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Penske Media Eldridge Acquires Dick Clark Productions

Y2kTheNewOldies

Y2kTheNewOldies

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Penske Media Eldridge Acquires Dick Clark Productions, Live Event Company Behind Golden Globes, New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, AMAs, ACM Awards & Billboard Awards

Penske Media Eldridge (PME) has acquired Dick Clark Productions (dcp), the largest owner and producer of televised live entertainment programming. The deal is part of a larger strategic alliance with Eldridge augmenting its existing partnership with Penske Media’s (PMC’s) entertainment media...
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Penske Media to hold the broadcast rights to Award specials that were with Dick Clark Productions and New Years Eve Specials.

dcp is recognized globally for its live award shows and other music entertainment programs, including the Golden Globe Awards, American Music Awards, Academy of Country Music Awards, Billboard Music Awards, Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, So You Think You Can Dance, in partnership with 19 Entertainment, and the Streamy Awards. This deal marks the continued expansion and investment in Penske Media Eldridge’s live event portfolio which includes SXSW, Life is Beautiful, ATX TV festival and LA3C. There are 60 years of archived titles of past shows, historic programs, specials, performances and legendary programming in the dcp archives.
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Y2kTheNewOldies said:
deadline.com

Penske Media Eldridge Acquires Dick Clark Productions, Live Event Company Behind Golden Globes, New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, AMAs, ACM Awards & Billboard Awards

Penske Media Eldridge (PME) has acquired Dick Clark Productions (dcp), the largest owner and producer of televised live entertainment programming. The deal is part of a larger strategic alliance with Eldridge augmenting its existing partnership with Penske Media’s (PMC’s) entertainment media...
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It says "dcp is recognized globally for its live award shows and other music entertainment programs, including the Golden Globe Awards, American Music Awards, Academy of Country Music Awards, Billboard Music Awards, Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, So You Think You Can Dance, in partnership with 19 Entertainment, and the Streamy Awards"

This is the sort of statement that annoys me. Like the baseball "World Series" where teams from two nations actually compete... in a sport only played in a dozen or so places on the planet.

Dick Clark Productions was a great creation by an excellent trend setter... in a few English speaking nations. It is hardly "recognized globally". At best, that is hyperbole; at worst, it is just a lie.
 
DavidEduardo said:
Dick Clark Productions was a great creation by an excellent trend setter... in a few English speaking nations. It is hardly "recognized globally". At best, that is hyperbole; at worst, it is just a lie.
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Some of those shows are in fact distributed globally. For example, I know the ACM Awards was transmitted globally last year.

The ACMs is a collaboration with the Academy of Country Music and MRC. The 57th annual ACM Awards took place Monday, March 7 and was hosted by Dolly Parton. It was the first major awards show to stream live exclusively for a global audience. The livestream recently received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video Control For a Special, so it’s no surprise the Academy of Country Music and Prime Video want to continue the partnership.
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It's also not unusual for some of DCP's shows to be distributed to US military bases around the world. Just because the shows are done in English doesn't mean the shows aren't seen in non-English speaking countries.
 
TheBigA said:
Some of those shows are in fact distributed globally. For example, I know the ACM Awards was transmitted globally last year.
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But name a station in China or India or Ghana or Burkina Faso or Bolivia that played that content.

And, in the cases where limited appeal content is broadcast in a country where that music has no regular presence, it is usually for the benefit of a niche made up of expats and a few people who went to college in the US or the UK or...
TheBigA said:
It's also not unusual for some of DCP's shows to be distributed to US military bases around the world. Just because the shows are done in English doesn't mean the shows aren't seen in non-English speaking countries.
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Most military base stations are very low power, or now distributed on a local network connectable on-base only.

Example: the station that used to operate at Ft Bchanan in San Juan, PR, could only be heard about two blocks outside the base. I used to enjoy a pizza place just next to one of the base entrances because they always had the Armed Forces radio station on in the background.

But my point is that the Dick Clark Productions shows are principally of interest to Americans who speak English, and secondarily in English speaking nations that share a common culture such as the UK and Australia but not, let's say, in South Africa, India or even Jamaica or Trinidad or the USVI.

Of course, if you run an upscale resort in Vallarta or the Riviera Maya, you would try to download or get via satellite those TV shows that would enhance your American guest's stay and make them want to recommend you and return next year.
 
DavidEduardo said:
But my point is that the Dick Clark Productions shows are principally of interest to Americans who speak English, and secondarily in English speaking nations that share a common culture such as the UK and Australia but not, let's say, in South Africa, India or even Jamaica or Trinidad or the USVI.
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Not disputing who watched it. Just saying it was distributed globally. Amazon Prime is available in 200 countries worldwide.
 
TheBigA said:
Not disputing who watched it. Just saying it was distributed globally. Amazon Prime is available in 200 countries worldwide.
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"Distributed" is a lot different from "recognized".
 
DavidEduardo said:
This is the sort of statement that annoys me. Like the baseball "World Series" where teams from two nations actually compete... in a sport only played in a dozen or so places on the planet.
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I've always thought the name "World Series" has long outlived its application. But it came at a time (mid 1800's) when there were very few, if any, truly multinational sports competitions. Only within the various 'empires' did this sort of thing happen, example: England vs India in cricket).

The 'World Series" moniker should now apply only to the Little League world series (baseball).
 
if you are wondering, is Penske Media owned by famed Motorsports legend and current Team Penske & IndyCar/Indianapolis Motor Speedway owner Roger Penske, the answer is no, in fact, the company isn't even a Penske Corporation subsidy. the company is indeed owned by a relative of Roger, his son Jay owns the company.

Now Jay owns Dick Clark Productions just like his dad owns IndyCar now.

The info from Wikipedia about Penske Media Group:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penske_Media_Corporation

The info from Wikipedia about Penske Corporation, a unrelated company owned by the father of the owner of Penske Media Group:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penske_Corporation
 
DavidEduardo said:
This is the sort of statement that annoys me. Like the baseball "World Series" where teams from two nations actually compete... in a sport only played in a dozen or so places on the planet.
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Think of it like the term "new" being applied to a radio station that's been on the air for several years. Perhaps it's annoying, it might not even make sense, but hey, it's not going anywhere.
 
Cordelia Chase said:
Think of it like the term "new" being applied to a radio station that's been on the air for several years. Perhaps it's annoying, it might not even make sense, but hey, it's not going anywhere.
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A station in LA was called "The New" (La Nueva) in Spanish for a decade. Some folks in management decided to change the name. It hurt the ratings. Now, after another decade, they are going back to that name.

The station is always new. New songs, new events and concerts, new contests, new stuff on the personality morning and afternoon shows. It's always, as a current based station, been "new" all over. But in the past, they did not incorporate the word "new" in everything they could... "here's his new song". Or "here's a new update on traffic..." And so on.

The word is so full of positives that I am surprised more stations don't use it. And more surprised that the stations that do use it don't embed it in everything they do.
 
DavidEduardo said:
A station in LA was called "The New" (La Nueva) in Spanish for a decade. Some folks in management decided to change the name. It hurt the ratings. Now, after another decade, they are going back to that name.
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In order for this to fully make sense, we must understand what the adjective "new" is describing. Does "new" refer to what the station is currently doing or to the age of the station? If the former is the case, I could be described as a new person...new clothes, new knee, bonded teeth...I'm the "All New Cordelia Chase!"

Does anybody remember back in the 90s when NBC tried to package its summer re-runs as new? The slogan was, "If you haven't seen it, it's new to you." I thought the campaign was pretty clever, but critics and reviewers didn't.
 
Cordelia Chase said:
In order for this to fully make sense, we must understand what the adjective "new" is describing. Does "new" refer to what the station is currently doing or to the age of the station? If the former is the case, I could be described as a new person...new clothes, new knee, bonded teeth...I'm the "All New Cordelia Chase!"

Does anybody remember back in the 90s when NBC tried to package its summer re-runs as new? The slogan was, "If you haven't seen it, it's new to you." I thought the campaign was pretty clever, but critics and reviewers didn't.
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Did it succeed in getting more viewer eyeballs for the reruns than in the summers before that campaign? If so, the critics' and reviewers' tsk-tsking meant nothing.
 
CTListener said:
Did it succeed in getting more viewer eyeballs for the reruns than in the summers before that campaign? If so, the critics' and reviewers' tsk-tsking meant nothing.
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To tell you the truth, CTListener, I don't know about the success of that campaign. My point of the post was to keep the thread focused on the preservation of Mr. Clark's accomplishments, whether or not one considers them to be "global" in scope. I thought that a comparison between the terms "new," which can be annoying in connection with radio stations, and "global" which Mr. Eduardo finds annoying in connection with this thread, would be useful. Clearly it wasn't...
 
It will be interesting to see how they use the archives. There are years and years of live (and lip synched) musical performances from awards shows and American Bandstand and even possibly the original Bandstand in Philadelphia before the show went national.
 
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