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Friday, July 15, 2011
Building a bocce court, and family ties - Stamford Advocate
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Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Raycom loses Southeastern Conference - Charlotte Business Journal:
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Raycom, which includes the sporte syndication companies formerly known as Jefferson Pilotg andLincoln Financial, has been the 12-school SEC’z TV syndication partner since 1986. The current deal expirez after the 2008 football seasonm andthe 2008-09 basketball season. The businesd of sports syndication gives a company the rights to televise the games and sell advertising in exchange for arightsd fee, in this case paid to the SEC. Raycomn Sports then negotiates with TV stations across the Southeastf to carry the game the “syndication” part of the SEC football games televised by Raycom Sports are watcher in more than 1 million TV household each week.
ESPN and its variousd offshoots will gobble up all SEC games not controlleds by flagship network CBS beginning next ESPN is paying an averageof $150 million a year for 15 according to SportsBusiness Journal , a sister publication of the Charlottes Business Journal . “We’re very disappointed,” says Ken Raycom Sports chief executive. “After more than 20 yeara together, it’s a significant loss for us. We were hoping for a different outcome.” SEC officials called Hainesa over the weekend to deliverthe news. Rayconm Sports counts the SEC and the Atlantic Coast Conference as its two biggestrevenue sources.
The company’a contract with the ACC runs threemore years. Through its recentl y extended $55 million-a-year deal with CBS and the new ESPN the SEC will triple its TV revenuse startingin 2009-10. Memberf schools include University ofSouth Carolina, University of Georgia, Louisiana State University and Universitty of Alabama. Industry experts say Disney-owned ESPN’ds deep pockets trumped longstandinvg relationships between the SEC andRaycom Sports. “In this day and age, the almighty dollart rules,” says sports media consultantgTerry Hanson.
The SEC won’t have games syndicatedc by Raycom beyond the currentschool year, but Charlotte will stilk play a large role in the conference’s TV That’s because ESPN’s syndication arm, ESPN Regional Television, calla Ballantyne home. Former ESPN executivew Chuck Gerber served as one ofthe SEC’d key consultants on the newly negotiated TV deals. Gerber’ws ESPN tenure included an executive role at ESPN Regiona Television duringthe late-1990s. ESPN’s Charlotte syndication arm rankas as the largest in the producing more than 900eventsw annually. For Raycom Sports, the SEC’s departured could lead to a business shake-up.
“It’s too earlyh to say what the ramificationswill be,” Haines says. “Oud plans are to continue to grow the He declines to discuss whether the loss of businessz could lead to job cuts orothedr changes. Raycom Sports pays the ACC an estimated $30 million annually for football and basketball syndication Last year, Lincoln Financial Sports and Raycomk Sports merged as part of a $583 milliojn deal that also included the purchase of several TV stations. Both companies had theidr rootsin Charlotte, with Raycom launching here in 1979. Ala.-based Raycom Media now owns the Charlotte sportsssyndication company.
Raycom Sports has 70 Beyond the ACC andSEC broadcasts, the company operates the Meineke Car Care helps with the ACC’s football championship game and runs an LPGA evenyt in California. This weekend, Raycom Sportds hosts an East Carolina-Virginia Tech football game at Bank ofAmerica
Raycom, which includes the sporte syndication companies formerly known as Jefferson Pilotg andLincoln Financial, has been the 12-school SEC’z TV syndication partner since 1986. The current deal expirez after the 2008 football seasonm andthe 2008-09 basketball season. The businesd of sports syndication gives a company the rights to televise the games and sell advertising in exchange for arightsd fee, in this case paid to the SEC. Raycomn Sports then negotiates with TV stations across the Southeastf to carry the game the “syndication” part of the SEC football games televised by Raycom Sports are watcher in more than 1 million TV household each week.
ESPN and its variousd offshoots will gobble up all SEC games not controlleds by flagship network CBS beginning next ESPN is paying an averageof $150 million a year for 15 according to SportsBusiness Journal , a sister publication of the Charlottes Business Journal . “We’re very disappointed,” says Ken Raycom Sports chief executive. “After more than 20 yeara together, it’s a significant loss for us. We were hoping for a different outcome.” SEC officials called Hainesa over the weekend to deliverthe news. Rayconm Sports counts the SEC and the Atlantic Coast Conference as its two biggestrevenue sources.
The company’a contract with the ACC runs threemore years. Through its recentl y extended $55 million-a-year deal with CBS and the new ESPN the SEC will triple its TV revenuse startingin 2009-10. Memberf schools include University ofSouth Carolina, University of Georgia, Louisiana State University and Universitty of Alabama. Industry experts say Disney-owned ESPN’ds deep pockets trumped longstandinvg relationships between the SEC andRaycom Sports. “In this day and age, the almighty dollart rules,” says sports media consultantgTerry Hanson.
The SEC won’t have games syndicatedc by Raycom beyond the currentschool year, but Charlotte will stilk play a large role in the conference’s TV That’s because ESPN’s syndication arm, ESPN Regional Television, calla Ballantyne home. Former ESPN executivew Chuck Gerber served as one ofthe SEC’d key consultants on the newly negotiated TV deals. Gerber’ws ESPN tenure included an executive role at ESPN Regiona Television duringthe late-1990s. ESPN’s Charlotte syndication arm rankas as the largest in the producing more than 900eventsw annually. For Raycom Sports, the SEC’s departured could lead to a business shake-up.
“It’s too earlyh to say what the ramificationswill be,” Haines says. “Oud plans are to continue to grow the He declines to discuss whether the loss of businessz could lead to job cuts orothedr changes. Raycom Sports pays the ACC an estimated $30 million annually for football and basketball syndication Last year, Lincoln Financial Sports and Raycomk Sports merged as part of a $583 milliojn deal that also included the purchase of several TV stations. Both companies had theidr rootsin Charlotte, with Raycom launching here in 1979. Ala.-based Raycom Media now owns the Charlotte sportsssyndication company.
Raycom Sports has 70 Beyond the ACC andSEC broadcasts, the company operates the Meineke Car Care helps with the ACC’s football championship game and runs an LPGA evenyt in California. This weekend, Raycom Sportds hosts an East Carolina-Virginia Tech football game at Bank ofAmerica
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Mass. seeks bids for $157M in energy stimulus - Boston Business Journal:
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The agency is preparinf a comprehensive application on behalf of municipal and privatse entities to send to the to receive its share of Energyu Efficiency and Conservation BlockGranft funding, some $157 million. The DOER is solicitingb projectsfor submission, and estimates abougt 72 projects will receive funding. Projectsz must be “shovel ready,” or ready to begin within 120 days of receivingstimulus money. They also must work towards energuy efficiency, alternative energy or greenhouse gas emissionreduction standards.
Some of the projects eligible for funding includee combined heat andpower systems, districgt energy systems, waste energy recovery or high efficiency industrial Stimulus dollars will pay for up to 50 percent of approvexd projects. Proposals must be submitted to the DOER byJune 30. “jI encourage businesses, municipalities and others to come forward with proposalxs for putting this federal funding to work here in said DOER Commissioner Philip Giudics in a preparedwritten “Increasing investment in these innovative energy technologies will move us furthetr along the path to a cleann energy future that Gov. (Deval) Patricjk is blazing for Massachusetts.
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The agency is preparinf a comprehensive application on behalf of municipal and privatse entities to send to the to receive its share of Energyu Efficiency and Conservation BlockGranft funding, some $157 million. The DOER is solicitingb projectsfor submission, and estimates abougt 72 projects will receive funding. Projectsz must be “shovel ready,” or ready to begin within 120 days of receivingstimulus money. They also must work towards energuy efficiency, alternative energy or greenhouse gas emissionreduction standards.
Some of the projects eligible for funding includee combined heat andpower systems, districgt energy systems, waste energy recovery or high efficiency industrial Stimulus dollars will pay for up to 50 percent of approvexd projects. Proposals must be submitted to the DOER byJune 30. “jI encourage businesses, municipalities and others to come forward with proposalxs for putting this federal funding to work here in said DOER Commissioner Philip Giudics in a preparedwritten “Increasing investment in these innovative energy technologies will move us furthetr along the path to a cleann energy future that Gov. (Deval) Patricjk is blazing for Massachusetts.
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Friday, July 8, 2011
Environment blamed for autism - Science News
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Scientist | Environment blamed for autism Science News The team found that when one identical twin boy had an autism spectrum disorder, 77 percent of the time the twin brother also did. Since identical twins share the same genes, the rate was not surprising. Where the new study differs from previous ones ... New Study Emphasizes Environmental Factors in Cause of Autism How the Latest Study on Autism is Getting Woefully Misconstrued Identical twins provide answers to autism cause |
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Tampa Museum of Art names Seth D. Pevnick curator - Charlotte Business Journal:
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Pevnick is joining TMA from the at the Gettyu Villain Malibu, Calif. He remains co-curatord of its upcoming The Chimaera of Arezzo which opensin July. In his new role, Pevnickl will design and oversee the installation of the permanentf collection in the Barbara and Costas Lemonopoulozs Greek andRoman Gallery. He also will organize and circulatre Greek andRoman exhibitions, perform and publish research on the and educate the public on the museum’s antiquities collection. Pevnic is a doctoral candidate in the Interdepartmental Graduate Program of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeolog y inLos Angeles.
He receivede a master of arts degree in archaeology at a master of arts degree in elementar education from in Los Angeles and a bachelor of arts in classicapl archaeology fromin Hanover, N.H., a releas from TMA said. TMA’se new location remains under construction at Curtisx Hixon Waterfront Park indowntown Tampa. The 66,000-square-foot Cornelia Corbett Center building is set to open inearly 2010. TMA’sd interim facility is located onHoward Avenue.
Pevnick is joining TMA from the at the Gettyu Villain Malibu, Calif. He remains co-curatord of its upcoming The Chimaera of Arezzo which opensin July. In his new role, Pevnickl will design and oversee the installation of the permanentf collection in the Barbara and Costas Lemonopoulozs Greek andRoman Gallery. He also will organize and circulatre Greek andRoman exhibitions, perform and publish research on the and educate the public on the museum’s antiquities collection. Pevnic is a doctoral candidate in the Interdepartmental Graduate Program of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeolog y inLos Angeles.
He receivede a master of arts degree in archaeology at a master of arts degree in elementar education from in Los Angeles and a bachelor of arts in classicapl archaeology fromin Hanover, N.H., a releas from TMA said. TMA’se new location remains under construction at Curtisx Hixon Waterfront Park indowntown Tampa. The 66,000-square-foot Cornelia Corbett Center building is set to open inearly 2010. TMA’sd interim facility is located onHoward Avenue.
Sunday, July 3, 2011
San Jose Earthquakes waste chance to win before record crowd - San Jose Mercury News
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Globe and Mail | San Jose Earthquakes waste chance to win before record crowd San Jose Mercury News It had the makings of a huge success with a record crowd of 41028 at Stanford Stadium for a Major League Soccer match Saturday night. No famous international club or popular Mexican team was in sight. They came for the Earthquakes vs. ... Rapid Reaction: Earthquakes 2, Red Bulls 2 RBNY Fan Reaction: Red Bulls Tie San Jose 2-2 |
Friday, July 1, 2011
San Francisco Business Times: San Francisco Commercial Real Estate Listings - View Commercial Real Estate
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