Midmorning Exchange

Wednesday, October 22, 2014 ~ 9:30 – 11:00 AM

NY NATAS Office – 1375 Broadway (between 37th and 38th Streets), 21st floor, Suite 2103

Sumner Glimcher – Filmmaker

Topic  - “All about EBOOKS”

Professor Glimcher’s self-published electronic book, “A Filmmaker’s Journal” is currently available on the internet. Excerpts will be shown.

PLEASE RSVP VIA PHONE 212-459-3630, ext. 204.

Event produced by Ellen Muir.

FILM SCREENING: Ouija

You are cordially Invited to the following film screening of Ouija. Members and one adult guest are invited to a limited screening from Universal Pictures.

This invitation is non-transferable.

Please send an email to Phyllis Bishop at pbscreenings@gmail.com with the following information: Your Membership Card Number and state if you are coming alone or bringing one guest.  You must receive and answer a response from Phyllis, to attend these screenings. 

Screening Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Arrival Time:  6:00 p.m. for 7 p.m. screening

Cinema:  AMC 19th Street Theater

Address: 890 Broadway

Please check in at the screening desk in the lobby with Phyllis Bishop.

NOTE: By attending this screening you agree to hold all print, online, radio and television reviews until the film’s release date. This includes posting reactions/reviews to Twitter, Facebook and blog postings.  This screening will be monitored for unauthorized recording. By attending this screening, you consent to surveillance by security personnel. By attending, you agree not to bring any recording device (including certain types of mobile devices, wearable computer devices such as Google Glass, into the theater. By attending, you also consent to physical search of your belongings and person for recording devices. If you attempt to enter with a recording device, you will be denied admission. If you attempt to use a recording device, you consent to your immediate removal from the theater and forfeiture of the device and its contents. Unauthorized recordings will be reported to law enforcement and may subject you to criminal and civil liability.

Synopsis: A girl is mysteriously killed after recording herself playing with an ancient Ouija Board, which leads to a close group of friends to investigate this board. They later find out that some things aren't meant to be played with, especially the 'other side'.

Director: Stiles White

Writers : Juliet Snowden and Stiles White

Stars : Olivia Cooke, Ana Coto, Daren Kagasoff

Genre: HORROR

Run Time: not set

Rated: Rated PG-13 for disturbing violent content, frightening horror images, and thematic material

Release Date: October 24, 2014

The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Webcast

“The Next Generation of Media Ratings and Demographics Webcast”

Learn about the next generation of media ratings and demographics

By Cynthia E. Zeiden, NATAS National Program Chair

Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Time: 6:00PM Pacific Time

Location: Oregon Public Broadcasting 7140 SW Macadam Avenue, Portland, Oregon (register for the live webcast to view)

There is no admission charge for NATAS Members!

Register for the live webcast:  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1R4KlQVPKueaAjReGv1B6i0j-K7womlA5ILngKFnauno/viewform?usp=send_form

Panelist Bios

Scott Thompson President MBT Marketing

Scott is an expert in Customer and market research, retail marketing, media strategy, and franchise marketing and advertising. Scott’s career in the marketing and advertising industry spans 30 years. He has worked for advertisers, media companies and presently is co-owner of a Portland-based advertising agency. Scott’s work includes international, national and regional brands including: Dairy Queen, Intel, Lenovo, Clorox, C&H Sugar, Fred Meyer, Smith’s, QFC, Kroger, GI Joe’s, Fisher Broadcasting, Clear Channel Radio, CAR Auto Group and Tire Factory. Scott has been a Partner at MBT since 2004 and Managing Partner since 2006.  Scott holds a B.S. in Journalism from the University of Oregon.

John Tamerlano is Vice-President and General Manager of KATU-TV ABC and KUNP-TV Univision in Portland, Oregon. He is originally from Cleveland, OH and attended Bowling Green State University.  John began his television career in 1979, as a Sales Account Executive, with WPGH-TV in Pittsburgh, PA.  He was named Local Sales Manager there in 1980.  In 1984, as General Sales Manager, he helped launch, new station, WRGT-TV in Dayton, Ohio.  John returned to Cleveland, in 1984, where he was the General Sales Manager for the ABC Scripps Howard station and the NBC Gannett Television station. John was recruited to Portland, OR, in 1999 by Lee Enterprise’s CBS affiliate, KOIN-TV, to be their Director of Sales and Research. He also oversaw the local sales efforts for their sister stations.

Tiffani Lupenski News Director KATU TV

Tiffani has been the News Director at KATU in Portland, Oregon since August 2012 after having joined the station as the Assistant News Director in 2010. Her career began in radio in her hometown of San Antonio more than 20 years ago. Since then, she’s held reporting, producing and news management positions in seven markets across the country including Atlanta, Denver, and Seattle. Tiffani is a multiple Emmy® award-winner and has also been honored with two Edward R. Murrow awards for her work as a journalist.   

Moderator Bio

Steve Walsh, Executive Vice President of Local Market Television, Rentrak

Steve Walsh has spent his entire career pushing the envelope in audience measurement research. He says his mission at Rentrak is to put this knowledge to work transforming the local audience measurement ecosystem to provide a better understanding of the viewing behavior of real consumers, and how that aligns with the products they purchase. In his role as Executive Vice President of Local Market Television, Steve works closely with TV station owners as well as management, sales and research teams to demonstrate how Rentrak can provide a cross-platform audience measurement solution unlike any other. Steve brings more than 20 years of proven strategic sales and sales management experience to his role at Rentrak. Prior to Rentrak, he held key sales leadership positions at research industry startups and current standard-bearers like Integrated Media Measurement, Inc. (IMMI), Experian Research Services, IAG Research, TNS Media Intelligence and Nielsen Media Research. He is a member of the Television Bureau of Advertising (TVB), the Advertising Research Foundation (ARF) and the Radio & Television Research Council (RTRC), and a frequent speaker at prestigious universities nationwide.

Don’t miss out on this live webcast event, which is free to members of NATAS. Register for the webcast today: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1R4KlQVPKueaAjReGv1B6i0j-K7womlA5ILngKFnauno/viewform?usp=send_form!

Meet the Filmmaker: Larry Benaquist & Bill Sullivan, Co-Producers

“The Journey of Jonathan Daniels” 

Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Location: NY NATAS, 1375 Broadway (between 37th and 38th Streets), Suite 2103

Reception: 6:00-6:30 PM ~ Program: 6:30-8:00 PM

*Free to NY NATAS Members!

$15 for those without current NY NATAS membership.

Produced & Moderated by Sumner Jules Glimcher.

“Here Am I, Send Me: The Journey of Jonathan Daniels,” examines the life of a brilliant, socially committed young man from New Hampshire who went south to answer Dr. Martin Luther King's call for Americans of good will to assist in the voting rights drive which was the purpose of the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. The violence of March 7th, Bloody Sunday, when Alabama State Troopers beat and tear-gassed innocent marchers who had begun the march touched him deeply.  Jonathan was shot and killed on August 20th, 1965, while pulling Ruby Sales, a young African American female civil rights worker, out of the path of Deputy Sheriff Tom Coleman's shotgun blast, taking the shot as he saved her life. This occurred in Hayneville, Alabama, after this group of protestors had been let out of the Hayneville jail, having spent a week there.   The film traces his life, focusing on the evolution of his social commitment, and is the result of over ten years' research and interviewing. Completed in 2003, presented nationally on PBS, and narrated by Sam Waterston, it has been praised by Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law Center,  as "a powerful portrayal of the heroic life of a civil rights martyr, murdered for his ideals," and features interviews with many heroes of the civil rights movement, as well as friends and family of Jonathan Daniels.

Larry Benaquist was on the faculty at Keene State College, from 1969 until 2010.   He began offering courses in film theory, history and then film production.   He has produced films, several of which having been on public television. Another of his films was “Enter to Learn, Go Forth to Serve: The First Hundred Years of Keene State College,” an in-depth, historical  examination of one of the hundreds of normal schools in America,  Keene Normal, which opened the doors of education to those otherwise not able to afford it.

Space is  limited.  You  must  RSVP  to  info@nyemmys.org to reserve a seat. Please write “Jonathan Daniels!” in the Subject Box