The Warner brothers are some of the greatest and most influential media moguls in the world.
Harry, Albert, Sam and Jack are the names of the iconic and influential Warner brothers.
Youngstown, Ohio is one of the first places for the iconic and influential Warner brothers in the United States, but also outside thier native Poland.
For Youngstown, it is named after its founder John Young, an individual from Whitestown, New York.
New Castle, Pennsylvania is a city located southwest of the Youngstown area in the Pennsylvania-Ohio border.
Jack L. Warner is an outlier, as he was born in London, which is a city being based in the Southwestern portion of the Canadian province of Ontario, which borders the United Sattes.
London, Ontario is named after the capital and largest city of the United Kingdom, but also houses the Thames River, also similar to the River Thames in London (UK).
For London, this Canadian city stands between Detroit, Buffalo and Toronto.
Vitaphone is a pioneering sound film system being made by the Warner Bros. empire.
Don Juan (1926), although having no spoken dialogue, is the first full-length feature film to include a synchronized soundtrack from start to finish.
The Jazz Singer is the first full-length feature film to include spoken/singing dialogue.
In addition to both Don Juan (1926) and The Jazz Singer, Warner Bros. Pictures also releases the first feature-length film to use spoken dialogue without intertitles: Lights of New York.
Cleveland roots Superman, a WB trademark since 1969, and its creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.
For Superman, this character is the flagship of the WB comic book division called DC Comics, whose corporate name has been official since February 1977, and which WB has run since 1969.
Superman is DC's most iconic and flagship superhero.
Philadelphia, an iconic and world-famous city in Pennsylvania, also births Leon Schlesinger, who is a distinct relative of the Warner brothers.
Besides Leon Schlesinger, Pennsylvania births Charles Mintz, who is Margaret J. Winkler's wife.
Margaret J. Winkler's studio, led for most of its run by husband Charles Mintz, distributes independent animation figures, such as Walt Disney, Ub Iwerks, the Fleischer brothers and Pat Sullivan.
Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising and Friz Freleng work for a studio run by Charles Mintz.
Kansas City, Missouri is a city nuturing Walt Disney, Ub Iwerks, Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising and Friz Freleng, leading them to Los Angeles.
By partnering with Leon Schlesinger, both Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising co-formed Harman-Ising Productions, which births Warner Bros. Cartoons.
Besides, both Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising nuture Hanna and Joseph Barbera.
Leon Schlesinger's animation studio has many of its iconic and world-famous characters being created during his era, like Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd and Tweety.
The Fleischer brothers, mentored by Margaret J. Winkler, created the Superman animated shorts from 1941 to 1942.
Pennsylvania also births Leonard Goldenson, who, using his experience as a Hollywood movie theatre executive, saved ABC from extinction, but also provided capital.
Barred from filmmaking, due to court rulings, Leonard Goldenson used his UPT connections to secure foundational deals with Hollywood film studios.
Walt Disney, mentored by Margaret J. Winkler, created his Disneyland television series to finance the construction of his theme park in partnership with ABC in 1954.
Responding to the Disney-ABC deal, Warner Bros. inked up a deal with ABC.
The result of this deal that Warner Bros. inked up with ABC is Warner Bros. Presents.
For Warner Bros. Presents, it comprises two of the television iterations of the Warner Bros. films being iconic and famous: Casablanca and Kings Row, plus Cheyenne, named after the WB film.
During its first season, Cheyenne uses stock action footage and plots coming from older Western films being released by Warner Bros. to save cash.
Playing the title role in the Cheyenne television series is Clint Walker.
Having been part of this Warner Bros. Presents series on ABC, Cheyenne, which stars Clint Walker, is television's first hour-long drama to be successfully renewed past its first season.
Warner Bros. Presents evolved into Conflict; it features pilots for Maverick and 77 Sunset Strip.
77 Sunset Strip is television's first franchise, spawning no less than 3 spinoffs recreating this format.
Incidentally, with both Disney and Warner Bros., ABC has introduced Hollywood production levels to television.
ABC's domestic syndication arm ABC Films was spun-off in 1973 into Worldvision Enterprises.
Worldvision Enterprises was not affiliated with World Vision International.
HBO started operations on November 8, 1972 as a regional microwave-fed premium television service under Cleveland-born Charles Dolan.
Sterling Communications, backed by Time Inc., was Charles Dolan's company, sold to Time in 1973.
Warner Communications began purchasing Time's stake in Sterling Communications in May 1973, but backed out in June 1973.
A few years later, on September 30, 1975, HBO uplinked its signal via satellite across the nation.
For HBO's September 30, 1975 national uplink, Westar 1 was the satellite.
Satcom 1 replaced Westar 1 as HBO's preferred satellite, nearly 5 months after its September 30, 1975 national uplink.
The Thrilla in Manila is HBO's first broadcast on a national basis, doubling as the first telecast to air a continuous live signal to cable systems on a national level via satellite.
Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier were in the Thrilla in Manila, the earlier boxer of which won.
Some behind-the-scenes individuals being involved in HBO's historic Thrilla in Manila telecast include Bob Rosencrans, Kay Koplovitz, Gerald Levin and Monte Rifkin.
Unconfined to boxing, HBO aired major league sports from Madison Square Garden from its debut on November 8, 1972 to mid-1977.
Joining Cleveland in Ohio cities starting with the letter C are Cincinnati and Columbus, plus Dayton.
For Cleveland, it births Superman and Charles Dolan (HBO).
Likewise, Cincinnati roots Taft Broadcasting and Ted Turner.
During its peak, Taft Broadcasting had endured close relations with ABC, due to Leonard Goldenson's friendship with Hulbert Taft Jr.
Indeed, Taft's close relationship with ABC boosted the network's national coverage.
For Taft, its Cincinnati roots are in the Cincinnati Times-Star, plus WKRC Radio and Television.
The E.W. Scripps Company, a locally-based rival of this iconic and famous Taft media empire, took the Cincinnati Times-Star in the late-1950's.
Just like the Taft media empire, the E.W. Scripps Company's Cincinnati roots come from the Cincinnati Post and WCPO Radio and Television.
Moving on from print after its late-1950's sale of the Cincinnati Times-Star to the E.W. Scripps media empire, Taft Broadcasting entered the entertainment industry.
December 1966 is when Taft, which had close relations with ABC, acquired the iconic Hanna-Barbera studio, with William Hanna and Joseph Barbera remaining as its figureheads.
Kings Island is Taft's first theme park, which opened its doors in April 1972.
For Kings Island, it led to Kings Entertainment Company (KECO), spun-off in April 1984 from Taft.
Canada's Wonderland, which Taft opened in late-May 1981 with Canada Life, serves as Canada's first major theme park.
Worldvision Enterprises, spun-off in 1973 from ABC Films, was sold to Taft 6 years later.
Quinn Martin Productions was also sold to Taft around Worldvision's purchase.
Atlanta, Georgia is Ted Turner's main base.
For Ted Turner, his true link to Cincinnati is that, as a child, he sold copies of the Cincinnati Enquirer newspaper at a streetcar stop near the Cincinnati Zoo, starting his media career.
The first television assets for Ted Turner are WJRJ-TV and WCTU-TV, both of which were struggling stations on the UHF band before he acquired them and both of which began in the late-1960's.
Under Ted Turner, both WJRJ-TV and WCTU-TV changed their call letters to WTCG and WRET.
In July 1969, Rice Broadcasting, which founded/ran WJRJ-TV, announced its merger with the Turner Communications Corporation, approved by the FCC in December 1969.
September 1969 is when WCTU-TV fell into insolvency, resulting in its sale to Turner not long after.
Responding to HBO's September 30, 1975 national satellite-fed uplink, both WTCG and WRET were contenders for the first superstation, the earlier local station of which won.
For WTCG's national satelite-fed uplink, held under a month before 1977 began, it used Satcom 1.
Incidentally, Satcom 1, already used by HBO as its frequent satellite after replacing Westar 1, was also being used by WTCG to carry its signal to cable systems.
Likewise, Ted Turner attended the McCallie School, from which he graduated in the mid-1950's.
Pat Robertson, who held the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), also had his graduation from the McCallie School a decade before Ted Turner.
The CBN Satellite Service was the first television network to be delivered nationwide via satellite on a basic cable status from its technical outset.
Upon its April 29, 1977 debut, the CBN Satellite Service had no commercials until September 1, 1981.
September 22, 1977 is when the individuals being involved in HBO's historic Thrilla in Manila telecast formed a joint venture with the local MSG Network to launch its national version.
For the national iteration of the local MSG Network, its launch on September 22, 1977 made it the first national satellite-fed basic cable television network with commercials from its outset.
Tennessee likewise roots Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, who co-founded DC Comics, which has been a Warner Bros. property since 1969.
Meanwhile, Columbus roots QUBE from the cable division of the Warner Bros. media empire.
In an era when most homes have a few over-the-air stations, QUBE had a mutli-channel box.
Although not commercially profitable (and having suffered high costs), QUBE is still the incubator for modern cable television.
December 1, 1977 was when QUBE began operations.
Warner Communications joined American Express to form Warner-Amex, nearly 2 years after QUBE's December 1, 1977 launch.
Pinwheel, which started as a local program on QUBE, became national sixteen months later on a new channel called Nickelodeon.
Sight on Sound, also a local program on QUBE, became national on August 1, 1981 as MTV.
Unconfined to Sight on Sound, Warner-Amex developed PopClips, created by Michael Nesmith.
Rio is a 1977 tune by Michael Nesmith that has a promotional clip.
Michael Nesmith's Rio promo clip is created, not in the usual low-budget form of an artist playing an instrument on a plain stage, but in the form of a comedic and surreal short film.
Directing Michael Nesmith's Rio promo clip is William Dear.
So successful was Michael Nesmith's Rio promotional clip, which William Dear had directed, that this former member of The Monkees pitched a platform for playing music videos.
By joining TV producer Norman Lear, both Michael Nesmith and William Dear created PopClips.
PopClips featured back-to-back music videos, hosted by comedic on-screen individuals named Video Jockeys (VJs), an innovation for the television business.
When the major television networks pitched Michael Nesmith's PopClips, they refused, as they did not think that audiences would sit down to watch non-live music content.
However, John Lack, who was Warner-Amex's executive Vice-President, saw the potential for Michael Nesmith's PopClips.
This PopClips format, which Michael Nesmith pitched, was sold to Warner-Amex, which used it on its youth-oriented network called Nickelodeon in late-1980.
With the success being made by Michael Nesmith's PopClips, Warner-Amex realized that its half-hour length was not enough, and decided to upscale this one into a 24-hour service.
Robert Pittman had fast-paced radio strategies; he joined John Lack to begin MTV on August 1, 1981.
Michael Nesmith was not known as MTV's inventor, but his PopClips concept was known by industry insiders and television network architects as the catalyst for MTV's.
Going back to Atlanta, WATL originated The Now Explosion, another MTV precursor, which WTCG likewise aired.
Video Concert Hall (VCH) was a similar Atlanta-rooted MTV precursor to The Now Explosion.
Lloyd G. Crowe and Charles W. Henderson co-created Video Concert Hall (VCH).
The Now Explosion, Video Concert Hall (VCH), Sight on Sound and PopClips, the earlier two being rooted in Atlanta, were MTV precursors.
Dayton roots James M. Cox, the namesake of the Cox Enterprises media empire.
Cox's Dayton roots are in the Dayton Daily News, plus WHIO Radio and Television.
For WHIO-TV, it serves as Dayton's first and oldest-operating television station, with WLWD/WDTN being its first licensed one and its second in operation.
Johnny Gilbert and Phil Donahue are Dayton television icons who earn national recognition.
TeleRep, which Al Masini founded in the late-1960's, had been Cox's subsidiary since 1972.
Operation Prime Time (OPT) is a former consortium of America's indie television stations.
Likewise, both TeleRep (Cox) and OPT owned their own programming, production and syndication division called Television Program Enterprises (TPE).
Entertainment Tonight, Solid Gold and Star Search are noted programs from OPT/TPE.
September 14, 1981 is when Entertainment Tonight made its debut.
During its original tenure, Star Search proved that television served as a launching pad for iconic and world-famous celebrities.
On March 4, 1989, Time and Warner Communications announced their merger into TimeWarner.
Some years after this January 1990 merger, in the early-1990's era, TimeWarner transferred most of its television, film production, music and cable assets to TimeWarner Entertainment Company.
Echoing Warner's 1973 transaction in acquiring Time's stake in Sterling Communications, this January 1990 merger between Time and Warner united WB, DC and HBO under one umbrella.
TimeWarner, which held WB, DC and HBO, merged with Turner Broadcasting System in 1996.
With the 1996 Turner-TimeWarner merger, some of the animated characters being rooted in pioneering studios via Margaret J. Winkler and Charles Mintz came full circle.
London, which is an iconic and world-famous global city being located in the UK, houses the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO).
The LSO performs John Williams' film scores, like Star Wars and Superman.
Besides, London births stock music with De Wolfe Music, in addition to its modern and contemporary sound with KPM/EMI under Robin Phillips and Adrian Kerridge.
Chappell & Co. and Boosey & Hawkes are some of the world's oldest, greatest and most iconic music publishers.
Warner Music acquired Chappell & Co. in the late-1980's, forming Warner/Chappell Music.
New York houses Score Productions, held by Robert A. Israel.
Having been educated at the Juilliard School, Robert A. Israel entered television music through David Susskind and Daniel Melnick.
Cues from film scoring Juilliard alumni, incidentally, inspire stock music cues.
Ontario likewise houses both Sound Ideas/Westar and Canadian Music Sales Corporation (CMS), both entities having ties with Warner Bros., but also distributing De Wolfe Music in Canada.
The Warner brothers (including Jack), Superman, HBO, Sound Ideas/Westar and Canadian Music Sales Corporation (CMS) use WB ties together.
Superstation WTBS, CNN, CNN Headline News, TNT and Hanna-Barbera are Turner assets from WB.
Mitchel Greenspan is the former executive Vice-President of Corelli-Jacobs/De Wolfe.
Having launched his creative career as a professional miniature set model maker and designer, Mitchel Greenspan later transitioned to audio production/corporate administration.
American Music Company, which Mitchel Greenspan began after leaving Corelli-Jacobs/De Wolfe, is distributed by Westar, which, in turn, distributes De Wolfe Music in Canada.
Gary Anderson, who worked for Score Productions (held by Robert A. Israel), also works for Westar's American Music Company, founded by Mitchel Greenspan of Corelli-Jacobs/De Wolfe.
Edd Kalehoff, who likewise worked for Score Productions under Bob Israel, also owns his own music company called the Suite 4 Music Collection.
Westar has Edd Kalehoff and Gary Anderson (both from Bob Israel's Score Productions) via American Music Company (started by Mitchel Greenspan of Corelli-Jacobs/De Wolfe) and Suite 4.
Sound Ideas, which is Westar's sister label, distributes the Turner Broadcast Music Library, which also involves both Edd Kalehoff and Gary Anderson.
For Sound Ideas/Westar, it uses sound effects from WB and Hanna-Barbera.
Jack Waldenmaier, whose secondary base Cincinnati births both the Tafts and Ted Turner, has his label called The Music Bakery, based in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.
In the corporate/industrial genre, The Music Bakery makes cues similar to Score Productions' work for ABC News and CNN.
Steven Wenger is also a musician in the Southern US region.
Having lived in Nashville, Memphis and Charlotte, Steven Wenger had his own company called River City Sound Productions (RCSP), founded in Memphis in 1985.
Cascom and Digital Juice are defunct companies for royalty-free animation, both of which were being rooted in the Southern United States.
For RCSP, it has created in-house cues, but also stock music in the royalty-free model.
RCSP's stock music cues, starting in the 1990's era, were resourced by Digital Juice for its BackTraxx section in 2001.
During the late-1990's period, some of the stock music cues cominh from RCSP/BackTraxx were being utilized by Chuck E. Cheese, initially run by Atari, whose parent was the Warner Bros. empire.
In general, Cleveland births Superman and its creator Jerry Siegel, plus Charles Dolan (HBO).
Cincinnati roots Ted Turner (CNN), Taft Broadcasting (close and friendly to Leonard Goldenson's ABC network) and Jack Waldenmaier (The Music Bakery).
Tennessee also houses Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson (DC Comics, held by Warner Bros., and known for Superman), Ted Turner (CNN, run by WB), Pat Robertson (CBN), Cascom and Steven Wenger.