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LA Festival of Books, April
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NAB Show, Las Vegas, NV, April 22 -
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C Spire to launch C Spire
TV
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AFCI Locations Show and
Global
Production & Finance Conference, April
6 -
8
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MIP TV, Cannes, France, April
3-6
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$peedollars - The Digital Pay
Game
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American to perform on Stage in China,
PRC
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Cory's Road to
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89th Academy
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NAB Show, April 22-27, Las
Vegas
 About
NAB Show
NAB Show, held April 22-27, 2017 in
Las Vegas, is the world's largest
convention encompassing The M.E.T. Effect,
the convergence of media, entertainment
and technology. With 103,000 attendees
from 166 countries and 1,700+ exhibitors,
NAB Show is the ultimate marketplace for
solutions that transcend traditional
broadcasting and embrace content delivery
to new screens in new ways. From creation
to consumption, across multiple platforms
and countless nationalities, NAB Show is
where global visionaries convene to bring
content to life in new and exciting ways.
For complete details, visit
www.nabshow.com.
• About
NAB
The National Association of
Broadcasters is the premier advocacy
association for America's broadcasters.
NAB advances radio and television
interests in legislative, regulatory and
public affairs. Through advocacy,
education and innovation, NAB enables
broadcasters to best serve their
communities, strengthen their businesses
and seize new opportunities in the digital
age. Learn more at www.nab.org.
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C Spire to launch C Spire
TV
RIDGELAND,
Miss., C Spire is getting ready to turn
the cable TV industry on its head later
this spring when it launches C Spire TV, a
new streaming TV service that eliminates
the need for set-top boxes and
revolutionizes how customers enjoy their
favorite content.
••••C
Spire TV leaves the world of outdated
hardware behind and delivers all the
features consumers love about cable TV in
a convenient and simple app designed to
run on today's most popular streaming
devices from Amazon, Apple, and Roku as
well as Android and Apple tablets and
smartphones.
••••The
service eliminates the need for customers
to outfit every TV in their house with a
set-top box, saving several hundred
dollars a year in rental fees. Because
it's app-based, C Spire TV allows
customers to watch their favorite content
on any screen in the home.
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This app-based
flexibility is designed to support the
many new ways customers are consuming
content, according to Ashley Phillips,
general manager of C Spire Home. "It's
about time TV evolved from cable's ball
and chain mentality rooted in a bygone
era," Phillips said.
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The new service is
integrated with the Amazon Echo voice
assistant and a custom C Spire TV Alexa
skill so customers can search, discover
and even change channels using their
voice. "For us, new technology is
only as good as its potential to improve
the lives of customers. We live in a
golden-age of TV content, and thanks to C
Spire TV, customers will finally have a
platform to do it justice.
••••
To go along with
the shift in how customers can watch TV, C
Spire TV is making a paradigm change
around when they watch video
entertainment, Phillips said. Thanks to
the power of the C Spire cloud, most
shows, including local broadcasts that
aired over the past three days, can be
viewed with the Replay TV
feature.
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Pair that with a
powerful cloud DVR service and customers
will have an easier time than ever before
keeping up with the shows they love, which
is important because, unlike over-the-top
TV providers, C Spire TV makes no
compromises on the channels offered.
Everything available on a normal TV
service will be available to watch through
C Spire TV. HD is included at no extra
cost.
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C Spire TV even
leverages machine-learning to understand a
customer's habits and keep their favorite
content front-and-center. "Our platform
learns your preferences and recommends new
shows and movies ideally suited to your
tastes and interests," Phillips added.
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Customers can
choose to browse content via a traditional
guide-view or in an increasingly popular
tile-view that organizes content according
to popular genres. The entire user
interface has been painstakingly designed
around user-feedback, ensuring C Spire TV
will be one of the most intuitive,
easy-to-use platforms at launch.
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C Spire TV is in
the final stages of beta testing and will
launch later this spring with availability
for customers of C Spire Fiber's gigabit
internet product.
• About C
Spire
C Spire is a diversified
telecommunications and technology services
company that provides world-class
customer-inspired service and a superior
comprehensive suite of wireless
communications, high-speed Internet access
and a range of other telecommunications
products and services to consumers and
businesses.
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MIP TV, Cannes,
France
PARIS-- Paul
Telegdy, President of the Alternative and
Reality Group at NBC, and Meredith Ahr,
President of Universal Television
Alternative Studio, will deliver a joint
keynote at MIPTV 2017.
 ••••The
global entertainment content market, MIPTV
takes place in Cannes, France, from 3-6
April 2017.
••••Telegdy
and Ahr will discuss the NBC network and
studio's current and upcoming slate of
programming and examine the evolution of
free-to-air broadcast TV in an age of
fragmented audiences and on-demand
viewing. They will talk about the changes
brought about by social media disruption,
and their desire to innovate and update
all aspects of development, production and
programming that will be key in reaching
global viewers.
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A former BBC
Worldwide executive, Paul Telegdy was
promoted to the newly created position of
President, Alternative and Reality Group,
NBC Entertainment in June 2016. He
oversees NBC's unscripted series and
specials programming, including such major
franchises as "The Voice," "America's Got
Talent," "American Ninja Warrior," "Little
Big Shots," the Golden Globe Awards show,
and "Running Wild with Bear Grylls."
Upcoming series, which are produced by
Universal Television Alternative Studio,
include the recently announced "World of
Dance," executive produced by Jennifer
Lopez, who sits on the judges' panel, and
"Common Sense," executive produced by
Stephen Lambert.
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Meredith Ahr , who
reports to Telegdy, was named President in
June 2016 of the newly created Universal
Television Alternative Studio, an
initiative that supplies shows to NBC as
well as other broadcast and cable
networks. The studio's most recent hit,
"The Wall"-- hosted by Chris Hardwick and
executive produced by SpringHill
Entertainment and Glassman Media &emdash;
was recently commissioned for 20
additional episodes. The studio also
successfully launched "Better Late Than
Never," starring Henry Winkler and William
Shatner, which has been picked up for a
second season and will soon debut the
first season of the dance competition
"World of Dance."
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From 2012-2106, Ahr
was EVP, Alternative Programming at NBC
Entertainment, where she oversaw all
alternative series for both NBC and
Universal Television. She was also
responsible for creative oversight of
Universal Television's roster of reality
producers and first-look talent deals to
bolster the studio's slate of productions
in the unscripted arena.
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Their joint Media
Mastermind Keynote will take place in the
Palais des Festivals' Grand Auditorium on
Monday 3 April at 5:20pm.
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PARIS - MIPDoc, the
leading factual content screenings and
conference, will mark its 20th anniversary
with a rich line-up of world premiere
screenings and keynotes from some of the
documentary genre's global
heavyweights.
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Organised by Reed MIDEM, MIPDoc takes
place in Cannes, France, on 1-2 April
2017, ahead of the world's entertainment
content market MIPTV, which runs 3-6
April.
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MIPDoc will this year put coproduction
more than ever to the fore through a
series of premium events and unique
opportunities to discover new projects for
commissioning and coproduction, including
the MIPDoc International Pitch; the
Matchmaking sessions* with some of the
most influential buyers and commissioners;
and a keynote super-panel entitled
"Factual Titans Speak International
Coproduction" (Saturday 1 April at 5:15pm
in the Grand Theatre).
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Speakers confirmed for the latter are Ralf
Rueckauer, Vice President ZDFE.factual
(Germany); Kyle Murdoch, Managing
Director, NHNZ (New Zealand); Pamela
Aguilar , Senior Director, Programming and
Development, PBS (USA); Yuan Tian, Head of
International Coproduction, CCTV9 (China);
Hélène Ganichaud, Deputy
Director, ARTE (France), and Jens Monath,
Commissioning Editor TerraX, ZDF
(Germany).
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Just as MIPTV has built a reputation for
hosting major world TV premieres, MIPDoc
is a key launchpad for premium
international titles. This year's edition
features two World Premiere Screenings of
major international coproductions. On
Saturday, "Big Pacific," a blue-chip
exploration of the Earth's biggest ocean
and its inhabitants is presented by ZDF
Enterprises; and on Sunday, "Tokyo
Phoenix: The Rise of Modern Japan," a look
at how the Japanese capital has rebuilt
itself after catastrophic events to become
a vibrant megalopolis, will be showcased
by NHK and CC&C.
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AFCI Locations Show and Global Production
& Finance
Conference
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a 3 day event being held from 6th April to
8th April, 2017, at the
Marriott Burbank
Airport & Convention Center, in
Burbank, USA.
••••This
three-day conference brings together
hundreds of global production VIPs from
independent filmmaker to industry veterans
to media to film commissioners, while
showcasing an unbeatable display of
incentives, production locations, and
business and support services etc. in the
Travel & Tourism industry.
••••The
exhibitors gathering here in The AFCI
Locations Show are presenting a wide range
of products and services such asCinematic
Equipment and Resources, Convention and
Visitor's Bureaus, Film and Television
Studios, Film-friendly Locations,
Financial Support and Incentive Brokers,
Guilds and Associations, Hotels and
Resorts, Industry Publications, New Media,
Production Support Companies, Travel
Support and more.
••••The
second part, the
AFCI Global Production & Finance
Conference offers insights into
co-production, new incentives / tax
reliefs and changes in the film financing
landscape, and is curated
by Lightsource Asia Media
Group.
••••Opening
Remarks speakers were Kevin Clark,
Exective Director AFCI; Rick Ambros,
Partner, Lightsource Asia Media Group; and
Robert Cain, Partner- Lightsource Asia
Media Group.
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$peedollars®™©, The Digital
Pay
Game
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The NBS Speedollar concept
®™©
of monetary exchange between the
sellers of Goods, Products, and Services
was perfected in the mid-60s in Pasadena,
California. The monetary exchange was the
Signet Credit Card System that issued the
first Signet Credit Cards.
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In today's world the name$Speed$$
®™©
is now referred to as: credit card, a TAT
Agreement, a mobile dollar exchange,
ClearXchange,
Venmo,
or Zelle, said K.
Stubblefield spokesman for
www.speedollars.com.
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As millennials 'Venmo' each other money
online tools and apps could someday
overtake cash and checks as the primary
way individuals pay each other.
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These systems will get a lift later this
year when a coalition of the nation's
biggest banks roll out Zelle, a mobile and
online money-transfer network that will
let any customer of nearly every U.S. bank
send money to customers of any other bank
using only a phone number or email
address.
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Online and mobile peer-to-peer or p2p
payment systems have grown rapidly over
the last few years, and that is expected
to continue. In a report published this
month, finance industry research firm Aite
Group estimated that Americans made about
$147 billion in digital p2p transfers last
year, up from $100 billion the year
before.
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Later this year, a company owned by some
of the nation's largest banks, will
release Zelle, a payment system built to
compete with Venmo and others.
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Zelle
traces it roots back to 2011, when Bank of
America, Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase
set out to build a system -- initially
called ClearXchange -- that would allow
their customers to send money to each
other using only phone numbers and email
addresses. Before, customers could only
transfer money to friends and family by
entering account and routing numbers --
information customers often didn't know
and might be concerned about sharing.
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The
biggest players in the market are still
the banks, though they didn't do great job
of explaining that ClearXchange would
allow customers to send money to customers
of other banks. And part of the problem
was that every bank has its own name for
its ClearXchange-powered p2p system,
including Chase QuickPay, Wells Fargo
SurePay and Capital One P2P Payments.
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Facebook and Google, too, allow users to
send money to friends. Google has Google
Wallet, which started as a mobile wallet
app but became a p2p payment tool in 2015,
and Facebook users have been able to send
money through Facebook Messenger since
2015.
•••••Though
Venmo and other non-bank payment systems
are still a small part of the p2p market,
banks hope, to make digital p2p
payments more mainstream, but want to make
sure they keep their place in the
financial order and keep their
customers.
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Venmo is arguably the biggest name in
peer-to-peer transfers and like like
Google, Uber is in the process of becoming
a verb -- as in "Venmo me."
••••
Founded in 2009, the company was acquired
in 2012 by payment services provider
Braintree, which was acquired the
following year by online payments giant
PayPal -- which offers p2p payments under
its own name too.
•••The
$peedollar$ concept of the 60s, is now the
tool millenials use as the primary way to
transfer money and pay each other.
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Cory's Road to
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First American to perform on Stage in
China, PRC.
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Troy Cory was among the first
international entertainers and the first
American entertainer to perform in the
People's Republic of China, beginning in
1988. In itself a notable
culture-historical feat, in view of
China's closed door policies of the late
70s and well into the 80s. The PRC's
administrative climate in comparison is
much less restrictive now and China's open
door policy enables many entertainers to
introduce themselves to the populace
Chinese audiences.
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101- Cory Meets JiangZemin, former
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in the 80s, as a goodwill ambassador
representing the U.S.A., Troy Cory and his
back-up dancers and singers, "The Brooke
Sisters," were the first entertainers from
the United States to appear in a full
staged program in the People's Republic of
China during the Shanghai TV Festival, and
televised on  China's
National Television (CCTV), viewed by over
300 million
people.•
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Cory met Jiang Zemin, then mayor of
Shanghai, and who later became the 5th
President of the People's Republic of
China.
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The '88 Shanghai
Concert was the beginnings of Troy's
concert tours in China for the next two
decades. The concerts, just to name a few,
included the following cities: Shanghai,
Beijing, Anshan, Harbin,
Fuzhou and and Tsingtao
(Qingdao)
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