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Well then it would be a little more than coincidence that you made that previous statement about BKMP. :>) eom
Gorb is Dan friends with this guy?
Sandy Winick is a business consultant with over 20 years experience as an entrepreneur, financier, investor and advisor to both private and public companies. In addition Mr. Winick started out his career in public accounting and worked for several very large public accounting firms from there he went on to work in various business ventures that included real estate limited partnership where he helped raise over $150,000,000, from there he went onto to put together a retail and manufacturing furniture business with 13 locations and annual sales in excess of $30,000,000. Since then he has run several public companies in various industries.
I have no doubt your right as you have been in the past. However the longer Dan takes to address the pps the more ammo he is giving to the basher and the more people that are of the believe this is a scam.
I am not one of those people, but Dan brings this negativity upon himself by allowing the pps to remain stagnate. eom
gorbec1, Look who's Trade 15 assistant . I think you have fair and balanced. :>) On top of that he woud benefit also from a nice run. Dissenting opinions welcomed. Geez, did I say that. lol eom
Ya, I can't understand if he wants to complete the ski shop deal and is looking to acquire another company in June, how he could possibly hold off on releasing numbers. eom
RJ Trotts, if this goes to much longer, I can almost
guarantee you there will be a huge dump. Maybe Dan is keeping the no bid with some type of arrangement so that won't happen. I don't know, but I do know if the opportunity presents itself this time around it will be sayonara for some shareholders. eom
I don't see any pumpers on this board. We have people who are shareholders here. I thought pumpers were the people that post on everyone else's board. The ones that go out and recruit new investors. All of us here are just singing in the choir. eom
Do you guys have a quota for the day? eom
OT: Anyone ever get any response from the board administrators on I-Hub? Or do you have to be in jail to get a reponse? eom
Yup, not a good way to get attention for our little gem. :>) Cough cough eom
Crash OverRide, Mistake or no mistake. I would have gone right after that poster for comparing my company to that rubbish. lol eom
Good, Coach is finally getting some action. lol eom
Let's get the pps up before we do anything else. Geez. loleom
OT:I think Luis Collazo won that fight. The judges were about 100 years old. Their sight was gone. eom
Ya you wouldn't want to go over there to congratulate them with all the graphics you have on your post. You might give them ideas. lol eom
Why don't you ask them where their going when it runs its course? Hmmmmmmm? :>) eom
highwayman32, "I think you made a very wise decision"
Like I did when I bought SMMW. Thanks :>) eom
I hope it happens shortly. I want to buy a new boat before the summers over. Plus, in July I have a daughter getting married.:>) Hustla, I may need to borrow some cash from you. eom
highwayman32, Don't cry -Just buy. I'm gonna miss you a little when you can't bash here anymore without looking ridiculous. :>) eom
I was out on a boat on the lake. Should have stayed in. Now I have sunburn. lol I may have to rethink that. It's dangerous outside. lol eom
OT: Promise. Last one on this. http://www.rcn.com/
http://www.boston.com/sports/nesn/aboutus/hd/
Just exploring possiblilties on things SummusWorks could do in the future.eom
OT:Talk about DMA http://www.boston.com/sports/nesn/aboutus/adsales/ eom
Just a thought.
DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 24, 2006--Summus Works, Inc. (Pink Sheets:SMMW - News) announced Company subsidiary and cable broadcast affiliate Winter Park TV-18 began broadcasting at 11:30 AM Mountain Time on Comcast channel 18 to the Colorado towns of Granby, Fraser and Winter Park, home of Winter Park Resort, the closest major ski resort to Denver. The oldest continually operated ski resort in Colorado, Winter Park Resort is also one of the largest and most frequently visited ski resorts in the U.S., averaging more than a million annual skier visits.
I don't know if it's even feasible, but I wonder if Summus could strike a deal with NESN to brodcast some of NESN original programming. To fill the program schedule and create more opportunity for AD revenue. BCTV could send NESN some of their quality original programs. . eom
PS:Here's one NESN show
http://www.boston.com/sports/nesn/programming/shows/charlie_moore_outdoors/
OT: I would say quality.
Adam DesLauriers: Production Director, Chief Cinematographer, High Angle Media, Inc.. Adam grew up at Bolton Valley Resort in Vermont, the ski area owned and operated by his parents. His two older brothers Rob and Eric were pioneers of the ski-mountaineering film genre during the 1990’s. After graduating from the University of Vermont in 1996, Adam and his brothers formed Straight Up Films – a production company committed to making documentary-style 16 mm films about skiing, snowboarding and mountaineering. During the following years, Adam delved into all facets of production while he and his brothers produced and distributed 5 feature length films. In addition to his involvement with Straight Up Films, Adam’s freelance production includes work for Warner Brothers, Warren Miller Entertainment, Outdoor Life Network, and American Adventure Productions. After achieving a 3.9 GPA in the graduate school of Journalism at CU Boulder, he shot and directed seven 1-hour episodes of Dan Egan’s Wild World of Winter for New England Sports Network before co-founding High Angle Media.
Pierce Williams:, Producer, High Angle Media, Inc. Pierce earned his B.S. in Communications from Norwich University in 1994 and received honorable discharge as a Specialist from the Vermont National Guard in 1996. His professional career as a videographer began in college when he won an Emmy Award for a project on the Mount Washington Hotel. He also received awards for best Feature Videography and best Feature Story by the Society of Professional Journalists. Pierce created a public access channel for the Mad River Valley in Vermont and “Smugg’s TV” for Smugglers’ Notch Resort in Jeffersonville, Vermont. His resume includes freelance work for ABC NY’s Good Morning America, and World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, NBC Sports, NBC’s Today Show and Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, ESPN, OLN, Comedy Central, FOX Sports Net, PBS, and NESN. He managed two RSN affiliate stations before joining the Stowe TV-10 team.
OT:Double Play
Kurt Badenhausen, Cecily Fluke, Lesley Kump and Michael K.Ozanian, 04.15.02
Is $700 million a lot to pay for a moneylosing team that hasn't won the World Series since 1918? Not when a grossly undervalued cable network is included.
If you want to understand what drives the economics of baseball these days, just look at the recent sale of the Boston Red Sox.
The Red Sox haven't won the World Series since 1918, a year before they sold Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees. Boston's home, Fenway Park, was built in 1912 and is the smallest in the majors. And last season the team had an operating loss of $11.4 million.
Yet in February a group led by John Henry, then-owner of baseball's Florida Marlins, paid $700 million for the team, more than twice the previous record sale price (the $323 million Larry Dolan paid for the Cleveland Indians in 2000) and $550 million more than Henry paid for the Marlins just three years ago. What gives?
Along with the team and ballpark, Henry also got an 80% interest in the New England Sports Network (hockey's Boston Bruins own the remaining 20%). Lawrence Lucchino, president of the team and a minority owner, says: "The value of the Red Sox and NESN combined is far more than the value of the two entities separately."
Here's why. Prior to Henry's purchase, NESN, which is broadcasting 86 Red Sox games and 54 Bruins games this season, struck deals with all the major cable providers in eastern Massachusetts to move the channel to their basic cable lineup. Switching NESN to basic cable pushed its reach to 3.8 million homes across New England, more than double the number of subscribers who paid to watch Red Sox games when NESN was available only as a premium channel.
The Red Sox and Bruins provide NESN with plenty of guaranteed, prime-time programming in the nation's sixth-largest media market. And, unlike ratings for baseball on national TV (which have been declining), those on cable have remained high because fans always get to see the home team.
The Red Sox in particular have a very loyal fan base. Last year an average of 400,000householdstuned in to each Red Sox game on NESN. There are few baseball teams that do as well on cable. Only New York's Yankees and Mets--in a much bigger market--draw more viewers.This year NESN's revenue will be close to $90 million versus $75 million in 2001, according to John Mansell of Kagan World Media. Pretax cash flow (in the sense of net income plus depreciation) should be around $20 million, $5 million higher.
The additional revenue the Red Sox owners rake in from NESN will never increase enough to equal that of the New York Yankees, who play in baseball's biggest market and have started their own cable sports network. But the Red Sox will surely have the money to sign enough star players to challenge their hated Bronx rivals on the diamond. Our calculations show the Red Sox increasing 26% in value, to $426 million.
And NESN, which shows heaps of other sports programming--such as college basketball and football, boxing and bowling--is likely to increase revenue much more. Among the new owners is Thomas Werner, who has experience both as a baseball owner (San Diego Padres) and in television (developing several sitcom megahits, including The Cosby Show and Roseanne).
Werner told FORBES he plans on increasing advertising revenue by bidding for major sporting events as they become available, as well as partnering with other regional cable networks. "The goal is to not just make it [NESN] essential for Red Sox and Bruins fans, but for all New England sports," he says. Red Sox executives believe that NESN alone is worth $400 million.
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OT:The Boston Red Sox 80% interest of NESN followed by the Boston Bruins 20% interest . NESN carries RED SOX and BRUINS telcast. They also carry outdoor programming ie: the Mad Fisherman.
John Henry and Tom Werner are two of the principal owners of the RED SOX. John Henry made his money in Futures. Tom Werner below.
(Maybe SUMMUS will provide more outdoor programming for NESN.
The reason I list Tom's bio is, well you think Dan and Co could learn something from him. Also if SUMMUS has done work for this group, then they must do quality work. Look who your dealling with)
Tom Werner
Sometimes Credited As:
Thomas Werner Born:
New York, New York on 4/12/1950 Professions:
producer, executive, documentary filmmaker
Raised on New York's Upper East Side, Harvard-educated Tom Werner might not have thought he would have too much in common with his boss when he was transferred into ABC programming department from research in the mid-1970s. Marcy Carsey was a middle-class woman from Weymouth, MA, educated at The University of New Hampshire and by her own admission, "uncool." Yet, the duo became ABC's programming development and execution wizards, part of the team that brought the then perennially third-place network to prominence in the late 70s behind such series as "Laverne & Shirley" and "Mork & Mindy". Carsey rose up the ABC executive ladder with Werner right behind her, and when Carsey left the network in 1980 to go into independent production, Werner took over her senior vice presidency of prime time programming. A year later, he, too, departed ABC, and the duo formed Carsey-Werner Productions with offices above a Westwood, California, 7-Eleven store.
Although they each had script commitments with ABC, it took Carsey-Werner until 1983 to launch their first series, "Oh, Madeline," starring Madeline Kahn. It lasted a mere season, but by the time it was canceled, Carsey-Werner were already on to their next project. In the spring of 1984, comedian-actor-commercial pitchman Bill Cosby decided he wanted to try another sitcom. Matched by the William Morris Agency with Carsey-Werner as producers, the concept they collectively came up with was turned down by their former boss at ABC because the network refused to give the show a firm on-air commitment. NBC, mired in third place, was willing. In September 1984, "The Cosby Show", about the trials and tribulations of a Brooklyn obstetrician, his attorney wife and their five children, premiered. Given only a fair chance of succeeding in its Thursday at 8 p.m. time period against CBS' "Magnum, P.I.", it astounded the ad agencies by skyrocketing to first place in its time period by its second week and becoming not only the most successful series of all time in terms of total audience, but the most lucrative sale to syndication, with an estimated $600 million in revenues when it was first sold to stations in 1988. Although producing "The Cosby Show" meant commuting back and forth to New York, Carsey and Werner had time to expand their company. "A Different World", a "Cosby" spin-off, was launched in 1987 with Lisa Bonet in the lead. When Bonet departed, the show was revamped and ran for an additional six seasons.
ABC lured Carsey-Werner back in 1988 with "Roseanne", a sitcom starring Roseanne Barr (later Arnold), and inspired by her act as a stand-up comic. Although it quickly became ABC's Number 1 show, backstage squabbles between Roseanne and members of the writing staff not to mention her frequent skirmishes with Carsey-Werner and ABC became tabloid fodder. Nevertheless, the hit status of the show made all work toward solutions. Carsey and Werner were less successful with "Chicken Soup", a 1989 vehicle for comic Jackie Mason on ABC. "Grand" (NBC, 1990) and "Davis Rules" (ABC, 1991; CBS, 1991-92) also failed. Even an attempt to team with Cosby on a new syndicated version of "You Bet Your Life" flopped in 1992, as did a CBS sitcom, "Fannie," that same year. The industry pundits were saying Carsey-Werner's time had passed and that their knack for putting stand-up comics into family-based sitcoms which demonstrated heart as well as an au courant edge had vanished.
Carsey and Werner were not yet ready to sit back and count the hundreds of millions of dollars in their personal fortunes from syndication revenues. Signing Brett Butler, who, like Roseanne, had a working-class woman-based nightclub act, the duo marched into ABC and sold "Grace Under Fire", which was launched in 1993 and became another top hit and syndication bonanza. Their magic seemed to be back for CBS in 1995 with "Cybill", a sitcom starring Cybill Shepherd as a sometime working actress. Acclaimed by the critics when it was launched in the spring of 1995, CBS moved the series to Sunday nights at 8 p.m. supplanting "Murder, She Wrote" in September 1995. Despite the network's hopes that "Cybill" would attract a new and younger audience to the network, the show's ratings faltered. It was moved to Mondays where it found its niche.
Carsey-Werner pressed on, successfully launching "3rd Rock From the Sun", an NBC series starring John Lithgow and Jane Curtin that debuted in January 1996. For the 1996-97 season, they placed a sitcom on each of the major networks: "Cosby" on CBS; "Men Behaving Badly" on NBC; and "Townies" on ABC.
Werner made the sports pages in 1990 when he plunged some of his "Cosby" revenues into buying the San Diego Padres baseball team and was named principal owner. A controversy erupted when, soon after the purchase, Werner asked Roseanne to sing the National Anthem at a Padres game. Chewing gum in an attempt to comically mimic players and umpires, Roseanne sang off-key and grabbed her crotch at the end of the song. A nationwide furor arose. Werner tenure as Padres owner did not get much better. Disliked by fans, who perceived that Werner and his partners were selling off the team's best players for cost efficiency, Werner sold his share within a few years after buying it. Werner and partner Carsey both have been relatively press shy, rarely granting interviews or offering quotes, even during Roseanne's most vocal moments. While their company dabbled a bit in TV-movies during the mid-80s with "Single Bars, Single Women" for ABC, they abandoned the genre. In the 90s, they gave indications of expanding their syndication business; creating their own division in 1992 having relied on Viacom prior to that. When Viacom merged with Paramount, Carsey and Werner bought back their properties. In 1995, they announced plans to syndicate a new version of "What's My Line," but retracted when it turned out that All American TV controlled the rights.
Family
brother:Peter Werner
Education
Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts government 1971
Companion
Jill Werner.wife,
Katie Couric.,
Awards
Producers Guild of America David Susskind Lifetime Achievement Award 2001
Golden Globe Award Best Television Series (Musical or Comedy) "Cybill" 1995
NAACP Image Award Best Episode in a Comedy Series or Special "No Means No" episode of "A Different World" 1989
Emmy Best Comedy Series "The Cosby Show" 1985
Milestones
1998 Was excutive producer of failed Fox sitcom "Damon"
1998 With Carsey, returned to the winners' column as executive producers of Fox's "That '70s Show"
1996 Co-executive produced "Townies" (ABC)
1995 Signed agreement to produce a sitcom for Bill Cosby to air on CBS
1992 First first-run syndication effort launched, "You Bet Your Life"
1990 Co-executive producer, "Grand" (NBC); member of partnership that purchased the San Diego Padres baseball team; became principal owner
1989 Co-executive producer, "Chicken Soup" (ABC)
1984 - 1991 Co-executive producer of "The Cosby Show" (NBC);
1984 Produced first TV-movie, "Single Bars, Single Women" (ABC)
1983 Carsey Werner's first sitcom launched on ABC: "Oh, Madeline"
1981 Left ABC as senior vp, primetime programs; joined former colleague and boss, Marcy Carsey, to form Carsey-Werner Productions
1973 Joined ABC Entertainment as researcher
Worked as documentary filmmaker after college
Served as a producer on "Shirley Chisholm: Pursuing the Dream"
Co-executive producer of "A Different World" (NBC), spin-off of "The Cosby Show"
Co-executive producer, "Roseanne" (ABC)
Co-executive producer, "Davis Rules" (ABC, then CBS)
Co-executive producer, "3rd Rock From the Sun" (NBC)
Co-executive produced "Men Behaving Badly' (NBC)
Co-executive produced "Cosby" (CBS)
Co-executive producer, "Grace Under Fire" (ABC)
Co-executive producer, "Cybill" (CBS)
gorbec1, You know my feelings. Maybe you meant it that way all along. lol eom
RJTROTTS, I have nesn. Did you know the NY TIMES own 18% of the Boston Red Sox. They own The Boston Globe to. Not that it has to do with anything. Just file it under useless info.. SMMW has done work for NESN in the past. lol eom
RCN or NCR RCN=Regional Cable Network? HUH? I'm going out on the boat. Have a good day. :>) eom
k9narc, lmao. No. Forget that last post. Someone will notice eventually. I may be seeing things that are not there. Maybe grabbed the wrong bottle. lol eom
How about pr firms do pr work. Professional in what they do and know how to get the word out. Also they already have a large audience who subscribe to the newsletter. (emails) Just a thought. eom
Ok we're definitely getting close. Anyone notice anything different in the last week? eom
I use to have a birdie, but he died. Not before he made my brother in law and I a lot of money. What a good bird he was. Your missed. lol eom
Gorb, Everyone talking about birds today. Docbill to. lol
By: docbill23
26 May 2006, 04:42 PM EDT
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Birdie tells me the company will take care of the share issue in due time. Birdie also tells me more webcast to come soon. Birdie also tells me Dan to be scolded by public relations for content of Pr's...seems more than just us think it can be done a little better. Birdie won't shut-up...birdie agrees NO R/S...Dan is/will take care of share structure to make all a little happier...if that's at all possible. Birdie finally says the Audit should make most pleased with the company to date. As always lets end this with IMO...all can take it as they will.
Birds back in the cage :)))
Doc.
Happy Holiday!
RJ Trotts, check your PM. eom
Birdietoldme, I think you might be right. Maybe it's time for you two to move on to bigger and better things. It appears we are finished here.:>( eom
highwayman32, Now that I have had an exorcism performed, I see things more clearly. I see you have issues that you clearly need help with. Being immersed in the cybor world you have come to believe your playing a video game called Bashers vs Pumpers. You need to go out and smell some roses. Get some fresh air. Leave the cybor world and get back to reality. If you don't like the stock or Ceo it's ok, but to be fixated on this day in and day out is not healthy for you. Crimson had some good advice. If we fail come back and hammer us. In the mean time go and enjoy life. lol eom
If Crash truly is surfit I feel better now. At least we have foreknowledge of his MO and if we don't get greedy we'll do just fine. Just the fact that most of longs are in on the bottom floor. With that said, I think we have a real gem here with or without anyones help. lol eom
trade15, This surfit you keep referring to? Does it usualy work out for him? I have been looking on RB and here to find any post and can't find any. Did you say he has them erased? TIA eom
OT:Wow their on the move. Can't wait for our day. :>) GL eom