| BET Upfront '07 Invites Advertisers to 'Follow The Leader' with an ...
NEW YORK, April 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Intensifying its leadership role by reaching the broadest swath of Black viewers across multiple media platforms, BET Networks today reinforced their dominance by unveiling the most ambitious slate of programming in its 26-year history. At its annual Upfront presentation, BET Chairman and CEO Debra Lee, along with President of Entertainment, Reginald Hudlin, announced the slate of 16 new original shows to a capacity audience of advertisers, media buyers, corporate clients, executives and top-tier media outlets at New York's Manhattan Center Studios. "BET Networks is the number one media destination for African Americans and consumers of Black culture," said Lee. "Through creativity, collaboration and innovation, the next 12 months will see an unprecedented amount of new content from BET Networks.
Bertelsmann’s Gunter Thielen
Its one of the largest media companies in the world, but its not based in New York or Los Angeles or Tokyo or any other major metropolitan area. With headquarters in suburban Gtersloh, Germany, Bertelsmann is a global force in television, music and publishing. Gunter Thielen has been with Bertelsmann for more than 25 years and has been the chairman and CEO since 2002. He has remained loyal to the company whose history and growth have been closely entwined with Germanys, yet at the same time has very successfully expanded beyond its borders. Founded in 1835 by Carl Bertelsmann as C Bertelsmann Verlag, the company began as a publishing concern with its own book-printing plant. The first bestseller was a compilation of songs and hymns. Carl passed the business on to his son Heinrich, and in 1881, Johannes Mohn married Heinrichs daughter, Friederike, and took over the publishing business after his father-in-laws death.
After the crackle, pop
Shortwave aficionados need never be bereft of their hit-and-miss aural pleasures - they should just retune through their computer and broadband and discover a whole new world of Talking Heads, the Cure ... and Jimmy Durante
Miranda Sawyer
Sunday April 15, 2007
The Observer
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Ricky Martin follows his bliss in San Jose
Ricky Martin no longer ranks as one of the most popular performers in the United States. His star has faded, at least in this country, since the days when he was "Livin' La Vida Loca'" and riding high on the success of his self-titled CD of 1999. In exchange, the 35-year-old Puerto Rican native has become something more significant -- a true role model. Over the past six-plus years, since the release of the commercial disappointment "Sound Loaded" in 2000, he has focused much of his attention on humanitarian campaigns for children living in Third World countries. That's more important than scoring hit singles -- something that Martin hasn't done much of in recent years. On Tuesday night, Martin came to the HP Pavilion in San Jose to launch the North American leg of his Black and White Tour.
The next First Minister, if it wasn't for the voters? Meet the ...
THE soundtrack to our encounter with Annabel Goldie, is, shall we say, inauspicious. As we sit in the back of a Rose Street coffee house, fretting over who is coughing up for the coffees, the stereo system is blaring out a song whose repeating lyric is: "You're in denial!" Aren't they just? The Scottish Conservatives are bullishly setting out their plans for government, while still languishing behind Labour and the SNP and even, probably, the Liberal Democrats, having made little progress since the Grim (for the Tories), Great (for their foes) Electoral Massacre of 1997 when the pendant of the last Conservative MP in Scotland fluttered off into the wide blue yonder. .
Bowlers earn Hall of Fame honors
The Newburgh Women's and the Mid-Hudson Bowling Association's annual Hall of Fame induction was held recently at Anthony's Pier 9 in New Windsor. The well-attended event enthusiastically applauded Polly Allen, Linda Brem and Shirley Mann as the newest inductees into the Women's Bowling Hall of Fame. Also inducted was Jennie Consorti, posthumously. Receiving equal attention from the gathering were Henry Pitman, Todd Schuster and William Wendel Jr., who were inducted into the Mid-Hudson Bowling Hall of Fame. Among the leaders who participated in the induction were Rose Van Regenmortel, president of the Women's Association, and Pete Garrison Jr., president of the Mid-Hudson Association. For information, call Garrison at 562-7426.
The mail pouch has been overloaded with spring events.
Tales and tragedy from a real Texan troubadour
Who says Americans don't do irony? Not Joe Ely. The Amarillo-born singer, songwriter, sometime fellow traveller of The Clash and accidental founder of the alt-country movement is recalling his involvement in Tornado Jam. Held in Buddy Holly Park in Lubbock, the town in the Texas flatlands that Ely called home from the age of 10, the first Tornado Jam in 1980 starred Ely, by then an internationally known performer, and attracted some 4000 people. The following year, with guitar hero Stevie Ray Vaughan on the bill, the audience grew to 10,000. But in year three, when Linda Ronstadt and Holly's former band, The Crickets, drew a 30,000-strong crowd, the city council held an emergency meeting. There would be, they announced, no more music in Buddy Holly Park. .
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