I want to know who you thought was the best reality tv show for the black community. Please vote below. Vote for one show only and we will see who wins top show for 2009.
On 12.31.09, In Current Events, by Gerard Spinks
Please Vote now for the 2009 Black Television Reality show of the year. I want to know who wins this award.
On 12.31.09, In Current Events, by Gerard Spinks
This poll is to find out how black America really thinks of Rush Limbaugh and his health issue in Hawaii.
On 12.30.09, In Current Events, by Gerard Spinks
We’ve all had bosses and business associates that are tough to get along with. The corporate landscape is already tough enough and has gotten even tougher in this economy as everyone is fighting to land a job and stop evictions, stop their car from being taken, and keep their kids warm and safe.
We’ve all had bosses and business associates that are tough to get along with. The corporate landscape is already tough enough and has gotten even tougher in this economy as everyone is fighting to land a job and stop evictions, stop their car from being taken, and keep their kids warm and safe.
In these turbulent times, you have to even watch your back at work. Even your boss could be your enemy and you may not even know it. Life was good for an associate of mine. She worked hard and took her job very serious. She would be at work at 6 am and would be there so early that she would turn the lights on.
She stayed late. She worked weekends from home. She sacrificed everything just to do a good job. She was a highly paid and highly trained consultant and worked as a contractor to a publicly traded firm in downtown Atlanta on Peachtree. One day, her boss who hired her and loved her got terminated from the company. Although she got along extremely well with her former boss, she decided to stay on at the firm during the turbulent times. Her former boss warned her that things were changing.
She got a new boss who was hired in from another well known and large firm. Immediately, the new boss decided to take control. The new boss did not know as much as her and did not like this fact. In a corporate change management meeting, the new boss asked everyone in the room what they thought they could do to improve the company. Being passionate, my colleague jumped at the chance to speak up while everyone stayed silent. This would be her death knell. The new boss felt upstaged and felt like my colleague was trying to outshine her.
The new boss’ mission became one thing and one thing only: get my colleague out of the building and out of the job. The new boss didn’t know exactly how to do this but she came up with a very sly plan. She cruised down the hall way pretending to be a friend of my colleague. The new boss talked, joked, laughed and then asked my colleague if she was interested in becoming a full time employee. Because my colleague had seen so much change at the company where people were literally working 16 hour days on a $50,000 per year salary, my colleague said that she would prefer to stay a consultant due to the long work hours and demands on the other employees. She said she loved her job and loved how dynamic it was but didn’t want to work long hours, miss her child, and not get paid.
In a week, she was terminated and stories were being told about her as a slacker, an underachiever, and poor worker. She thought she could trust the new boss by telling her the truth. The truth sent her directly to the unemployment line where she could not get unemployment because she was a 1099 contractor. The truth forced her to have to relocate from Atlanta and find a job in another state, uproot her child, change schools, and lose her home and belongings. Do you think her boss is an enemy and was wrong for terminating her in this manner? Could this have been handled differently?
Do you have similar stories? Please comment and send them to the author.
Republished from my original article on the Atlanta Examiner site.
On 12.30.09, In Current Events, by Gerard Spinks
If you have a good 60 minutes, this interview with Rainforest Films’ CEO and Filmmaker, Will Packer, will not only inspire your creativity but it will really put you up on game and how to go from nothing to a whole lot of something. Director Rob Hardy and Producer William Packer created Rainforest Films in 1994, on the eve of the success of their first film Chocolate City. Shortly thereafter, the duo began producing a myriad of corporate pieces as their film was distributed to video stores.
One of their most successful projects, Stomp The Yard (Sony/Screen Gems), grossed over $65 million dollars and held the #1 position at the box office for two weekends in January of 2007. Later that year the company produced This Christmas (Sony/Screen Gems), which made $50 million dollars. The success of both projects landed the duo amongst the Top 25 Entertainers and Moneymakers according to Black Enterprise Magazine (January 2008).
If you have a good 60 minutes, this interview with Rainforest Films’ CEO and Filmmaker, Will Packer, will not only inspire your creativity but it will really put you up on game and how to go from nothing to a whole lot of something. I dive deep on Beyond the Bling Radio with my guest Will Packer. Must listen to audio interview but only when you have time to listen.
BET closes 2009 with a bang! The Network had its best year ever in its 29-year history with an average of 512,000 total viewers. For all of 2009, the Network has enjoyed double-digit gains in all four quarters and in all key demographics. This year of historic ratings growth follows an aggressive strategy that included new original programming, big signature specials, key acquisitions and blockbuster movies.
Republished From PR Newswire:
“NEW YORK, Dec. 30 /PRNewswire/ — BET closes 2009 with a bang! The Network had its best year ever in its 29-year history with an average of 512,000 total viewers. For all of 2009, the Network has enjoyed double-digit gains in all four quarters and in all key demographics. This year of historic ratings growth follows an aggressive strategy that included new original programming, big signature specials, key acquisitions and blockbuster movies.
BET is among the cable networks posting the biggest year-over-year gains, up double-digits over last year among total viewers (+17%) and key demographics: adults 18-49 (+19%), and adults 18-34 (+17%). Additionally, BET continues to reign as the #1 cable network among blacks year after year, and the audience continues to grow. Moreover, the fourth quarter of 2009 is the number one fourth quarter performance in BET history.
In 2009 BET scored the number one award show on cable and the number one program among blacks in cable television history with the BET AWARDS ’09 which drew 10.7 million total viewers; its number one hip-hop telecast in network history and television’s number one hip-hop themed telecast with the 2009 HIP HOP AWARDS; cable’s number one late night series among blacks with THE MO’NIQUE SHOW.
Additional highlights from the year include:
Original Programming:
* The finale of TINY & TOYA, attracted more than 1.9 million total viewers. TINY & TOYA finished the season with an average of 1.8 million viewers making it the #1 original series in BET history.
* The premiere and encore of MONICA: STILL STANDING garnered 3.2 million total viewers making it the #2 series debut in BET history behind the debut of TINY & TOYA. MONICA: STILL STANDING was the #1 cable reality series telecast on Tuesday, October 27 (Total Viewers).
* 1.5 million viewers tuned in for the series opener of BET’s late night talk show THE MO’NIQUE SHOW, which premiered on Monday, October 5. Through its debut night THE MO’NIQUE SHOW series premiere was the #1 entertainment talk show in cable television history. THE MO’NIQUE SHOW ranked as BET Network’s highest-rated show for the season. The inaugural episode also outperformed the competition, coming in as the number one entertainment talk show on cable overall and the number one talk show among adults 18-49 (850,000). Since the premiere, THE MO’NIQUE SHOW has averaged 753,000 viewers.
* The SUNDAY BEST season two premiere telecast is BET’s most watched SUNDAY BEST telecast ever. SUNDAY BEST season two is the number one gospel series on television. With 1.7 million viewers, the SUNDAY BEST season two premiere was up 68% versus SUNDAY BEST season one premiere (.80), making this the highest percentage gain for a series premiere in BET history.
Signature Specials:
* The live premiere of the BET AWARDS ’09 on Sunday, June 28, drew 10.7 million total viewers – the #1 award show on cable for 2009 and reigns as the #1 program among blacks in cable television history. The BET AWARDS ’09 capped a record-breaking second quarter for BET.
* The Monday, February 9 premiere of THE BET HONORS garnered 2.5 million viewers. Additionally, THE BET HONORS and BET AWARDS ’09 had the biggest year over year growth versus all other television award shows this year.
* The 2009 BET HIP-HOP AWARDS garnered 3.8 million total viewers, making it the #1 hip-hop telecast in BET History and television’s #1 hip-hop themed telecast for the 4th consecutive year.
* The BET premiere of the CENTRIC PRESENTS: 2009 SOUL TRAIN AWARDS on Sunday, November 29, drew 4.0 Million Total Viewers – making it the #1 telecast for the fourth quarter in BET history.
Key Acquisitions:
* Season three of THE GAME averaged 1.1 million viewers and was the #1 acquired series in network history. BET’s airing of THE GAME 3 on Wednesday, October 21 outperformed every premiere episode of THE GAME 3 on the CW.
About BET Networks
BET Networks, a division of Viacom Inc. ( VIA, VIA.B), is the nation’s leading provider of quality entertainment, music, news and public affairs television programming for the African-American audience. The primary BET channel reaches more than 98 million households and can be seen in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, the United Kingdom and sub-Saharan Africa. BET is the dominant African-American consumer brand with a diverse group of business extensions: BET.com, a leading Internet destination for Black entertainment, music, culture, and news; CENTRIC, a 24-hour entertainment network targeting the 25- to 54-year-old African-American audience; BET Digital Networks – BET Gospel and BET Hip Hop, attractive alternatives for cutting-edge entertainment tastes; BET Home Entertainment, a collection of BET-branded offerings for the home environment including DVDs and video-on-demand; BET Event Productions, a full-scale event management and production company with festivals and live events spanning the globe; BET Mobile, which provides ringtones, games and video content for wireless devices; and BET International, which operates BET in the United Kingdom and oversees the extension of BET network programming for global distribution.
SOURCE BET Networks”
On 12.29.09, In Current Events, by Gerard Spinks
Bring out your dead is about moving way past a job and building the new you which is about building your own company and your customers.
This was a phrase in Monty Python’s movie “In Search Of The Holy Grail” and it was funny as ever. But, 2010 is truly about change and the dead is the jobs in the U.S.A. Bring out your dead is about moving way past a job and building the new you which is about building your own company and your customers.
This is NOT a New Year’s Resolution. This is a 3 year economic plan designed to power you and start generating business and not waste another week applying for jobs hoping to land something in America. It’s not going to happen that quickly. But what can happen, is you building your own business over the next 3 years to a burgeoning empire even if that empire generates $3,500 per month in solid income. God speed to you!
On 12.29.09, In Current Events, by Gerard Spinks
Growing up in Peoria, Illinois, I played quarterback in high school behind New York Yankee skipper Joe Girardi and learned some of life’s greatest business lessons as a kid. I don’t know if it was fate or not but even our names were similar: Joe Girardi and Gerard Spinks. Both of us went to high [...]
Growing up in Peoria, Illinois, I played quarterback in high school behind New York Yankee skipper Joe Girardi and learned some of life’s greatest business lessons as a kid. I don’t know if it was fate or not but even our names were similar: Joe Girardi and Gerard Spinks.
Both of us went to high school in Peoria, Illinois at The Academy of Our Lady/Spalding Institute, a private catholic high school in downtown Peoria. I grew up in a single mother household, Joe Girardi grew up across the Illinois River in East Peoria, Illinois. I had heard a lot about Joe Girardi in baseball because he excelled in little league and was considered one of the best catchers in the little league circuit in the Peoria area.
I met Joe Girardi my freshman year of high school when being a quarterback was nothing but a dream and a wish. I had already watched him play his freshman football year and watched him play baseball at Bradley Park which I would walk to with my big brother, Jeronimo Spinx. What struck me about this kid was that he was very smart and extremely nice. He was strong as an ox, open minded, and willing to help me learn everything about sports. I met him during summer conditioning down at the high school where our coaches ran us and got us into top football condition to prepare for the upcoming football season.
Playing quarterback was awkward at my high school where 98% of the student body was white. My family and I were some of a handful of black kids that went to the school and even the coaches were really against having a black quarterback. Joe Girardi was different. He was hard working. He was meticulous in his approach. His parents instilled both academics as the focal point and sports as the secondary mission in his life. He put God first and exemplified that in his young life. The summer leading into my sophomore year, Joe asked me what my goals were. I said that I wanted to become a starter on the sophomore team and play varsity football as a sophomore and one day beat him out as a starter.
As a black kid, seeing a leader work extremely hard, play hard, and strive for the top colleges thoroughly changed my life and let me into the secret of business. Joe Girardi taught me to throw the football 500 times per day with no excuses. The secret was in the work. Work hard and confidence would naturally come. Refine your craft every single day without fail. When discouragement comes and people talk about you, keep your head down and keep working hard. Most importantly, he never focused on money. He focused on being the best he could be.
Joe Girardi taught me balance and excellence even at a young age before anyone knew what he would become. He taught me leadership is in what you do not what you say. He taught me business excellence lies in doing something everyday until you become an expert at it and block everyone else out. He taught me that business success lies in your ability to play ball literally and metaphorically.
This article is a repost of my original work at the Atlanta Examiner. All writings copywritten by Gerard Spinks Publishing.
On 12.29.09, In Current Events, by Gerard Spinks
This is RnB artist Tiffany Cheri Price’s audio/radio interview on Vocus for a television deal with Lifetime Television network. The artist speaks about her upbringing on Foster Care in New Jersey and what it took to come all the way from being abandoned to performing for United States Navy and Army soldiers. Tiffany Cheri Price [...]
This is RnB artist Tiffany Cheri Price’s audio/radio interview on Vocus for a television deal with Lifetime Television network. The artist speaks about her upbringing on Foster Care in New Jersey and what it took to come all the way from being abandoned to performing for United States Navy and Army soldiers.
Tiffany Cheri Price Foster Care’s Greatest Voice (Audio Interview For Lifetime TV)
On 12.29.09, In Current Events, grammy members, by Gerard Spinks
Army and Air Force Entertainment Network and Radio personnel can find Tiffany Cheri Price on Sonicbids. You can book her and review her songwriting works on Sonicbids.
Tiffany Cheri Price is up and crackin on Sonicbids. The music industry such as promoters, military entertainment personnel, and radio industry music directors can go directly to Sonicbids to book Tiffany Cheri Price.
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