Libby Slate
Veteran producer Jonathan Murray has always championed diversity in his casts, from Latino AIDS activist Pedro Zamora on MTV s
The Real World to the young adults with Down syndrome on A&E s
Born This Way.
But a few years ago, he realized that his beloved television genre needed to look beyond casting to another important aspect of this issue inclusion behind the camera. Few, if any, of the crew members he worked with resembled the cast members baring their souls on camera.
With his late production partner Mary-Ellis Bunim, Murray is considered the founder of reality television; together, they launched the pioneering series
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Betty was just three months out of high school in 1939 when she first entered show business. It was on a somewhat experimental television program in which she and classmates sang songs from
The Merry Widow.
Then came the war, and everything stopped.
Armed with a driver s licence, Betty joined the American Women s Voluntary Services, which saw her trucking supplies up through the Hollywood hills to troops stationed at gunning placements and sewing buttons on military uniforms.
After the war, Betty enjoyed a career in radio singing, hosting and voicing commercials and got married and divorced twice in the space of five years. First to a pilot named Dick Barker in 1945, then two years later to Hollywood talent agent Lane Allen
NMSU students among few awarded Television Academy fellowships
Minerva Baumann
LAS CRUCES - Two New Mexico State University Creative Media Institute students are among 30 in the country selected to join the 2021 Television Academy Fellowship program. Brandon Trevizo is a junior animation major and Dominic Vincent is a May graduate in film production.
“The Television Academy fellowships are exceedingly competitive,” said Amy Lanasa, professor and head of NMSU’s Creative Media Institute. “There are only 30 offered every year, and thousands of students from undergraduate film and animation programs all over the country apply. To have two of the 30 be from CMI is a wonderful testament not only to Brandon and Dominic s strong portfolios, but also the strength of CMI s faculty and programs.”
As far as tentpole events and national conversations, Winfrey s two-night special on racism in
America, OWN Spotlight: Where Do We Go From Here?, did exceptionally well when it was simulcast across the Discovery networks last June. Perry would like to see more forays into this arena.
The core demographic is African-American women aged 25 to 54, with the sweet spot being a woman in her 40s, Perry says. From the beginning, she s been determined to serve the viewers and remain mindful of their needs. She tracks that on social media, where she reads comments and values the feedback. She has been underserved in the media and has not always had a variety of stories told about herself, Perry says of the OWN audience. And she loves to come to an environment where we superserve that to her. She is looking to see herself in the media that she consumes and relates to in a very personal way.
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