LOS ANGELES-The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation (ATAS) has announced the winners of the 1998 College Television Awards competition. The competition recognizes excellence in college student film/video productions.
Prizes are awarded in seven categories: drama, comedy, music, documentary, news/sports/ magazine shows, and animationtraditional and animation-non-traditional. First place winners are awarded $2,000, second place winners are awarded $1,000 and third place winners are awarded $500.
In the drama category, the winning entries are: Paul F. Ryan and Jason Ensler (first place), University of Southern California, The List; Cherryl Espinoza (second place), American Film Institute, A Short Wait Between Trains; and David Bradstreet (third place), American Film Institute, Movin’ to Montana.
In the comedy category, the winning entries are: Jonathan Buss, Stephen Goldstein and Michael Sarner (first place), University of Southern California, Express: Aisle to Glory; Luke Blanchford (second place), University of Southern California, Sway; and J. Barry Grenga (third place), Florida State University, Slow Dancin’ Down the Aisles of the Quickcheck.
In the music category, the winning entries are: Eel Jin Chae (first place), Academy of Art College, The Confessional; Susan Green (second place), Indiana University at Purdue, Circle of the Path; and Carly Caryn (third place), Art Center College of Design, Femme Fatale.
In the documentary category, the winning entries are: Dominic Bonelli, Ken Chalk, Christine Jutras, Mike Rizzuto and Jack Ryan (first place), Norwich University, Our American Journey: VietnamIn Country; Alison M. Bologna (second place), Columbia University, A Family in Crisis; and Will Zavala (third place), Stanford University, Drawbridge.
In the news/sports/magazine shows category, the winning entries are: Michael Juarez and Jennifer Paige (first place), UC Berkeley, Greetings From Nowhere; Darryl Richardson (second place), University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Beyond the Game; and Dave Price (third place), University of Missouri, Choices.
In the animationtraditional category, the winning entries are: Daniel S, Murray (first place), University of the Arts, Paco; Wendell Lee (second place), Cal Arts, Martin Taylor; and Barbara Shen (third place), Cal Arts, Mashed Potatoes.
In the animationnon-traditional category, the winning entries are: Miran Shim (first place), Pratt Institute, The Cut Above; Van Phan (second place), University of Southern California, Wild Card; and Daniel M. Kanemoto (third place), New York University, A Letter From The Western Front.
First and second place winners will be flown to Los Angeles and honored at an awards gala on Mar. 7 at the Century Plaza Hotel. The winners will also be honored on Mar. 8 at ATAS’ Goldenson Theater in North Hollywood, where the organization is based, at the annual National College Television Awards Festival, where the winning entries will be screened.
Google Opens Its Defense In Antitrust Case Alleging Monopoly Over Online Ad Technology
Google opened its defense against allegations that it holds an illegal monopoly on online advertising technology Friday with witness testimony saying the industry is vastly more complex and competitive than portrayed by the federal government.
"The industry has been exceptionally fluid over the last 18 years," said Scott Sheffer, a vice president for global partnerships at Google, the company's first witness at its antitrust trial in federal court in Alexandria.
The Justice Department and a coalition of states contend that Google built and maintained an illegal monopoly over the technology that facilitates the buying and selling of online ads seen by consumers.
Google counters that the government's case improperly focuses on a narrow type of online ads — essentially the rectangular ones that appear on the top and on the right-hand side of a webpage. In its opening statement, Google's lawyers said the Supreme Court has warned judges against taking action when dealing with rapidly emerging technology like what Sheffer described because of the risk of error or unintended consequences.
Google says defining the market so narrowly ignores the competition it faces from social media companies, Amazon, streaming TV providers and others who offer advertisers the means to reach online consumers.
Justice Department lawyers called witnesses to testify for two weeks before resting their case Friday afternoon, detailing the ways that automated ad exchanges conduct auctions in a matter of milliseconds to determine which ads are placed in front of which consumers and how much they cost.
The department contends the auctions are finessed in subtle ways that benefit Google to the exclusion of would-be competitors and in ways that prevent... Read More