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Spectrum Auction Moves to Stage
2 The FCC
announced that it will launch stage 2 of
the broadcast incentive spectrum auction
on Sept. 13, going back to broadcasters
with new rounds of reverse-auction bidding
at a lower clearing target of 114 MHz,
down from the 126 MHz target of stage
1.
••••
Why This Matters: Stage 1 wrapped up
yesterday after 27 rounds of bidding
yielded just $23.1 billion in bids,
roughly $66 billion short of the $88.4
billion broadcasters were asking for the
higher clearing target..
••••
From the outset, analysts have been
predicting that the final number will
eventually settle in at around $30-40
billion, however, the auction may drag on
into 2017 as the FCC tries to strike a
balance between what bidders are willing
to pay for the airwaves and what TV
broadcasters are willing to settle for. es
and opportunities facing smart enterprises
and connected consumers.
•
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Dodger Voice Vin Scully Retires -
end of an
eraBy 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
•
106-FCC's
Proposal on Set-Top Boxes up for
Vote, Sept.
29 • Hardware
costs are down yet fees still
seem to climb. The
FCC is trying to make it
easier and cheaper for you to
watch TV. But the plan to unleash
pay TV service from the set-top
box that has been its delivery
mechanism for decades has
powerful opponents -- notably,
the Big Cable lobby.
••••
The
head of the
U.S.
Federal Communications Commission
said he might change his proposal
to allow tens of millions of U.S.
pay TV subscribers to ditch
costly set-top boxes and access
video programming online.
••••
Last week,
FCC chairman Tom Wheeler unveiled
a proposal that would require
MVPDs (Comcast, DirecTV, etc.) to
offer their subscribers an app
that would allow them to access
the full suite of programming
they pay for, without the need
for a set-top box.
••••At
a Senate hearing on Thursday, he
defended his revised proposal,
which is scheduled for a final
vote on Sept. 29. The plan,
announced last week, lacks some
of the most controversial aspects
of the original proposal unveiled
in January but includes a new
licensing body to ensure that
pay-TV companies do not enter
into anti-competitive
agreements.
••••
Jessica
Rosenworcel, a Democrat on the
five-member commission and the
key swing vote on the set-top box
issue, told the hearing that she
had some "some problems" with the
provision to create a licensing
body and wondered whether the
commission has the legal
authority to do so.
••••The
plan is aimed at ending the cable
industry's long domination of the
$20-billion-a-year set-top box
market and lowering prices for
consumers. Nearly all pay-TV
subscribers lease the boxes from
their cable, satellite, or
telecommunications providers at
an average annual cost of $231
box rental fees; Wheeler has
likened this stranglehold to the
way consumers once had to rent
phones from Ma Bell.
••••Those
fees have jumped 185% since 1994,
while the cost of televisions,
computers, and mobile phones has
dropped 90%, the FCC has
estimated.
••••Along
with the app, Wheeler's proposal
calls for the formation of
a body that would issue a
standard license for device
makers so that the app will work
on their hardware
products. The body would be
made up of representatives from
MVPDs and content companies,
but the FCC would have
oversight.
••••The
FCC insists that control of the
app will be in the hands of
pay-TV providers and content
producers, and that the
terms of their own copyright
and distribution agreements will
remain in place.
••••But
opponents see the proposal as a
big overreach of authority by the
commission, establishing a
"shadow copyright office," in the
words of one TV-industry
lobbyist, that could seek to
expand its authority down the
road.
•
The
proposal is set for an FCC vote
on Sept. 29.
As the date approaches, a
lobbying blitz is largely
centered on Democratic
commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel,
who is seen as the linchpin
vote.
•••A
group representing organizations
including the Screen Actors Guild
and Motion Picture Association of
America said this week that the
plan included an "unworkable de
facto compulsory licensing regime
that requires creators to allow
their work to be shared across
multiple platforms without
compensation."
•••Cable
companies have previously
expressed concerns that rivals
like Alphabet googl and Apple
could create devices or apps and
insert their own content or
advertising in cable
programming.
•••The
new rules would require companies
covering 95% of U.S. TV
subscribers to comply by
September 2018.
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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.
•••"For
years now, people, even friends
and family, have been asking me
why I keep doing this,
considering my age," Mr. Osgood
said. "I am pushing 84. It's just
that it's been a joy doing
it."
•••He
added: "It's been a great run,
but after nearly 50 years at CBS,
including the last 22 years here
on 'Sunday Morning,' the time has
come, and a date is set for me to
do my farewell 'Sunday Morning.'"
The farewell broadcast will be on
Sept. 25.
••He
took over "Sunday Morning" from
Charles Kuralt in 1994. His
comforting, almost folksy
approach to the news (and
trademark bow ties) quickly
eliminated any early doubts that
he could successfully replace Mr.
Kuralt, who had spent 15 years
developing the show. With Mr.
Osgood in the anchor chair, the
program has won three daytime
Emmys for outstanding morning
program.
•••••"Charles
Osgood has one of the most
distinctive voices in
broadcasting, guiding each
broadcast, making sure the words
were just right and being a
calming, reassuring presence to
our viewers," David Rhodes,
president of CBS News, said in a
statement. "His impeccable
commitment to quality inspires
all of us at CBS News."
•••••
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."
•••Among
those under consideration are
reportedly "Sunday Morning"
colleagues Jane Pauley, Anthony
Mason and Lee Cowan.
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Charles Osgood leaves "Sunday
Morning" ///
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Everything Wireless under One
Roof
-
CTIA Super Mobility
2016,will
take place at the Sands Expo,
Sept. 7, 8, 9, Las
Vegas Keynotes: Mark Cuban
recently added to the keynote
roster consisting of
Glenn
Lurie, Pres & CEO, AT&T
Mobility and Consumer Operations;
Peter Chernin, CEO The Chernin
Group; Rajeev Suri, Pres &
CEO Nokia; Matt Grob, EVP &
CTO Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.;
John Stratton, EVP & Pres of
Operatins, Verizon; Tom Wheeler,
Chairman FCC; Meredith Attwell
Baker, Pres & CEO, CTIA.
••••
More than100 industry expert
speakers will discuss technical
intelligence, consumer adoption
trends, Adtech viability,
consumer appetite for mobile
video, best business practices
and key insights into the issues
and opportunities facing smart
enterprises and connected
consumers.
••••
Speakers will also tackle issues
surrounding consumer privacy and
data security and how these might
impact the evolution of 5G
services and applications.
••••
CTIA celebrates the 10th
anniversary of the CTIA E-Tech
Awards and the winners will be
announced live September 8.
••••The
Cellular Telecommunications
Industry Association (CTIA) is an
international nonprofit
membership organization that has
represented the wireless
communications industry since
1984. Membership in the
association includes wireless
carriers and their suppliers, as
well as providers and
manufacturers of
wireless data
services and products. •
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CTIA SuperMobility
2016 ///
•
TV Host of Political Commentary
Show, Dies At
89 ••••
John McLaughlin, the acerbic
political commentator who created
the long-running public affairs
talk show "McLaughlin Group,"
died Tuesday at his home in
Virginia. He was 89.
••••His
death came less than two days
after he missed the first episode
of his show in 34 years.
••••"For
over 3 decades, 'The McLaughlin
Group' informed millions of
Americans. Now he has said bye
bye for the last time, to rejoin
his beloved dog, Oliver, in
heaven. He will always be
remembered."
••••
On Sunday, August 14th, his show
opened with a note from
McLaughlin offering his support
and explaining his absence: ••••
"Dear friends of The McLaughlin
Group, Dr. McLaughlin here. As
the panel's recent absences
attest, I am under the weather.
The final issue of this episode
has my voice, but please forgive
me
for its weaker than usual
quality. Yet my spirit is strong
and my dedication to this show
remains absolute!"
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Host
of "McLaughlin Group" TV Talk
Show Dies
///
•
Happy Birthday!
Gary •
TVI
Magazine celebrates TVI's news
director Gary Sunkin's birthday
at the Rainbow Room in Beverly
Hills.
Gary
has been covering the Hollywood
beat and many industry tradeshows
for TVI publication since 2000.
Amongst his many favorites are
the Pasadena "Rose Parade," the
"International Consumer
Electroncs Show" (CES) annually
held in Las Vegas; and news
events at the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, to
mention a few.
•Click
for
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///
•101- 35 of the World's
Greatest Magicians To Appear in
Television Series Hollywood,
CA
--MASTERS
OF ILLUSION, produced by
Associated Television
International and hosted by Dean
Cain will continue its third
season on The CW with two
30-minute episodes airing back to
back on Friday, August 5, 2016 at
8:00 p.m. Pacific/Eastern/7:00
p.m. Central.
••••
The fast-paced series of
30-minute episodes will feature
amazing magic performed by
cutting-edge Grand Illusionists,
Escape Artists, Quick Change
Artists, Mentalists, Sleight of
Hand Artists and Comedy
Magicians, including many new
performers, lots of audience
participation and interactive
magic involving modern technology
including iPhones and
iPads.•••
••• •
The roster of award-winning
magicians from around the
world appearing in the MASTERS OF
ILLUSION is a virtual who's who
in the field of magic.
••••
Associated
Television International (ATI) is
an Emmy Award-winning company
that has been the world's largest
producer of magic for both stage
and screen for over three
decades.
•For
More
information, please visit
www.associatedtelevision.com.
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MASTERS
OF ILLUSION TV
SERIES ///
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BIFF takes place in the Media
Capital of the World, Sept. 7 -
16 The
8th annual "Burbank International
Film Festival"
will
showcase over 150 films from 34
countries around the world, with
18 award categories, numerous
after-parties, red carpet
arrivals, and festivities
throughout Burbank from September
7th through 11th. To learn more
visit BurbankFilmFest.org.
••••
Jeff Rector is President and
Director of the Burbank
International Film Festival.
••••"Located
in the 'Media Capital of the
World,' our audience is
film-savvy, enthusiastic, and
linked to the movie business,
giving filmmakers privileged
access to top industry
professionals. This year, we are
proud to partner with the
American Cancer Society to raise
awareness in the fight against
cancer," said Jeff Rector,
Festival Director. "We are
thrilled to have BIFF on board to
support our fight to end cancer,"
said Andrew Emmett, Senior Market
Manager for American Cancer
Society. "By working together
we'll be able to save more lives
and improve the health of the
community."
•••Some
of the festival categories
include Films by Women,
Animation, Documentary, Comedy,
Drama, Faith-Based, LA County
Student Filmmaker, New Media,
Science Fiction/Fantasy/ Horror,
Adapted Screenplay, Original
Screenplay, Best Actor and Best
Actress.
•••••••Also
screening will be the 30th
Anniversary of the highflying
adventure Top Gun, courtesy of
Paramount Pictures. The Night of
Sci-fi, Fantasy and Horror will
feature a special 30th
Anniversary screening of
Aliens, courtesy of Twentieth
Century Fox. The screening will
be followed by a Q&A with
some of the original cast
members.
••••Saturday,
September 10th is the Night of
Science Fiction, Fantasy and
Horror, and all the screenings
will be followed by an
"Out-of-this-World" after-party
in a 6,000 sq. ft.
sound-stage.
••••NBC4
broadcasting
icon Fritz Coleman will once
again emceed the Closing Night
Gala to be held in the Starlight
Ballroom at The Castaway.
••••2016
presenting sponsors are the
Downtown Burbank Partnership and
Visit Burbank. The Burbank
International Film Festival is
also supported in part by the Los
Angeles County Board of
Supervisors through the Los
Angeles County Arts
Commission.
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Burbank
International Film
Festival ///
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Garry Marshall has died (1934 -
1916) ••••
Writer-director
Garry Marshall known for a string
of TV hits that included "Happy
Days" and "Laverne & Shirley"
and movies "Pretty Woman,"
"Beaches" and "Runaway Bride,"
has died. He was
81.
••••Marshall
died Tuesday, July 19th, at a
hospital in Burbank of
complications from pneumonia
after having a stroke, his
publicist Michelle Bega said in a
statement.
••••Henry
Winkler, who starred as Fonzie on
"Happy Days," saluted Marshall in
a tweet as "larger than life,
funnier than most, wise and the
definition of friend."
••••Richard
Gere, who starred opposite Julia
Roberts in "Pretty Woman," said
in a statement that "everyone
loved Garry. He was a mentor and
a cheerleader and one of the
funniest men who ever lived. He
had a heart of the purest gold
and a soul full of mischief. He
was Garry."
••••Garry
Marshall's sister, Penny Marshall
who starred in "Laverne &
Shirley with Cindy Williams, told
the New York Times in 2001 that
her brother "has a life. He's not
into the show business
glitterati. If he has a hot
movie, that's great. But if he
has something that doesn't do
great, he's not around those
people who won't speak to you or
will make you feel terrible."
••••
A Toluca
Lake resident, Troy Cory said
Garry always had a friendly wave
when he passed us, always ready
for a good chat, and he
especially spoke with sadness
about Robin William's tragic
death two years ago.
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In
Memory of: Writer, Garry
Marshall, creator of "Happy Days"
and director of "Pretty
Woman" ///
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FCC: 62 Applicants Qualified to
Bid for TV
Spectrum •
Spectrum
Auction Moves to Stage
2••••• Webusersguild
report
••••
The FCC announced that it will
launch stage 2 of the broadcast
incentive spectrum auction on
Sept. 13, going back to
broadcasters with new rounds of
reverse-auction bidding at a
lower clearing target of 114 MHz,
down from the 126 MHz target of
stage 1.
••••
Why This Matters: Stage 1 wrapped
up yesterday after 27 rounds of
bidding yielded just $23.1
billion in bids, roughly $66
billion short of the $88.4
billion broadcasters were asking
for the higher clearing
target..
••••
From the outset, analysts have
been predicting that the final
number will eventually settle in
at around $30-40 billion,
however, the auction may drag on
into 2017 as the FCC tries to
strike a balance between what
bidders are willing to pay for
the airwaves and what TV
broadcasters are willing to
settle for.
/// The
FCC announced that 62 applicants
will be bidding for TV spectrum
in the forward incentive auction.
The FCC Public Notice indicated
the forward auction will begin
August 16, 2016.
••••Among
the list of the willing
are
Cellco Partners d/b/a Verizon and
AT&T, as expected, plus a
host of regional and rural
wireless providers, including
East Kentucky Network in Ivel,
Ky.; Iowa RSA 2 Limited
Partnership, NE Colorado
Cellular, Inc., and Northeast
Nebraska Telephone Co. Many of
the smaller entities will receive
bidding credits, which amount to
a discount on spectrum. Of the
total 62 applicants, 19, or 30
percent, received a bidding
credit related to rural service
or a small-business revenue
threshold.
••••These
bidding credits are described in
the Forward
Auction User
Guide.
- A bidder who qualifies for a
rural service credit receives a
15 percent discount on "a winning
bidder's bid." Bidders who
qualify for the small business
discount get either a 15 or a 25
percent discount off whatever
price at which they may win
spectrum.
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Bid
for TV
Spectrum
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Los Angeles Rams, CBS 2
formLocal
Television
Broadcast Partnership By
Gary Sunkin
••••"It's
been a long road back."
The Rams
after returning to Los Angeles
haven't wasted any time embracing
their rediscovered Southern
California identity.
••••
Recently
the Los Angeles Rams and CBS 2
Los Angeles announced a
multi-year partnership agreement
that officially designates CBS 2
as the Official Preseason
Television Home of the
Rams.
••••
The
announcement was made by Kevin
Demoff, Rams Chief Operating
Officer and Steve Mauldin,
President and General Manager,
CBS 2 and sister station KCAL
9.
•
As the
Rams' official preseason
television partner, CBS 2- will provide the Los Angeles
market with exclusive
English-language telecasts of all
Rams preseason games, excluding
contests that will be broadcast
by the National Football League's
national television partners.
••••In
2016, CBS 2 will air live
coverage of three Rams preseason
games, including a Saturday,
August 20 home game against
Kansas City, a Saturday, August
27 contest at Denver, and a
Thursday, September 1 game at
Minnesota.
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Angeles Rams' live coverage on
CBS
2
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34th Munich Film Fest
• CineMerit
Award to Ellen Burstyn ••••
Detroit-born
actress Ellen Burstyn will
receive the 2016 CineMerit Award
for her contribution to the
cinematic arts. Burstyn has won
the Oscar, the Golden Globe, two
Emmys and a BAFTA, in addition to
over 20 major international
prizes. She is the co-director of
the famed Actors Studio in New
York, encouraging and training
young actors in the craft. She
was inducted into the American
Theatre Hall of Fame in 2013.
••••
Ellen Burstyn was born Edna Rae
Gillooly in Detroit, Michigan, in
1932. She began her career as a
model, appearing on TV for the
first time in 1955 as a dancer on
the Jackie Gleason Show before
taking on her first Broadway role
in 1957 in FAIR GAME. She had her
first major role in a motion
picture in Vincente Minnelli's
GOODBYE CHARLIE (1964) alongside
Tony Curtis and Debbie Reynolds.
She began studying at The Actors'
Studio with Lee Strasberg in
1963.
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MUNICH
FILM FEST- TheCine Merit
Award ///
•
Who Invented the Wireless
Telephone? •
102-WIRELESS
TELEPHONE Industrial School of
Arts & Sciences -
1902
•
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)
102WIRELESS
TELEPHONE Industrial School of
Arts & Sciences - 1902 -
In January 1902, Stubblefield
agreed to participate in the
commercial exploitation of his
device by Fennell's Philadelphia
Group that purportedly included
Westinghouse. Incorporation
papers for the Wireless Telephone
Company of America were filed in
Prescott, Arizona, on May 22,
1902. Stubblefield was a
director, but held no office. The
Washington and Philadelphia
demonstrations maintained the
momentum needed to sell stock in
the new company. A four page
prospectus, extolling the
investment opportunity in
Wireless Telephone Company of
America compared the Stubblefield
device with Marconi's wireless
telegraphy system by stating that
both systems utilized "...
for
transmission what are termed
Hertzian electrical wave currents
..." The technical details were
not disclosed since the
prospectus was designed to sell
stock, and perhaps deliberately
avoided specific evidence on the
points of comparison or contrast.
The use of steel rods thrust into
the ground, the large circular
coils and the copper antenna
wires attached to the masts on
the steamer Bartholdi and on
rooftops indicate that
Stubblefield's 1892, 1893 and
1902 systems were based upon
Stubblefield's earth grounded
induction-antenna principle, in
which we now call, AM radio.
Stubblefield insisted that a more
"powerful" apparatus would
"transmit" unlimited distances.
The U.S. Navies ELF project in
Clam Flats, Wisconsin is based on
Stubblefield's basic
induction-antenna device.
•
Wireless
Telephone: 1898:Patent
For Electrolyte Battery and
Detector for Radio Signal
(wireless telephone) Issued
600,457.
{19/Gx}
•
wireless
- (1) A British term for
radio.
(2) Used in the
United States, in the sense of
(#1) above, when the word "radio"
might be misinterpreted (as an
example -- a "wireless record
player"). {73/RS}
•
Section
19.
Wireless
Telephony
- The early radiotelephones were
powered by wet-cell,
non-rechargeable batteries. The
telephone at first also used
electricity. Today's radio and
television stations receive their
current from power lines fed by
huge dynamos, some powered by
atomic fission. The increasing
sophistication of power sources,
(solar, cell) parallels the
continued movement toward greater
sophistication in electrical
communication methods.
{01/Gi}
•
Wireless
Telephony and Stubblefield
-
Nathan B. Stubblefield's
"Wireless Telephony" - ("Radio"):
In addition to the following
listings under "Wireless
Telephony," as well as those
listed above under "Wireless
Signals," also see the section in
this book, under: "Stubblefield,
Nathan B" with the various terms,
definitions, patents issued,
demonstrations, historical facts,
etc., on Nathan B. Stubblefield
(The "Inventor" Of The "Wireless
Telephony" -- The "Radio").
••• •
Please See Section 15.
Stubblefield and "Wireless
Telephony" ("Radio").
••• •
Also See Radio: Publications
"Broadcast&endash;Industry Trade
Resource/Reference Books" with a
section on Nathan B.
Stubblefield.
••• •
Also See Radio: Publications
"Hard&endash;Cover Books" with a
section on Nathan B.
Stubblefield.
••• •
Also See Radio: Publications
"Magazines" with a section on
Nathan B. Stubblefield.
{03/Di}
•
WIRELESS
TELEPHONY and
TELEGRAPH
••• (1)
RADIO
FREQUENCY(ra-di--o-fre-quen-cy),
n.
(a). the frequency of the
transmitting waves of a given
radio message or broadcast. (b).
a frequency within the range of
radio transmission, i.e. from
about 15,000 MC to 10 MC
(MegaCycles) per second.
[Note: A MegaCycle means,
"one million cycles" -- so 15,000
MC is equal to 15,000 x
1,000,000, which is
15,000,000,000 cycles per second
(15 billion cycles per second);
and 10 MC is equal to 10 x
1,000,000, which is 10,000,000
cycles per second (10 million
cycles per second).]
••• (2)
RADIO(ra-di-o),
n. (a). wireless telegraphy:
sparks or dot&endash;dashes
broadcasted by radio. (b).
telephony: speeches or music
broadcasted by radio. (c). an
apparatus for receiving radio
broadcasts. (d). a message
transmitted by radio.
••• (3)
BROADCAST(broad-cast),
v.
To send (messages, speeches,
music, sounds) by radio.
{19/Gx} •
Wireless
Telephony: 1860:Murray,
Kentucky: Nathan B.
Stubblefield
-
Nathan B. Stubblefield, "The
Inventor Of Radio" (Wireless
Telephony) was born in Murray,
Kentucky in 1860. Stubblefield
died in Murray in 1928, where he
is buried. {19/Gx}
•
Wireless
Telephony: 1885:First
World's Private Wireless (Voice)
Transmission-
Demonstration.
In
1885, Nathan B. Stubblefield,
"The Inventor of Wireless
Telephony" held his First
Demonstration, [which was the
World's First Private
Demonstration of wireless (voice)
transmission on land].
Stubblefield, from Murray,
Kentucky: Patented his invention
in 1898 and also in 1908.
{19/Gx}
•
Wireless
Telephony:
1885:
Stubblefield
demonstration to his friend,
Duncan Holt, the transmission of
voice without wires. Holt stated,
"One Sunday that year
[1885] Stubblefield
invited Holt and his wife out to
his home, where the west boundary
of Murray State College now is.
That afternoon he said to Holt,
"Duncan, I've done it. I've been
able to talk without wires -- all
of 200 yards -- and it'll work
everywhere!" Stubblefield had a
little "experimental station" he
called it, 200 yards away from
the house, and he said he could
talk from there and it could be
heard at the house, or
vise&endash;versa -- and without
wires! At that time, Holt said,
"the Scientific American had
never mentioned the possi bility
in suggestion or otherwise that
speech or intelligent
communication could be
transmitted with out wires.
Stubblefield was the first to
entertain the idea. "{19/Gx}
•
Wireless
Telephony: 1892:First
World's Public Radio
Demonstration
-
In 1892, the World's First Public
Radio Demonstration --
[World's First Public
Demonstration of wireless (voice)
transmission on land] was
held in Murray, Kentucky.
••• In
the winter of 1892, Nathan B.
Stubblefield made a tremendous ad
vance in his "wireless telephone"
demonstrations, which would make
wireless practi cal over
distances far greater than those
from his experimental home to the
garden, dis tances which would
first encompass the earth and
then reach far out into the
universe and to uni verses
beyond. It was Stubblefield's
great invention of the "wireless
telephone" that helped him
discover the basic principals and
laws of Amplitude Modulation, (AM
Radio).
••• To
advance his low&endash;frequency
induction system to a space
system, he built an aerial -- an
antenna which he connected to one
side of the carbon mouth piece of
a telephone: (to send a spark
wave; Hertz had merely used a
horizontal rod ending in a
plate.) The aerial was copper
wire wrapped around a cylinder,
or in some cases made into a
loop, that was attached to the
top of a pole (later he used
longer aerials strung along the
top of his family home). He con
nected the other side of the
carbon coil located inside of the
mouthpiece to his electrolyte
water batteries and crystal,
stacked and positioned inside his
secret "black box." Ground wires
from the "black box," then lead
to the metal stakes driven into
the earth. The re ceiver also got
an aerial and ground. {19/Gx}
•
WIRELESS TELEPHONY: 1892:
Nathan B. Stubblefield
-
In
January, 1892, Nathan B.
Stubblefield demonstrated this
"WIRELESS TELEPHONY" system in
Murray, Kentucky before several
hundred on lookers. A total of
$758.00 was borrowed from friends
and relative to perform this
demonstration. During the same
year, Stubblefield, again
privately, demonstrated to Rainey
T. Wells the ability of his
apparatus to send and receive the
human voice by wireless. After he
had set up his props, the
inventor talked into one box in
rather low tones, and his words
"Can you hear me?" Came out the
other box "quite distinctly and
clearly" as attested to by
witnesses.
••• Dr.
W. H. Mason, a Murray sur geon
who claimed to be a per sonal
friend and family physician for
Nathan B. Stubblefield, declared
that in the same year he wit
nessed a private demonstration of
the wireless tele phone. Dr.
Mason recalled that on one occa
sion, Nathan B. Stubblefield
handed him a device "housed in
what appeared to be a keg with a
handle on it." The doctor then
followed instructions to walk
down the lane carrying the keg.
He testified that from it he
could hear distinctly "Nathan's
voice and a French harp
(harmonica)" which Nathan was
sending. {19/Gx}
•
Wireless
Telephony: 1895:Dit Dahs
"dots & dashes"- Guglielmo
Marconi
-
In the spring of 1895, what
Nathan
B. Stubblefield did with wireless
voice transmission in 1885,
Guglielmo Marconi did with dots
and dashes. He discovered that he
could send signals over distances
far greater than those from his
villa to the garden -- dis tances
which would travel more than a
mile It was Marconi's great basic
in vention of signal induction --
if, indeed, it was his. Like
Stubblefield, he built an aerial
-- an antenna which he connected
to one side of the spark gap.
(Hertz had merely used a
horizontal rod ending in a
plate.) The aerial was a metal
cylinder atop a pole. He con
nected the other side of the
spark gap to a ground -- at
first, a copper plate ly ing in
the ground. The re ceiver also
got an aerial and ground.
{19/Gx}
•
Wireless
Telephony:1998:
electrolyte water battery
"Stubblefield, Nathan B" -
1898
The
patent on the Stubblefield
electrolyte water battery, number
600,457, was the device that
provided the energy to produce
the continual subcarrier hum
during Stubblefield's voice
transmission when it was
connected to his "black box" that
contained the electrolytic
crystals that acted as detectors
and modulators. The portable
receiver contained the necessary
detector to receive the voice
broadcast. Stubblefield
advertised that by slightly
modifying the telephone coil, one
could transmit through the ground
for many miles -- the battery
acting as a relay. {19/Gx}
•
Wireless
Telephony: 1898:ground
cell (Stubblefield, Nathan
B.)-
1898:
Stubblefield's
Electrolyte
Water Battery. The patent on the
Stubblefield bat tery, number
600,457, declares in the
specification forming part of the
letters of patent that the
electrical battery has for its
object: to provide a novel and
practical battery for generating
electrical currents of suf
ficient forms for practical uses,
and also pro viding means for
generating not only a constant
pri mary current but also an
induced momentary sec ondary
current.
••• This
electrical battery is the "ground
cell" or "earth cell" frequently
referred to by Stubblefield in
many of his writings and
interviews. Stubblefield so named
the de vice because when he first
began his experimentation with
it, he would place the device
that he had constructed in the
moist earth of his farm. Then,
when electrical cur rents began
to flow from the device, he
assumed that the engine he had
constructed was tapping the
"natural elec tricity" of the
earth. Note, for example, how he
describes the action of his
electrical battery: This cell de
rived sufficient electrical
energy from the ground in the
vicinity of the spot where it was
buried to run a small motor
continuously for two months and
six days without any attention
whatever. Indeed, the electrical
cur rent was powerful enough to
run a clock and several small
pieces of machinery and to ring a
large gong. By adding a modified
carbon microphone to the
batteries, it creation wireless
voice transmission. {19/Gx} •
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on
Designat
the LA Convention Center, June
24-26. Los
Angeles -- DODLA, the largest
design event in the country, will
kick off its' eleventh year.
Packed with inspiring onstage
content, high-end designer home
tours, live demonstrations, art
installations, consultations and
feature areas, including the
highly-anticipated Dwell Outdoor
curated by famed Australian-born
designer Jamie Durie.
••••Renowned
architect Sou Fujimoto will
present the opening keynote
Friday, June 24 at 6:00 pm.
Fujimoto's innovative residential
structures and institutional
projects represent a fresh
approach to the relationship
between architectural space and
the human body.
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Federal Court upholds FCC's open
internet
Rules ••••
The US Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia on Tuesday
upheld the legality of the
Federal Communications
Commission's landmark net
neutrality policy, in a
resounding vindication of federal
rules designed to ensure that all
content on the internet is
equally accessible.
••••
The ruling affirms the
Commission's ability to enforce
the strongest possible internet
protection -- both on fixed and
mobile networks -- that will
insure the internet remains pen,
now and in the future," after a
decade of debate and legal
battles.
••••
A public interest advocates say
the FCC's policy is necessary to
maintain the internet as an open
platform for free speech,
economic growth, and civic
empowerment. The nation's largest
broadband companies challenged
the rules, arguing that the FCC,
which has twice before seen its
open internet policy thrown out
in federal court, overstepped its
authority.
••••
"Today's ruling is a victory for
consumers and innovators who
deserve unfettered access to the
entire web, and it ensures the
internet remains a platform for
unparalleled innovation, free
expression and economic growth,"
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said in
a statement.
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JAZZ DEL
CORAZON presents
"Songs of the Brill Building"
where the music of Bobby Darin,
Carole King, The Girl Groups,
Neil Sedaka and more was
created. • Featured-
Jackie Gibson, Larry Davis, Wayne
Moore & Branda Silas Moore.
Music by Steve Rawling Trio, on
Friday June 10th at the Gardenia,
7066 Santa Monica Blvd. West
Hollywood.
Jackie Gibson: Songs of the
Brill Building Tom Rolla's Gardenia, West
Hollywood, CA, June 10, 2016
Reviewed by Elliot Zwiebach for
Cabaret Scenes
••••
It was a
grand night for singing when
Jackie Gibson and some talented
friends got together to perform
the songs of the composers and
lyricists working out of New
York's vaunted Brill Building
from the late 1950s through the
1960s. What made the night even
grander was the audience's
spontaneous reaction to these
familiar pop tunes -- singing
along from the outset, without
any initial prompting, and
knowing exactly when to chime in
on the refrains. No one on
either side of the microphone
missed a single beat. •
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In Memory of Muhammad Ali,
1942-2016 ••••
Muhammad
Ali the three-time heavyweight
champion who proclaimed himself
"the Greatest," defied the US
government over the Vietnam war,
and later became one of the most
well-known -- and loved --
sportsmen in history has died. He
was 74.
••••
Ali died late on Friday June 3,
at a hospital in Phoenix,
Arizona, the family's
spokesperson Bob Gunnell said.
His funeral will take place in
his home town of Louisville,
Kentucky.
••••
Ali had become increasingly frail
since being diagnosed with
Parkinson's disease in 1984, aged
42, and in recent years had
limited his public appearances.
Earlier this month his brother
Rahman Ali revealed that the
condition was so advanced he
could barely speak or leave his
house. • As a sportsman- he
will be remembered for many
classic fights
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30,000 attend the legendary
Cannes Film
Festival By Gordon Talbott ••••The
festival opened on May 11 with a
screening of Woody Allen's new
film, "Café Society," and
runs through May 22 in the
southern French resort city. In
competition for the Palme d'Or
this year are films by Pedro
Almodóvar, Olivier
Assayas, the Dardenne brothers,
Jim Jarmusch, Cristian Mungiu,
Jeff Nichols and Sean Penn.
••••
Jodie Foster's "Money Monster"
and Steven Spielberg's "The BFG"
have been be shown out of
competition. ••••
After the recent terrorist
attacks in France, organizers say
they have ramped up security to
the highest level in the
festival's history.
••••This
year's dinner was more subdued
than those in the past and took
place inside the Palais des
Festivals et des Congrès,
the official headquarters, where
a fleet of police and guards
mingled with politicians, stars,
movie icons and fame seeking
starlets. •
Cinema gives Cannes
its
reason
•
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In Memory of Jim Myron, 1931 -
2016 STUDIO
CITY, CA -- Jim Myron, a real
estate developer and family
friend
passed
away May 28, 2016, in Los
Angeles, after treatment at
Cedars Sinai for heart problems
and related
causes.
He
was 85.
••••
He was
best known as the club-owner of
famed Myron's Ball Room on Grand
Avenue.
••••
An astute
entrepreneur, Myron became a
millionaire many times over,
buying up parking lots and coffee
shops and making other shrewd
investments.
••••
James Myron was born in Chicago
on March 1, 1931, and came to Los
Angeles with his parents just
prior to the beginning of World
War II.
•••••
A Mass was held for him at St.
Charles Borromeo Church, 10800
Moorpark Street, (Moorpark St.
& Lankershim Blvd., North
Hollywood, at 11:30 AM, on
Sunday, June 26.
••••
Photo
above-right was taken at farewell
party at Jim's house for the Troy
Cory show heading for a China
concert tour.
Group Photo: Left to
Right: Josie Cory, Jim Myron,
Troy Cory, Nicole, Ron Rice,
Kristina and Krystal Carroll,
Mike Lipman, John Qu. - Photo
taken: April 25, 2004 by Gary
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Metro Expo Line to Santa Monica
Opens May
20th
by Gary Sunkin
••••
It's been more than half a
century since LA had a rail line
that traveled all the way to the
Pacific Ocean, but all that is
set to change with the May 20
debut of Expo Line's extension to
Santa Monica.
••••
The Los
Angeles County Metropolitan
Transportation Authority has a
number of media opportunities for
the opening weekend of the Metro
Expo Line to Santa Monica. The
6.6 mile rail extension from
CulverCity to Santa Monica is the
second major rail project.
••••
9:45 a.m.
Grand Opening Ceremony
••••
The train
breaks though a banner at
Downtown Santa Monica
Station.
••••
9:50 a.m.
Photo op of VIP speakers plus
Santa Monica Mayor with Surf
Board
••••10:00am-VIP
Ceremony Emcee - The Honorable
Mark Ridley Thomas
.••••There
will be free rides between
Downtown Santa Monica and 7th
Street starting at noon until
close of service at approximately
2:00 am on Saturday May 21st,
2016.
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The LA Rams are back, bringing
Goff and hope to
L.A By Gary Sunkin-
••••
The 2016 NFL Draft was held at
the Auditorium Theatre at
Chicago's
Roosevelt University beginning
Thursday April 28th 2016 and
concluding on Saturday April 30th
2016 - The first round began at
5pm PT on Thursday, April 28th.
The second and Third rounds will
be held on Friday, April 29th
starting at 4pm- and the Draft
will conclude with rounds 4-7 on
Saturday April, 30th beginning at
9am. Our Gary Sunkin Sports
repother will be at the Los
Angeles Rams on
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Rams are back, bringing Goff and
hope to L.A
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Cory's Road to
China>
First American to perform on
Stage in China,
PRC.
•
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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Cory Meets JiangZemin, former
President
PRC •
•
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.•
•
•
•
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, Fuzhou
and and Tsingtao
(Qingdao)
Shanghai
TV Festival Troy
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