Two former producers of The Oprah Winfrey Show have teamed to launch a Chicago-based TV production and branded entertainment company. Candi Carter, a former senior producer who produced nearly 300 hours of the Oprah show, and Rick Segall, a former senior-level producer, have formed New Chapter Entertainment (NCE), with a focus on originating, developing and producing unscripted TV shows for broadcast, cable, syndication and new media. The company is also launching a branded entertainment division to create short-form video content, commercials, short films and more for corporate clients.
Carter, who serves as founder and CEO of NCE, spent the last 15 years at Harpo Productions, where she served as a senior producer for The Oprah Winfrey Show. During her tenure, Carter created some of the most memorable hours of television in Oprah show history, including the award-winning special featuring 200 male survivors of sexual abuse, Oprah meeting her half-sister (the highest-rated show in six years at the time), the historic reunion for the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Riders and an iconic MLK special. An Emmy® award-winning producer, Carter started her career at CNN’s headquarters in Atlanta and also worked as a programming producer for WISN in Milwaukee before joining Harpo Productions.
A 19-year television industry veteran, Segall is executive VP of development and production for NCE. Prior to his four-year tenure at the Oprah show, he was president of RSTV, Inc., creating entertainment, news, educational and corporate productions for clients such as The Coca-Cola Company, FOX, Turner Private Networks and other news organizations and large companies. Emmy® award-winning producer Segall also spent eight years as a correspondent/producer for the hit show America’s Most Wanted.
Heading up NCE’s Branded Entertainment division is Jim Olen, a 20-year veteran of Chicago’s advertising and postproduction communities, who has worked with such brands as McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, State Farm and Gatorade. Olen serves as NCE’s director of branded entertainment.
In addition to Carter, Segall and Olen, NCE’s senior leadership consists of a team of entertainment industry veterans who each bring expertise and perspective to the venture. Entertainment attorney Daryl Jones, VP of business and legal affairs, has worked with multi-Platinum recording artists and producers and Fortune 500 companies including McDonald’s. Award-winning music composer/producer Ira Antelis, VP of music production and licensing, has written songs for eminent artists including Patti LaBelle and Marc Anthony and corporate clients known worldwide like Disney, Coca-Cola, Gatorade and McDonald’s. Rounding out the team is financial expert Scott Lang, a founding member and consultant to NCE who also serves as managing director of City Capital Advisors, a Chicago-based investment banking boutique.
NCE is represented by William Morris Endeavor.
Apple and Google Face UK Investigation Into Mobile Browser Dominance
Apple and Google aren't giving consumers a genuine choice of mobile web browsers, a British watchdog said Friday in a report that recommends they face an investigation under new U.K. digital rules taking effect next year.
The Competition and Markets Authority took aim at Apple, saying the iPhone maker's tactics hold back innovation by stopping rivals from giving users new features like faster webpage loading. Apple does this by restricting progressive web apps, which don't need to be downloaded from an app store and aren't subject to app store commissions, the report said.
"This technology is not able to fully take off on iOS devices," the watchdog said in a provisional report on its investigation into mobile browsers that it opened after an initial study concluded that Apple and Google effectively have a chokehold on "mobile ecosystems."
The CMA's report also found that Apple and Google manipulate the choices given to mobile phone users to make their own browsers "the clearest or easiest option."
And it said that the a revenue-sharing deal between the two U.S. Big Tech companies "significantly reduces their financial incentives" to compete in mobile browsers on Apple's iOS operating system for iPhones.
Both companies said they will "engage constructively" with the CMA.
Apple said it disagreed with the findings and said it was concerned that the recommendations would undermine user privacy and security.
Google said the openness of its Android mobile operating system "has helped to expand choice, reduce prices and democratize access to smartphones and apps" and that it's "committed to open platforms that empower consumers."
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