002, Cowell became lead judge of the
fledgling "American Idol." By the final of
the second series in 2003, a staggering 38
million Americans were tuning in to watch
Cowell on the show. Cowell was the lead
judge on the US "X Factor" for three years
from 2011 before leaving to make his
return to the UK show as a judge for its
11th season, which begins in August
2014.
•••••In
August 2013, Cowell produced his first
feature film, "One Direction: This Is Us."
The movie debuted at No.1 at both the US
and UK box offices, before going on to
enjoy international success.
•••••For
his newest take on the singing competition
genre, Cowell has teamed up with Univision
to create "La Banda," a series which will
search the US and Latin America for the
next Latino boy band in 2015. Syco also
recently announced a ground-breaking new
music show, "Ultimate DJ," in partnership
with SFX and T Mobile. ••••
About
MIPCOM -- 2014 marks the 30th
anniversary of MIPCOM, the year's most
anticipated global market for
entertainment content across all
platforms. Each October, the industry's
major players from TV and film -- converge
in Cannes to create a new world of
entertainment. MIPCOM turns every moment
into an opportunity, transforming four
days of meetings, screenings and
conferences into deals, from blockbuster
programming to ground-breaking
partnerships. And MIPJunior -- the
leading showcase for kids programming
which takes place the weekend before
MIPCOM -- unites the world's most
influential buyers, sellers, producers,
digital players, publishers and licensing
executives who present, discover and
screen the very latest content. For the
first time this year MIPJunior will be
held at the Palm Beach, the Croisette's
glamorous landmark location.
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"Game of Thrones" earned the most
nominations when the 2014 Emmy nominees
were announced. The HBO show received 19
nominations, including one in the coveted
drama series category.
Drama series "Breaking Bad" (AMC)
"Downton Abbey" (PBS)
"Game of Thrones" (HBO)
"House of Cards" (Netflix)
"Mad Men" (AMC)
"True Detective" (HBO)
Comedy series "The Big Bang Theory" (CBS)
"Louie" (FX)
"Modern Family" (ABC)
"Orange Is the New Black" (Netflix)
"Silicon Valley" (HBO)
"Veep" (HBO)
Variety special
"AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute
to Mel Brooks" (TNT)
"The Beatles: The Night That Changed
America" (CBS)
"Best of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
Primetime Special" (NBC)
"Billy Crystal: 700 Sundays" (HBO)
"The Kennedy Center Honors" (CBS)
Documentary or nonfiction
special
"JFK" (PBS)
"Paycheck to Paycheck: The Life and Times
of Katrina Gilbert" (HBO)
"Running From Crazy" (OWN)
"The Sixties: The Assassination Of
President Kennedy" (CNN)
"The Square" (Netflix)
"Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley"
(HBO)
Documentary or nonfiction
series
"American Masters" (PBS)
"Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey"
(FOX/NatGeo)
"Pioneers of Television" (PBS)
"The World Wars" (History)
"Years of Living Dangerously"
(Showtime)
"Sarah Silverman: We Are Miracles"
(HBO) •
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TVI's person of the month bids for Time
Warner •••Media
Mogul Rupert Murdoch's $80-billion bid to
acquire Time Warner was rejected, but he
is not known for giving up easily. In the
end they could raise their bid to try to
get the deal done," media analysts say.
Remember Murdoch's pursuit of Wall Street
Journal publisher Dow Jones & Co. when
initially, the owners rebuffed Murdoch
until the money, at $5.6 billion, became
too tempting to pass up.
••••
What's driving
Murdoch is the rapid consolidation of pay
television distributors. The nation's
largest cable operator, Comcast Corp., is
in the process of acquiring Time Warner
Cable, and AT&T is buying satellite
broadcaster DirecTV.
••••
Time Warner is the
parent of HBO, CNN and Warner Bros.
Murdoch controls Fox News Channel, the Fox
broadcast network and the 20th Century Fox
television and film studios. He also
controls the Wall Street Journal through
his publishing company, News Corp.
••••
If the deal were to
be finalized, Murdoch's new entity would
command a vast library of film titles,
including "Titanic," "Avatar," "Harry
Potter," and classics such as "The Sound
of Music" and "Casablanca." Its TV
holdings would include "The Simpsons" and
"The Big Bang Theory."
••••
The combination
would make Fox an even bigger player in TV
sports and if Murdoch can pull off the
acquisition, it would establish Fox as the
world's premier media company. It would
also score a comeback for the billionaire
and his family after a phone hacking
scandal at his British tabloids badly
tarnished the Murdoch name.
••••
However, with a
potential union of the nation's two
biggest cable news outlets under one roof,
21st Century Fox would have an enormous
antitrust issue for the Justice Department
to look
at.•••
••••Fox
has already indicated that it would sell
CNN to make the deal more attractive.
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PBS receives 43 Emmy nominations.
••••
The 35th News
andDocumentary Emmy Awards nominations
have been announced, and PBS leading with
43 nominations for 13 programs. "60
Minutes" on CBS led all series with 27
nominations. Frontline on PBS received 11
nomination for nine programs and for
League of Denial, its two-part look
at the NFL's concussion crisis.
••••
HBO received 15
news and dcoumentary nominations all for
its HBO Documantary Films series.
••••
New categories in
Spanish, included outstanding newscast or
news magazine, outstanding coverage of a
breaking news story, and outstanding
investigative jouranlism.
••••
The National
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences,
created in 1955, recognizes, encourages
and advances excellence in the television
industry across all media by serving as an
educational and professional resource to
its members and to the industry.
••••
The NATAS reward
outstanding professional, technical and
personal achievement in the arts and
sciences of television by conferring the
industry's highly coveted peer recognition
symbol of distinction, the Emmy®
award.
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Germany's
largest summer film festival opens on June
27 through July 5, and for nine days will
be showing 158 new films from 51
countries
••••The
32. FILMFEST MÜNCHEN opens with the
German premiere of "The Young and
Prodigious T.S. Spiver." Director
Jean-Pierre Jeunet, who opened Filmfest in
2001 with "Amelie" will be here with his
young lead actor Kyle Catlett. The
festival's closing night film is the
American production "I Origins," which
will be screened following the award
ceremony on July 5th. Director Mike Cahill
("Another Earth") will be on hand with his
stars Michael Pitt ("Boardwalk Empire")
and Astrid Bergès-Frisbey ("Pirates
of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black
Pearl").
••••In
addition to big stars and young talent
from around the world, French icon
Isabelle Huppert will be coming to
MÜNCHEN. Huppert will be honored for
her contributions to motions pictures as
an art form. She will also be presenting
her latest film "Paris Follies" at its
German premiere.
••••
"I'm
thrilled that Isabelle Huppert is coming
to Munich. It's something we've been
planning for years and now it's finally
happening," commented festival director
Diana Iljine. "And we have plenty of great
guests this year. From Hollywood to
Bollywood."
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MUNICH
- 7/3/14 • CineMerit
Awardfor
Udo Kier The
Munich Fest honored Udo Kier at a gala
ceremony with CineMerit Award, given to an
actor whose career spans Europe and the
U.S.
••••
The
ceremony included the world premiere of
his latest film "Arteholic," in which
director Hermann Vaske accompanies
art-obsessed Kier through some of Europe's
greatest museums. As part of its homage,
the festival will be showing five
additional films with Kier: "Tod Eines
Weltstars" and "Egomania" by Christoph
Schlingensief; "My Own Private Idaho"; "A
Trick of the Light," from by Wim Wenders;
and "Iron Sky," by Timo Vuorensola.
••••
Kier's
career is full of daring choices, and he's
worked with such icons as Andy Warhol
("Andy Warhol's Frankenstein"), Rainer
Werner Fassbinder ("Lili Marleen," "Lola"
and "Berlin Alexanderplatz") and Lars von
Trier (nine films including both volumes
of "Nymphomaniac").
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Supreme court rules TV streaming service
Aereo
illegal
Justices accept argument of major
broadcasters that Aereo's service amounts
to a violation of copyright law.
••••The
US supreme court has ruled that Aereo, the
TV streaming service backed by media mogul
Barry Diller, is illegal.
••••
Aereo,
which launched in 2012 in the New York
area, has expanded across the US and is
now available in cities including Atlanta,
Boston, Denver, Houston and Miami.
•••Backed by Diller's IAC,
Aereo has clashed repeatedly with the
television networks. Last October
broadcasters including ABC, CBS and Fox
filed a petition to the supreme court
after an appeals court rejected their call
for a ban on the service.
••••In
a 6-3 decision, the court rejected an
earlier appeals court decision which had
ruled the fledgling service did not breach
broadcasters' copyright. The Supreme Court
has ruled that Aereo, the upstart
television streaming service, violated
copyright laws by resending broadcast
signals without paying licensing fees.
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ATBA says FCC report spells war on
broadcasters. WASHINGTON DC
&endash; After consideration and study of
the GN Docket No. 12-268 REPORT &
ORDER released by the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC) on June
2nd, the Advanced Television Broadcasting
Alliance (ATBA) voiced concern that the
FCC has declared war on broadcasters,
especially LPTV and Translator stations.
The FCC is seemingly denying a significant
amount of the nation free over-the-air
television access in favor of providing
well-funded wireless carriers with more
spectrum for profit. The FCC in the
R&O concluded that the concerns of
broadcasters "are outweighed by the
detrimental impact that protecting LPTV
and TV translator stations would have on
the repacking process and on the success
of the incentive auction."
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Is Comcast lobbying the
FCC? Big companies
often try to hitch former Washington
insiders for its lobbying team; but the
cable giant Comcast has been especially
aggressive in picking up former
congressional aides and Federal
Communications Commission staff members --
even a former FCC commissioner -- as
company lobbyists.
••••
• Many of them
are now fully engaged on the company's
$45-billion takeover venture of Time
Warmer Cable. Such deal would widen
Comcast's lead as the nation's biggest
cable and Internet provider, but requires
the approval of the FCC and the Justice
Department's antitrust division and may
face questions in Congress.
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Digital Hollywood Spring,
May
5-8, Ritz Carlton, Marina Del
Rey.
• tviNews Reports By:
Josie Cory, Mark Anderson, and Troy Cory
••••In
an era that has seen the downsizing or
demise of most household-name tradeshows,
Digital Hollywood is flourishing as a sort
of live-content aggregator attracting
various industry stalwarts to hold private
meetings all at the same venue, then
network together at conference tracks,
keynote roundtables and after-hours
parties.
••••
Victor Harwood who is presiding over
several annual trade shows dealing with
entertainment, media, advertising and
technology events, besides Digital
Hollywood, said back in 2007, "The idea of
putting together a tradeshow by hassling
people to buy booth space is old -- anyone
who did that is not in business
anymore."
••••
His upcoming Spring confab at the Ritz
Carlton Hotel, in Marina Del Rey, CA, made
up of separate multi-track but co-located
events is still the only conference that
brings together creatives, agents,
distributors, technologists, financiers,
lawyers and media -- legally, it's very
hard for a lot of these people to be in
the same room, unless there's a common
purpose and a common theme. More minds
have been changed -- at Digital Hollywood
than at any other conference."
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Is Comcast lobbying the
FCC? Big companies
often try to hitch former Washington
insiders for its lobbying team; but the
cable giant Comcast has been especially
aggressive in picking up former
congressional aides and Federal
Communications Commission staff members --
even a former FCC commissioner -- as
company lobbyists.
••••
Many of them are
now fully engaged on the company's
$45-billion takeover venture of Time
Warmer Cable. Such deal would widen
Comcast's lead as the nation's biggest
cable and Internet provider, but requires
the approval of the FCC and the Justice
Department's antitrust division and may
face questions in Congress.
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AereoVs.Broadcasters •The
Areo Debate "To Be or Not to Be,"
provided food for a heated discussion at
the Digital Hollywood Spring conference
May 7, 2014. Moderated by James M. Burger,
Partner, Thompson Coburn, Neil W. Netanel,
Professor of Law, UCLA Law School; John C.
Ulin Partner, Arnold and Porter midway
through the debate were interreupted by
questions of the audience which became
increasingly agitated. It did make for a
lively debate though considering the fact
that most panelists usually take questions
only at the end of a panel
discussion.••••
"If you stop Aereo,
you stop technology," Diller said. •
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FCC Featured at Cable Show, LA Conv. Ctr.
Apr
29-May
1 A
Faster, Better, More Entertaining
Future
• Convention Co-Chairs Welcome:
Rob Marcus, Chairman & CEO, Time
Warner Cable Inc. John Skipper, President,
ESPN, Inc. & Co-Chairman, Disney Media
Networks • City Welcome: Eric Garcetti,
Mayor, City of Los Angeles
• Keynote: Michael Powell,
President & CEO, NCTA • Live From The Cable Show:
FCC Chairman Thomas Wheeler.
"Let me be clear. If someone acts to
divide the Internet between 'haves' and
'have-nots,' we will use every power at
our disposal to stop it," Wheeler said.
"As chairman of the FCC, I do not intend
to allow innovation to be strangled by the
manipultion of the most important
••••
Many of the cable
networks, such as Turner (which owns CNN
and TNT), Fox News, Discovery
Communications and AMC were there partly
to show off their programming, but mostly
to take meetings with the cable industry.
Privately, some of them have said the
conference would be more useful if the
satellite and telephone companies were
also here.
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If the Comcast
merger is approved by regulators, Time
Warner Cable won't exist next year,
turning the Cable Show into the Comcast
show. •
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Stephen Colbert to host the "Late Show" in
2015 Will the
real Stephen Colbert please stand up. After much speculation, and exactly a
week after David Letterman announced his
plans to retire, the fast-sprung news has
settled in that Stephen Colbert, the host,
writer and executive producer of "The
Colbert Report," will replace Dave
Letterman as host of the "Late Show" in
2015. Now that leaves us with the
question, what character is going play the
host." CBS CEO Les Moonves explained that
Cobert would not host the show as
blustering character. "What you're going
to get is the real Stephen Colbert."
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Bill Adrian of the William Adrian Agency
Dies
(1919 - 2014) Mr. Adrian passed away on March 26,
2014 at the age of 94. Visitation on April
3rd from 5-8 p.m. at Cabot and Sons
Mortuary at Chestnut Street, Pasadena.
Funeral Mass, Friday April 4, at 10 a.m.
at St. Philips Catholic Church, 151 S.
Hill Street, Pasadena. ABOUT
BILL ••••
William P. Adrian
was born in Hackensack, NJ in 1919 and
raised in Syracuse, NY, Bill graduated
from Nottingham HS and later attended
Syracuse University where he studied
Theatre. •
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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.
audiences•
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It was just last week, (Nov 3rd, 2013)
-- that
Josie Cory & Margit
Seelos discussed the contributions of
their respective husbands musical talents
to the world. It was in the late 1970s
that found the two women pushing both
grown men to play Santa Claus, elves, and
create the musical scores for the
German/USA production film "Merry
Christmas;" and YouTube.com sequels:
"Just in the Nick of Time,"
starring Priscilla Cory, as
"Little Miss Santa," and featuring
the late German singer, Manuela.
The Movie itself was Produced by VRA
TelePlay Picture's, Josie Cory;
Bohemia Film's Williams Janovsky;
and ARD's Gábor Wagner. • The Feature Movie was filmed in
-- and around the city of Munich,
Nymphenburg and Castle Neuschwanstein,
Germany and in Oberndorf, Austria, the
small village and church where the
Christmas carol "Silent Night" was
performed for the first time on December
25, 1818.
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101 St.
Nicholas, the Castle
Neuschwanstein,
and the music of Troy Cory and Ambros
Seelos •
•
The vocals, sound tracks and string
section on the Munich Sound recordings
were provided by Troy Cory, Ambros Seelos,
and "The Munich Philharmonics." The piano
and musical arrangements were conducted by
Ambros Seelos and 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."
