35 of the passengers
were students
from Syracuse University,
who participated in the
university's
Division of International Programs Abroad
DIPA Program"
"Syracuse University Abroad"
"Syracuse Abroad"
"Study Abroad Program"
they
were returning home for Christmas
following a semester in
Syracuse's London and European campuses.
IO of these students were from other universities and colleges
(including but not limited to
Colgate University and University of Colorado)
which partnered with Syracuse in order for them to be allowed to study overseas by enrolling in the said program.
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Mary Mara
Born
September 21, 1960
Syracuse, New York, U.S.
Died
June 26, 2022 age 61
Education
San Francisco State University (BA)
Occupation
Actress
Years active
1989–2020
Mary Mara
September 21, 1960 – June 26, 2022
was an American television and film actress from Syracuse, New York,
known for her main role as Inspector Bryn Carson on Nash Bridges and
appearances on primetime dramas ER and Law & Order.
She also appeared in Mr. Saturday Night.
On June 26, 2022,
Mara drowned while swimming in the St. Lawrence River in Cape Vincent, New York.
She was 61 years old.Mary Mara, a veteran actress who appeared on TV shows
such as “Law & Order,” “NYPD Blue” and “Ray Donovan,” has died after ‘drowning’ in the St. Lawrence River over the weekend.
She was 61.
Mara was visiting her sister
MARTHA
Her body has been taken to the Jefferson County Medical Examiner’s Office
Stand-up comedian Buddy Young Jr. became a television star with the help of his brother and manager, Stan,
but alienated many of those closest to him once his career began to fade.
Through a series of flashbacks,
the brothers are seen during childhood entertaining their family in the living room.
Buddy continues his career as a comic in the Catskills, where he meets his future wife, Elaine.
As Buddy's fame grows, so does his ego. He hits the big time with his own Saturday night television show.
But despite the warnings of his brother, Buddy uses offensive material on the air, costing him his show and causing his career to suffer, officially ending when his stand-up act on the Ed Sullivan Show is scheduled right after The Beatles first US appearance, leading to his act being ignored and cut short.
Furious over being snubbed, he goes into an offensive tirade and quits.
As an older man, long past his prime,
Buddy is estranged from Stan as well as from his daughter, Susan.
A chance at redemption comes when a young agent named Annie Wells finds him work and even gets Buddy a shot at a role in a top director's new film.
Buddy nevertheless gives in to his own self-destructive nature, continuing to hurt his relationships with his family.
Derek Anthony West
Before Uber,
West was Associate Attorney General of the United States
and general counsel of PepsiCo.
West previously served as the Assistant Attorney General of the Civil Division,
the largest litigating division in the Department of Justice.
West was also involved in efforts
by the Department
to reclaim
$37 billion from large financial institutions
On August 21, 2014
West announced
a
$16.65 billion settlement
with Bank of America to
resolve federal and state claims against Bank of America
and its former and current subsidiaries,
including Countrywide Financial Corporation and Merrill Lynch.
West is the brother-in-law of Vice President Kamala Harris.
David Zaslav
born January 15, 1960
media executive
Chief Executive Officer and President of Warner Bros. Discovery.
Zaslav spearheaded the transaction between AT&T and Discovery
to combine with WarnerMedia and create the combined Warner Bros. Discovery in April 2022.
Zaslav's executive compensation package includes an annual salary of $3 million with an annual $22 million bonus. In his contract extension, Zaslav also received stock options valued at $190 million, making him one of the highest-paid entertainment executives in the world. [3][4][5] He previously served as the Chief Executive Officer and president of Discovery, Inc. beginning on November 16, 2006 and ending on April 8, 2022, when it was merged with WarnerMedia.[6][7]
Zaslav was born to a Polish and Ukrainian Jewish family [8][9][10][11] in Brooklyn, New York.[12] At the age of 8, he moved to Rockland County where he graduated from Ramapo High School.He was captain of the varsity tennis team.[15]
Zaslav earned a BS degree from Binghamton University.
Following this, he graduated from Boston University School of Law with a JD with honors in 1985 and started his career as an attorney with LeBoeuf, Lamb, Lieby and MacRae in New York.
NBC Universal[edit]
Zaslav joined NBC in 1989.[17] As president of Cable and Domestic TV and New Media Distribution, he oversaw content distribution to all forms of TV, negotiated for cable and satellite carriage of NBC Universal networks and forged media partnerships.[18][19]
His responsibilities extended to Bravo, CNBC World, SCI FI, ShopNBC, Sleuth, Telemundo, Telemundo Puerto Rico, mun2, Trio, Universal HD, USA Network, NBC Weather Plus and the Olympics on cable.
Zaslav also oversaw NBC Universal's interests in A&E, The History Channel, The Biography Channel, National Geographic International, the Sundance Channel and TiVo.[20]
Discovery
Zaslav became CEO of Discovery Communications in November 16, 2006, succeeding Judith McHale.[22] Zaslav instigated a shift in strategy by the company, aiming to see itself as a "content company" rather than a "cable company" by bolstering its main networks (such as its namesake Discovery Channel) as multi-platform brands.[23] As CEO, Zaslav oversaw the development and launch of new networks such as Planet Green (later rebranded as Destination America),[24] The Hub,[25][26] Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN),[27] Velocity,[28][29] and Investigation Discovery,[30] as well as the company's 2018 acquisition of Scripps Networks Interactive,[31] expansion of its digital education operations,[32] and current emphasis on streaming services.
Under his leadership, Discovery began trading as a public company in 2008, became a Fortune 500 company in 2014, and acquired Scripps Networks Interactive, in 2018.
Warner Bros. Discovery
In May 2021, it was announced that Zaslav would serve as CEO of a proposed merger of Discovery with a spin-out of AT&T's WarnerMedia.[35][36] Zaslav's executive compensation package includes an annual salary of $3 million with an annual $22 million bonus. In his contract extension, Zaslav also received stock options valued at $190 million.[37][38][39]
Since August 2022, Zaslav received heavy criticism for his decision to severely reduce the amount of original content on the streaming service HBO Max, to be used as tax write-offs, to focus on bigger theatrical productions. The total accounted loss was nearly $25 billion off the company's market cap.[40] Some of those projects were "practically finished" or in the late stages of post-production, including Batgirl and Scoob! Holiday Haunt.[41] Zaslav also received backlash from the animation community for the removal of many of Warner Bros' animated programs from streaming platforms and pulling most of the service's content in general, including Final Space, Infinity Train, Summer Camp Island, Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart, The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo, and several hundred episodes of Sesame Street, among others, a decision Infinity Train creator Owen Dennis remarked rendered many of the programs effectively as "lost media".[42] [43][44]
Zaslav serves on the boards of Sirius XM., The Cable Center, Center for Communication, Grupo Televisa, Partnership for New York City, Syracuse University, and USC Shoah Foundation.[45] He also is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Paley Center for Media and the Mt. Sinai Medical Center.[46] He is chair of the Auschwitz: The Past Is Present Committee which promotes awareness of the Holocaust.[9][10][47] In 2012, he received the Steven J. Ross Humanitarian Award from the UJA-Federation of New York[48] which honors people of vision, energy and sustained achievement in the entertainment, media and communications industries.[49]
In 2014, Zaslav was awarded the Fred Dressler Leadership Award by Syracuse University's S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.[45][16]
His daughter Ali Zaslav is a congressional producer with CNN.[
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William Samuel Paley
1901 – 1990
businessman,
chief executive who built the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)
from a small radio network
into one of the foremost
radio and television network operations
in the United States of America.
born in
Chicago, Illinois
the son of Goldie and Samuel Paley.
His family was
Jewish
his father was an immigrant from Ukraine
who ran a cigar company.
As the company became increasingly successful,
Paley became a millionaire,
and moved his family to
Philadelphia
in the early 1920s.
Zeta Beta Tau fraternity.
in expectation
that he would take an
increasingly active role running the
family
cigar business.
1927
Samuel Paley, Leon Levy and some business partners
bought a
Philadelphia-based radio network
of
16 stations called the
Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System.
Within a decade, William S. Paley
had expanded the network to
114 affiliate stations.
Paley changed
broadcasting's business modeI
not only by
developing successful and lucrative broadcast programming
but also by viewing advertisers and sponsors
as the most significant element of the broadcasting equation.
Paley provided network programming to affiliate stations at a nominal cost, thereby ensuring the widest possible distribution for both the programming and the advertising.
The advertisers then became the network's primary clients and, because of the wider distribution brought by the growing network,
Paley's recognition of
how to harness the potential reach of broadcasting
was the key
to his growing CBS from a tiny chain of stations
into what was eventually one of the
world's dominant communication empires.
During his
PRIME
an uncanny sense for popular taste
and exploiting that insight to build the CBS network.
As war clouds darkened over Europe
in the late 1930s,
Paley recognized Americans' desire
for news coverage of the coming war
and built the news division
into a dominant force
just as he had previously
built the network's
entertainment division.
As early as
1940
Paley envisioned
the creation of a network division within CBS tasked
with serving much of
South America.
Paley laid the foundation
for a chain of sixty-four stations
in eighteen countries
which would subsequently
be known
as La Cadena de las Americas
(The Network of the Americas).
By 1942,
Paley's innovative network
was broadcasting both news and cultural programming
live from New York City in cooperation
with the government's
Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs
under the direction of a young
During World War II, these broadcasts played a central role in promoting cultural diplomacy
and Pan Americanism as part of President Franklin Roosevelt's Good Neighbor Policy.
During World War II, Paley served as director of radio operations
of the Psychological Warfare branch in the Office of War Information
at Allied Force Headquarters in London, where he held the rank of colonel.
While based in England during the war, Paley came to know and befriend Edward R. Murrow,
CBS's head of European news who expanded the news division's foreign coverage
with a team of war correspondents later known as the Murrow Boys.
CBS has owned the
and its associated
CBS Laboratories since
1939.
June 1948,
Columbia Records introduced the 33-1/3-rpm LP record,
which could hold more than 20 minutes' worth of music on each side, and became a standard recording format though the 1970s.
Also, CBS Laboratories and Peter Goldmark
developed a method for color television.
After lobbying by RCA President David Sarnoff and Paley in Washington, D.C.,
the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
approved the CBS system,
but later reversed the decision based on the CBS system's incompatibility
with black and white receivers.
The new, compatible RCA color system was selected as the standard,
and CBS sold the patents to its system
to foreign broadcasters as PAL SECAM.
CBS broadcast few color programs during this period,
reluctant to supplement RCA revenue.
They did, however,
buy and license some RCA equipment and technology,
taking the RCA markings off of the equipment,
and later relying exclusively on
Philips-Norelco for color equipment beginning in 1964,
when color television sets became widespread.
PAL or Phase Alternating Line,
an analogue TV-encoding system,
is today
a television-broadcasting standard
used in large parts of the world.
"Bill Paley
erected
two towers of power:
one for entertainment
and one for news,
creator Don Hewitt
"And he decreed that
there would be no bridge between them....
In short,
Paley was the guy
who put Frank Sinatra and Edward R. Murrow
on the radio
and 60 Minutes on television.”
Paley was not fond of one of the network's biggest stars.
In private, Paley and his colleagues despised Godfrey.
had been working locally
in Washington, DC + New York City
hosting morning shows.
Godfrey would, on occasion, mock Paley and other CBS executives by
name, on the air.
Godfrey's massive revenues
from advertising
on the popular morning programs and his two prime-time shows
protected him from any reprisals.
The relationship
between Paley and his news staff was not always smooth.
The implication
was that the
network's sponsors
were uneasy
about some of the controversial topics
leading Paley to worry about lost revenue
to the network as well as
unwelcome scrutiny during the era of McCarthyism.
In 1955,
Alcoa withdrew its sponsorship of See It Now,
and eventually the program's weekly broadcast
on Tuesdays was stopped, t
hough it continued as a series of special segments until
1958.
1959,
became the president of CBS.
Under Aubrey,
the network became the most popular on television
with shows
like
The Beverly Hillbillies Gilligan's Island Gunsmoke;
1972,
Paley ordered the shortening of a second installment of a two-part CBS Evening News series on the Watergate scandal,
based on a complaint by Charles Colson,
an aide to President Richard Nixon.
And later,
Paley briefly ordered the suspension of instant and often negatively critical analyses by CBS news commentators which followed presidential addresses.
Over the years, Paley sold portions of his family stockholding in CBS. At the time of his death,
he owned less than 9 percent of the outstanding stock.
1995,
five years after Paley's death,
CBS was bought by Westinghouse Electric Corporation
1999,
by Viacom,
which itself was once a subsidiary of CBS. Today,
CBS is owned by ViacomCBS,
after merging with the "new" Viacom in 2019.
is the majority owner of ViacomCBS.
1940s,
William Paley and his brother-in-law, Leon Levy
formed Jaclyn Stable,
which owned and raced a string of thoroughbred race horses.
Paley formed a modern art collection
with as many as 40 major works,
and he enjoyed photographing Picasso in Cap d'Antibes.
Like Picasso, Paley drove an exotic French Facel Vega Facel II,
the fastest four-seater car in the world in the early 1960s.
1964
CBS purchased
the New York Yankees from
Subsequently,
the storied baseball team
fell into mediocrity,
not making the postseason for the next ten years.
1973
Paley sold the team at its low ebb
for $8.7 million
to Cleveland shipbuilder
George Steinbrenner and a group of investors.
Under the Steinbrenner regime,
the Yankees grew in value to what,
in April 2006,
Forbes magazine estimated was $1.26 billion,
or about $280 million in 1973 dollars.
Encouraged by Paley's avid interest in modern art
and his outstanding collection,
the Rockefeller family's Museum of Modern Art
made Paley a trustee in the 1930s;
1962
he was tapped by then-chairman David Rockefeller to be its president.
1968,
he joined a syndicate with Rockefeller
and others to buy six works by Picasso
for the museum from the notable Gertrude Stein collection.
1974,
Paley dedicated the second building at the
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at
He also personally dedicated
the Samuel L. Paley library at
Temple University named in honor of his father.
The Paley Center for Media was founded by Paley in New York City
in 1976
as the Museum of Broadcasting.
Paley met
Dorothy Hart Hearst
(while she was married to John Randolph Hearst,
the third son of William Randolph Hearst.
Paley fell in love with her, and,
after her Las Vegas divorce from Hearst,
she and Paley married on May 12, 1932, in Kingman, Arizona.
Dorothy called on her extensive social connections
acquired during her previous marriage to introduce
Paley to several top members of
President Franklin Roosevelt's government.
She also exerted
a considerable influence
over Paley's political views.
Paley married
divorcée, socialite and fashion icon
Barbara "Babe" Cushing Mortimer
the daughter of
renowned neurosurgeon Harvey Cushing. William and Babe Paley,
in spite of their successes and social standing,
were barred from being members of country clubs on Long Island because he was Jewish.
As an alternative, the Paleys built a summer home,
"Kiluna North,"
on Squam Lake
in New Hampshire
and spent the summers there for many years,
routinely entertaining their many friends,
including Lucille Ball, Grace Kelly, frank Sinatra David O. Selznick.
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Derek Anthony West
Before Uber,
West was Associate Attorney General of the United States
and general counsel of PepsiCo.
West previously served as the Assistant Attorney General of the Civil Division,
the largest litigating division in the Department of Justice.
David M. Zaslav
born January 15, 1960
president and chief executive officer of
Discovery Inc
since January 2007.
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