Jimmy Kimmel is a producer and writer known for Windy City Heat, Hellboy 2: The Golden Army and Jimmy Kimmel Live. Besides being a television host and a writer, he has many other talents such as being a comedian, voice actor, and musician. He attended Ed W. Clark High school, Arizona State University and the University of Nevada in Las Vegas. Jimmy began working in the radio industry while in high school. He hosted a Sunday night interview show on UNLV's college station. While attending Arizona State University, he became a popular caller to the KZZP-FM afternoon show hosted by radio personalities Mike Elliott and Kent Voss in Phoenix, Arizona. In 1989, he landed his first paying job alongside Voss as morning drive co-host of The Me and …show more content…
Lara Spencer is a News Anchor for ABC’s Good Morning America television program. Spencer was born in Garden City, New York June 19, 1969. Growing up, Lara was the youngest of five children. After high school she went to Penn State University, with a swimming scholarship, where she graduated with a degree in broadcast journalism. She was also the captain of her swim team and an All American Athlete. After college she started her broadcasting career with NBC not as a news reporter but in the sales department. She has also worked for News 12 Long Island and WABC-7 “Eyewitness News” in New York City. Good Morning America took an interest in her when she was doing a lifestyle report called “Life around Here with Lara Spencer”. She worked with ABC’s Good Morning America for about five years before she left them to go host The Insider. While Lara was working for “Good Morning America” she also hosted two seasons of a television series on PBS called “Antiques Road show”. Lara hosted The Insider for seven years before coming back to Good Morning America in 2011. Outside of her work, she is married and has two children named Kate and Duff. She enjoys what most people
Erica Harris is Southeast Texas number one anchor woman, and KBMT-TV, Beaumont Texas. She came into Texas Southern University campus as Erika Randal. She stated that Texas Southern University is her foundation and her rock. Many people here were a mentor and bright to her. Erika’s course changed when she met Ms. Walker. She started as a print of Journalism major and knew that there was a future for her in broadcasting journalism. She did not get one camera job as a graduate. It took Erika a little while, to have a camera job as she work at Fox 26 station Houston being an intern of Texas Southern University.
As one of the most esteemed broadcasting personalities on ESPN and ABC, Robin Roberts has established herself as an authentic star in her field of work. She is constantly praised for her expertise, wisdom, and professionalism, and her dedication has propelled her to tremendous fame. Not only was she the first female African-American sportscaster on ESPN and ABC’s Wide World of Sports, she was also the first woman to host an NFL pre-game show. But, prosperous careers do not always commence the same way. Roberts was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on November 23, 1960, traveling the world with her family because of her father’s military career but later settled in the charming town of Pass Christian, Mississippi. Both of her parents demonstrated to
Today, she is not only a true professional, but also a loving mother to her six year old daughter Rebecca, and a wife to Paul Soares all part of a happy and truly fulfilling marriage.
James Christian Kimmel known as “Jimmy Kimmel”, was born in Brooklyn, New York, grew up in Mill Basin on November 13, 1967. He was the oldest of his three siblings, his mother was Joan Kimmel who was a homemaker. His dad was James John Kimmel who was an IBM executive at American Express. He was raised as a Catholic, moved to Las Vegas, Nevada when he was nine years old, and graduated from Ed W. Clark High School in 1985. After finishing high school he attended the University of Nevada, received an honorary degree in 2013, Las Vegas for a year then Arizona State University for two years.
Reporter: I am here with a one particular young woman that has sparked interest in my eyes for many months. She works as a news writer for the New York Daily Tribune, that’s how I was able to find out about her story. Her story was so fascinating I have decided to call her in so she can share it with you all. Her name is Abigail Pilot.
His comedy life started when his brother scott sandler encouraged him to perform as a boston comedian at the age of 17 which he enjoyed very much. He later went on to graduate from New York university but he never stopped his comedy acts.he was a regular on MTV’s “remote control” and on NBC’s Saturday
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During the early years of her life she completed studies at Wellesley College (1965-1969), Yale Law School with honors (1969-1973), and finished at the Yale Child Study Center to complete one post-graduation year of study (“Hilary Clinton Biography”, 2016). Her career began as she worked at the Children’s Defense Fund (1973) (Baird, 2016). In the fall of 1974 “she became a faculty member of the University of Arkansas Law School in Fayetteville” (“Hilary Clinton Biography”, 2016). She was later married in 1975 to Bill Clinton, a fellow Yale graduate who would later become the 42nd President of the United States, and has a daughter, Chelsea Victoria Clinton was born in 1980 (“Hilary Clinton Biography”, 2016). As time passed on Hillary became the First Lady of Arkansas (1979-1981, 1983-1992) while she chaired the Arkansas Educational Standards Committee; co-founded the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families; and served on the boards of the Arkansas Children’s Hospital, Arkansas Legal Services, and the Children’s Defense Fund (“Hilary Clinton Biography”, 2016). She then served as the US First Lady (1993-2001) where her husband picked her to lead the Task Force on National Health Reform in 1993, but failed to make it to either house and was dropped in 1994 (“Hilary Clinton Biography”, 2016).
Colin Cowherd is an American sports news personality. Cowherd was born January 6, 1954 in Bay Center, Washington. Colin Cowherd started his career in broadcasting in Las Vegas, Nevada as a sports director for the television station KVBC, Cowherd was also a sports anchor on many different station before finally joining ESPN in the year 2003, where he hosted a series of show on ESPN Radio network, Colin Cowherd had also became one of the original host of ESPN's television program "Sports Nation", and as well as "Colin's New Football Show". Colin is currently has his on show on Fox Sports and radio called "The Heard with Colin Cowherd".
It is often said that the media and the arts are an accurate reflection of any given community. This is especially true in American pop-culture, where television shows depict the various stereotypes attributed to men and women and the roles they play in society. House, a highly popular medical drama that revolves around Dr. Gregory House and his diagnostic team, is a particularly good example as it represents the true state of the traditional gender roles in American culture today by, both, redefining and reinforcing them over the course of the show.
The quality of American television has become a national disgrace. Young women in America who are displeased with their appearance more likely then not can trace those feelings directly back to images from the mass media on television. The unrealistic representations of women that the mass media bombards young women with indicates that the television has become a source for a distorted understanding of gender roles among adolescent women. These images warp young women’s views of their own gender identity. The mass media on television should in an attempt to provide more positive gender identities for adolescent women depict women on television in more realistic ways, should stop
History of television and its influence on people lives. How did television revolutionize the world?
Over the last forty to fifty years, television has been a major topic of discussion. Specifically, many debate societal benefits to television watching. One widely accepted opinion is that watching TV makes people dumber. People have referred to it with terms like the “idiot box” and do not feel that watching TV has any benefit at all. They feel that it is a waste of time and people need to spend their hours more wisely. Others are of the opinion that TV is actually has societal benefits. From this perspective, they claim that the development of the structure of the programs now requires one to intellectually participate in watching television. Essentially, the argument is whether TV is a beneficial societal force or is it simply a
What do we really mean by television? The way we watch television has drastically changed over the last fifteen years due to new technologies such as digital television and services providing on-demand access. These drastic changes have had a huge effect on viewers and have “allowed online streaming platforms to dominate and revolutionize the way the audience consumes” (Aliloupour) media, ultimately allowing the viewer to be in total control of how, when and where they want their content. The idea of only being able to watch television on a television set is now a thing of the past. Due to technology, the audience now has a vast variety of options on how they can access content. By using scholarly articles, research in new media and Internet sites I will be analyzing current television and where the future of television will be heading.
Television, a telecommunication medium some may not survive without. Today’s generation may refer to television as a technological norm; delusional of a world where television was non-existent. Notably, television unites the nation through local or world events, politics, education, and entertainment. Philo Farnsworth, “Father of Television,” invented the television; the electronic transmission of fixed or mobile images. Furthermore, Farnsworth’s invention influenced a new form of media. Young Farnsworth’s scientific, technological imagination as well as, competitive battle with a major-league corporation, RCA, enticed the growth of one of the most popular media mediums; television.