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Maysville, Kentucky
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Maysville is a home rule-class city in Mason County, Kentucky, United States and is the seat of Mason County. The population was 9,011 at the 2010 census, making it the 40th-largest city in Kentucky by population, Maysville is on the Ohio River,66 miles northeast of Lexington. It is the city of the Maysville Micropolitan Statistical Area. Two bridges cross the Ohio from Maysville to Aberdeen, Ohio, the Simon Kenton Memorial Bridge built in 1931, on the edge of the outer Bluegrass Region, Maysville is historically important in Kentuckys settlement. Frontiersmen Simon Kenton and Daniel Boone are among the citys founders, later, Maysville became an important port on the Ohio River for the northeastern part of the state. It exported bourbon whiskey, hemp and tobacco, the two produced mainly by African American slaves before the Civil War. It was once a center of iron manufacture, sending ironwork downriver to decorate the buildings of Cincinnati, Ohio. Other small manufacturers also located early in Maysville and manufacturing remains an important part of the modern economy, under the leadership of Henry Means Walker, Maysville was home to one of the largest tobacco auction warehouses in the world for most of the 20th century. Maysville was an important stop on the Underground Railroad, as the state of Ohio was just across the river. She included the scene in her influential novel Uncle Toms Cabin, the annual Rosemary Clooney Music Festival was founded by the singer in 1999 to benefit the restoration of the Russell Theatre. Past performers at the festival include Debby Boone, Rita Coolidge, Michael Feinstein, Roberta Flack, Alison Krauss, The Pointer Sisters, Michael Bolton, the Ledger Independent is the local newspaper and is published five days a week. WFTM-AM and WFTM-FM are the local radio stations in Maysville. The AM station is a CBS Sports Radio affiliate, and the FM plays adult contemporary music, buffalo once forded the Ohio here, beating a broad path into the interior of Kentucky in search of salt licks. For thousands of years, various cultures of indigenous peoples inhabited the area, hunting the buffalo, in the 17th century, the powerful Iroquois Confederacy, based in present-day New York state, drove out other tribes to hold the Ohio Valley as a hunting ground. European-American settlers traveling down the Ohio in the 18th century and early 19th century found a natural harbor at Limestone Creek. The buffalo trace, also a well-used trail traveled for centuries by Native Americans, was a path into the bluegrass region, extending all the way to Lexington. Frontiersman Simon Kenton made the first settlement in the area in 1775, returning in 1784, Kenton built a blockhouse at the site of Maysville and founded Kentons Station at a site three miles inland. Kenton met new settlers at Limestone, as the place was called
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Maysville,
Kentucky, skyline showing the
Mason County Courthouse, and the
Simon Kenton Memorial Bridge which spans the
Ohio River.
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Buildings in the Washington Historic District
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View of Maysville, 1821
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Simon Kenton Memorial Bridge
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George Clooney
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George Timothy Clooney is an American actor, filmmaker, and activist. He has received three Golden Globe Awards for his work as an actor and two Academy Awards, one for acting in Syriana and the other for co-producing Argo, in 1999, he took the lead role in Three Kings, a well-received war satire set during the Gulf War. In 2001, Clooneys fame widened with the release of his biggest commercial success, the heist comedy remake Oceans Eleven, in 2013, he received the Academy Award for Best Picture for producing the political thriller Argo. He is the person who has been nominated for Academy Awards in six different categories. In 2009, Clooney was included in Times annual Time 100 as one of the Most Influential People in the World and he is also noted for his political activism, and has served as one of the United Nations Messengers of Peace since January 31,2008. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Clooney was born in Lexington, Kentucky. His mother, Nina Bruce, was a beauty queen and city councilwoman and his father, Nick Clooney, is a former anchorman and game show host who hosted AMC for five years in the late 1990s. Clooney has Irish, German, and English ancestry and his maternal great-great-great-great-grandmother, Mary Ann Sparrow, was the half-sister of Nancy Lincoln, mother of President Abraham Lincoln. Clooney has a sister named Adelia. His aunt was the cabaret singer and actress Rosemary Clooney. Through Rosemary, his cousins include actors Miguel Ferrer, Rafael Ferrer, and Gabriel Ferrer, Clooney was raised a strict Roman Catholic, but said in 2006 that he does not know if he believes in Heaven, or even God. He has said, Yes, we were Catholic, big time, whole family and he began his education at the Blessed Sacrament School in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky. He attended St. Michaels School in Columbus, Ohio, then Western Row Elementary School in Mason, Ohio, from 1968 to 1974, and St. Susanna School in Mason, the Clooneys moved back to Kentucky when George was midway through the seventh grade. In middle school, Clooney developed Bells palsy, a condition that partially paralyzes the face, the malady went away within a year. In an interview with Larry King, he stated that yes and it takes about nine months to go away. It was the first year of school, which was a bad time for having half your face paralyzed. After his parents moved to Augusta, Kentucky, Clooney attended Augusta High School and he has stated that he earned all As and a B in school, and was an enthusiastic baseball and basketball player. He tried out to professional baseball with the Cincinnati Reds in 1977
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Clooney at a ceremony for
John Wells in January 2012
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George Clooney cast his hands and shoes in the
Grauman's Chinese Theatre in 2007.
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George Clooney at the premiere of
The Men Who Stare at Goats in the
2009 Toronto International Film Festival
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Clooney in
Abéché, Chad, in January 2008 with the UN
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Rosemary Clooney
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Rosemary Clooney was an American singer and actress. She also had success as a jazz vocalist and she continued recording until her death in 2002. Rosemary Clooney was born in Maysville, Kentucky, the daughter of Marie Frances and she was one of five children. Her father was of Irish and German descent and her mother was of Irish and English ancestry, when Clooney was 15, her mother and brother Nick moved to California. She and her sister Betty remained with their father, the family resided in the John Brett Richeson House in the late 1940s. Rosemary and Betty became entertainers, whereas Nick became a newsman, in 1945, the Clooney sisters won a spot on Cincinnati, Ohios radio station WLW as singers. Her sister Betty sang in a duo with Rosemary for much of the early career. Clooneys first recordings, in May 1946, were for Columbia Records and she sang with Tony Pastors big band. Clooney continued working with the Pastor band until 1949, making her last recording with the band in May of that year and her first as a solo artist a month later, in 1950–51 she was a regular on the radio and television versions of Songs For Sale on CBS. In 1951, her record of Come On-a My House, produced by Mitch Miller and it was her first of many singles to hit the charts—despite the fact that Clooney hated the song passionately. She had been told by Columbia Records to record the song, Clooney recorded several duets with Marlene Dietrich and appeared in the early 1950s on Faye Emersons Wonderful Town series on CBS. Clooney also did several guest appearances on the Arthur Godfrey radio show and they did duets as he played his ukulele, and other times she would sing one of her latest hits. In 1954, she starred, along with Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye and she starred, in 1956, in a half-hour syndicated television musical-variety show The Rosemary Clooney Show. The show featured The Hi-Los singing group and Nelson Riddles orchestra, the following year, the show moved to NBC prime time as The Lux Show Starring Rosemary Clooney but only lasted one season. The new show featured the singing group The Modernaires and Frank DeVols orchestra, in later years, Clooney would often appear with Bing Crosby on television, such as in the 1957 special The Edsel Show, and the two friends made a concert tour of Ireland together. On November 21,1957, she appeared on NBCs The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford, in 1960, Clooney and Crosby co-starred in a 20-minute CBS radio program aired before the midday news each weekday. Clooney left Columbia Records in 1958, doing a number of recordings for MGM Records, finally, toward the end of 1958, she signed with RCA Victor Records, where she stayed until 1963. In 1964, she went to Reprise Records, and in 1965 to Dot Records, upon her recovery from a nervous breakdown in 1968, Clooney signed with United Artists Records in 1976 for two albums
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Clooney in 1954
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John Brett Richeson House in Maysville
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With
Bing Crosby in
White Christmas
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Clooney performing in 1977
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United States Army
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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. After the Revolutionary War, the Congress of the Confederation created the United States Army on 3 June 1784, the United States Army considers itself descended from the Continental Army, and dates its institutional inception from the origin of that armed force in 1775. As a uniformed service, the Army is part of the Department of the Army. As a branch of the forces, the mission of the U. S. The branch participates in conflicts worldwide and is the major ground-based offensive and defensive force of the United States, the United States Army serves as the land-based branch of the U. S. Section 3062 of Title 10, U. S, the army was initially led by men who had served in the British Army or colonial militias and who brought much of British military heritage with them. As the Revolutionary War progressed, French aid, resources, a number of European soldiers came on their own to help, such as Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, who taught Prussian Army tactics and organizational skills. The army fought numerous pitched battles and in the South in 1780–81 sometimes used the Fabian strategy and hit-and-run tactics, hitting where the British were weakest, to wear down their forces. Washington led victories against the British at Trenton and Princeton, but lost a series of battles in the New York and New Jersey campaign in 1776, with a decisive victory at Yorktown, and the help of the French, the Continental Army prevailed against the British. After the war, though, the Continental Army was quickly given land certificates, State militias became the new nations sole ground army, with the exception of a regiment to guard the Western Frontier and one battery of artillery guarding West Points arsenal. However, because of continuing conflict with Native Americans, it was realized that it was necessary to field a trained standing army. The War of 1812, the second and last war between the United States and Great Britain, had mixed results. After taking control of Lake Erie in 1813, the U. S. Army seized parts of western Upper Canada, burned York and defeated Tecumseh, which caused his Western Confederacy to collapse. Following U. S. victories in the Canadian province of Upper Canada, British troops, were able to capture and burn Washington, which was defended by militia, in 1814. Two weeks after a treaty was signed, Andrew Jackson defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans and Siege of Fort St. Philip, U. S. troops and sailors captured HMS Cyane, Levant, and Penguin in the final engagements of the war. Per the treaty, both sides, the United States and Great Britain, returned to the status quo. Both navies kept the warships they had seized during the conflict, the armys major campaign against the Indians was fought in Florida against Seminoles. It took long wars to defeat the Seminoles and move them to Oklahoma
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Storming of Redoubt #10 in the
Siege of Yorktown during the
American Revolutionary War prompted the British government to begin negotiations, resulting in the
Treaty of Paris and British recognition of the United States of America.
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Emblem of the United States Department of the Army
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General
Andrew Jackson stands on the parapet of his makeshift defenses as his troops repulse attacking
Highlanders during the
defense of New Orleans, the final major battle of the War of 1812
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The
Battle of Gettysburg, the turning point of the American Civil War
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American Forces Network
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The American Forces Network is the brand name used by the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service for its entertainment and command internal information networks worldwide. AFN broadcasts popular American radio and television programs from the major U. S. networks and it is sometimes referred to as the Armed Forces Network. AFRTS, American Forces Network and AFN are registered trademarks of the U. S. Department of Defense and it is based at Fort George G. Meade in Maryland. The American Forces Network is the arm of the American Forces Radio and Television Service. AFN falls under the control of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs. Editorial control is by the Department of Defense, whereas the British Forces Broadcasting Service, for example, is independent of the Ministry of Defence, AFN employs military broadcasters as well as Department of Defense civilians and contractors. Service personnel hold broadcasting occupational specialties for their military branch, since 1997, all of AFNs military personnel receive primary training at the Defense Information School at Fort George G. Meade in Maryland. Before 1997, DINFOS was located at Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indianapolis, in 1997, Fort Benjamin Harrison was largely closed as a function of the 1991 Base Closure and Realignment Commission. Additional/Advanced training is available at Fort George G. Meade. In the 1960s, DINFOS was located at Fort Slocum, NY on an island just off the harbor at New Rochelle. At its peak in 1965, the Army Chaplain school was located here. In 1963 this campus operated in a university setting with a military environment. The Army ran the Information School although training was offered to members of all military branches, Radio types took a rather severe audition written by CBS for their network announcers. Those who survived the audition became Broadcast Specialists with a 703 MOS, some of AFNs broadcasters have previous commercial broadcasting experience before enlisting in the military, but it is not a prerequisite for enlistment in the military as a broadcaster. During their training, the broadcasters are taught to use state-of-the-art audio, AFN management is located at DMA headquarters at Fort Meade. Day-to-day AFN broadcast operations are conducted at the AFN Broadcast Center/Defense Media Center in Riverside, California, from all global radio. The American Forces Network can trace its origins to May 26,1942, a television service was first introduced in 1954 with a pilot station at Limestone Air Force Base, Maine. In 1954, the mission of AFRS was officially recognized
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AFN TV logo
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AFN Iraq on-air radio studio. Baghdad, Iraq (April 2004).
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Ohio
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Ohio /oʊˈhaɪ. oʊ/ is a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States. Ohio is the 34th largest by area, the 7th most populous, the states capital and largest city is Columbus. The state takes its name from the Ohio River, the name originated from the Iroquois word ohi-yo’, meaning great river or large creek. Partitioned from the Northwest Territory, the state was admitted to the Union as the 17th state on March 1,1803, Ohio is historically known as the Buckeye State after its Ohio buckeye trees, and Ohioans are also known as Buckeyes. Ohio occupies 16 seats in the United States House of Representatives, Ohio is known for its status as both a swing state and a bellwether in national elections. Six Presidents of the United States have been elected who had Ohio as their home state, Ohios geographic location has proven to be an asset for economic growth and expansion. Because Ohio links the Northeast to the Midwest, much cargo, Ohio has the nations 10th largest highway network, and is within a one-day drive of 50% of North Americas population and 70% of North Americas manufacturing capacity. To the north, Lake Erie gives Ohio 312 miles of coastline, Ohios southern border is defined by the Ohio River, and much of the northern border is defined by Lake Erie. Ohios neighbors are Pennsylvania to the east, Michigan to the northwest, Ontario Canada, to the north, Indiana to the west, Kentucky on the south, Ohio is bounded by the Ohio River, but nearly all of the river itself belongs to Kentucky and West Virginia. Ohio has only that portion of the river between the rivers 1792 low-water mark and the present high-water mark, the border with Michigan has also changed, as a result of the Toledo War, to angle slightly northeast to the north shore of the mouth of the Maumee River. Much of Ohio features glaciated plains, with a flat area in the northwest being known as the Great Black Swamp. Most of Ohio is of low relief, but the unglaciated Allegheny Plateau features rugged hills, in 1965 the United States Congress passed the Appalachian Regional Development Act, at attempt to address the persistent poverty and growing economic despair of the Appalachian Region. This act defines 29 Ohio counties as part of Appalachia, the worst weather disaster in Ohio history occurred along the Great Miami River in 1913. Known as the Great Dayton Flood, the entire Miami River watershed flooded, as a result, the Miami Conservancy District was created as the first major flood plain engineering project in Ohio and the United States. Grand Lake St. Marys in the west central part of the state was constructed as a supply of water for canals in the era of 1820–1850. For many years this body of water, over 20 square miles, was the largest artificial lake in the world and it should be noted that Ohios canal-building projects were not the economic fiasco that similar efforts were in other states. Some cities, such as Dayton, owe their emergence to location on canals. Summers are typically hot and humid throughout the state, while winters generally range from cool to cold, precipitation in Ohio is moderate year-round
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The Ohio coast of
Lake Erie.
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Flag
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Columbus Cleveland
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WKYT-TV
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WKYT-TV is the CBS-affiliated television station in Lexington, Kentucky, United States, serving the east-central part of Kentucky. It broadcasts a high definition signal on UHF channel 36 from a transmitter east of the intersection of I-75. Owned by Gray Television, WKYT maintains studios on Winchester Road, the station is also received on cable and satellite throughout much of eastern, southern and northern Kentucky. In addition, the newscasts are also carried on Charter Spectrum digital channel 422 in portions of Northern Kentucky located near the Cincinnati metropolitan area. WKYT signed on September 30,1957 as WKXP-TV, owned by Community Broadcast Partners and it was a primary CBS affiliate, sharing ABC with WLEX-TV. After only one year, Community Broadcast Partners merged with what eventually became Taft Broadcasting, the new owners changed the calls to the current WKYT-TV. Taft also switched the primary affiliation to ABC, relegating CBS to secondary status. This was an unusual arrangement for a two-station market, especially one as small as Lexington. In most two-station markets, ABC, as the smallest and weakest network, was relegated to secondary clearances on one or both of the existing stations, Kentucky Central Insurance Company bought the station in 1967. When WBLG-TV signed on in 1968, WKYT opted to return to CBS full-time, in 1985, Kentucky Central bought WKYH-TV in Hazard, changed its calls to WYMT-TV and made it a semi-satellite of WKYT. While WYMT has its own studios in Hazard and airs its own newscasts, WKYT was the first, and at present only, Lexington station with any presence at all in the eastern portion of the market. In 1993, after a protracted fraud investigation forced Kentucky Central into bankruptcy, WKYT, at this stage, WKYT was known on air as KYT instead of WKYT. On August 21,2007, WKYT began broadcasting its CWKYT second digital subchannel in high definition and this made it one of a handful of stations in the country who transmit their main channel and at least one subchannel in HD. Since the move to digital channel 36 in September 2010, CWKYTs over-the-air transmission reverted to 4,3 SD, although the digital cable feed remained in HD and WKYTs main channel remained in 720p. As of June 18,2013, WKYTs main signal has been upgraded to full 1080i HD, the stations digital channel is multiplexed, WKYT-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 27, on April 16,2009. The stations digital signal remained on its pre-transition VHF channel 13, through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the stations virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 27. On August 22,2009, WKYT-DT filed a petition of rulemaking with the Federal Communications Commission to move to digital UHF channel 36 due to reception issues, the FCC issued a Report & Order approved the petition on October 22. On December 12,2009, WKYT filed a minor application for a construction permit
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Former WKYT logo, used from 2001 to 2012.
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Lexington, Kentucky
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Lexington, consolidated with Fayette County, is the second-largest city in Kentucky and the 61st largest in the United States. Known as the Horse Capital of the World, it is the heart of the states Bluegrass region, with a mayor-alderman form of government, it is one of two cities in Kentucky designated by the state as first-class, the other is the states largest city of Louisville. In the 2016 U. S. Census Estimate, the population was 318,449, anchoring a metropolitan area of 506,751 people. Lexington ranks tenth among US cities in college education rate, with 39. 5% of residents having at least a bachelors degree and this area of fertile soil and abundant wildlife was long occupied by varying tribes of Native Americans. European explorers began to trade with them but settlers did not come in force until the late 18th century, Lexington was founded by European Americans in June 1775, in what was then considered Fincastle County, Virginia,17 years before Kentucky became a state. A party of frontiersmen, led by William McConnell, camped on the Middle Fork of Elkhorn Creek at the site of the present-day McConnell Springs, upon hearing of the colonists victory in the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19,1775, they named their campsite Lexington. It was the first of what would be many American places to be named after the Massachusetts town, the risk of Indian attacks delayed permanent settlement for four years. In 1779, during the American Revolutionary War, Col. Robert Patterson and 25 companions came from Fort Harrod and they built cabins and a stockade, establishing a settlement known as Bryan Station. In 1780, Lexington was made the seat of Virginias newly organized Fayette County, colonists defended it against a British and allied Shawnee attack in 1782, during the last part of the American Revolutionary War. The town was chartered on May 6,1782, by an act of the Virginia General Assembly, the First African Baptist Church was founded c. 1790 by Peter Durrett, a Baptist preacher and slave held by Joseph Craig. Durrett helped guide The Travelling Church, a migration of several hundred pioneers led by the preacher Lewis Craig and Captain William Ellis from Orange County. It is the oldest black Baptist congregation in Kentucky and the third oldest in the United States, I would suppose it contains about five hundred dwelling houses, many of them elegant and three stories high. The country around Lexington for many miles in every direction, is equal in beauty and fertility to anything the imagination can paint and is already in a state of cultivation. Residents have fondly continued to refer to Lexington as The Athens of the West since Espys poem dedicated to the city, in the early 19th century, planter John Wesley Hunt became the first millionaire west of the Alleghenies. London Ferrill, second preacher of First African Baptist, was one of three clergy who stayed in the city to serve the suffering victims, additional cholera outbreaks occurred in 1848–49 and the early 1850s. Cholera was spread by using contaminated water supplies, but its transmission was not understood in those years. Often the wealthier people would flee town for outlying areas to try to avoid the spread of disease, planters held slaves for use as field hands, laborers, artisans, and domestic servants. In the city, slaves worked primarily as servants and artisans, although they also worked with merchants, shippers
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Clockwise from bottom left:
Mary Todd Lincoln House, Lexington Center,
Lexington Financial Center, Victorian Square,
Keeneland,
Henry Clay Grave
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Henry Clay 's old law office in Downtown Lexington
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Victorian Square in Downtown Lexington
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Panoramic view of downtown Lexington area.
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Columbus, Ohio
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Columbus is the capital and largest city of the U. S. state of Ohio. It is the 15th-largest city in the United States, with a population of 850,106 as of 2015 estimates and this makes Columbus the fourth-most populous state capital in the United States, and the third-largest city in the Midwestern United States. It is the city of the Columbus, Ohio, Metropolitan Statistical Area. With a population of 2,021,632, it is Ohios third-largest metropolitan area, Columbus is the county seat of Franklin County. The city proper has also expanded and annexed portions of adjoining Delaware County, named for explorer Christopher Columbus, the city was founded in 1812 at the confluence of the Scioto and Olentangy rivers, and assumed the functions of state capital in 1816. As of 2013, the city has the headquarters of five corporations in the U. S, fortune 500, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, American Electric Power, L Brands, Big Lots, and Cardinal Health. In 2012, Columbus was ranked in BusinessWeeks 50 best cities in America. In 2013, Forbes gave Columbus an A rating as one of the top cities for business in the U. S. and later that included the city on its list of Best Places for Business. Columbus was also ranked as the No.1 up-and-coming tech city in the nation by Forbes in 2008, and the city was ranked a top-ten city by Relocate America in 2010. In 2007, fDi Magazine ranked the city no.3 in the U. S. for cities of the future, and the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium was rated no.1 in 2009 by USA Travel Guide. The area including modern-day Columbus once comprised the Ohio Country, under the control of the French colonial empire through the Viceroyalty of New France from 1663 until 1763. In the 18th century, European traders flocked to the area, the area found itself frequently caught between warring factions, including American Indian and European interests. In the 1740s, Pennsylvania traders overran the territory until the French forcibly evicted them, in the early 1750s, the Ohio Company sent George Washington to the Ohio Country to survey. Fighting for control of the territory in the French and Indian War became part of the international Seven Years War, during this period, the region routinely suffered turmoil, massacres, and battles. The 1763 Treaty of Paris ceded the Ohio Country to the British Empire, after the American Revolution, the Ohio Country became part of the Virginia Military District, under the control of the United States. Colonists from the East Coast moved in, but rather finding a empty frontier, they encountered people of the Miami, Delaware, Wyandot, Shawnee. The tribes resisted expansion by the fledgling United States, leading to years of bitter conflict, the decisive Battle of Fallen Timbers resulted in the Treaty of Greenville, which finally opened the way for new settlements. By 1797, a surveyor from Virginia named Lucas Sullivant had founded a permanent settlement on the west bank of the forks of the Scioto River
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Images, from top left to right:
Downtown Columbus, Ohio Statehouse Capitol Square, University Hall (Ohio State University),
Short North,
Nationwide Arena, Santa Maria replica
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Old City Hall, completed in 1872 and burned in 1921
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The Great Southern Hotel, located in downtown Columbus was completed in 1897
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Legendary Columbus native
James Thurber, subject of
TIME Magazine's July 9, 1951, cover
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WCMH-TV
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WCMH-TV, UHF digital channel 14, is an NBC-affiliated television station located in Columbus, Ohio, United States. Columbus first television station began operations on April 3,1949 as WLWC on channel 3, the stations original owner was the Cincinnati-based Crosley Broadcasting Corporation, a division of the Avco Company. Crosley also owned WLW radio and WLWT television in Cincinnati, as well as WLWD television in Dayton, together these stations comprised the WLW Television Network, a regional group of inter-connected stations. Until the early 1960s, they emphasized their connection to each other within their on-air branding, the stations studios were originally located in the Seneca Hotel in downtown Columbus before WLWC moved into their present facility on Olentangy River Road, five months after the station signed-on. The Crosley TV station group would grow to include WLWI in Indianapolis, WOAI-TV in San Antonio. The Crosley broadcast division took the name of its parent company in 1968, wLWCs channel 4 coverage area covered portions of the Dayton and Cincinnati markets, and Avcos ownership of WLWC, WLWT, WLWD, and WLW radio was granted protection under the clause. The call letters were selected to match the ATA airport code for Port Columbus International Airport, CMH. WCMH-TV was placed up for sale by NBCUniversal on January 9,2006, along with sister stations WJAR-TV in Providence, WVTM-TV in Birmingham, Alabama, as a result, channel 4 became Media Generals first station in the Great Lakes region. For several months after the closed, WCMHs website and those of the other three stations remained in the format used by the websites of NBC-owned stations. In December 2006, WNCN and WJAR launched redesigned websites, which are no longer powered by Internet Broadcasting, on December 11,2006, WVTMs website followed suit, followed by WCMH on December 14. Media General has since located the master control for all Media General NBC affiliates at its Columbus studios, in 2013, Media General migrated its television station web sites to Worldnow. Following the companys takeover by the staff of LIN, the Media General station web sites are now hosted by WordPress. com. On January 27,2016, it was announced that the Nexstar Broadcasting Group would buy Media General for $4.6 billion, WCMH will become part of Nexstar Media Group. The deal closed on January 17,2017, WCMH-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 4, on June 12,2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. The stations digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 14, for most of its history, WLWC/WCMH-TV has been second in the Columbus ratings, except for the stations 11,00 p. m. news, which occasionally beats market leader WBNS-TV. News programming is also on the subchannel during the time that its primary channel is air network programming. From 1957 to 1980 Hugh DeMoss anchored channel 4s evening newscasts, called The DeMoss Report, following the sale of the station to Outlet, during the late 70s into the early 80s the station languished in third place. They continued the happy talk format as well as launching the 5,30 p. m. newscast and this also coincided with NBCs becoming the number one network during that time
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1969 Advertisement for The Bob Braun Show appearing in TV Guide.
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The old WCMH TV "Chopper 4" landed at Wellston
Heliport Base while covering a
breaking news story as,
Grant Lifeflight II's BK 117 N4493X sits on the pad. It was later replaced by the helicopter pictured below in the early 2000 (picture taken by Earl Wilbur and was used with the photographer's permission).
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WCMH-TV's former studio in downtown Columbus.
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WCMH's former helicopter.
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Cincinnati
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Cincinnati is a city in the U. S. state of Ohio that serves as county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located on the side of the confluence of the Licking with the Ohio River. With a population of 298,550, Cincinnati is the third-largest city in Ohio and its metropolitan statistical area is the 28th-largest in the United States and the largest centered in Ohio. The city is part of the larger Cincinnati–Middletown–Wilmington combined statistical area. In the 19th century, Cincinnati was an American boomtown in the heart of the country, it rivaled the larger cities in size. Throughout much of the 19th century, it was listed among the top 10 U. S and it was by far the largest city in the west. By the end of the 19th century, with the shift from steamboats to railroads drawing off freight shipping, trade patterns had altered and Cincinnatis growth slowed considerably. Cincinnati is home to two sports teams, the Cincinnati Reds, the oldest franchise in Major League Baseball. The University of Cincinnati, founded in 1819, is one of the 50 largest in the United States, Cincinnati is known for its historic architecture. In the late 1800s, Cincinnati was commonly referred to as Paris of America, due mainly to such ambitious projects as the Music Hall, Cincinnatian Hotel. The original surveyor, John Filson, named it Losantiville, in 1790, Arthur St. Ethnic Germans were among the early settlers, migrating from Pennsylvania and the backcountry of Virginia and Tennessee. General David Ziegler succeeded General St. Clair in command at Fort Washington, after the conclusion of the Northwest Indian Wars and removal of Native Americans to the west, he was elected as the mayor of Cincinnati in 1802. Cincinnati was incorporated as a city in 1819, exporting pork products and hay, it became a center of pork processing in the region. From 1810 to 1830 its population tripled, from 9,642 to 24,831. Completion of the Miami and Erie Canal in 1827 to Middletown, Ohio further stimulated businesses, the city had a labor shortage until large waves of immigration by Irish and Germans in the late 1840s. The city grew rapidly over the two decades, reaching 115,000 persons by 1850. Construction on the Miami and Erie Canal began on July 21,1825, the first section of the canal was opened for business in 1827. In 1827, the canal connected Cincinnati to nearby Middletown, by 1840, during this period of rapid expansion and prominence, residents of Cincinnati began referring to the city as the Queen City
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Downtown Cincinnati from
Devou Park in
Covington, Kentucky
Cincinnati
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Cincinnati in 1812 with a population of 2,000
Cincinnati
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Cincinnati in 1841 with the Miami and Erie Canal in the foreground.
Cincinnati
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Cincinnati in 1862, a lithograph in
Harper's Weekly.
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WCPO-TV
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WCPO-TV, channel 9, is an ABC-affiliated television station located in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. WCPO-TV has been owned by the Cincinnati-based E. W. Scripps Company since its inception, the stations transmitter is located in the Mount Auburn section of the city. On cable, the station is available on channel 9 on most cable systems, and channel 8 on Charter Spectrum, the station first signed on the air at noon on July 26,1949, and first face seen was Big Jim Stacey. Originally operating on VHF channel 7, it was Cincinnatis third television station, the call letters came from The Cincinnati Post, who also owned WCPO radio. The station was owned by Scripps-Howard Newspapers. The station was originally a primary ABC affiliate and a secondary DuMont Television Network affiliate, with DuMonts demise in 1956, WCPO was left with just ABC until it swapped affiliations with WKRC-TV in 1961, becoming a CBS affiliate. This deal came because WKRC-TVs owner, Taft Broadcasting, had developed good relations with ABC. Following the release of the FCCs Sixth Report and Order in 1952, WCPO was reassigned to channel 9, as the previous channel 7 allocation was shifted north to Dayton and later given to WHIO-TV. Hoskins held reporter Elaine Green and her cameraman at gunpoint in the lot of WCPOs studios. He then forced his way into the newsroom and took seven more hostages, a self-described terrorist, Hoskins stated in a videotaped interview with Green that he had, among other things, murdered his girlfriend before arriving at the studios. Green and the others pleaded with Hoskins to get help, WCPOs news staff ran special newscasts from the parking lot throughout that morning. Hoskins eventually let all the go, and the standoff ended later that morning when Hoskins shot himself dead while on the phone with SWAT negotiators. Green was awarded a Peabody Award for her handling of the crisis and she later married anchor and then-news director Al Schottelkotte. The two remained married until his death in 1996, for three decades, WCPO had been one of CBS strongest affiliates. However, in 1994, Scripps and ABC announced an affiliation deal. WCPO was included in the deal, which ABC agreed to as a condition of keeping its affiliation on Scripps two largest stations, WXYZ-TV in Detroit and WEWS in Cleveland. Both of those stations had been heavily wooed by CBS, which was about to lose its longtime Detroit and Cleveland affiliates to Fox in a separate affiliation deal with New World Communications. In the meantime, in October 1995, WCPO introduced new 9 Stands for News station branding that shrunk the CBS logo and revamped its news graphics and theme music, improving ratings
WCPO-TV
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1975
TV Guide advertisement for The Al Schottelkotte News.
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WCPO-TV
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WKRC-TV
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WKRC-TV, VHF digital channel 12, is a CBS-affiliated television station located in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. The station is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, which operates MyNetworkTV affiliate WSTR-TV through a marketing agreement with its owner Deerfield Media. WKRC broadcasts from a combined facility on Highland Avenue in the Mount Auburn section of Cincinnati. On cable, the station is available on channel 12 on most cable systems, and channel 3 on Charter Spectrum, WKRC-DT2 is carried on channel 17 on most cable systems, and on channels 25 and 117 on Spectrum. WKRC-TV first signed on the air on April 4,1949, originally operating as a CBS affiliate on VHF channel 11, the station was owned by the Ohio-based Taft family, who were active in both politics and in media. The Tafts published The Cincinnati Times-Star, and also owned WKRC radio under their broadcasting subsidiary, in 1958, the Tafts sold the Times-Star to the locally based rival E. W. Scripps Company, owner of the The Cincinnati Post and WCPO-AM-FM-TV. The Tafts broadcasting interests were then reorganized as Taft Broadcasting, with WKRC-AM-FM-TV as the flagship stations, the WKRC stations call letters were derived from the original owner of WKRC radio, Clarence Ogden of the Kodel Radio Company. Following the release of the Federal Communications Commission s Sixth Report and Order, nine years later, in 1961, the station became an ABC affiliate, switching networks with WCPO-TV. This came after that networks founder Leonard Goldenson persuaded Tafts president, during the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network. WKRCs nickname in the 1960s was Tall 12, a reference to the transmitter tower which was the tallest in Cincinnati at the time. Like WCPO-TV, channel 12 used a distinctive jingle ID at the top of the hour in the 1960s, the upbeat, orchestrated Channel 12 jingle was followed by childrens show host Glenn Ryle announcing, This is WKRC-TV Cincinnati. In 1975, it began airing movies on late night Saturdays in a program called The Past Prime Playhouse, when ABC offered late night programming from 11,30 p. m. to about 2,00 a. m. WKRC, like other affiliates chose not to air it. However, it aired Nightline once that program began in 1979 as a program on the Iran hostage crisis, occasionally, WKRC preempted a lower-rated primetime program or movie from ABC to air either a stronger movie or a locally based special. Most programs not shown on WKRC were widely preempted by many affiliates, also, most every program not shown on WKRC-TV was aired on the ABC station in nearby Dayton, WKEF until 1980 and WDTN after 1980. WKEF provided grade B coverage to most of the market, while WDTN provided city-grade coverage to nearly the entire market, locally, WKRC aired news, talk shows, movies, and a few off-network sitcoms at some points. Beginning in 1992, WKRC-TV began preempting portions of ABCs Saturday morning cartoons in favor of a local Saturday morning newscast. In 1987, Taft was dissolved in a takeover of its board and all of its stations were absorbed into Great American Broadcasting
WKRC-TV
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The Weather Beacon atop the Chiquita Center indicating "no change in sight."
WKRC-TV
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American Broadcasting Company
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The network is headquartered on Columbus Avenue and West 66th Street in Manhattan, New York City. There are additional offices and production facilities elsewhere in New York City, as well as in Los Angeles and Burbank. Since 2007, when ABC Radio was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC originally launched on October 12,1943, as a radio network, separated from and serving as the successor to the NBC Blue Network, which had been purchased by Edward J. Noble. It extended its operations to television in 1948, following in the footsteps of established broadcast networks CBS, in the mid-1950s, ABC merged with United Paramount Theatres, a chain of movie theaters that formerly operated as a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures. Leonard Goldenson, who had been the head of UPT, made the new television network profitable by helping develop, in 1996, most of Capital Cities/ABCs assets were purchased by The Walt Disney Company. The television network has eight owned-and-operated and over 232 affiliated television stations throughout the United States, most Canadians have access to at least one U. S. ABC News provides news and features content for radio stations owned by Citadel Broadcasting. In the 1930s, radio in the United States was dominated by three companies, the Columbia Broadcasting System, the Mutual Broadcasting System and the National Broadcasting Company. The last was owned by electronics manufacturer Radio Corporation of America, in 1938, the FCC began a series of investigations into the practices of radio networks and published its report on the broadcasting of network radio programs in 1940. The report recommended that RCA give up control of either NBC Red or NBC Blue, at that time, the NBC Red Network was the principal radio network in the United States and, according to the FCC, RCA was using NBC Blue to eliminate any hint of competition. Once Mutuals appeals against the FCC were rejected, RCA decided to sell NBC Blue in 1941, the newly separated NBC Red and NBC Blue divided their respective corporate assets. Investment firm Dillon, Read & Co. offered $7.5 million to purchase the network, Edward John Noble, the owner of Life Savers candy, drugstore chain Rexall and New York City radio station WMCA, purchased the network for $8 million. Due to FCC ownership rules, the transaction, which was to include the purchase of three RCA stations by Noble, would require him to resell his station with the FCCs approval, the Commission authorized the transaction on October 12,1943. Soon afterward, the Blue Network was purchased by the new company Noble founded, Noble subsequently acquired the rights to the American Broadcasting Company name from George B. Meanwhile, in August 1944, the West Coast division of the Blue Network, both stations were then managed by Don Searle, the vice-president of the Blue Networks West Coast division. The ABC Radio Network created its audience slowly, the network also became known for such suspenseful dramas as Sherlock Holmes, Gang Busters and Counterspy, as well as several mid-afternoon youth-oriented programs. S. From Nazi Germany after its conquest, to pre-record its programming, while its radio network was undergoing reconstruction, ABC found it difficult to avoid falling behind on the new medium of television. To ensure a space, in 1947, ABC submitted five applications for television station licenses, the ABC television network made its debut on April 19,1948, with WFIL-TV in Philadelphia becoming its first primary affiliate
American Broadcasting Company
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ABC's corporate headquarters are located at 77 West 66th Street, on the
Upper West Side of
Manhattan in
New York City.
American Broadcasting Company
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American Broadcasting Company
American Broadcasting Company
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Edward Noble, founder of ABC
American Broadcasting Company
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In 2002, dancers and other cast members from the 32-year run of American Bandstand reunited with host
Dick Clark to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the show's local television debut.
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Game show
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Alternatively, a gameshow can be a demonstrative program about a game. In the former, contestants may be invited from a pool of public applicants, on some shows, contestants compete against other players or another team, while other shows involve contestants playing alone for a reward or a high score. Game shows often reward players with prizes such as cash, trips and goods and services provided by the shows sponsor prize suppliers, One of the reasons that television broadcasters make game shows is because they are substantially less costly than producing scripted drama shows. Some TV game shows fall under the category of reality television, Television game shows descended from similar programs on radio. The very first television show, Spelling Bee, was broadcast in 1938. Truth or Consequences was the first game show to air on commercially licensed television and its first episode aired in 1941 as an experimental broadcast. Over the course of the 1950s, as began to pervade the popular culture. Daytime game shows would be played for lower stakes to target stay-at-home housewives, higher-stakes programs would air in primetime. During the late 1950s, high-stakes games such as Twenty One, however, the rise of quiz shows proved to be short-lived. In 1959, many of the higher stakes game shows were discovered to be rigged, an early variant of the game show, the panel game, survived the quiz show scandals. On shows like Whats My Line, ive Got A Secret and To Tell The Truth, panels of celebrities would interview a guest in an effort to determine some fact about them, in others, celebrities would answer questions. Panel games had success in primetime until the late 1960s, when they were dropped from television because of their perceived “low budget” nature. Panel games made a comeback in American daytime television in the 1970s through comedy-driven shows such as Match Game, mock the Week, QI and 8 Out of 10 Cats, all of which put a heavy emphasis on comedy, leaving the points as mere formalities. The focus on quick-witted comedians has resulted in ratings, which. Game shows remained a fixture of US daytime television through the 1960s after the quiz show scandals, lower-stakes games made a slight comeback in daytime in the early 1960s, examples include Jeopardy. Which began in 1964 and the version of The Match Game first aired in 1962. Lets Make a Deal began in 1963 and the 1960s also marked the debut of Hollywood Squares, Password, The Dating Game, though CBS gave up on daytime game shows in 1968, the other networks did not follow suit. Color television was introduced to the game genre in the late 1960s on all three networks
Game show
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U.S. military servicemen participate in television game show
Wheel of Fortune with
host Pat Sajak.
Game show
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Game Show
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Beverly Hills Supper Club fire
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The Beverly Hills Supper Club fire in Southgate, Kentucky, is the third deadliest nightclub fire in U. S. history. It occurred on the night of May 28,1977, during the Memorial Day holiday weekend, a total of 165 people died and more than 200 were injured as a result of the blaze. It was the deadliest fire in the United States since 1944 and it drew its talent from Las Vegas, Nashville, Hollywood and New York, among other places. The site had been a popular nightspot and illegal gambling house as early as 1926 and it had reopened under the then-current owners and management in 1971 and was considered an elegant, upscale venue that attracted both top-notch talent and top-notch clientele. Several additions had been built onto the structure between 1970 and 1976, creating a sprawling, non-linear complex of function rooms and service areas. Assuming this system, the front entrance of the complex lay at the point of the compass. Along the central portion of the wall, to the east of the building entrance, was a small event room called the Zebra Room. A narrow corridor to the Zebra Rooms east separated it from the Viennese Room and a series of service spaces, which ran northward along the buildings eastern wall. The building did not have a sprinkler system installed—at the time. In addition, the majority of the paths of egress in each event room led not to the outside of the building, no matter the exact number each gives, sources agree that the room was well beyond its safe holding capacity. Elsewhere in the club, patrons were enjoying a fine meal, near the south exit close to the main bar, opposite end of the building from the Cabaret Room, a wedding reception drew to a close around 8,30 p. m. The room remained vacant from their departure until a minute before 9 p. m. when an employee smelled smoke and she asked another employee to call the Fire Department while she and others grabbed any available fire extinguishers and began trying to fight the flames. It quickly became clear that fire extinguishers could not suppress the fast-growing fire. The Fire Department was alerted to the fire at 9,01 p. m. and was on the scene by 9,05, as they approached, firemen on the first emergency vehicles could already see smoke coming from the building. As smoke began to escape the Zebra Room and drift down the hall toward other banquet rooms, patrons and employees in the rooms nearest to the Zebra Room smelled it. As it spread laterally, the fire began to spread upwards. Around 9,10 p. m. power failed in the building, taking the lights with it, panic ensued, and even those who had been calmly moving toward exits in the Cabaret Room began to push and shove. The situation was made worse by the fact that of the three exits in the room, two were blocked off by the fire, leaving the crowd to funnel through a single exit
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The Beverly Hills Supper Club on fire
Beverly Hills Supper Club fire
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Beverly Hills Supper Club Site, Southgate, Kentucky (2012)
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Sensationalism
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Some tactics include being deliberately obtuse, appealing to emotions, being controversial, intentionally omitting facts and information, being loud and self-centered and acting to obtain attention. Furthermore, the content and subject matter typically affect neither the lives of the masses nor society and instead is broadcast, however, newspapers have a duty to report and investigate stories related to political corruption. Such investigative journalism is right and proper when it is backed up with documents, interviews with responsible witnesses, journalists and editors are often accused of sensationalizing scandals by those whose public image is harmed by the legitimate reporting of the scandal. News organizations are not obliged to avoid stories that make local, state. Therefore, any story based on sources who may be assumed to be motivated to act in this way is best interpreted with critical thinking. In extreme cases, mass media may report information that makes a good story without regard for factual accuracy or social relevance. Such stories are perceived as politically partisan or biased towards or against a group or individual because of the sensational nature in which they are reported. A media piece may report on a figure in a biased way or present one side of an issue while deriding another. It may include aspects such as zealots, doomsayers and/or junk science. Complex subjects and affairs are often subject to sensationalism, exciting and emotionally charged aspects can be drawn out without providing the elements needed for the audience to form its own opinions on the subject. Mass media occasionally uses a website as a source, then mistakenly relays the joke as news. One widely reported example involved The Onions story on Harry Potter, in A History of News, author Mitchell Stephens notes sensationalism can be found in the Ancient Roman Acta Diurna. Sensationalism was used in books of the 16th and 17th century, through sensationalism, he claims, the audience was further educated and encouraged to take more interest in the news. The more modern forms of sensationalism developed in the course of the century in parallel with the expansion of print culture in industrialized nations. Scholars in the collection engage in a discussion on popular culture, literature, performance, art history, theory, pre-cinema. Sensationalism is often blamed for the infotainment style of news programs on radio. According to sociologist John Thompson, the debate of sensationalism used in the medium of broadcasting is based on a misunderstanding of its audience. Thompson explains that the term suggests a vast audience of many thousands
Sensationalism
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Journalism
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Al Schottelkotte
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Schottelkotte grew up in the western Cincinnati suburb of Cheviot. His news career began on his 16th birthday in 1943 while a sophomore in high school, during the height of World War II he was hired as a copy boy for The Cincinnati Enquirer. One month later he was promoted to general assignment reporter, making Schottelkotte the youngest journalist at that time for any major American newspaper and he ultimately attended three high schools, including St. Xavier, but left without graduating to focus on journalism. In 1950, he began a stint in the Army. This experience, upon his return to Cincinnati, led to Schottelkottes being hired by WSAI radio to anchor their evening newscast and he returned to the Enquirer and became a full-time columnist with his Talk of the Town column, which lasted several years. m. For a time, Schottelkotte continued to write for the Enquirer, Schottelkottes tireless work ethic, paired with his terse and prudent on-air delivery made him synonymous with Cincinnati television news, and easily earned him the nickname The Voice of Cincinnati. Within one year of becoming news anchor at Channel 9, Schottelkotte supplanted WLWTs Peter Grant as the number one news anchor in Cincinnati. Schottelkottes newscasts, which would bear his name, consistently led in TV ratings from 1960 to 1982 and he was unseated as Cincinnatis news leader in 1982 by WKRC-TVs anchor, Nick Clooney, a long-time talk show favorite in Cincinnati and father of actor George Clooney. For many years Schottelkotte anchored the news six days a week, making him far, over time, he took to beginning each newscast with a precis of the days headlines, and then ending with his signature signoff, Thats it for now. So until tomorrow, may it all be good news, Schottelkotte contributed to numerous pioneering facets of local news, The Spotlight Report, which he created for radio in 1953. He brought it to television and continued it until he ended his broadcast career in 1994 and he spearheaded the expansion of WCPOs newscasts to a half-hour and created newscast slots at 6 p. m. and even a noon report broadcast, which he himself anchored until 1967. Schottelkotte relied heavily on visuals, believing they drew attention to a given story. The WCPO news staff had acquired a library of over 50,000 pieces of footage and countless slides of noted personalities. By 1967, Schottelkotte was promoted to manager of Scripps Howards fledgling news division. Eric Land, a reporter at WCPO, later said that he modeled the fast-paced format at WIAT in Birmingham, Alabama. During a 1977 newscast, an intruder barged into the studio shouting as Schottelkotte began narrating a film report and he punched the prowler with one hand while muting his microphone with the other so viewers could not hear it. The intruder fled and Schottelkotte, unperturbed, continued with the newscast, during a taped interview with Green, Hoskins stated he and his girlfriend planned to cause deadly chaos in Cincinnati. After voicing his displeasure with local authority, Hoskins agreed to let the hostages go, Schottelkotte ran special newscasts from WCPOs parking lot throughout the morning
Al Schottelkotte
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Al Schottelkotte in 1984
Al Schottelkotte
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1975 TV Guide ad for "The Al Schottelkotte News"
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KNBC
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KNBC is an NBC owned-and-operated television station located in Los Angeles, California, United States. KNBCs studios and offices are located in the Universal Studios Hollywood backlot, in the few areas of the western United States where an NBC station is not receivable over-the-air, KNBC is available on satellite television through DirecTV. Channel 4 first went on the air as KNBH on January 16,1949 and it was the penultimate VHF station in Los Angeles to debut, and the last of NBCs five original owned-and-operated stations to sign on. Unlike the other four, KNBH was the only NBC-owned television station that did not benefit from having a radio station. The NBC Radio Network had long been affiliated with KFI in Los Angeles, when KNBH signed on, it marked the debut of NBC programs on the West Coast. The station changed its callsign to KRCA on October 18,1954, the call letters were changed again on November 11,1962, when NBC moved the KNBC identity from its San Francisco radio station and applied it to channel 4 in Los Angeles. Channel 4 originally broadcast from the NBC Radio City Studios on Sunset Boulevard, in November 1962, the station relocated to the networks color broadcast studio facility in suburban Burbank. NBC Radios West Coast operations eventually followed channel 4 to Burbank not too long after, as a result, KNBC, KVEA and NBC News Los Angeles bureau moved to a new digital facility on the Universal lot formerly occupied by Technicolor SA. The studio opened on February 1,2014, shortly thereafter, NBCUniversal named the new broadcast center in honor of former KNBC and NBC News anchor/reporter Tom Brokaw, christened the Brokaw News Center. In fall 2007 with digital broadcast roll out, the station broadcasting a 24/7 newschannel News Raw on a subchannel. On January 16,2009, KNBC celebrated its 60th anniversary with a tribute to the station, featuring past and present anchors, hosts, other popular on-air staff. KNBC and its other NBC owned-and-operated stations introduced a new layout for their websites in July 2009. The stations digital channel is multiplexed, KNBC also maintains a Mobile DTV feed of subchannel 4.1, labelled KNBC-4.1, each station produced a local newscast at 7 p. m. that was tailored to their respective market. For the Los Angeles feed of the channel, Colleen Williams anchored the hour-long Nonstop News LA, NBC California Nonstop ended on December 20,2012 when Cozi TV was launched. KNBC shut down its signal, over VHF channel 4, on June 12,2009. The stations digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 36, KNBC has a legacy of participating in the community. The station supports many causes including health and wellness, the environment, diversity and supports under-served populations like the homeless, veterans, at-risk youth. KNBC has been recognized by many organizations for its community work
KNBC
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NBC Studios in
Burbank, California, 1978.
KNBC
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KNBC
KNBC
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New location at the Universal lot, 2015
KNBC
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Current studio building shared by KNBC and
KVEA
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Salt Lake City, Utah
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Salt Lake City, often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC, is the capital and the most populous municipality of the U. S. state of Utah. With an estimated population of 190,884 in 2014, the city lies at the core of the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, Salt Lake City is further situated within a larger metropolis known as the Salt Lake City-Ogden-Provo Combined Statistical Area. This region is a corridor of contiguous urban and suburban development stretched along an approximately 120-mile segment of the Wasatch Front and it is one of only two major urban areas in the Great Basin. The city was founded in 1847 by Brigham Young, Isaac Morley, George Washington Bradley and numerous other Mormon followers, who extensively irrigated and cultivated the arid valley. Due to its proximity to the Great Salt Lake, the city was originally named Great Salt Lake City—the word great was dropped from the name in 1868 by the 17th Utah Territorial Legislature. Today, however, less than half the population of Salt Lake City proper are members of the LDS Church. It was traversed by the Lincoln Highway, the first transcontinental highway, in 1913, Salt Lake City has since developed a strong outdoor recreation tourist industry based primarily on skiing, and hosted the 2002 Winter Olympics. It is the banking center of the United States. Before Mormon settlement, the Shoshone, Ute, and Paiute had dwelt in the Salt Lake Valley for thousands of years. The land was treated by the United States as public domain, the first U. S. explorer in the Salt Lake area is believed to be Jim Bridger in 1825, although others had been in Utah earlier, some as far north as the nearby Utah Valley. Frémont surveyed the Great Salt Lake and the Salt Lake Valley in 1843 and 1845, the Donner Party, a group of ill-fated pioneers, had traveled through the Great Salt Lake Valley in August 1846. The first permanent settlements in the date to the arrival of the Latter-day Saints on July 24,1847. Upon arrival at the Salt Lake Valley, president of the church Brigham Young is recorded as stating, This is the right place, Brigham Young claimed to have seen the area in a vision prior to the wagon trains arrival. They found the broad valley empty of any human settlement, four days after arriving in the Salt Lake Valley, Brigham Young designated the building site for the Salt Lake Temple, which would eventually become a famous Mormon and Salt Lake City landmark. The Salt Lake Temple, constructed on the block that would later be called Temple Square, construction started in 1853, and the temple was dedicated on 6 April 1893. The temple has become an icon for the city and serves as its centerpiece, in fact, the southeast corner of Temple Square is the initial point of reference for the Salt Lake Meridian, and for all addresses in the Salt Lake Valley. The Mormon pioneers organized a new state called Deseret and petitioned for its recognition in 1849, the United States Congress rebuffed the settlers in 1850 and established the Utah Territory, vastly reducing its size, and designated Fillmore as its capital city. Great Salt Lake City replaced Fillmore as the capital in 1858
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Clockwise from top: The skyline in July 2011,
Utah State Capitol,
TRAX,
Union Pacific Depot, the
Block U, the
City and County Building, and the
Salt Lake Temple.
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Map showing Salt Lake as
Mexican territory in 1838. Source:
Britannica 7th Ed.
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Part of Main Street 1890
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Men lounging outside saloon & Chinese laundry, 1910
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KSTU
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KSTU, virtual channel 13, is a Fox-affiliated television station located in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The station is owned by the Tribune Broadcasting subsidiary of the Tribune Media Company, the station has a large network of broadcast translators that extend its over-the-air coverage throughout Utah, as well as portions of Nevada. It was the first independent station in Utah, as well as the first new station to sign on in the area since KUTV hit the airwaves 24 years earlier. Salt Lake City had a long wait for an independent station compared to other cities of its size. However, the Salt Lake City market covers all of Utah and large slices of Nevada, the costs associated with building a translator network scared off most prospective investors until the 1970s. The station originally broadcast on UHF channel 20 using a transmitter used for WWLPs partial satellite, WRLP-TV in Greenfield. KSTUs programming at the time was typical for an independent station – cartoons, off-network classic sitcoms, classic movies, the Springfield Television group was sold to Adams Communications in 1984. On October 6,1986, the became a charter affiliate of Fox. However, like most early Fox affiliates, it was still programmed as an independent. Fox initially ran only late night programming at launch and when it added primetime programming in April 1987, in 1980, the Federal Communications Commission added a new VHF allocation on channel 13 to the Salt Lake City market. Five groups submitted applications for a permit to build a station on that allocation in May 1981. The FCC held evidentiary hearings with the applicants in 1984. The second-place applicant, locally owned Mountain West Television Company, or MWT Company, appealed the FCC decision, when that failed, MWT Company proposed a buyout of the other four competing interests, including the winning applicants. The strategy succeeded and was carried out in November 1986, at the same time, Mountain West entered into a limited partnership agreement with Northstar Communications, which was partly owned by Allstate, and a new company, called MWT, Ltd. was formed. On January 20,1987, the FCC awarded the construction permit for a new station on channel 13 to MWT. Buying equipment for the new station soon proved difficult, meanwhile, Adams Communications was undergoing serious financial difficulties and decided to sell off its stations. There were few takers for channel 20, however, under the circumstances, it was very receptive to an offer from MWT to buy KSTUs assets for $30 million. Adams was able to make a profit on the deal
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KSTU
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NBC
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The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is part of the Big Three television networks, founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America, NBC is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States. Following the acquisition by GE, Bob Wright served as executive officer of NBC, remaining in that position until his retirement in 2007. In 2003, French media company Vivendi merged its entertainment assets with GE, Comcast purchased a controlling interest in the company in 2011, and acquired General Electrics remaining stake in 2013. Following the Comcast merger, Zucker left NBC Universal and was replaced as CEO by Comcast executive Steve Burke, during a period of early broadcast business consolidation, radio manufacturer Radio Corporation of America acquired New York City radio station WEAF from American Telephone & Telegraph. Westinghouse, a shareholder in RCA, had an outlet in Newark, New Jersey pioneer station WJZ. This station was transferred from Westinghouse to RCA in 1923, WEAF acted as a laboratory for AT&Ts manufacturing and supply outlet Western Electric, whose products included transmitters and antennas. The Bell System, AT&Ts telephone utility, was developing technologies to transmit voice- and music-grade audio over short and long distances, the 1922 creation of WEAF offered a research-and-development center for those activities. WEAF maintained a schedule of radio programs, including some of the first commercially sponsored programs. In an early example of chain or networking broadcasting, the station linked with Outlet Company-owned WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island, AT&T refused outside companies access to its high-quality phone lines. The early effort fared poorly, since the telegraph lines were susceptible to atmospheric. In 1925, AT&T decided that WEAF and its network were incompatible with the companys primary goal of providing a telephone service. AT&T offered to sell the station to RCA in a deal that included the right to lease AT&Ts phone lines for network transmission, the divisions ownership was split among RCA, its founding corporate parent General Electric and Westinghouse. NBC officially started broadcasting on November 15,1926, WEAF and WJZ, the flagships of the two earlier networks, were operated side-by-side for about a year as part of the new NBC. On April 5,1927, NBC expanded to the West Coast with the launch of the NBC Orange Network and this was followed by the debut of the NBC Gold Network, also known as the Pacific Gold Network, on October 18,1931. The Orange Network carried Red Network programming, and the Gold Network carried programming from the Blue Network, initially, the Orange Network recreated Eastern Red Network programming for West Coast stations at KPO in San Francisco. The Orange Network name was removed from use in 1936, at the same time, the Gold Network became part of the Blue Network. In the 1930s, NBC also developed a network for shortwave radio stations, in 1927, NBC moved its operations to 711 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, occupying the upper floors of a building designed by architect Floyd Brown
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The
Comcast Building in
New York City (or the GE Building, originally the
RCA Building) serves as the headquarters of NBC.
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National Broadcasting Company
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Radio City West was located at
Sunset Boulevard and
Vine Street in Los Angeles until it was replaced by a bank in the mid-1960s.
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Entrance at the GE Building.
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WLWT
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WLWT, virtual channel 5, is an NBC-affiliated television station located in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. The station is owned by the Hearst Television subsidiary of the Hearst Corporation, the stations studios and transmitter are located on Young Street in the Mount Auburn neighborhood of Cincinnati. WLWT was established by the Crosley Broadcasting Corporation, owners of WLW, Crosley Broadcasting was a subsidiary of the Crosley Corporation, which became a subsidiary of the Aviation Corporation in 1945. The stations studios were housed with WLW in the Crosley Square building, WLWT later affiliated exclusively with NBC in 1949, after WKRC-TV and WCPO-TV signed on during that year. Following the release of the FCCs Sixth Report and Order in 1952, WLWT was reassigned to channel 5, as the previous channel 4 allocation was shifted north to Columbus and given to sister station WLWC. In addition to WLWT and WLWC, Crosley also operated stations in markets, WLWD in Dayton. The three WLW television stations in Ohio were NBC affiliates, and carried common programming along with WLWI in Indianapolis, most of these shows were produced at the WLWT studios on Crosley Square, and included The Ruth Lyons 50-50 Club, the Paul Dixon Show and Midwestern Hayride. The programs were syndicated regionally and also appeared on two stations outside of the Midwest that were owned by Crosley, WLWA in Atlanta. In 1957, WLWT became the first station in the Cincinnati market to begin television broadcasts. It later became the first station in the nation to broadcast entirely in color, for a period during the 1970s, the stations slogan was 5, The Originator, in reference to all of the local programming that was produced by the station. The Crosley broadcast division took the name of its parent company in 1968, avcos ownership of WLW radio and WLWT, and the Columbus, Dayton and Indianapolis television stations was initially protected under the new rule. WLWTs channel 5 coverage area covered a large amount of the Dayton and Columbus markets, while WLW radio could be heard throughout much of eastern North America at night. Also in 1968, when the Cincinnati Bengals were enfranchised by the American Football League, channel 5, through NBC and this partnership would continue through the end of the 1997 season, when WKRC took over as the default station of record for the team. The station airs Bengals games nowadays when they are featured on NBCs Sunday Night Football, in the mid-1970s, Avco decided to exit broadcasting and sold all of its stations to separate buyers. WLWT was the next to last to be sold, going to Multimedia, as a result, the stations all lost their grandfathered protection, which led to an ownership conflict situation which Hearst-Argyle would encounter two decades later. The Gannett Company bought Multimedia in 1995, argyle merged with the broadcasting unit of the Hearst Corporation to form Hearst-Argyle Television in August 1997. Hearst had owned WDTN since 1981, but the company opted to keep the larger WLWT. WLWTs licensee name under Multimedia and Gannett ownership, Multimedia Entertainment, in 1996, WKRC-TV and WCPO-TV traded networks, leaving WLWT as the only Cincinnati television station to never change its affiliation
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1969 Advertisement for The Bob Braun Show appearing in TV Guide.
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Jerry Springer
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Gerald Norman Jerry Springer is an American television presenter, a former lawyer, Democratic mayor of Cincinnati, news presenter, actor, and musician. He has hosted the talk show Jerry Springer since its debut in 1991. Springer was born in Highgate tube station in London, England, while the station was in use as a shelter from German bombing during World War II and his parents, Margot and Richard Springer, were Jewish refugees who escaped from Landsberg an der Warthe, Germany. His maternal grandmother Marie Kallmann, who was left behind, died in the gas trucks of Chelmno extermination camp and his paternal grandmother, Selma Springer, died at the hospital in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Selma Springers brother, Dr. Hermann Elkeles, was a renowned Berlin doctor who died at Theresienstadt concentration camp. In January 1949, Springer immigrated with his parents to the United States, settling in Kew Gardens, Queens, New York, and attended Forest Hills High School. One of his earliest memories about current events was when he was 12, Springer earned a B. A. degree from Tulane University in 1965, majoring in political science. He earned a J. D. degree from Northwestern University in 1968, Springer was a partner in the law firm of Grinker, Sudman & Springer from 1973-1985, alongside former NBA agent Ronnie Grinker and current Butler County magistrate Harry Sudman. Springer became a campaign adviser to Robert F. Kennedy. After Kennedys assassination, he joined the Cincinnati law firm of Frost & Jacobs, in 1970, Springer ran for Congress. He failed to unseat incumbent Republican Donald D. Clancy, and he had previously spearheaded the effort to lower the voting age, including testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee in support of ratification of the 26th Amendment. Three days after announcing his candidacy, Springer, who was also an Army reservist at the time, was called to active duty and he resumed his campaign after he was discharged. Springer was elected to the Cincinnati city council in 1971 and he resigned in 1974 after admitting to hiring a prostitute. Springer came clean at a press conference, long-time Cincinnati newsman Al Schottelkotte pronounced Springers career over, but Springers honesty helped him win back his seat in 1975 by a landslide. In a post-election interview, Schottelkotte good-naturedly reminded Springer that he had declared Springers career over, Springer told the newsman, Im glad that you were wrong. In 1977, he was chosen to one year as mayor by the City Council. In 1982, Springer sought the Democratic nomination for governor of Ohio, TV commercials for Springers campaign referenced his use of a check to pay a prostitute, saying that he was not afraid of the truth even if it hurts. In the late 1980s he played a role in saving the historic Cincinnati Union Terminal
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Springer in 2011 at the book launch party for
Michael Musto 's Fork on the Left, Knife in the Back
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Springer in January 2011
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Springer giving a speech at
Emory University in 2007
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The Cincinnati Post
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The Cincinnati Post was an afternoon daily newspaper published in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. In Northern Kentucky, it was bundled inside a local edition called The Kentucky Post, the Post was a founding publication and onetime flagship of Scripps-Howard Newspapers, a division of the E. W. Scripps Company. For much of its history, the Post was the most widely read paper in the Cincinnati market and its readership was concentrated on the West Side of Cincinnati, as well as in Northern Kentucky, where it was considered the newspaper of record. The Post began publishing in 1881 and launched its Northern Kentucky edition in 1890 and it acquired The Cincinnati Times-Star in 1958. The Post ceased publication at the end of 2007, after 30 years in a joint operating agreement with The Cincinnati Enquirer, the Post was known throughout its history for investigative journalism and focus on local coverage, characteristics common to Scripps papers. As one of the first successful penny presses outside the East Coast and its articles were written to be easily readable. In its heyday, the paper consistently championed good governance and labor rights, though the Post considered itself politically independent, it historically tended to support progressive politicians relative to the Times-Star and Enquirer. The Posts editorial position became uniformly conservative in the years following its merger with the Times-Star, by the early 1990s, the papers political stance had become a grumpily conservative sigh of resentment according to journalist William Greider. The Post published regular editions on weekday afternoons and a Weekender edition on Saturday mornings, in keeping with Scripps tradition, the Post did not publish on Sundays for most of its history. However, it did publish a Sunday edition from November 30,1924, the Post published on schedule from its founding as The Penny Paper in 1881 until 1967. From October 30 to November 2,1967,300 Newspaper Guild members struck along with Pressmen and Stereotypers, the Cincinnati Post began on January 3,1881, as The Penny Paper, published from a second floor office at Vine and Longworth streets. Wellman and his brother Frank, hoped to emulate the success of the Cleveland Penny Press, by March, they ran out of funds and took an investment from James E. Scripps and half-brother Edward Willis Scripps, who ran the Penny Press. They used the funds to purchase a press and move the paper to larger facility on Home Street, in October, Walter Wellman was framed for blackmail in retaliation for exposés of policy racketeers and the police. Wellman fled to Kentucky, where he was unlikely to face extradition, E. W. Scripps estimated daily circulation at 7,000 in the city and 6,000 in the countryside, before countryside distribution was discontinued to save money. With an editorial staff that leaned Republican and included a minister, The Penny Paper was seen as the spokesman. On February 11,1883, the paper was given a distinctive name, The Penny Post. In July, the Scripps family assumed ownership of the company. It was the first paper that he had ever owned and it became The Evening Post on October 11,1883 – though the price would remain at one penny until 1918
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"Farewell Edition" (last issue) of the Post
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The October 23, 1905, issue of the Post reprinted a speech by War Secretary
William Howard Taft attacking Boss Cox.
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The Post published from the Times-Star Building from 1958 to 1984.
American Financial, the Enquirer 's corporate parent, purchased the building in 1975.
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WGRZ-TV
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WGRZ, virtual channel 2, is an NBC-affiliated television station located in Buffalo, New York, United States. The station is owned by Tegna, WGRZ maintains studios located at 259 Delaware Avenue in downtown Buffalo, and its transmitter is located at 11530 Warner Hill Road in South Wales, New York. The DT2 channel then switched to Universal Sports, which it carried through the end of 2011, retro Television Network was previously seen on WGRZ-DT3. WGRZ-DT2 then became an affiliate of Antenna TV, competing with WBBZ-TV, the DT2 subchannel returned to weather on January 1,2014, affiliating with WeatherNation TV with the local branding StormTeam 2 WeatherNation, Antenna TV then moved to a reactivated DT3. Justice Network was added as a subchannel in January 2015. The stations digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 33, through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the stations virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 2. WGRZ dropped the -TV suffix, like most Gannett stations just a week after the transition, the station first signed on the air on August 14,1954, as WGR-TV, owned by the WGR Corporation, along with WGR. It was an NBC affiliate sharing the 184 Barton Street studios of UHF outlet WBUF-TV, in 1955, WBUF-TV, which was silent at the time, was sold to NBC. In January 1956, WGR-TV became an ABC affiliate after NBC moved its programming to WBUF-TV, all television reception at the time was via set-top or rooftop aerial antennas. The abject failure of WBUF-TV in Buffalo actually gave UHF a bad name to the industry and the viewing public. Viewers still wanted more choices, could receive the VHF channel 2 signal. The station also carried programming from the now-defunct DuMont Television Network, in 1959, WGR-TV launched an FM radio station, WGR-FM. Originally a simulcast of its AM radio sister, it began airing its own programming under the WGRQ callsign in 1973, transcontinent merged with Taft Broadcasting in 1964. In 1972, the moved into its current Downtown Buffalo facility at 259 Delaware Avenue. On May 1,1983, WGR-TV added a Z to its callsign, in the years following the 1983 exchange deal, WGRZ-TV changed hands several times. Native Buffalonian and former Newport Television CEO Sandy DiPasquale also held a stake in WGRZ-TV at this time. Two years later, Tak Communications purchased WGRZ-TV from the SJL-led group for $100 million in 1988, less than four years later in 1991, Tak filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and a group of creditors seized the companys assets in 1994. Argyle II closed on WGRZ-TV in April of that year, followed by KITV two months later, WGRZ-TV nearly lost its NBC affiliation in 1994 when NBCs parent company, General Electric, announced plans to purchase King World Productions, the then-owner of CBS affiliate WIVB-TV
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WGRZ satellite truck.
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Buffalo, New York
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Buffalo is a city in western New York state and the county seat of Erie County, on the eastern shores of Lake Erie at the head of the Niagara River. As of 2014, Buffalo is New York states 2nd-most populous city after New York City, the metropolitan area has a population of 1.13 million. After an economic downturn in the half of the 20th century, Buffalos economy has transitioned to sectors that include financial services, technology, biomedical engineering. Residents of Buffalo are called Buffalonians, the citys nicknames include The Queen City, The Nickel City and The City of Good Neighbors. The city of Buffalo received its name from a creek called Buffalo Creek. British military engineer Captain John Montresor made reference to Buffalo Creek in his journal of 1764, there are several theories regarding how Buffalo Creek received its name. In 1804, as principal agent opening the area for the Holland Land Company, Joseph Ellicott, designed a radial street and grid system that branches out from downtown like bicycle spokes similar to the street system he used in the nations capital. Although Ellicott named the settlement New Amsterdam, the name did not catch on, during the War of 1812, on December 30,1813, Buffalo was burned by British forces. The George Coit House 1818 and Samuel Schenck House 1823 are currently the oldest houses within the limits of the City of Buffalo, on October 26,1825, the Erie Canal was completed with Buffalo a port-of-call for settlers heading westward. At the time, the population was about 2,400, the Erie Canal brought about a surge in population and commerce, which led Buffalo to incorporate as a city in 1832. In 1845, construction began on the Macedonia Baptist Church, an important meeting place for the abolitionist movement, Buffalo was a terminus point of the Underground Railroad with many fugitive slaves crossing the Niagara River to Fort Erie, Ontario in search of freedom. During the 1840s, Buffalos port continued to develop, both passenger and commercial traffic expanded with some 93,000 passengers heading west from the port of Buffalo. Grain and commercial goods shipments led to repeated expansion of the harbor, in 1843, the worlds first steam-powered grain elevator was constructed by local merchant Joseph Dart and engineer Robert Dunbar. Darts Elevator enabled faster unloading of lake freighters along with the transshipment of grain in bulk from barges, canal boats, by 1850, the citys population was 81,000. At the dawn of the 20th century, local mills were among the first to benefit from hydroelectric power generated by the Niagara River, the city got the nickname City of Light at this time due to the widespread electric lighting. It was also part of the revolution, hosting the brass era car builders Pierce Arrow. President William McKinley was shot and mortally wounded by an anarchist at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo on September 6,1901, McKinley died in the city eight days later and Theodore Roosevelt was sworn in at the Wilcox Mansion as the 26th President of the United States. The Great Depression of 1929–39 saw severe unemployment, especially working class men
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Cable network
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This contrasts with broadcast television, in which the television signal is transmitted over the air by radio waves and received by a television antenna attached to the television. FM radio programming, high-speed Internet, telephone services, and similar non-television services may also be provided through these cables, analog television was standard in the 20th century, but since the 2000s, cable systems have been upgraded to digital cable operation. A cable channel is a television network available via cable television, alternative terms include non-broadcast channel or programming service, the latter being mainly used in legal contexts. Examples of cable/satellite channels/cable networks available in many countries are HBO, MTV, Cartoon Network, E. Eurosport, the abbreviation CATV is often used for cable television. It originally stood for Community Access Television or Community Antenna Television, in areas where over-the-air TV reception was limited by distance from transmitters or mountainous terrain, large community antennas were constructed, and cable was run from them to individual homes. The origins of cable broadcasting for radio are even older as radio programming was distributed by cable in some European cities as far back as 1924, Cable television has gone through a series of steps of evolution in the United States and Canada. Particularly in Canada, communities with their own signals were fertile cable markets, as viewers wanted to receive American signals. Early systems carried only a maximum of seven channels, using 2,4,5 or 6,7,9,11 and 13, as the equipment was unable to confine the signal discreetly within the assigned channel bandwidth. The reason 4 and 5 along with 6 and 7 could be used together was because of the 4 MHz gap between 4 and 5 and the nearly 90 MHz gap between 6 and 7. Even though eight channels are listed, in systems that maximized 7 channels. As equipment improved, all channels could be utilized, except where a local VHF television station broadcast. Local broadcast channels were not usable for signals deemed to be priority, later, the cable operators began to carry FM radio stations, and encouraged subscribers to connect their FM stereo sets to cable. Before stereo and bilingual TV sound became common, Pay-TV channel sound was added to the FM stereo cable line-ups, about this time, operators expanded beyond the 12-channel dial to use the midband and superband VHF channels adjacent to the high band 7-13 of North American television frequencies. Some operators as in Cornwall, Ontario, used a dual distribution network with Channels 2-13 on each of the two cables, during the 1980s, United States regulations not unlike public, educational, and government access created the beginning of cable-originated live television programming. These stations evolved partially into todays over-the-air digital subchannels, where a main broadcast TV station e. g, many live local programs with local interests were subsequently created all over the United States in most major television markets in the early 1980s. This evolved into todays many cable-only broadcasts of diverse programming, including cable-only produced television movies and miniseries, Cable specialty channels, starting with channels oriented to show movies and large sporting or performance events, diversified further, and narrowcasting became common. By the late 1980s, cable-only signals outnumbered broadcast signals on cable systems, by the mid-1980s in Canada, cable operators were allowed by the regulator to enter into distribution contracts with cable networks on their own. By the 1990s, tiers became common, with customers able to subscribe to different tiers to obtain different selections of additional channels above the basic selection, by subscribing to additional tiers, customers could get specialty channels, movie channels, and foreign channels
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Coaxial cable used to carry cable television into subscribers' residences.
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A cable television distribution box (left) in the basement of a building in Germany, with a splitter (right) which supplies the signal to separate cables which go to different rooms
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AMC (TV network)
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AMC is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by AMC Networks. The channels programming, similar to that of FXM, primarily consists of released films. The channels name originally stood for American Movie Classics, but since 2002 the full name has been de-emphasized as a result of a shift in its programming. As of July 2015, AMC was received by approximately 94,832,000 households in the United States that subscribe to a pay television service. In March 2015, Dish Networks Sling TV announced it would begin making AMC channels available to cord cutters, including AMC, BBC America, IFC, SundanceTV. American Movie Classics, as AMC was originally known, debuted on October 1,1984 as a premium channel, AMC was originally operated as a joint venture between Rainbow Media and cable television provider Tele-Communications Inc. During its early years, it was not uncommon for AMC to host a marathon of Marx Brothers films, in 1987, the channel began to be carried on the basic cable tiers of many cable providers. By 1989, AMC was available to 39 million subscribers in the U. S, on December 1,1990, AMC began operating on a 24-hour-a-day schedule. Beginning in 1993, AMC presented an annual Film Preservation Festival to raise awareness of, portions of the festival were often dedicated to all-day marathons focusing on a single performer. During its fifth year in 1998, Scorsese credited the Festival for creating not only a greater awareness. In 1996, curator of the Museum of Modern Art Mary Lee Bandy called the Festival the most important public event in support of film preservation. By its tenth anniversary in 2003, the Festival had raised $2 million from the general public, the following year, Time Warner also attempted to acquire at least part of Liberty Medias stake in AMC. Turner owns rights to the RKO Radio Pictures film library and licensed RKOs films to AMC in a deal that was slated to last through 2004. Under the terms of the deal, AMC would obtain the RKO titles in exclusive windows, around this time, General Electric/NBC owned a stake in AMC – which it divested in the early 2000s. From 1996 to 1998, AMC aired its first original series, Remember WENN, the show was well received by both critics and its enthusiastic fans, but was abruptly cancelled after its fourth season following management changes at the channel. Despite a well publicized campaign to save the series, the show was not renewed for its originally scheduled fifth season. One popular AMC program was American Pop. which ran from 1998 to 2003, the majority of the films presented on AMC during the 1990s had originally been released by Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Columbia Pictures, and Universal Studios. The channel also showed classic silent films
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AMC
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Bob Dorian
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AMC is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by AMC Networks. The channels programming, similar to that of FXM, primarily consists of released films. The channels name originally stood for American Movie Classics, but since 2002 the full name has been de-emphasized as a result of a shift in its programming. As of July 2015, AMC was received by approximately 94,832,000 households in the United States that subscribe to a pay television service. In March 2015, Dish Networks Sling TV announced it would begin making AMC channels available to cord cutters, including AMC, BBC America, IFC, SundanceTV. American Movie Classics, as AMC was originally known, debuted on October 1,1984 as a premium channel, AMC was originally operated as a joint venture between Rainbow Media and cable television provider Tele-Communications Inc. During its early years, it was not uncommon for AMC to host a marathon of Marx Brothers films, in 1987, the channel began to be carried on the basic cable tiers of many cable providers. By 1989, AMC was available to 39 million subscribers in the U. S, on December 1,1990, AMC began operating on a 24-hour-a-day schedule. Beginning in 1993, AMC presented an annual Film Preservation Festival to raise awareness of, portions of the festival were often dedicated to all-day marathons focusing on a single performer. During its fifth year in 1998, Scorsese credited the Festival for creating not only a greater awareness. In 1996, curator of the Museum of Modern Art Mary Lee Bandy called the Festival the most important public event in support of film preservation. By its tenth anniversary in 2003, the Festival had raised $2 million from the general public, the following year, Time Warner also attempted to acquire at least part of Liberty Medias stake in AMC. Turner owns rights to the RKO Radio Pictures film library and licensed RKOs films to AMC in a deal that was slated to last through 2004. Under the terms of the deal, AMC would obtain the RKO titles in exclusive windows, around this time, General Electric/NBC owned a stake in AMC – which it divested in the early 2000s. From 1996 to 1998, AMC aired its first original series, Remember WENN, the show was well received by both critics and its enthusiastic fans, but was abruptly cancelled after its fourth season following management changes at the channel. Despite a well publicized campaign to save the series, the show was not renewed for its originally scheduled fifth season. One popular AMC program was American Pop. which ran from 1998 to 2003, the majority of the films presented on AMC during the 1990s had originally been released by Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Columbia Pictures, and Universal Studios. The channel also showed classic silent films
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Original theatrical release poster
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Sam Raimi directed the short film
Within the Woods to generate the interest of investors for The Evil Dead.
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Sam Raimi's brother
Ted Raimi (pictured right) was the "
fake shemp " in several scenes.
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Joel Coen (pictured right) of the
Coen brothers was one of the staff members who edited the film.
