... While Ewarton initially secured five-million dollars in unsecured donations from two anonymous benefactors, they set a goal of twenty million dollars. With this budget, Ewarton could properly build the Stax Museum and Music Academy and possess enough cash for operations, staffing, and memorabilia acquisition. With some politicking, the City of Memphis and Shelby County committed two-and-half million dollars each to the Stax project. Both Mayors, Willie Herenton of Memphis and Jim Rout of Shelby County, understood the importance of the project. Mayor Herenton was from the neighborhood and attended LeMoyne-Owen College. Mayor Rout, who went to high school with Steve Cropper and Duck Dunn, and his trusted advisor, Tom Jones, who earlier expressed both support and trepidation for the Deanie Parker led CISUM effort, also realized the value in the museum and music academy. With ten million dollars in funds from the anonymous donors, the city, and the county, Ewarton applied for and won a three million dollar challenge grant from the Plough Foundation. While this was Plough’s largest grant, it stipulated that Ewarton receive a matching amount of one million dollars from the city of Memphis, Shelby County, and the State of Tennessee. While the city and county exceeded the minimum amount required by the Plough Foundation, the state proved to be a tougher nut to crack. The State of Tennessee in the late 1990s was in dire financial straights, so much so that Governor Don Sundquist...
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...leading the team that was responsible for renegotiating the rights to Frasier, a popular television show that would play a critical role in NBC’s fall 2001 programming lineup. While Paramount, the owner of the show, seemed to be demanding $8 million per episode in the press, NBC had calculated that it would have to pay under $5 million in order to make a profit on the show. Multiplying by 24 episodes per season, and multiplying again by the three-year term that Paramount was insisting on, the gap seemed insurmountable. Making matters worse, the most likely other bidder for the show was the Columbia Broadcasting th System (CBS), a rival network to NBC and Graboff’s former employer. “On November 13 [2000], my last day at CBS, I was putting the finishing touches on CBS’s contract extension to Everybody Loves Raymond,” recalled Graboff. “And I was thinking, ‘Thank goodness this deal is almost done.’ The next day I began at NBC, and I was faced with an equally arduous negotiation.” Graboff watched the sun set over the Los Angeles skyline as he began familiarizing himself with the background documents on the negotiation. Industry Background Behind the glitz and the glamour, the stars and the scandals, Hollywood is, at its core, a business. Studios, such as Warner Brothers Television, Paramount Television Group, and Twentieth Century Fox Television, make television shows and license them to networks, such as NBC, CBS, and the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), for a...
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...contain aspects of both order and freedom. There’s harmony between tradition (males running politics and woman determining clan ranking) and freedom. Some men achieve status in both the traditional and modern political systems (Ward 57). Elders draw young people into marriage, titles, even land ownership (Ward 57). The political aspect of society is run by men. Each district is headed by a man called Nahnwarski or king or also Paramount Chief, then High Chief, high ranked citizens, and the commoners (Ward 14). Ambition is a respected, even an ancient idea, one not tied to job status and education. Dedicated work for the Paramount Chiefs and loyalties to a geographic section and district are signs of worthy ambition (Ward 76). A man advancing through title ranks pulls his hard-working relatives, male and female, up with him, just as his older relatives lifted him (Ward 77). Titles are the correct and preferred form of address and change at any time (Ward 90). Women hold important positions throughout the hierarchy, though their title is in most cases dependent on their spouse's (Keating). The tides are gender marked; a woman's title is the feminine counterpart of her husband's. If...
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...Raheem Nubin March 27, 2014 Film and Pop Culture Studies Dr. Michael Walonen The Wrestler According to makeindependentfilms.com an independent film that’s funds are less than half from one of the big six major film studios; such as MGM and UA, 20th Century Fox, Walt Disney Pictures/Touchstone Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures, Paramount Pictures and Universal Studios. Independent films are uniquely created by the film’s creator and usually has much less of a budget than a major motion film. In my opinion an Indie film show cases the creator’s creativity with their own signature editorial style and direction in the movie. The Wrestler is an independent film follows the life of Randy “The Ram” Robinson a well-known retired wrestler who is urged to continue living his glory days of his wrestling career. Now a retired pro-wrestler who now works part-time as a wrestler on weekends and supermarket attendant who despite has heart problems and far past his prime still wants to wrestle despite his physical condition. The film references to labor in 21st century in America is represented by Robin not wanting to do the common man job (Working the 9-5) but living the commercialized American dream as a pro-wrestler. In addition to his rematch with “The Ayatollah” he injects himself with steroids to increase his training, and that is common in America. Despite his near death heart attack Randy still stops at nothing, after rescheduling his match with his opponent after Cassidy does tells...
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...Line Cinema, Cartoon Network. * While box office sales have been rising for Time Warner, DVD sales have been declining which affects certain growth prospects and revenues. * Recent News –Announced on Thursday April 5, 2012, Time Warner Cable will bring streaming television to Android devices running the most recent version of Google's mobile operating system. Viacom Inc. – Media Conglomerate * Founded in 1971, major operations in cinema and cable television. Owned in majority by National Amusements Inc. * As of mid-2010, it is the world’s fourth largest media conglomerate * Among its subsidiaries are; Showtime, Simon & Schuster, MTV, BET, Paramount Pictures * In 2007, Viacom filed a US$1 billion legal claim against Google and YouTube alleging massive copyright infringement. Viacom lost the case. Six Flags – Amusement park operator * Founded in 1961, is the world’s largest amusement park corporation * Fifth most popular amusement park base on attendance * Owns and operates 14 properties throughout North America, including theme parks, thrill parks, water parks and family entertainment * Recent news – March 1, 2012 Six Flags announced Lowe’s as their official home improvement retailer Fox Entertainment Group Inc * Founded in 1990s, operations in film and television * Named after William Fox who created the original Fox Film Corporation * Among its subsidiaries are; 20th Century Fox Film Corp., MyNetworkTV, FX, National Geographic...
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...Negotiations Frasier case A. Who are the parties in the Frasier negotiation and what are their interests? (Viacom, CBS, Paramount, Kelsey) – (NBC, NBC West Coast ((Graboff)), ABC) The parties involved in the Frasier negotiations consist of NBC, Paramount, and actor Kelsey Grammar. Paramount and Kelsey had personal interest to extend the show 3 years. Kelsey Grammar wanted to rank in history as being an actor with having the record for the longest-running primetime television character in TV. Without Kelsey Grammar (Frasier), Paramount, and NBC would not have a TV series. NBC did not view the show Frasier as having another 3 years of life and did not want to invest in another 3 years. Additionally, NBC deemed Paramount’s price per episode to high and wanted to minimize what they saw as a loss of revenue. B. What is Paramount’s BATNA? What is your estimate of their reservation price? Paramount was banking on the fact that Frasier was the flagpole show of NBC and its success in the time slot. If they quit NBC, both Paramount and NBC would suffer while Paramount would have suffered the most. Paramount best alternative would have been to shop the show around to other networks in the case that the negotiations with NBC broke down. Paramount however was limited in networks to promote the show to due to the shows high overhead cost and industry consolidation. Due to these circumstances I would estimate Paramount’s reservation price around 5.25 million as Paramount was aware...
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...flow. They have been trying to perfect it and be the best that it can be. I feel that once it becomes better known within the next 6 months to a year that NVIDIA will start to profit once again. Especially once DreamWorks begins to promote the software and technology, NVIDIA will begin to flourish. Even though NVIDIA had higher revenue over the years compared to DreamWorks, they needed to make more money to compensate for the higher operating costs. This is also why there new products cost so much more since they are new to the market. 3. Why does it make sense to buy them? DreamWorks Pictures develops, produces, and distributes films, video games and television programming. Originally its films were distributed worldwide by Paramount, but the animation studio remained independent of...
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...but at the same time creating an unprecedented box office records, also for MGM won a great reputation. After that, in 1929 MGM spent $ 350,000 to conform to the historical trend of the sound film, (MGM, 2010), which is an astronomical figure at the time, filming the musical "Broadway Melody", the gorgeous scenery of the movie scenes, innovative dance design, ease of use sound , the movie was pushed to a new height. After the release of the film sensation, naturally removal of the second session of the Academy Award for Best Picture (King, D. W., 2011). As a result, MGM became very famous. 2.2 No strong competitors In the 1920s to 1940s Hollywood film companies can count only eight big movie companies studios such as Universal, Warner, Paramount, Disney, Columbia, etc., but these companies at that time could not compare with MGM. Because their video is not so much influence, actors and directors were not as luxurious as MGM (MGM, 2010). This gives MGM's development and growth provides a lot of space. TV household penetration is not very high, there is no impact from the television industry. MGM didn’t limited by antitrust restrictions. Furthermore, MGM set production, distribution and exhibition in a big company, its main source of revenue is not cut off. (King, D. W., 2011) 3. Bankruptcy Process Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding involving a person or business that is unable to repay outstanding debts. The following section will provide a simple timeline of the bankruptcy process...
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...Associate Level Material Appendix B Picture the Supply Chain Complete the chart below by outlining the digital content supply chain at Warner Bros. Entertainment. |Upstream Component |Internal Component |Downstream Component | |(sourcing/procurement) |(packing/assembly |(distribution) | | |manufacturing) | | | | | | |This supply chain indicates the sourcing |Packaging, manufacturing and assembly take |This chain involves distribution – | |that is made from an external supplier. |place at the same time in the same |externally. | |The main supplier used by Warner Brothers |environment. | | |is Hewlett Packard. | |Using broadband communications links, High | | |Types of formats used are DVD, Blu-ray and |Def. Televisions and DVD’s. | |Hewlett Packard provides them with a |HD DVD, I-Tunes and mobile devices for |Creating over 6000 motion...
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...Appendix B Picture the Supply Chain Complete the chart below by outlining the digital content supply chain at Warner Bros. Entertainment. |Upstream Component |Internal Component |Downstream Component | |(sourcing/procurement) |(packing/assembly |(distribution) | | |manufacturing) | | | | | | |Warner Bros. is enlisting the help or |The main company Warner Bros. Entertainment| | |outsourcing to Hewlett-Packard to increase |serves as an umbrella for smaller | | |sales and give the consumer what they |companies, this becomes costly with little | | |want-digital media. |time in between productions. With three | | |Warner Bros Entertainment is responsible |types available DVD’s, HDDVD’s and Blu-ray | | |for delivering technology to the consumer. |disc’s, the alternate availability of these| | |The...
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...happened with price fixing, monopoly pricing, market power, monopoly structure, and much more. During the early years of paramount motion picture which was owned by Adolph Zukor, Jesse L. Lasky, and W. W. Hodkinson there were only few major motion picture companies in the market and within time they had monopolized some cities in the US. Market power In the Early 1920’s there was not much competition for companies to get regulated so as time passed motion movies became a huge way of entertainment that companies like paramount began to control some cities and created small monopolies among some cities in America, I don’t think it’s okay for one company to have complete market power because that could lead to price controls, price fixing and within time the government step in to create some sort of change to allow more major motion picture companies to display any content they had. Paramount had lost a lot of profits because of the regulation by the government to allow other companies to also show motion pictures. I agree that what the government did was right by interfering with paramount because this ended all their monopolies and giving other people the chance to make a profit. Antitrust The antitrust lawsuits began by 1940’s when paramount had total control of Detroit chains of theaters, paramount agreed to...
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...University Of Massachusetts – Dartmouth MGT 650 Spring 2014 Research Paper on DreamWorks Animation SKG (DWA) Submitted by: Hardik Ranpara Company Background: DreamWorks Studios SKG is a motion picture company, which was founded by Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Geffen on 12th October 1994. The suffix ‘SKG’ is the initials of the three founders. At the time of foundation, Jeffrey Katzenberg, not long ago, had resigned from Walt Disney Animation Studios. Currently, the company is partnered by Steven Spielberg, Stacey Snider and The Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. The first movie released by DreamWorks was ‘The Peacemaker’ in September 1997 and the first animated movie released was ‘Antz’ in 1998, and also ‘The Prince of Egypt’ in same year. (Our History, 2010). Both the movies were made using ‘Computer-Generated Imagery’ (CGI) technology along with traditional animation techniques. Because of great success of CGI movies, DreamWorks SKG created new division named DreamWorks Animation in year 2000. It would produce both kind of animated feature films. In year 2001, Shrek went on to win first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film. After success of Shrek, Shrek 2 and Shark Tale was release in year 2004. DreamWorks Animation was the first studio to produce two CG movies in one year. (DreamWorks Animation, May 3, 2014.) With immense success, the animation division was turned into different publicly traded company named DreamWorks Animation...
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...The three companies I chose to research for this assignment was Google, Zappos.com, and DreamWorks Animation SKG. Each one of these companies stood out to me for multiple reasons, but my deciding factor was how much they focus on their employees needs and satisfaction. Google who is ranked 4 on the list of the best 100 companies to work for. Google is famous for the long list of perks their employees get to enjoy, such as free food in cafeterias, a climbing wall, and free laundry. Google is a much successful company, last year alone the revenue went up more than 20%. Google sweetened their perks even more for the employees by giving every employee a 10% pay hike. Zappos.com who is ranked 6 on the list of the best 100 Companies to work for moved up 9 spots in one year, with a previous ranking at 15. The company Zappos.com cares a lot about their employees needs. They provide a happy culture, employees get to enjoy free lunches, no charge vending machines, and a full time life coach is available on hand if needed. Zappos.com thrives in the world of customer service; they are always coming up with new ways to keep their customers happy. The final company I chose was DreamWorks Animation SKG, now this to me would be an amazing place to work. DreamWorks Animation SKG is number 10 on the list of the best 100 companies to work for. The DreamWorks Animation SKG is responsible for the amazing movies such a Shrek, Kung Fu panda, Finding Nemo, and Monsters Inc, which are some of...
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...operating successfully under a decentralized, hands-off approach management in United States. Viacom’s strategy is to strengthen their bargaining position of its content business through a distribution monopoly and expand into international markets. However, with the limited information and rapid changes in the international markets, Viacom cannot successfully execute their strategy under a decentralized management. Viacom’s biggest challenge in any market is distribution of contents. Viacom needs to establish a dominant distribution network in Europe and with a decentralized management, operating managers cannot quickly react to the rapidly changing European market. As a centralized company, Viacom can leverage their entire company using Paramount Pictures to negotiate deals for MTV Network and Nickelodeon in Europe and react quickly to gain distribution power in Europe. Viacom is a content provider, not a distributor. Viacom needs to focus on distribution because many distributors are vertically integrated. Once they have a distribution channel established, it becomes easier for the distributors to provide and create contents. In addition, there is an increase in distribution monopolies in Europe and it can threaten Viacom’s survival if Viacom cannot successfully align a distribution channel in this market. Viacom’s bottleneck has been distribution so it is essential that Viacom has a healthy distribution channel. Therefore, Viacom must centralize their operations so they can...
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...Our presentation outline are： Paramount Health and Beauty Company Ultra thin five blade and vibrating technology- technology leading position 2011 - Introduce new Clean Edge target at niche market 2012 - Sunset Avail 2013 - Cut Clean Edge price to occupy mainstream market 2013 - Introduce Clean Edge Plus target at niche market to increase market share 2014 - Technology leading position in market, to achieve 472million annual revenue, and 32% market share in US non-disposable razor market. Our 推出新产品定位niche 2年后降价定位主流市场 并推出plus a new non disposable razor Clean Edge with cutting edge technology to improve men’s shaving experience by the use of leading vibrate technology in the super premium segment. 1. 我们的新产品有CE ultra thin five blade and vibrating technology， technology leading position 2. 我们将于2011推出CE，target at Niche market 3. 我们将于2013 cut CE price，to occupy mainstream market。 4. 同时我们将推出CE Plus，我们的客户是（高端客户），在市场保持领先地位share。 5. 我们的总体目标是2014年达到XXX. Our principle is technology leading, 1. 现在市场中super占最大。 2. 同时social是最大的消费群体。 3. 所以，我们决定将我们的主要客户定位在xxxx上。 1. 我们现在主要的竞争对手有XXXX。 2. 在这个市场我们市场份额的市场份额是0。 3. 在XXX市场中产品的最高定价为xxx-xxx。 4. 因为我们的技术处于绝对领先地位。 5. 所以我们将我们的定价定位：xxxx和xxxx。 6. 目前从市场中高端产品的走势中可以发现，我们进入高端市场是可行的。 Marketing Paramount Health and Beauty Company-Health, Cleaning...
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