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#TalkBackToTelevision, sponsored by Hub Entertainment Research, Operative and Leap Media Group LLC, welcomes Ethan Heftman, Chief Revenue Officer of Ampersand, the joint venture of Charter Communications, Comcast and Cox Communications. I was surprised to learn that Ampersand’s inventory accessing over 117M households allows buyers to tap into not only the linear supply of their ownership and affiliate partners, but their streaming supply as well. As important to the cross-screen reach Ampersand provides advertisers are the viewership data insights that come from the direct relationship the operator maintains with each subscriber. Those data insights households contribute to Ampersand’s staggering 75% coverage of US addressable households.

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https://lnkd.in/gVsyxqEX Today’s episode of “Let’s Just Talk,” hosted by Kathryn Raaker, features an incredible lineup of guests offering insights and advice to help you navigate the holiday season and beyond. First Guest: Whitney Stidom, Vice President of Medicare Operations for eHealth, will explain why not all Medicare plans are created equal and how reevaluating your plan annually can save you money. She will also share four simple steps for a seamless enrollment experience. Did you know the Medicare Annual Enrollment Period (AEP) is rapidly closing? Millions of qualifying Americans have yet to enroll. AEP, from October 15 to December 7, is the crucial 10-week window to change your Medicare choices. Missing this deadline could mean waiting until next year to make adjustments or secure coverage. Second Guest: Nancy Dalton, Director of Amazon Access, highlights how Amazon supports customers this holiday season as expenses climb. Through Amazon Access, a centralized hub, customers can explore programs, discounts, and features to make shopping more accessible and affordable. Options include payment with SNAP EBT, Access Discounts, and Prime Access, which offers qualifying government assistance recipients all the benefits of Prime at 50% off. Third Guest: Chef Eric Adjepong, TV Host and Celebrity Chef, one of Food Network’s top chefs, is here to prepare us for the holidays while emphasizing the importance of ‘Scientific CleanTM.’ Partnering with Ecolab, Chef Eric will explain why restaurants should commit to higher standards of cleanliness and how the Ecolab Science Certified program can help grow businesses and build consumer confidence. Learn what it takes to make restaurants, grocery stores, and other businesses cleaner and safer and why customers should look for the Ecolab Science Certified seal. Fourth Guest: Pam Seagle, Global Women’s Programs Executive, Bank of America, discusses women business owners' challenges this holiday season and how consumers can support women-owned businesses. The holiday hustle and the pressure to make sales are real for small business owners nationwide. A recent QuickBooks survey reveals that holiday sales may account for at least a third of annual revenue for many small businesses. Pam shares tips and strategies for navigating these challenges. Final Guest: Amanda Jaeger, Walmart Senior Manager of Global Communications, offers advice on preparing for one of the busiest times of the year. Every detail counts, from stocking up on essential business supplies to planning memorable year-end celebrations and selecting meaningful gifts for employees and clients. Despite the hectic pace, the holiday season presents an opportunity to create lasting experiences for customers and employees. #LetsJustTalk #KathrynRaaker #MedicareEnrollment #HolidaySavings #WomenInBusiness #FoodSafety #ChefEricAdjepong #AmazonAccess #SmallBusinessSupport #EcolabCertified #HolidayPlanning

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📣 Entrepreneurs, Today's Business Tip! Raise your hand if you are familiar with Roku? Did you know television exposure isn't a distant dream for published authors and entrepreneurs anymore because of streaming TV platforms like Roku? 🤯🥳 Here's something you may not know when it comes to infusing and leveraging Roku to expand your reach and grow your business. #motivation #keytosuccess #idefinetv #entrepreneurship #successtips #entrepreneurmindset #dailyquotes #successquotes #Roku #contentcreators #streamingtv #businessgrowth #FutureOfTV #publishedauthor #bookexposure #authorlife #AsSeenOnTV #AmazonBestSeller #calltoaction

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Media friends! 11Alive FOX5 WAGA CNBC Scripps News CNN There is lots of breaking news to cover today. Here's one more for you. MEDIA ADVISORY INTERVIEWS AVAILABLE: Travis Stone – FODAC Disaster Relief Coordinator Chris Brand – Executive Director of FODAC BROLL- trucks on site being loaded & leaving for FLA, SC & NC URGENT: FODAC Mobilizes Disaster Relief Shipments to GA SC & NC in Response to FEMA Request Following Hurricane Helene WHAT: Friends of Disabled Adults and Children (FODAC) is responding to an urgent request from FEMA for over 1,000 oxygen tanks, concentrators, and other durable medical equipment (DME) in the wake of Hurricane Helene. FODAC is preparing two shipments this morning—one bound for Florida, and the other for FEMA to distribute across South Carolina and North Carolina. This rapid response is part of FODAC’s long-standing commitment to supporting individuals with disabilities during natural disasters. The team is scrambling to prepare and ship equipment to affected areas as quickly as possible to meet the overwhelming demand. WHY: With the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene, many individuals along the East Coast, from South Carolina to North Carolina, are in immediate need of essential medical supplies, including oxygen tanks and concentrators. FODAC is rapidly mobilizing to meet these critical needs, providing life-saving equipment to individuals with disabilities and medical conditions who have been impacted by the storm. WHEN: Shipments are being prepared today for immediate dispatch. One truck will be sent to Florida with durable medical equipment, while another shipment will be picked up by FEMA for distribution across the Carolinas. WHERE: FODAC's shipments will originate from its Tucker, GA facility, with delivery routes spanning Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina. FODAC is seeking media coverage of this critical relief effort and will provide updates as the shipments progress. For more information, please visit http://www.fodac.org. #FODACRelief #HurricaneHeleneRecovery #DisasterRelief #EmergencyResponse #MedicalAid #DisabilitySupport #FEMAResponse #OxygenForAll #DMEforDisasterRelief #HelpingCommunities #HurricaneRecovery #FODACinAction #SupportTheSoutheast #GAReliefEfforts #SCReliefEfforts #NCReliefEfforts #FloridaRelief

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This is an excellent series by Radio Ambulante Studios and NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises. It will be of particular interest to journalists covering politics. Released several months ago, if offers critical context about the Hispanic American electorate that legacy and more contemporary news outlets routinely miss. Perhaps one result of this election is that journalists in those media organizations will finally understand that people of Latin American descent who live in the U.S. are not a homogenous group, and that understanding will be reflected in their stories. When appropriate, it's critical for stories to offer context about the economic and educational characteristics within those groups, as well as the migration patterns of people from Latin America over the last 125 years—and even as far back as far as colonial times. The lived experiences of Cuban American people in South Florida, for example, are very different from those of Mexican American people in Texas, California, and Illinois. Although the episodes are in Spanish, they have English-language transcripts to go with them. #elections #unitedstates #presidentialelection #2024presidentialelection #voter #hispanic #hispanicamerican #latino #latinx #latinamerica #immigration #eleccionespresidenciales #voto #estadosunidos #tendenciaselectorales #hispanos #latinos

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https://lnkd.in/eTdjTHvw On this week's episode of Let's Just Talk with host Kathryn Raaker, we have an incredible lineup of guests: Our first guest is Dr. Laurie Forlano, Virginia's State Epidemiologist, who will discuss the outlook for respiratory illnesses this season and the latest vaccine recommendations. She will also share tips on how to stay healthy throughout the upcoming months. Dr. Forlano leads efforts in communicable disease prevention and control, including disease surveillance, investigation, and immunization programs. Next, Dr. Trang Ly, Chief Medical Officer at Insulet Corporation, will introduce the Omnipod 5—the first and only automated insulin delivery system approved in the U.S. for both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. The Omnipod 5 simplifies diabetes management by adjusting insulin delivery every five minutes with SmartAdjust™ technology, eliminating the need for daily injections. It’s discreet, tubeless, and waterproof, working 24/7 with a continuous glucose monitor to manage blood sugar levels. Plus, it's easy to prescribe and covered by many insurance plans, including Medicare Part D. Our third guest is political and current events expert Michael Letts, providing updates on the hardest-hit areas from Hurricane Helene, including North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida. Despite a slow government response, local authorities, first responders, and non-profits are working around the clock to support displaced communities. Michael has been on the ground assisting with the relief efforts, helping to address critical shortages in food, water, and power. Lastly, we welcome C.R. Fabis, an Amazon bestselling author, who will talk about his second novel, The Angel and the Amazing Life of Maggie Love. This gripping mystery explores not "who dunnit," but whether Maggie’s soul can be saved after committing 20 murders. Told from the perspective of an Angel, or "Inspector of Souls," this thought-provoking story will leave you questioning justice and redemption. Tune in for these important and captivating discussions! #LetsJustTalk #KathrynRaaker #RespiratoryHealth #VaccineUpdate #DiabetesManagement #Omnipod5 #HurricaneHelene #ReliefEfforts #CrisisResponse #MysteryNovel #BookTalk #AuthorInterview 

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Check out these New #Podcast Releases 11Sep24 BlkPodNews by the Black Podcasters Association

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⏰ The countdown begins to The PIE Live being back in Boston 🇺🇸 Here are my 10 picks from the super-sized agenda. Can't wait to dig into these topics with the #intled community across the pond... 🔥 1. Trump v Harris 🥊 2. Department for State, visas and Open Doors 🇺🇸 3. EnglishUSA, testing and student success ✏ 4. Protests, police and politics on campus 👮‍♂️ 5. Crisis communications 🚨 6. How the UK sector found its voice to lobby government 🇬🇧 7. Associations on scale! Lots of representation in the debate 💪 8. The normal guys who love AI 🤓 9. Running Boston with UMass 🏃‍♂️ 10. Graduate outcomes and careers 💰 Plus loads more - foreign language anxiety, James Bond and managing agents, immigration policy for 2025, female leaders roundtable, poet laureate, preventing staff burnout in admissions... check it all out online. It's going to be MASSIVE. 👇

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Highly Capitalized Network-HCN interviewed the founder & CEO of Club Kindness, Mskindness B. Ramirez, M.Ed. Here, in this latest episode of High Finance with Peter Su, our dashing host who also happens to be Peter Su, CTP, CCBP, CCCE, GRCP, GRCA, IDPP, ACBP, CBE uncovers the #entrepreneur behind the famous Ethical Consumers Green Book of Cannabis. Found at all the big Cannabis #events, it's everywhere I look. This ubiquitous little book is a super-handy guide book chock-full of intel, #information and business listings of Cannabis companies, etc. The book is now the OFFICIAL guide book of MJBizCon. Here, exclusively on the Highly Capitalized Network-HCN, MsKindness and Peter discuss how she was inspired by the even more famous Green Book for African-American Travellers. Not so long ago in America, African-Americans were refused hospitality, due to their #skintone. Nowadays, this Ethical Consumers Green Book of Cannabis keeps the vision as it shares, celebrates & highlights the colorful #mosaic of the many small companies and communities that make up the Cannabis Industry. It's also probably why Mskindness keeps the costs of advertising so low. E.g. For only $30 you can have an ad! As an Irish-American, I was struck by Mskindness' #delightful first name. You can tell her parents put a lot of love into her name. In my opinion, her name is far #superior to say the name ''Bill,'' for example. (No offense if your name is Bill, but the fact is you truly have a boring-ass name). For example, in my Irish-American community we're only allowed 4 boys names. You can choose either Matthew, Mark, Luke or John. That's it. That's the choice. You're seen as a criminally insane person if you deviate from biblical names. Also, in case you're wondering, Mskindness is also a kind person. This interview and many others are dropping this week! And you can find thousands of copies of the Green Book distributed next week at MJBizCon. Add HCN code for discount on MJBiz tickets: MIPMXAB74 at checkout https://lnkd.in/g-S82N6s Be sure to follow Highly Capitalized Network-HCN and subscribe to our forever free newsletter & never miss an #HCNinterview with the people, like Mskindness—making an impact in #Cannabis

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Life of a New YouTuber 🥴 I tried to adjust the aperture on my SONY RX VII camera to achieve a beautiful depth-of-field effect in my video. However, upon reviewing the footage later, I realized it was blurry. It was frustrating, but I eventually reshot the footage without the depth-of-field effect and added a Gaussian Blur effect using Adobe Premiere Pro during editing. While the effect wasn't as clean as I wanted, I'm improving using the pen tool. These technical difficulties caused me to miss my weekly post schedule, but I didn't let them discourage me. I still managed to complete the work within the week. This experience taught me not to be too hard on myself when I miss a deadline due to technical difficulties. What's important to me is creating high-quality, well-written, visually appealing content with music that sets the right tone and adds value to my viewers. By doing this consistently, my brand as a YouTuber will only get stronger. #socialmediamarketer #Contentcreator #editor #copywriter #Premierepro 76 Subs and Counting

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My latest for MSNBC: How Live Nation-Ticketmaster became the villain of our time. "The Biden administration, along with a bipartisan group of 30 state attorneys general, filed suit Thursday against Live Nation, the parent company of Ticketmaster. The lawsuit seeks to break up what the government claims is an illegal monopoly. The main reaction from everyone — well, almost everyone — has been: It’s about time ...The word “Ticketmaster” has become shorthand for how companies with monopolistic control over a market segment degrade American life. ... As Jonathan Kanter, the head of the Justice Department’s anti-trust division, put it in a news release announcing the case, “The live music industry in America is broken because Live Nation-Ticketmaster has an illegal monopoly.” It’s not possible to say no to Ticketmaster, not if you want to see a live show. They’ve stuck their greedy snout in so many parts of the process, they are all but impossible to avoid. Little wonder CNBC’s Jim Cramer, hardly an avid trustbuster, said Thursday that he has long recommended the company’s stock because “it’s the best gouger in the world.” (“Alleged gouger,” he quickly added.) .... The few defending the company seem half-hearted at best. Their complaint, on both the left and the right, seems to amount to “doesn’t the Biden administration have anything more serious to do with their time?” That reaction misunderstands the situation. First, the rule of law matters, even when we’re discussing something as frivolous and discretionary as concert tickets. Second, many Americans quite reasonably think no one in government listens to — never mind addresses — their political and economic concerns. That’s the sentiment that got Donald Trump elected to the White House in 2016 and could do so again this year. Ever-growing monopolies are a major part of this problem. The Biden administration, to its credit and to the fury of both Wall Street and Silicon Valley, is pursuing anti-trust violations with a vigor not seen in decades. The Federal Trade Commission recently filed suit against the proposed merger of grocery store giants Kroger and Albertsons, arguing that it will raise grocery prices and harm workers. The DOJ has filed anti-trust suits against Google and Apple and already stopped a proposed JetBlue-Spirit merger in court. As companies become dominant in a market, costs surge even as the quality of the service on offer declines. Live Nation-Ticketmaster has come to symbolize how large and increasingly unaccountable corporations diminish our lives even as they gouge us financially. Combined with our post-Covid party-hardy ways, the issue has turned into political dynamite. Live Nation-Ticketmaster’s executives should have recalled a basic business adage: Pigs get fed while hogs get slaughtered." #Ticketmaster #LiveNation #Monopolies https://lnkd.in/gGvGGAc2

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Loan outs! I know most productions are still honoring them. We have been successful using Bellar Pilukas Consulting as our loan out. However, many non production corporate partners are really causing issues for small companies that have been running this way for years (I am looking at you of the capital D). What have you run into? How has this affected your business and do you think this bill will help? #entertainment #loanout #smallbusiness #womeninfilm #icvfx #losangeleslocal #savethecaliforniafilmindustry

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Wrote a few thoughts about the ups and downs of covering the Assange case over the last decade and a bit. https://lnkd.in/ekEzbtCi

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🌟 Prediction: The podcasting sector, although growing slower than digital overall, is set to witness a surge in revenue and innovation in the coming years.🌟 🎙️ Despite the slower growth rate, podcasting remains a lucrative industry fueled by iHeart's impressive financials showcasing continued growth.📈 - With new avenues for monetization and audience engagement emerging, the future looks promising for podcasters. - As podcasts become more mainstream, advertisers will continue to invest in the medium, driving revenue growth. - Investing in quality content and exploring diverse revenue streams will be key for podcasters to capitalize on this upward trend.💡 - Leveraging data analytics and consumer insights will be crucial for podcasters to attract and retain sponsors in this competitive landscape. - By adapting to evolving listener preferences and technological advancements, podcasters can stay relevant and thrive in the dynamic audio landscape.🎧 Stay ahead of the curve and Command Your Brand in the evolving podcasting industry!✨ [End with Command Your Brand]

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Who's heard of Roku? Are you an author or entrepreneur? Then you may want to get in the know on how to leverage it. Interested in hearing more? Check out www.Smile.iDefineTV.com. #Roku #streamingtv #streamingmedia #OTT #Atlanta #introduction #iDefineTV #atlantaentrepreneurs #publishedauthors #podcastguestswanted #interviewguest

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