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101- SAG-AFTRA Mourns the Passing of Broadcaster Joe Krebs.
Award-Winning Journalist Served as National Board Member for Two Decades 
LOS ANGELES (April 6, 2021) -- Broadcaster Joe Krebs, who was a member of the SAG-AFTRA National Board and a recipient of the George Heller Memorial Award for union service, died this morning at the age of 78.
 •••• "Joe was a true union man. His breadth of knowledge and experience was an enormous asset to SAG-AFTRA. The work he did in support of his fellow members and for the principles of fairness and justice will endure," said SAG-AFTRA President Gabrielle Carteris. "Joe was also my friend and I will miss him dearly. I send my deepest condolences to his friends, family and loved ones."
 •••• Krebs served as president of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists' Washington-Baltimore Local from 1997&endash;2009. At the conclusion of his service, Krebs was presented with the National AFTRA President Founder's Award. Krebs began his AFTRA National Board service in 2000 and was instrumental in the merger of Screen Actors Guild and AFTRA; he co-wrote both the new union's constitution and its dues structure. He went on to serve on the SAG-AFTRA National Board since the union's merger in 2012.
•••• Krebs had an extensive broadcast career, starting in 1970 with WFMY-TV in Greensboro, North Carolina, after graduating law school. He spent the last three decades of his career at WRC-TV in Washington, D.C., where he became a local institution. His work earned him numerous Emmys. He retired in 2012, but continued to serve the union, including chairing the National Broadcast Steering Committee.
••• In 2017, at SAG-AFTRA's third biennial convention, Krebs received the George Heller Memorial Award, which takes the form of a gold membership card and is given to those with an exceptional record of serving the union and its members. On April 1, 2021, he was awarded SAG-AFTRA's President's Award for meritorious service.
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• 115-Nominees for the 2021 Director Guild Awards announced
•••• The Directors Guild of America on Tuesday announced the feature-film and first-time director nominees for the 2021 DGA Awards. The feature-film director nominees are Minari's Lee Isaac Chung, Promising Young Woman's Emerald Fennell, Mank's David Fincher, Trial of the Chicago 7's Aaron Sorkin and Nomadland's Chloé Zhao.
•••• The winners will be announced at the 73rd Annual DGA Awards on Saturday, April 10, 2021, which will be a private virtual event for DGA.
•••• The Directors Guild of America Awards are issued annually by the Directors Guild of America. The first DGA Award was an "Honorary Life Member" award issued in 1938 to D. W. Griffith. The statues are made by New York firm, Society Awards.
•••• As of 2020, the guild had more than 18,000 members. The DGA headquarters are on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California, with satellite offices in New York and Chicago and coordinating committees in San Francisco, Chicago, and London.
•••• Not all Hollywood directors are DGA members. Notable exceptions include George Lucas and Robert Rodriguez. Quentin Tarantino directed six feature films before becoming a DGA member, in 2012. Those who are not members of the guild are unable to direct for the larger movie studios, which are signatories to the guild's agreements that all directors must be guild members.
•••• The guild has various training programs whereby successful applicants are placed in various productions and can gain experience working in the film or television industry.
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• The 63rd GRAMMY winners are:

RECORD OF THE YEAR:
WINNER:  "Everything I Wanted" -- Billie Eilish

"Black Parade" -- Beyoncé
"Colors" -- Black Pumas
"Rockstar" -- DaBaby featuring Roddy Ricch
"Say So" -- Doja Cat
"Don't Start Now" -- Dua Lipa
"Circles" -- Post Malone
"Savage" -- Megan Thee Stallion featuring Beyoncé

ALBUM OF THE YEAR:
WINNER: "Folklore" -- Taylor Swift

"Chilombo" -- Jhené Aiko
"Black Pumas" (Deluxe Edition) -- Black Pumas
"Everyday Life" -- Coldplay
"Djesse Vol. 3" -- Jacob Collier
"Women in Music Pt. III" -- Haim
"Future Nostalgia" -- Dua Lipa
"Hollywood's Bleeding" -- Post Malone

R&B PERFORMANCE:
WINNER: "Black Parade" -- Beyoncé

"Lightning & Thunder" -- Jhené Aiko featuring John Legend
"All I Need" -- Jacob Collier Featuring Mahalia & Ty Dolla Sign
"Goat Head" -- Brittany Howard
"See Me" -- Emily King

POP VOCAL ALBUM:
WINNER: "Future Nostalgia" -- Dua Lipa

"Changes" -- Justin Bieber
"Chromatica" -- Lady Gaga
"Fine Line" -- Harry Styles
"Folklore" -- Taylor Swift

RAP SONG:
WINNER: "Savage" -- Beyoncé, Shawn Carter, Brittany Hazzard, Derrick Milano, Terius Nash, Megan Pete, Bobby Session Jr., Jordan Kyle Lanier Thorpe & Anthony White, songwriters (Megan Thee Stallion featuring Beyoncé)

"The Bigger Picture" -- Dominique Jones, Noah Pettigrew & Rai'shaun Williams, songwriters (Lil Baby

"The Box" -- Samuel Gloade & Rodrick Moore, songwriters (Roddy Ricch)

"Laugh Now, Cry Later" -- Durk Banks, Rogét Chahayed, Aubrey Graham, Daveon Jackson, Ron LaTour & Ryan Martinez, songwriters (Drake Featuring Lil Durk)

"Rockstar" -- Jonathan Lyndale Kirk, Ross Joseph Portaro IV & Rodrick Moore, songwriters (DaBaby Featuring Roddy Ricch)

SONG OF THE YEAR:
WINNER:  "I Can't Breathe" -- Dernst Emile II, H.E.R. & Tiara Thomas, songwriters (H.E.R.)

"Black Parade" -- Denisia Andrews, Beyoncé, Stephen Bray, Shawn Carter, Brittany Coney, Derek James Dixie, Akil King, Kim "Kaydence" Krysiuk & Rickie "Caso" Tice, songwriters (Beyoncé)

"The Box" -- Samuel Gloade & Rodrick Moore, songwriters (Roddy Ricch)

"Cardigan" -- Aaron Dessner & Taylor Swift, songwriters (Taylor Swift)

"Circles" -- Louis Bell, Adam Feeney, Kaan Gunesberk, Austin Post & Billy Walsh, songwriters (Post Malone)

"Don't Start Now" -- Caroline Ailin, Ian Kirkpatrick, Dua Lipa & Emily Warren, songwriters (Dua Lipa)

"Everything I Wanted" -- Billie Eilish O'Connell & Finneas O'Connell, songwriters (Billie Eilish)

"If the World Was Ending" -- Julia Michaels & JP Saxe, songwriters (JP Saxe featuring Julia Michaels)

COUNTRY ALBUM
WINNER: Miranda Lambert

COUNTRY SONG:
WINNER: "Crowded Table" -- Brandi Carlile, Natalie Hemby & Lori McKenna, songwriters (The Highwomen)

"Bluebird" -- Luke Dick, Natalie Hemby & Miranda Lambert, songwriters (Miranda Lambert)

"The Bones" -- Maren Morris, Jimmy Robbins & Laura Veltz, songwriters (Maren Morris)

"More Hearts Than Mine" -- Ingrid Andress, Sam Ellis & Derrick Southerland, songwriters (Ingrid Andress)

"Some People Do" -- Jesse Frasure, Shane McAnally, Matthew Ramsey & Thomas Rhett, songwriters (Old Dominion)

COUNTRY DUO/GROUP PERFORMANCE:
WINNER: "10,000 Hours" -- Dan + Shay & Justin Bieber

"All Night" -- Brothers Osborne
"Ocean" -- Lady A
"Sugar Coat" -- Little Big Town
"Some People Do" -- Old Dominion

COUNTRY SOLO PERFORMANCE:
WINNER: "When My Amy Prays" -- Vince Gill

"Stick That in Your Country Song" -- Eric Church
"Who You Thought I Was" -- Brandy Clark
"Black Like Me" -- Mickey Guyton
"Bluebird" -- Miranda Lambert

ROCK ALBUM:
WINNER: "The New Abnormal" -- The Strokes

"A Hero's Death" -- Fontaines D.C.
"Kiwanuka" -- Michael Kiwanuka
"Daylight" -- Grace Potter
"Sound & Fury" -- Sturgill Simpson

ROCK SONG:
WINNER: "Stay High" -- Brittany Howard, songwriter (Brittany Howard)

"Kyoto" -- Phoebe Bridgers, Morgan Nagler & Marshall Vore, songwriters (Phoebe Bridgers)
"Lost in Yesterday" -- Kevin Parker, songwriter (Tame Impala)
"Not" -- Adrianne Lenker, songwriter (Big Thief)
"Shameika" -- Fiona Apple, songwriter (Fiona Apple)

• 115- The 63rd GRAMMY aired at the Staples Center in front of a limited audience.
•••• The Recording Academy's award show aired from 8 to 11:30 p.m. ET (5-8:30 p.m. PT) on Sunday, March 14, 2021, on CBS Television Network and was hosted by Trevor Noah, CBS.
••••Among the performer lineup fFor 2021 GRAMMY Awards Show were: Taylor Swift, BTS, Dua Lipa, Billie Eilish, Megan Thee Stallion, Bad Bunny, Harry Styles and more.
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• 115- The 26th Critics' Choice Awards
will take place on March 7, 2021, 4 - 7, honoring the finest achievements of 2020 filmmaking, with a total of 72 nominations in film and television.
•••• The ceremony will be broadcast on The CW, alongside the television awards, with Taye Diggs hosting for the third consecutive time..
•••• For non-cable subscribers, The CW channel is on a number of live TV streaming services, including Hulu with Live TV, fuboTV, AT&T TV NOW and YouTube TV.
•••• The Critics Choice Association, formerly the Broadcast Film Critics Association is an association of approximately 250 television, radio and online critics. Founded in 1995, it is the largest film critics organization in the United States and Canada.
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• Golden Globe Awards Nominations 2021 - Winners
©	• GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS 2021	®	• GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS 2021	®
	TELEVISION Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series -- Musical or Comedy Don Cheadle - "Black Monday" Nicholas Hoult - "The Great" Eugene Levy - "Schitt's Creek" Jason Sudekis, "Ted Lasso" - Winner Ramy Youssef - "Ramy" Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series -- Musical or Comedy Lily Collins - "Emily in Paris" Kaley Cuoco - "The Flight Attendant" Elle Fanning - "The Great" Jane Levy - "Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist" Catherine O'Hara, "Schitt's Creek" - Winner Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series -- Drama Jason Bateman - "Ozark" Josh O'Connor, "The Crown" - Winner Bob Odenkirk - "Better Call Saul" Al Pacino - "Hunters" Matthew Rhys - "Perry Mason" Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series -- Drama Olivia Colman - "The Crown" Jodie Comer - "Killing Eve" Emma Corrin, "The Crown" - Winner Laura Linney - "Ozark" Sarah Paulson - "Ratched" Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television Bryan Cranston - "Your Honor" Jeff Daniels - "The Comey Rule" Hugh Grant - "The Undoing" Mark Ruffalo, "I Know This Much is True" - Winner Ethan Hawke - "The Good Lord Bird" Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television Cate Blanchett - "Mrs. America" Daisy Edgar-Jones - "Normal People" Shira Haas - "Unorthodox" Nicole Kidman - "The Undoing" Anya Taylor-Joy, "The Queen's Gambit" - Winner Best Television Series Drama "The Crown" - Winner "Lovecraft Country" "The Mandalorian" "Ozark" "Ratched" Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television "Normal People" "The Queen's Gambit" - Winner "Small Axe" "The Undoing" "Unorthodox" Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television Gillian Anderson, "The Crown," - Winner Helena Bonham Carter - "The Crown" Julia Garner - "Ozark" Annie Murphy - "Schitt's Creek" Cynthia Nixon - "Ratched" Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television John Boyega, "Small Axe" - Winner Brendan Gleeson - "The Comey Rule" Daniel Levy - "Schitt's Creek" Jim Parsons - "Hollywood" Donald Sutherland - "The Undoing" Best Television Series -- Musical or Comedy "Emily in Paris" "The Flight Attendant" "Schitt's Creek" - Winner "The Great" Ted Lasso" FILM Best Motion Picture -- Musical or Comedy "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm" - Winner "Hamilton" "Music" "Palm Springs" "The Prom" Best Motion Picture -- Drama "The Father" "Mank" "Nomadland" - Winner "Promising Young Woman" "The Trial of the Chicago 7"		FILM Best Motion Picture -- Foreign Language "Another Round," Denmark "La Llorona," Guatamala/France "The Life Ahead," Italy "Minari," USA - Winner "Two of Us," France/USA Best Screenplay -- Motion Picture Emerald Fennell - "Promising Young Woman" Jack Fincher - "Mank" Aaron Sorkin, "The Trial of the Chicago 7" - Winner Florian Zeller, Christopher Hampton - "The Father" Chloe Zhao - "Nomadland" Best Original Song -- Motion Picture "Fight for You" - "Judas and the Black Messiah" "Hear My Voice"- "The Trial of the Chicago 7" "Best Original Song -- Motion Picture "IO SI (Seen)", "The Life Ahead" - Winner "Speak Now" - "One Night in Miami" "Tigers & Tweed" - "The United States vs. Billie Holiday" Best Motion Picture -- Drama "The Father" "Mank" "Nomadland" - Winner "Promising Young Woman" "The Trial of the Chicago 7" Best Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture Sacha Baron Cohen - "The Trial of the Chicago 7" Daniel Kaluuya, "Judas and the Black Messiah" - Winner Jared Leto - "The Little Things" Bill Murray - "On the Rocks" Leslie Odom, Jr. - "One Night in Miami" Best Actress in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture Glenn Close - "Hillbilly Elegy" Olivia Colman - "The Father" - Winner Jodie Foster, "The Mauritanian" Amanda Seyfried - "Mank" Helena Zengel - "News of the World" Best Actor in a Motion Picture -- Musical or Comedy Sacha Baron Cohen - "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm" - Winner James Corden - "The Prom" Lin-Manuel Miranda - "Hamilton" Dev Patel - "The Personal History of David Copperfield" Andy Samberg - "Palm Springs" Best Motion Picture -- Animated "The Croods: A New Age" "Onward" "Over the Moon" "Soul" - Winner "Wolfwalkers" Best Actor in a Motion Picture -- Drama Chadwick Boseman, "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" - Winner Riz Ahmed - "The Sound of Metal" Anthony Hopkins - "The Father" Gary Oldman - "Mank" Tahar Rahim - "The Mauritanian" Best Actress in a Motion Picture -- Drama Viola Davis - "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" Andra Day, "The United States vs. Billie Holiday" - Winner Vanessa Kirby - "Pieces of a Woman" Frances McDormand - "Nomadland" Carey Mulligan - "Promising Young Woman  Best Actress in a Motion Picture -- Musical or Comedy Maria Bakalova - "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm" Kate Hudson - "Music" Michelle Pfeiffer - "French Exit" Rosamund Pike, "I Care A Lot" - Winner Anya Taylor-Joy - "Emma" Best Actor in a Motion Picture -- Musical or Comedy Sacha Baron Cohen, "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm" - Winner James Corden - "The Prom" Lin-Manuel Miranda - "Hamilton" Dev Patel - "The Personal History of David Copperfield" Andy Samberg - "Palm Springs" Best Director -- Motion Picture David Fincher - "Mank" Regina King - "One Night in Miami" Aaron Sorkin - "The Trial of the Chicago 7" Chloe Zhao, "Nomadland" - Winner Emerald Fennell - "Promising Young Woman" Best Original Score Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross and Jone Batiste, "Soul"" - Winner

The Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association beginning in January 1944, recognizing excellence in film, both American and International, and the American television.
•••• Produced by Dick Clark Productions in association with the HFPA, the Golden Globe Awards are viewed in more than 210 territories worldwide
•••• Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will be returning as co-hosts for the 78th Golden Globe Awards in 2021.
•••• Satchel and Jackson Lee, children of filmmaker and three-time Golden Globe nominee Spike Lee and producer and philanthropist Tonya Lewis Lee, will serve as the 2021 Golden Globe Ambassadors.
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• 115- Oscars scheduled for April 25, 2021, 'in- person ' from 'multiple locations'
•••• The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the 93rd Oscars® ceremony will move to Sunday, April 25, 2021, as a result of the global pandemic caused by COVID-19. The show, which will air live on ABC, was originally scheduled for February 28, 2021.
•••• Academy Awards will take place 'in- person ' from 'multiple locations.' The Oscars have been at Hollywood's Dolby Theatre for 20 years -- but now the biggest ceremony in showbusiness is branching out.
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• 114- Former City Council Tom LaBonge, known as Mr. Los Angeles, has died. By Josie Cory

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger - City Council Tom LaBonge

•••• Tom LaBonge, who served on the City Council from 2001 to 2015, died January 7. He was 67.
•••• LaBonge was known for his love and encyclopedic knowledge of the City of Los Angeles, its landmarks and public spaces. He had an outgoing personality and loved connecting to and engage people. He never missed the annual Christmas tree-lightening ceremony at the "Toluca Lake Open House" and was seen there every year even after his term as city council ended, said Josie Cory, publisher of TVI. The District 4 field office was then on Riverside Drive, and Pink's Hot Dogs had their stand in the parking lot. Cory remembers LaBonge, mingling with the crowd, guiding people towards Pink's for free hot dogs, and passing out cookies. He appeared in his element enjoying his constituents gathering for a happy pre-Chrisrmas community event.
•••• Besides being an avid photographer, and a major supporter of the Los Angeles Public Library and its photo collection and being supportive of the library's effort to digitize nearly 41,000 images, LaBonge was also proud of his involvement with the Sister Cities program, which connected Los Angeles with cities around the world, and his work in adding new walking trails, bike paths, soccer fields and stop signs, as well as the restoration of the Griffith Observatory.

Photo By Gary Sunkin, TVI.
Tom La Bonge, left, and Troy Cory.
•••• During his time in office, LaBonge acknowledged he focused less on the finer points of public policy and more on delivering nuts-and-bolts city services. He took a special interest in trash pickup, working to remove furniture that was regularly deposited on the sidewalks of Silver Lake, Los Feliz, Hollywood, Hancock Park, Miracle Mile and other parts of his district. He was known that he could not pass a piece of trash on the sidewalk or in the park without picking it up. Labonge has been called the Huell Howser of L.A. politics, a spirit that was always optimistic and in love with the city."
•••• LaBonge was born Oct. 6, 1953, in Los Angeles and grew up in Silver Lake, the seventh of eight boys. His father, Robert LaBonge, worked for the Tidings, a Catholic newspaper, and his mother, Mary Louise was a homemaker.
••• A graduate of John Marshall High School and Cal State Los Angeles, LaBonge got his first taste of public service in 1974 with Mayor Tom Bradley's youth council. Two years later, he secured a job with Councilwoman Peggy Stevenson.
•••• In 1978, LaBonge began a 15-year stint with Councilman John Ferraro, whose district he went on to represent decades later. He ran for City Council in 1993 but lost to Jackie Goldberg, who had served on the school board. That same year, he became an aide to Mayor Richard Riordan. He also worked for a time at the Department of Water and Power.
•••• LaBonge, in a 2015 interview with KPCC-FM's John Rabe said that sometimes he gets criticized and they say "I'm not a visionary." "I'm an absolute visionary, and the vision comes from people, and how people feel about their city and where they live."
•••• A Los Angles Times article quoted LA County Supervisor Janice Hahn saying she did not know if anyone would ever love the city as much as LaBonge. 
•••• "He was and will always be Mr. Los Angeles."
•••• In addition to his wife Brigid, LaBonge is survived by his daughter Mary Catherine LaBonge and son Charles LaBonge, both of Los Angeles; as well as brothers Brian LaBonge of Glendale, Dennis LaBonge of Newport Beach, Robert LaBonge of Malibu, Timothy LaBonge of Desert Hot Springs and Mark LaBonge of Los Angeles.
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• 107- Popular local Weatherman Fritz Coleman calls it quits after 39 years delivering weather reports - By Josie Cory
•••• NBC4 said good-bye to beloved weatherman Fritz Coleman who has delivered weather forecasts at NBC4 for almost 40 years and delivered his final weather report on Friday, June 26 during the 5 pm and 11 pm news. His news anchor team Colleen Williams, Chuck Henry and sports anchor Fred Roggin offered their words of sincere thanks with Williams bearly holding back her tears.
•••• After a year of planning his retirement, Coleman decided to spend more time with his family, appreciate his good health, and dedicate more time to his comedy and working with charities. 
•••• Coleman, who works on the side as a stand-up comic, is known for mixing humor with his forecasts. Coleman joined NBC4 in 1982, and has been part of one of the longest running news anchor teams in Los Angeles, working alongside co-anchors Colleen Williams and Chuck Henry and sports anchor Fred Roggin.
•••• "This career has been a gift," Coleman said in a statement. "To work in the greatest news operation in Southern California has been the greatest experience of my life. I have also had the opportunity of raising my children, while working with a wonderful team. I have made lifelong friends at NBC4 and in the community it serves. I'm so very thankful."
••••Coleman has received numerous awards and honors for community service, including an honorary doctorate from Woodbury University in Burbank for his extensive public service in the community. He has received awards from groups such as Shelter Partnership and the California Hospital Medical Center. He was named a "Treasure of Los Angeles' by the city of L.A. and he received a congressional "Humanitarian of the Year Award" for his fundraising efforts on behalf of the American Red Cross from the U.S. House of Representatives, among other honors.
•••• Coleman is the Honorary Mayor of Toluca Lake and known to light the Christmas Tree during 'Toluca Lake's Annual Holiday Open House' ceremony at Ramsey-Shilling with with 4th District council and actor Joe Montegna often in attendance
•••• For many years he is featured as celebrity guest auctioneer at the St. Charles Borromeo annual parish festival.
•••• Coleman appreciated for his work as a stand-up comic, appearing frequently at The Improv in Hollywood and The Ice House in Pasadena. His one-man show "Defying Gravity at the El Portal Theater in North Hollywood and subsequently at the Gary Marshall Theatre in Toluca Lake proved a
hit among local residents. He also made several appearances on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and other NBC shows.
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• Wireless Telephone inventor Nathan Stubblefield
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• 106- Proclamation by Wallace G. Wilkinson, former Governor of Kentucky
• 1992 proclaimed Nathan Beverly Stubblefield year and
• Murray, Kentucky 'Birthplace of radio'
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• 112th Anniversary of the N.B. Stubblefield's Wireless Telephone Patent
1908 0512 - PATENT GRANTED: Stubblefield's U.S. Patent, Number 887,357, All Purpose Wireless Telephone, Filed April 5, 1907, Granted May 12, 1908. / Click MORE STORY TO GO DIRECTLY TO U.S. Patent Office - (Patent Expires May 12, 1925) CLICK ANY IMAGE TO VIEW PATENT
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Trivia: What other event occurred in 1902, the year of Stubblefields's public demonstration in 1902.

A: The founding of J.C. Penney stores by James Cash.
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• 102- Nathan B. Stubblefield, the Man History Overheard
By Harvey Geller
•••• In Life's current Bicentennial issue, radio checks in, at #86 on the hot "100 Events That Shaped America," 19 buttons behind Bell's telephone. Erroneously, Life lists Guglielmo Marcon's dots and dashes as the first wireless broadcast, a fable echoed by the World Almanac and Encyclopedia Britannica. It's a forgivable mumpsimus, since the evidence offered on the following pages has not, until now, appeared in any national publication.
•••• The birth of broadcasting is a bizarre soap opera saga, a lacrymal legend of mystery, machination, ephemeral enshrinement, decline, disillusionment and disaster. It's denouncement dissolves six miles north of Murray, Kentucky, in a two-room shanty constructed of pine and cornstalks, where radio's uncelebrated architect is discovered 48 hours after his death, his records scattered, his equipment destroyed, his brain partly eaten by rats. Even local radio fails to mention his demise. He is Nathan Beverly Stubblefield, the man history over-heard and then overlooked.
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• Who are the SMART Inventors of
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SMART90 stands for Stubblefield Nathan, Marconi Guglielmo, Ambrose Fleming, Reginald Fessenden, Tesla Nicola, DeForest Lee, Armstrong Edwin Howard, Alexanderson Ernst Fredrik Werner, Farnsworth Philo,

•••• SMART-DAAF Boys, Vol I, 'The Inventors of Radio & Televison & The Life Style of Nathan B. Stubblefield," by Troy Cory-Stubblefield and Josie Cory, Library of Congress Number 93060451. (ISBN) 1-883644-003, pgs. 580. •Copyright © 1993

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• 102- Nathan B. Stubblefield, the Man History Overheard
By Harvey Geller
•••• In Life's current Bicentennial issue, radio checks in, at #86 on the hot "100 Events That Shaped America," 19 buttons behind Bell's telephone. Erroneously, Life lists Guglielmo Marcon's dots and dashes as the first wireless broadcast, a fable echoed by the World Almanac and Encyclopedia Britannica. It's a forgivable mumpsimus, since the evidence offered on the following pages has not, until now, appeared in any national publication.
•••• The birth of broadcasting is a bizarre soap opera saga, a lacrymal legend of mystery, machination, ephemeral enshrinement, decline, disillusionment and disaster. It's denouncement dissolves six miles north of Murray, Kentucky, in a two-room shanty constructed of pine and cornstalks, where radio's uncelebrated architect is discovered 48 hours after his death, his records scattered, his equipment destroyed, his brain partly eaten by rats. Even local radio fails to mention his demise. He is Nathan Beverly Stubblefield, the man history over-heard and then overlooked.

"They all laughed at Christopher Columbus
When he said the world
was round:
They all laughed when
Edison recorded sound . . .
Ha, Ha, Ha -- who's got the
last laugh now?"
--Ira Gershwin, 1937

When an inordinately eccentric young farmer suggested that he had invented a portable wireless telephone that could broadcast voice and music up over hight buildings and down through stone walls, most of Calloway County, Kentucky, chuckled. When he revealed his "crazy box, and odd assortment of batteries, rods, coils and kegs, they howled.
•••85 years after, their heirs are writing songs of love, christening radio stations, consecrating libraries and constructing memorial monuments in his infinite honor. The veneration is hardly widespread. 17,000 Murray, Kentucky, tobacco farmers may agree that Nathan B Stubblefield was the first man on earth to transmit and receive the human voice without wires. But most of our world is unacquainted with his improbable name and even his proponents are unaware of the precise date of his private discovery. Evidence points to a period between 1890 and 1892, at least seven years before Marconi sent the first wireless telegraph message across the English Channel.
••• Stubblefield's supporters maintain that telegraphy is far different from telephony; that they are, I fact, diverse discoveries. Wireless telephone is hip-to-shore radio, the walkie-talkie, the citizen band and portable radio, the mobile phone, the audio arm of television, rheostats, rectifying tubes, filaments, dials, microphones, AM and FM radio and every broadcasting booth on earth--not Marconi's Code signals.
•••Marconi's name is linked with Stubblefield's by Trumbull White in a book called The World's Progress, published in 1902. "Of very recent success are the experiments of Marconi with wireless telegraphy, an astounding and important advance over the ordinary system of telegraphy through wires. Now comes the announcement that an American inventor, unheralded and modest, has carried out successful experiments of telephoning and is able to transmit speech for great distances without wires . . the inventor is Nathan B. Stubblefield."
••• "This Fellow Is Fooling me."
•••"Hello, Rainey," according to Dr. Rainey T. Wells, founder of Murray State College, was the world's first radio message. Testifying before an FCC commission in 1947, Rainey explained that he had personally heard Stubblefield demonstrate his wireless telephone as early as 1892.
•••"He had a shack about four feet square near his house from which he took an ordinary telephone receiver, but entirely without wires. Handing me these, he asked me to walk some distance away and listen. I had hardly reached my post, which happened to be an apple orchard, when I heard 'Hello, Rainey' come booming out of the receiver. I jumped a foot and said to myself, 'This fellow is fooling me. He as wires somewhere.' So I moved to the side some 20 feet but all the while he kept talking to me. I talked back and he answered me as plainly as you please. I asked him to patent the thing but he refused, saying he wanted to continue his research and perfect it."
•••Dr. William Mason, Stubblefield's family physician, described a day during that same year when Stubblefield "handed me a device in what appeared to be a keg with a handle on it. I started walking down the lane . . . from it I could distinctly hear his voice and a harmonica which he was broadcasting to me several years before Marconi made his announcement about wireless telegraphy."
•••••• Stubblefield was born in Murray, Kentucky, 1860 the son of Attorney and Mrs. William Jefferson Stubblefield (Capt. Billy). In his teens he was reportedly an omnivorous student and researched everything available on the new science of electricity. When Alexander Bel phoned Tom Watson on March 10, 1876, to say "Come here, Watson; I want you," Stubblefield was already experimenting with vibrating communication devices. In 1888 (Patent #378,183) he invented a vibrating telephone. The Murray News Weekly carried this item: "Charlie Hamlin has his telephone I fine working order from his store to his home. It is the Nathan Stubblefield patent and is the best I have ever talked through."
•••Stubblefield manufactured and patented batteries which he later described as "the bedrock of all my scientific research in raidio" (his spelling).
•••••• "I have been working on this, the wireless telephone, for 10 or 12 years," he told a St. Louis Post-Dispatch correspondent in January, 1902. "This solution is not the result of an inspiration or the work of a minute. It is the climax of years. The system can be developed until messages by voice can be sent and heard all over the country, even to Europe. The world is it limits."

"Diamonds as Large a Your Thumb."
•••With the new industrial and scientific epoch at hand and the first Roosevelt in the White House, Stubblefield built his broadcasting station, a tiny workshop on the front porch of his modest farmhouse. It was barely wide enough to hold the transmitter and one char. The transmitting mechanism was concealed in a box four feet hight,tow and a half feet wide, one and a half feet deep. "In that box," said Stubblefield, "lies the secret of my success." Five hundred yards away was the experimental receiving station, a dry-good box fastened to the foot of a tree stump.
•••The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter noted that Stubblefield's 14-year-old son, Bernard, was left on the porch wile h and the inventor walked to the stump. The writer picked up a receiver and heard spasmodic buzzings and then: "Hello. Can you hear me? Now I will count ten. One-to-three-four-=five-six-seven-eight-nine-ten. Did you hear that? Now I will whisper." Later Bernard whistled and played the mouth organ.
•••"I heard as clearly as if the speaker were only across a 12-foot room" wrote the newsman.
•••When the article appeared on January 10, 1902, Stubblefield was besieged by capitalists, financiers, stock-jugglers, hucksters and hawkers. Dr. Mason recalled seeing a $40,000 check for a part interest in the invention, as titans of industry "wearing diamonds as large as your thumb" scuttled up industry dirt roads to Stubblefield's flinty farm.
•••"You and I will yet add luster to the Stubblefield name," wrote Nathan to his cousin, Vernon.
•••He refused all propositions, including one for half a million dollars. "It is north twice that," he insisted, entrusting only his son, Bernard, with the secret of his mysterious keg. On occasion he repelled over-inquisitive visitors with a shotgun.
•••Invited by leading scientist, he traveled with his trunk of mystery to Washington, D.C., where he demonstrated the practicability of his contrivance from the steamship Bartholdy on the Potomac to crowds along the river bank. On Decoration Day, 1902, he broadcast words and music form the Belmont Mansion and Fairmont Park in Philadelphia to hundreds of statesmen, investors and newsmen. He obtained patents in England, the U.S. and Canada.
•••• In the Canadian patent is a drawing of a "horseless carriage" with a broadcasting set, presaging the auto radio by 30 years. But perhaps even more remarkable are notations that by reversing a switch one could change a broadcasting station into a receiving apparatus.
•••• Articles appeared in major newspapers throughout the world acclaiming him as the distinguished inventor of the wireless telephone and a celebrated scientific genius. At lease one extravagant reporter suggested that Stubblefield ad crated "the world's greatest invention."

Decline and Fall.
•••• There are three conflicting theories on how this farmer-inventor sowed the wind of immortality and reaped the whirlwind of oblivion. His cousin, Vernon, claimed the invention was stolen

"Will I ever see my trunk again?" Stubblefield scribbled on the back of an old map after he returned from Washington.
•••• "All his valuables were in that trunk," said his cousin.
•••• Perry Meloan, newspaper editor of Edmonton, Kentucky, an ear-witness to the first public demonstration in Murray, declared that Stubblefield was inveigled into a partnership in the Wireless Telephone Company of America, located at Broadway 11, New York. Learning that the firm was not interested in perfecting his creation but merely in selling stock unscrupulously, Stubblefield returned home. "Damn rascals," was his bitter comment to friends, and he advised them to withdraw their investment in his project. Soon after, he renounced his wife, nine (5 surviving) children and all relatives and built his hermitage gut in Almo, six miles from his family farmhouse. That farmhouse later mysteriously burned to the ground.
•••• His son, Bernard, joined the Westinghouse Electrical Corp., the firm that introduced the commercial radio. Did Bernard utilize his father's secrets to produce those early sets?
•••• Wireless lights appeared in the trees and along the fences guarding Stubblefield's crudely constructed shanty and, according to neighbors, voices, apparently coming from the air, were heard by trespassers. "Get your mule out of my cornfield," Stubblefield's wireless voice was hard to say in the night.
•••• He curtly refused the aid of friends. "He was never insane," they insisted, "only queer."
•••• Robert McDermott found the body of Nathan Stubblefield on March 30, 1928. "Death due to starvation," was Dr. Mason's conclusion. In a unmarked grave in Bowman's cemetery, one and a half miles form Murray, Stubblefield lies alone.
•••• In 1930 a memorial to "the first man to transmit and receive the human voice without wires" was dedicated at Murray State Teachers College campus, less than 100 feet from the charred ruins of the world's first broadcasting station.
•••• In 1962 his tragic life was dramatized in an epicedial folk opera, The Stubblefield Story, composed by Murray State professor Paul Shahan and Mrs. Lillian Lowry and performed in the campus auditorium.
•••• Murray's only radio station, 1 1000-watt outlet, broadcasts "middle of the road and some rock music as well," according to owner Fransuelle Cole. Book-ended between Bruce Springsteen's "Borne to Rune" a a live commercial for Kroger's grocery, on hears. "You are tune to WNBS, 1340 on your radio dial in Murray, Kentucky: the birthplace of radio."
•••• The stations call-letters, not accidentally, are Stubblefield's initials.
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Even FILMFEST MÜNCHEN scheduled for June 25 to July 4, had to be canceled for 2020 due to the corona pandemic. This still saddens us - festival director Diana Iljine and the whole team - deeply. But life goes on: we're highly motivated and are already working on the next edition.
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•••• Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2019 Toluca Lake Award Program focuses on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the Toluca Lake Award Program and data provided by third parties.
•••• The Toluca Lake Award Program is an annual awards program honoring the achievements and accomplishments of local businesses throughout the Toluca Lake area. Recognition is given to those companies that have shown the ability to use their best practices and implemented programs to generate competitive advantages and long-term value.
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• 115- The 26th Shanghai TV Festival with focus on story's quality & energy took place Aug. 3 - 7, 2020
•••• On the morning of August 5, the meeting of judges for Magnolia Award of the 26th Shanghai TV Festival (STVF) was held, including Chinese judges for Dramas, Documentaries and Animations.
•••• Due to COVID-19 epidemic, the selection of the Magnolia Award was conducted in a way that the Chinese judges concentrated in Shanghai and the international judges participated online for the first time. Zheng Xiaolong, chairman of the jury said at the meeting that the Magnolia Award judges are under heavy pressure this year. He said, "As this year's TV series first broadcast on major video website also joined the selection of Chinese TV drama, the Magnolia Award considers more works with various subjects. Obviously, the overall shows a higher level. So, Judging TV series this year is a difficult thing, which is a test for our judges."
•••• The 26th STVF had collected more than 800 works from 48 countries and regions, among which, 60 works or dramas won the Magnolia Award, including 15 series from China and 10 from other countries. The five judges of Chinese TV series have won the Magnolia Award at previous STVF, even including the chairman of the jury. Zheng Xiaolong, who has served as chairman of the Magnolia Award TV series jury for the third time, said that Shanghai is a modern and fashionable city, with the spirit of contract and responsibility of Shanghai residents, as well as their warmth and tolerance. He added, "So I am willing to come to Shanghai, to cooperate with my friends here, and to do something for the development of Chinese films and TV series."
•••• The Shanghai Television Festival ( STVF), also known as the Shanghai International Television Festival is the first and one of the largest television festivals in East Asia. Held since 1986, STVF has become one of the most influential and prestigious international television festivals in Asia, strengthening the cooperation and communication between the Chinese media industry and the world.
•••• The festival is also home to the annual Magnolia Awards. Awards are handed out to both international and national productions through voting by a panel of award-winning actors, producers, directors and writers, and are the highest industry honours given. It is considered to be one of the most prestigious television awards, alongside the Feitian Awards and Golden Eagle Awards. Since 2004, the Magnolia Awards have been held every year.
• In 1986, with the commission of the Shanghai People's Congress, the film festival opened with entries from 16 countries. There were no awards presented.
• In 1988, the film festival created the Magnolia Awards, named after the floral emblem of Shanghai. It awarded Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Documentary and Best Director. Until 2004, it has held an awards ceremony every 2 years.
•••• Troy Cory was the first American artist to perform on stage in the PRC during the 1988 STVF festival concert.
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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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• • 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)

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