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Winning with White
The late Aleksander Wojtkiewicz, known as "Wojo" to his fans and followers, was one of the most feared players of the White pieces in the U.S. tournament circuit. Using his dynamic, Catalan-based opening repertoire, the "Polish Magician" won hundreds of tournaments from the 1990's until his untimely death in 2006. Now, Wojtkiewicz experts IM Dean Ippolito and NM Jonathan Hilton have joined forces to produce the definitive "how-to" manual for learning Wojo's repertoire with White after 1.Nf3 d5.
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Winning Chess Puzzles For Kids Volume 2 is a fun and instructive workbook for children ages 7 to 13. Full of imaginative drawings, it combines standard chess problems with a variety of insightful chess-related puzzles. Slightly more advanced than Volume 1, its aim is to further develop a student's tactical skills.
Winning Chess Puzzles for Kids - VOLUME 2
Learn to Play Chess Like Garry Kasparov
Win Like Kasparov! is the first in the Win like My Hero! series by International Grandmaster Ron W. Henley. This instructional series was created for chess players to learn to play like the most heroic figures of the Royal Game. Tactics and strategy are explained through the use of visually enhanced diagrams.
Win Like Kasparov!
The main reason why we lose at chess is no big secret: we all make unnecessary mistakes! But simply acknowledging this fact isn't enough to help us improve. The big question is, how can we eliminate these mistakes from our game, or at least keep them to an absolute minimum?
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Understanding The Marshall Attack
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Strategic Ideas & Surprise Weapons for Dynamic Chess Players
The widely-played Winawer Variation has been called 'the jewel in the crown of the French Defence'. It is easy to see why. This is an opening for players who love a real fight. Black immediately attacks White's centre and the resulting positional dynamics offer chances to both sides.
The Wonderful Winawer
The Tactical Grob This book is on the chess opening known as Grob's Attack. This chess opening starts with 1. g2-g4 or, in Descriptive Notation, 1. P-KN4. Once thought of as a joke, the Grob Opening is a very dangerous opening to both the white and black sides in chess.
The Tactical Grob
Grandmaster Repertoire is a new series of high quality chess books based on the main lines, written by strong grandmasters. The aim is to provide the reader with a complete repertoire at a level good enough for elite tournaments, and certainly also for the club championship. Grandmaster Repertoire provides a repertoire to last a lifetime.
The Sicilian Defense - Grandmaster Repertoire 6
An Insider's View
The positions arising in the Moscow variation and the Anti-Moscow variation are in principle so different that I have decided to arrange the material in the two parts of the book in different fashion too. The part of the book, which deals with the analysis of the plans and possibilities in the much calmer Moscow variation can be compared to a thorough guide of the series "street by street".
The Moscow & Anti-Moscow Variations
he Modern Philidor Defence consists of seven chapters, dealing with different move-orders. Each chapter comprises of a "Quick Repertoire" then a thorough theoretical study in the part "Step by Step"and "Complete Games". In order to include a system in your opening repertoire, it would be sufficient for you to read the review and see the games and this should not take too much of your time. After this, you can start playing this opening in friendly games at your club, or on the Internet.
The Modern Philidor Defence
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The tournaments are presented in chronological order. Along with a crosstable of the event, each tournament is represented by the best game of the tournament winner, the best game played at the tournament, and the game with the most important theoretical novelty. There is also a selection of game fragments, the most beautiful combinations and endings.
The Greatest Tournaments 2001-2009
1001 Brand New Chess Puzzles to Challenge and Entertain Players from Novices to Grandmasters
Tactical skills are paramount in chess. More than anything else, a player's ability to find tactical solutions determines how successful he is over-the-board. No endgame scheme, opening idea or strategic plan, however brilliant a concept it may be, is of any value unless it is accurately calculated and implemented.
The best way to develop tactical skills is to practice them by tackling new and challenging positions. This book provides a wealth of chess puzzles to test just about every facet of your tactical ability. It is very unlikely that even those who have read many other chess puzzle books will recognize more than a handful of these positions. Franco has searched recent events and used powerful computers to seek out previously unpublished puzzles, and has also drawn extensively upon Latin American sources that he has been scouring for brilliant examples over the last three decades.
Following the pattern of Gambit's hugely successful Ultimate Chess Puzzle Book (by John Emms), the book begins with 100 relatively easy positions suitable for novices, and ends with 100 extremely tough puzzles, which provide a mind-bending challenge even for grandmasters. There are 1001 puzzles in all, including themed sections and graded tests, all with detailed computer-verified solutions and verbal explanations of the main instructive points.
The Giant Chess Puzzle Book
Tactical Themes to Sharpen Your Play
In The Gambit Files, the author surveys the common tactical motifs for each variation, and then invites you to hone your cut-and-thrust skills with thematic puzzles. Whether you're looking to breathe new life into your current openings or to overhaul your repertoire, The Gambit Files will help you to slay your opponents faster and with confidence.
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Grandmaster Repertoire is a new series of high quality books based on the main lines, written by strong grandmasters. The aim is to provide the reader with a complete repertoire at a level good enough for elite tournaments, and certainly also for the club championship. Grandmaster Repertoire provides a repertoire to last a lifetime.
The English Opening - Grandmaster Repertoire 5 - VOLUME 3
Grandmaster Repertoire is a new series of high quality books based on the main lines, written by strong grandmasters. The aim is to provide the reader with a complete repertoire at a level good enough for elite tournaments, and certainly also for the club championship.
The English Opening - Grandmaster Repertoire 4 - VOLUME 2
The Alapin Variation by it's Greatest Expert
It is not difficult to understand why the Alapin Sicilian is such a popular opening with amateur and professional chess players all over the world. Against Black's most dangerous reply to 1.e4 it simply offers everything you need if you are looking for a reliable scheme that does not take much time to learn.
The Complete c3 Sicilian
Test and Improve Your Defensive Skill
One of the most important skills a chessplayer needs is the ability to defend a position that is under siege. In this third volume in the highly acclaimed, best-selling ChessCafe Puzzle Book series, International Grandmaster Karsten Mueller, along with International Master Merijn van Delft, examines and expounds upon the vital defensive concepts and techniques used to repulse enemy attacks.
The ChessCafe Puzzle Book 3
As modern day Chess Handbooks go, this must be up there with the best ever. Borrowed from Purdy's Guide to Good Chess and three sections of the Search for Chess Perfection II (included are: "How to advance in Chess," "A System to Reduce Errors," and "A Method of Thinking in Chess") it contains the best tools to start and to advance.
Many students and teachers of the game consider CJS Purdy to be the greatest explainer of what's important in chess who ever lived.
The Chess Gospel According to John*
In chess, the Caro-Kann opening is one of Black's most reliable answers to 1.e4. It is a regular favorite of elite players, who know that computer-aided preparation now threatens the sharpest lines of the Sicilian or Ruy Lopez (at the very least with a forced draw).
The Caro-Kann is less susceptible to such forcing lines - Black sets out to equalize in the opening, and win the game later. Grandmaster Lars Schandorff reveals a bulletproof chess opening repertoire and lucidly explains how Black should play the middle and endgame
The Caro-Kann - Grandmaster Repertoire 7
It's a fact of chess life that if you want to win, you have to put a bit of study in. Every chess player, from near-beginner to experienced tournament player, needs to learn the openings and keep on top of current theory. But studying doesn't have to be dull.
Studying Chess Made Easy
The Reti is a popular opening at all levels of chess. The great advantage it possesses over other openings is that it's a thematic system which can be adopted against many different defences, and because of this it's a firm favourite amongst those who prefer the understanding of ideas over dry memorization of moves.
Starting Out - The Reti
'Open Games' refer to a myriad of openings arising after the ever-popular 1 e4 e5: the Italian Game, the Scotch, The Two Knights Defence, the King's Gambit, the Evans Gambit, the Bishop's Opening, the Four Knights, the Petroff and much more besides.
Starting Out - Open Games
The Benko, Budapest, Albin and Blumenfield
This book aims to teach you how to put Black into a positional squeeze in the most popular gambits against 1.d4. It offers a White repertoire based on understanding and not on memorisation of long variations.
Georgiev preaches a solid strategic approach which allows to decrease the role of computer assisted home analysis and will serve you for many years.
Squeezing the Gambits
The main reason why we lose at chess is no big secret: we all make unnecessary mistakes! But simply acknowledging this fact isn't enough to help us improve. The big question is, how can we eliminate these mistakes from our game, or at least keep them to an absolute minimum?
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HARRISBURG, Pa. — A Penn State assistant football coach testified Friday that he believes he saw former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky sexually molesting a boy but said he wasn't 100 percent sure it was intercourse.
Mike McQueary, speaking for the first time in public about the 2002 encounter, said he truly believes what he saw in a Penn State locker room was intercourse.
McQueary took the stand Friday in a Pennsylvania courtroom against two school officials accused of lying to a grand jury about the child sex-abuse allegations against Sandusky.
McQueary said he saw Sandusky was behind a boy he estimated to be 10 or 12 years old, with his hands wrapped around the boy's waist. He said the boy was facing a wall, with his hands on it.
He said he peeked into the shower several times and that the last time he looked in, Sandusky and the boy had separated. He said he didn't say anything, but "I know they saw me. They looked directly in my eye, both of them."
His testimony came during a preliminary hearing for two school officials accused of lying to a grand jury about child sex-abuse allegations against former coach Jerry Sandusky.
McQueary told a grand jury that he told the administrators, Tim Curley and Gary Schultz, that he saw Sandusky sodomize a boy in a locker room shower in 2002.
Curley and Schultz are charged with lying to a grand jury and failing to properly report what McQueary allegedly told them. Their lawyers say the men are innocent and contest McQueary's statements
District Judge William C. Wenner was hearing testimony Friday to help him decide whether state prosecutors have enough evidence against the pair to send their cases to trial.
Sandusky says he is innocent of more than 50 charges stemming from what authorities say were sexual assaults over 15 years on 10 boys in his home, on Penn State property and elsewhere. The scandal has provoked strong criticism that Penn State officials didn't do enough to stop Sandusky, and prompted the departures of Hall of Fame football coach Joe Paterno and the school's longtime president, Graham Spanier.
Curley, 57, Penn State's athletic director, was placed on leave by the university after his arrest. Schultz, 62, returned to retirement after spending about four decades at the school, most recently as senior vice president for business and finance, and treasurer.
Curley and Schultz testified to the grand jury that McQueary never relayed the seriousness of what he saw and that they told Spanier what they knew before telling Sandusky not to bring children on to campus.
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PHOTOS: Broadway Bares a Winter Burlesque
BY Christopher Harrity
February 07 2013 4:00 AM ET
"Burlesque Is Back" Lauren Gemelli, Samantha Berger, Angie Schworer, Jenny Gruby, and Sarah Grooms
Broadway Bares turned New York City's XL Nightclub into a steamy wonderland on January 27, as Winter Burlesque heated up the stage for two standing-room-only performances. The official kickoff of the 2013 Broadway Bares season, Winter Burlesque raised an impressive $35,428 for Broadway Cares.
Winter Burlesque included some of Broadway Bares's most memorable numbers and featured a cast of 25 sizzling dancers who strutted and stripped to raise money for those battling AIDS and other life-threatening illnesses.
Bringing heat to a cold wintry night, the show began with Broadway veteran Angie Schworer taking the stage as a naughty master of ceremonies, leading a bevy of buxom beauties in the original Broadway Bares number "Burlesque Is Back," which was first staged by Bares executive producer Jerry Mitchell and written by Andrew Lippa for Broadway Bares XIII.
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Ruben Hayrapetyan gives up deputy mandate over doctor's death
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PanARMENIAN.Net - Today, July 3 Football Federation of Armenia president, MP Ruben Hayrapetyan gave up his deputy mandate.
The step followed the tragic incident at Hayrapetyan-owned Harsnakar restaurant, where his bodyguards beat 3 military doctors, with one of them having died while in coma.
In his statement, Hayrapetyan expressed his deepest regret over the death of major Vahe Avetyan and pledged punishment for those guilty.
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President Obama's executive actions on immigration reform will be released in the coming days, weeks, and months. Here is a preliminary summary based in part on White House briefings to the American Immigration Lawyers Association: Continue reading
White House Infographic and Fact Sheet on Immigration Reform
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Watch Obama Address on Immigration Reform
President Obama gave an address about his planned executive order for immigration reform in a live speech on Thursday Nov. 20 at 8pm EST (Fri. Nov. 21 at 9am China time). You can watch it at WhiteHouse.gov. (VPN required in China). Continue reading
State Department Email System Hacked
The State Department shut down its email system on November 14 after it was reportedly hacked, reports the AP. The department's worldwide unclassified email system was closed down to repair possible damage, according to spokesman Jeff Rathke: Continue reading
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The U.S. and China have mutually agreed to increase business and tourist visa validity to 10 years and student and exchange visa validity to 5 years. That according to President Obama's announcement (video) on November 10 at the 2014 APEC summit in Beijing.
Both governments put the policy into effect immediately. But China hasn't even fully implemented its prior 2005 agreement to increase visa validity to 1 year, creating a question as to whether most Americans will get the new long-term PRC visas. Continue reading
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Currently, only nonimmigrant visas (NIVs) are issued by the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. Guangzhou is the only U.S. consular post in China that issues immigrant visas (IVs). Why?
The decision to stop issuing immigrant visas in Beijing was explained during a 1989 interview by Elizabeth Raspolic, Consul General at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing from 1986 to 1988: Continue reading
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Song Yinan has turned her passport into the subject of a graphic design study. Check out the interactive website.
Hat tip to Zheng Tiansheng, who says the project "juxtapose[s] immigration stamps and zoom[s] in on certain pages to create a kaleidoscopic visual effect" in order to meditate on what it means for a Chinese citizen to cross international borders.
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This policy update (PA-2014-009) clarifies the definition of "mother" and "parent" under the Immigration and Nationality Act to include gestational legal mothers using ART regardless of whether they are the genetic mother. Previously, U.S. citizen mothers were generally required to have a genetic relationship with their child in order to transmit citizenship at birth. Continue reading →
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Thomas Drake, a National Security Agency whistleblower. He's the winner of the 2011 Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling and co-recipient of the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence award.
Jesselyn Radack, former ethics adviser to the United States Department of Justice. She is currently the director of National Security & Human Rights at the Government Accountability Project, the nation's leading whistleblower organization. Her new book is called TRAITOR: The Whistleblower and the "American Taliban."
In an excerpt from our extended interview, NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake and Jesselyn Radack of the Government Accountability Project discuss the Obama administration's unprecedented targeting of government employees who expose illegal behavior, fraud and abuse. Drake describes how he challenged waste, mismanagement and possible constitutional violations at the National Security Agency at a time when "Congress was writing blank checks to the NSA."
Radack, a former ethics adviser to the Justice Department, explains how she blew the whistle after John Walker Lindh was interrogated without trial in one of the first terrorism cases after 9/11, and her memos raising ethical concerns about his interrogation were purged and not turned over to a criminal court. Radack is currently the director of National Security & Human Rights at the Government Accountability Project, the nation's leading whistleblower organization.
Click here to see part one of the interview. More of this extended interview will be aired soon on Democracy Now!
AMY GOODMAN: We're joined right now by Thomas Drake, an NSA whistleblower. We have covered his case, played clips of his speaking. It's the first time we have him in studio. Jesselyn Radack is also with us. She is his attorney, also director of National Security & Human Rights at the Government Accountability Project, and she's written a new book called TRAITOR: The Whistleblower and the "American Taliban".
Well, Jesselyn Radack, talk about whistleblowers today and what is happening to them under the Obama administration, President Obama, who often talks about the importance of democracy and truth telling, and when he ran for president, the—how important transparency was.
JESSELYN RADACK: Yes. In fact, he said that whistleblowers were courageous and patriotic, yet he has led an unprecedented war on whistleblowers. And while whistleblowers have always been retaliated against and harassed unmercifully under prior administrations, this is the first administration to actually start indicting them and doing so under the heavy-handed Espionage Act, which could land them in jail for the rest of their lives. There are six such prosecutions going on right now of people who revealed information that exposed fraud, waste, abuse, illegality and a danger to public health and safety. Tom Drake was the first person among that recent spate of crackdown prosecutions.
AMY GOODMAN: And in a nutshell, Thomas Drake, though we spoke on Democracy Now! about your case, explain what happened, what you did, how you became a whistleblower, and what happened to you.
THOMAS DRAKE: Well, under the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act, I actually originally had made contact with congressional staffers during the late '90s, interestingly enough, regarding NSA's massive fraud, waste and abuse on certain—on contracts. They were in fundamental violation of Federal Acquisition Regulation. So there had already been, in essence, a pre-existing means by which I was informing Congress regarding what was going on at NSA.
In 2001, though, after 9/11 is when I found out that NSA was in abject violation of, you know, the First Commandment at NSA, which was, you do not spy on Americans without a warrant. And that's, as James Bamford had pointed out earlier in your segment on Democracy Now!, is because of significant abuse during the '60s and '70s under the programs that he mentioned, as well as a number of others—COINTELPRO—where they were actually in violation—without even FISA, but they were in violation of the Fourth Amendment rights of Americans. So, political dissidents, journalists who were not liked by administrations, peace activists, antiwar activists were being spied upon on a routine basis by the intelligence agencies, including NSA, within the United States of America. That led to a whole series of hearings. You know, you had the Watergate, of course. You had, basically, in the Nixon administration: president is above the law, whatever the president says is legal. Never would I have imagined that that would have come full flower post-9/11, and in fact makes the Nixon administration and that whole era look like pikers.
And so, I ended up finding, as I am—because of where I was, I had people coming to me privately with significant concerns about: "What are we doing, Tom, spying on Americans? I thought there was a legal regime that we were supposed to follow. We have a court that we go to in secret, you know, with the probable cause evidence. Yet now we're just—we're tossing it overboard, and we're treating our own country, OK, as the equivalent of a foreign nation for the purpose of dragnet electronic surveillance." And so, you had that combined with a massive infusion of billions and billions of dollars. Basically, Congress was writing blank checks to NSA. I mean, in fact, I remember being in meetings where they would say, you know, "How big do you want it? And how soon do you want it?" They were just going to write the check. This is even stuff that was well off the program for the record, supplemental funding, significant redistribution of wealth going right into the pockets of many of the defense contractors—the very thing that Eisenhower had warned us about during his farewell address.
So I became a part of a Department of Defense inspector general audit investigation. I was one of the unnamed—I was the unnamed senior official in a hotline complaint that was given to the DODIG in September 2002, signed by Diane Roark, Ed Loomis, Kirk Wiebe and Bill Binney, pointing out the vast waste and fraud being committed by the program called Trailblazer, which at the time was under Hayden's direction and had become the flagship program for how NSA was going to meet the demands and the challenges of the digital age.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: Jesselyn Radack, can you talk a little bit about working on Thomas Drake's case and working with whistleblowers, the work that you've done?
JESSELYN RADACK: Sure. I thought—I thought, potentially, my work would be over once Obama was elected, and I might not have any more cases. And unfortunately, they have skyrocketed and worsened in many significant ways. Whistleblowers have always faced a litany of retaliation, as I did when I blew the whistle in the case of the American Taliban, John Walker Lindh. For that, I was also a target of a federal criminal investigation and—
AMY GOODMAN: Explain briefly what you did.
JESSELYN RADACK: I blew the whistle on the fact that he was interrogated without counsel. And—
AMY GOODMAN: Explain who John Walker Lindh is.
JESSELYN RADACK: John Walker Lindh was the first capture, right after 9/11, in the so-called war on terrorism. He was a young man in Afghanistan, an American citizen. And I was told unambiguously that he had counsel. At the time, I was a Justice Department ethics attorney and had advised against interrogating him without a lawyer and, parenthetically, against torturing him. That advice was disregarded. And then, when it was ordered by the court during criminal prosecution, which I had also advised against, that the emails evidencing that advice had disappeared. I resurrected those emails from my computer and gave them to the media when it appeared to me that they had not been turned over to the court.
AMY GOODMAN: And what happened to him?
JESSELYN RADACK: He ended up pleading guilty to two relatively minor charges and is spending 20 years in jail. He's about halfway through that right now. The other American who was caught fighting alongside him, Yaser Hamdi, the U.S. litigated his case all the way to the Supreme Court and released him scot-free into Saudi Arabia.
AMY GOODMAN: And so, is there any hope for John Walker Lindh?
JESSELYN RADACK: Unfortunately, I don't think there is. But if there is any idea that proportionality is part of the penological purpose of how we punish people in this country, one would hope that people will take another look.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: Why is it that John Walker Lindh's sentence is so disproportionate compared, in particular, to the other military detainee you mentioned, Yaser Hamdi?
JESSELYN RADACK: I think because Hamdi's case went all the way up to the Supreme Court, and they said, "You need to charge him or let him go." John Walker Lindh, on the other hand, had made a very controversial confession during his problematic interrogation, and his trial was very soon after. It was set to begin on the one-year anniversary of 9/11, about one mile from the Pentagon. And he ended up taking a last-minute plea bargain. I think there were originally three death counts on him. So 20 years, at the time, seemed like a good deal.
AMY GOODMAN: And so, because he settled, there was no case to go to the Supreme Court.
JESSELYN RADACK: Exactly.
AMY GOODMAN: And so, talk about your trajectory since then.
JESSELYN RADACK: My trajectory since then is as a whistleblower, like many. I ended up in the wilderness for a number of years, during which time I wrote about these issues as an academic matter. Then I ended up prosecuting qui tam actions for the former congressman, Alan Grayson, alleging—representing whistleblowers alleging reconstruction fraud in Iraq. And after that, once Alan Grayson became congressman, I went to work for the Government Accountability Project, because I have decided to dedicate my life to representing whistleblowers, after what I went through.
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The 'Talk That Talk' singer looked stylish as she headed out to celebrate on Sunday.
Rihanna was pictured sporting a black and white mini dress complete with knee high boots as she headed out to a post-Grammys party in Hollywood on Sunday night (12th February).
The 'We Found Love' singer had just been performing at The House Of Blues on the sunset strip before being pictured arriving at the Greystone Manor Nightclub.
She was in high spirits having performed at the ceremony alongside Coldplay as well as picking up a Grammy for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration on 'All Of The Lights' which also featured Kanye West.
Meanwhile, the star opened up about the keys to her success on the red carpet of the event as she told E! Online that she will only make music that she personally enjoys listening to.
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Media: Sneaking in through the back door
Advertiser-supplied programming is becoming more popular, as programme budgets fall.
Tuesday 20 October 1998
Nothing strange about that, except that the programme is entirely paid for by the insurance company Equitable Life - it's an advertiser-supplied programme.
It's appropriate that the programme is about the future because this kind of programming... well, let's just say you're going to see a whole lot more of it.
Already Channel 5 and Mentorn are understood to be looking for advertiser money to boost the budget on the Sunday afternoon entertainment programme Exclusive! Things to Come itself ran on Channel 4 as a 15-part TV series in January this year. Most of the satellite channels are carrying at least one programme made with money directly from an advertiser.
"I think that, if not an explosion, we are going to see more and more of this sort of thing as broadcasters struggle with falling budgets and increased air time and advertisers find their audience fragmenting on digital television," says Tess Alps, executive chair of Drum PHD, the media-buying agency that put together the Things to Come deal and worked with Channel 4 and Waterstone's on 1997's Books of the Century programme.
It's not surprising. Given that ITV2, the much-trumpeted digital sister channel to ITV, will launch with a programme budget of pounds 42m - less than half of Channel 5's annual programme spend - you can see the broadcasters' need for programming money. So why should the advertisers comply?
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The sneakiest way is through advertiser-supplied programming, where the advertiser makes a show. Such programming is old news in the United States. After all, soap operas were called soap operas because they were made by soap companies in the 1920s. Soap companies are still the biggest investors. The rights to ITV's Wheel of Fortune are owned by Unilever, while Channel 4's Northern Exposure is made by Procter and Gamble.
So concerned are some powerful advertisers by the declining programme budgets of cash-strapped broadcasters, that they also see this kind of programming as a safeguard against declining standards, believe it or not.
In 1994, P&G's chairman and chief executive, Edwin Artz - the nearest thing to a god in advertising - said that the only way forward for TV advertisers was to increase their involvement in programming, ironically to ensure its high quality. P&G promptly signed a $150m deal with Paramount Studios for programme development.
In the UK in 1995, the Daily Express helped fund ITV's Saturday evening game show, Raise the Roof, and Pepsi Cola coughed up for Channel 4's late- night Friday youth show, Passengers.
In both cases, the funding advertiser then did a separate deal with the broadcaster to sponsor the programme. Now, however, things are more out in the open. Channel 5's Pepsi Chart Show is paid for by Pepsi and made by the production company Broadcast Innovations. Robert Dodds, Broadcast Innovations' managing director, is the man behind that show as well as Pepsi's first foray with Passengers. In one sense, that is. In another, he's jointly behind it with Malcolm Gerrie, famed as the producer of The Tube and The White Room. "
In 1996, we sat down with Pepsi and persuaded them to work on building the Pepsi Chart into a property that could be used throughout its communications, whether as corporate entertainment, on bottle or in-store promotions, a straightforward TV sponsorship or any other possible option," he says. "We're now two-thirds of the way there. It only really works in an international capacity because Pepsi pays pounds 40,000 per week for the programme. In return, it owns the world-wide rights to the show and licenses Channel 5 to use it in the UK. Without the international dimension, it would be a very expensive deal."
This sort of programming is fraught with problems, as readers who recollect Heineken's Hotel Babylon will know. A Heineken brand manager issued a memo asking for the audience to contain more white faces, creating red faces at the beer company and the producers, Planet 24, alike. Dodds says the industry has been on a learning-curve and reckons that he can avoid such embarrassments in the future.
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Over the past four years, the words "University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee" have become nearly as synonymous with "real estate" as they are with "education."
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