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Craig Plestis
Craig Plestis is the President and CEO of Smart Dog Media, a reality programming production company. Plestis is an executive producer of '' The Masked Singer'' and ''I Can See Your Voice''. Career NBC Plestis was the executive producer behind the NBC singing game show, ''The Winner Is'' hosted by Nick Lachey, in partnership with Talpa Media. Plestis was the creator and executive producer of approximately 70 episodes of the hit game show ''Minute to Win It'', hosted by Guy Fieri, and winner of the International FRAPA Award for Best Studio Based Game Show. He also executive produced NBC's ''Who's Still Standing?'', a game show that featured contestants falling through trap doors after answering trivia questions incorrectly. As the NBC's former Executive Vice President, Alternative Programming, Development and Specials, Craig Plestis oversaw all alternative programming and development for the network, including the hit series ''Deal or No Deal'', ''The Biggest Loser'', '' America's Go ...
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The Masked Singer (American TV Series)
''The Masked Singer'' (abbreviated as ''TMS'') is an American reality singing competition television series that premiered on Fox on January2, 2019. It is part of the ''Masked Singer'' franchise which began in South Korea and features celebrities singing songs while wearing head-to-toe costumes and face masks concealing their identities. Hosted by Nick Cannon, the program employs panelists who guess the celebrities' identities by interpreting clues provided to them throughout each season. Ken Jeong, Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg, Nicole Scherzinger, and Robin Thicke appear in each episode and vote alongside an audience for their favorite singer after all perform. The least popular is eliminated, taking off their mask to reveal their identity. To prevent their identities from being revealed before each prerecorded episode is broadcast, the program makes extensive use of code names, disguises, non-disclosure agreements, and a team of security guards. While television critics have ha ...
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Robot Combat League
''Robot Combat League'' (''RCL'') is a television show on the Syfy network about robot fighting competitions. On the show, teams use exosuits to control fighting robots. The series is hosted by Chris Jericho, and premiered on February 26, 2013 at 10 PM EST. Overview Each weekly show features tournament competitions between 8-foot, 1000-pound humanoid robots controlled by human competitors, one robo-jockey and one robo-tech per team. The series features twelve teams of individuals from diverse backgrounds. Each team is paired with a robot that they control using an exo-suit that directs its movements. Each fight goes three rounds, and the winning team advances. There are 12 total robots. The robots range from an axe-headed laser eyed warrior to a robot made of plexiglass and a roll cage. The robots and the suits used to control them were created by robotics expert Mark Setrakian. Rules : In the season one finale's championship fight there were five two-minute rounds, with t ...
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Brunico Communications
Brunico Communications is a Canadian magazine publishing company."Desktop tabloid publishing firm sports 2 publications and a profit". ''The Globe and Mail'', October 9, 1989. The company specializes primarily in online trade magazines serving media industries, including the magazines '' Playback'', ''Realscreen'', ''Kidscreen'' and ''Strategy''. The company has also owned and operated the Banff World Media Festival, one of the world's largest film and television industry conferences, since 2016. It also oversees the Kidscreen Awards, a ceremony which focuses on recognizing outstanding achievement in youth entertainment, including categories in Preschool, Children, and Young Adult programming in television and film. History The company was established by James Shenkman in 1986. Soon after unsuccessfully applying for a Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission license for a radio station in Mississauga, he identified a gap in Canadian coverage of media industries ...
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MarketWatch
MarketWatch is a website that provides financial information, business news, analysis, and stock market data. Along with ''The Wall Street Journal'' and '' Barron's'', it is a subsidiary of Dow Jones & Company, a property of News Corp. History The company was conceived as DBC Online by Data Broadcasting Corp. in the fall of 1995. The marketwatch.com domain name was registered on July 30, 1997. The website launched on October 30, 1997, as a 50/50 joint venture between DBC and CBS News run by Larry Kramer and with Thom Calandra as editor-in-chief. In 1999, the company hired David Callaway and in 2003, Callaway became editor-in-chief. In January 1999, during the dot-com bubble, the company became a public company via an initial public offering. After pricing at $17 per share, the stock traded as high as $130 per share on its first day of trading, giving it a market capitalization of over $1 billion despite only $7 million in annual revenues. In June 2000, the company formed a ...
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Unicorn Hunters
''Unicorn Hunters'' is a reality television series that debuted in 2021 on Amazon Prime. Series overview The series features a group of investors called the “Circle of Money” and groups of entrepreneurs that pitch their businesses to the group in search of investment funds. The viewing audience also has the ability to invest in the same companies as the investors on the show. Season one consisted of six episodes. The Washington Post has described the series as “the only show that can make you rich”. Circle of Money In the shows first season, the members of the Circle of Money included Steve Wozniak, Lance Bass, Moe Vela, Silvina Moschini, Alex Konanykhin, Scott Livingston, and Rosa Rios. Production The show was produced by Craig Plestis and premiered on May 10, 2021 on Amazon Prime. ''Unicorn Hunters'' also eventually made a home on the online streaming platform Binge Networks Binge Networks is a subscription-based video streaming service. It was founded by Bo ...
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Tokyo Broadcasting System
formerly is a Japanese media and licensed broadcasting holding company. It is the parent company of the television network and radio network . It has a 28-affiliate television network called JNN (Japan News Network), as well as a 34-affiliate radio network called JRN (Japan Radio Network). TBS produced the game show '' Takeshi's Castle'' and has also broadcast the '' Ultra Series'' programs and '' Sasuke'' (''Ninja Warrior''), whose format would inspire similar programs outside Japan. TBS is a member of the Mitsui ''keiretsu'' and has substantial relations with The Mainichi Newspapers Co. despite the Mainichi's lack of shareholding. History * May 1951 - was founded in Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. * December 25, 1951 - KRT started radio broadcasting (1130 kHz, 50 kW, until July 1953) from Yurakucho, Chiyoda, Tokyo, and the frequency changed to 950 kHz. * April 1955 - KRT started TV broadcasting (JOKR-TV, Channel 6) from Akasaka-Hitotsukicho ...
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History Channel
History (formerly The History Channel from January 1, 1995 to February 15, 2008, stylized as HISTORY) is an American pay television network and flagship channel owned by A&E Networks, a joint venture between Hearst Communications and the Disney General Entertainment Content division of the Walt Disney Company. The network was originally focused on history-based as well as social and science documentaries. During the late 2000s, History devolved into reality television programming. In addition to this change in format, the network has been criticized by many scientists, historians, and skeptics for broadcasting pseudo-documentaries and pseudoscientific, unsubstantiated, sensational investigative programming. As of February 2015, around 96,149,000 American households (82.6% of households with television) receive the network's flagship channel, History. International localized versions of History are available, in various forms, in India, Canada, Europe, Australia, the Middle East ...
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Extreme Chef
''Extreme Chef'' is a reality competition television program on Food Network. It first aired on June 26, 2011, and is hosted by Marsh Mokhtari Marsh Mokhtari is a British born, US based TV host, actor and producer. Career His TV credits include hosting ''Extreme Chef'' on Food Network, host of ''Perilous Journeys'' on National Geographic Channel, and several soap-opera appearances as C .... The second season premiered on August 16, 2012. Format Seven chefs test their culinary abilities, as well as their physical prowess and mental toughness. The challenges are judged by a rotating panel of judges. The winner takes home the $50,000 grand prize. Episodes Season 1 Season 2 References External links * * 2010s American reality television series 2011 American television series debuts Food Network original programming English-language television shows 2012 American television series endings {{food-tv-prog-stub ...
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Food Network
Food Network is an American basic cable channel owned by Television Food Network, G.P., a joint venture and general partnership between Warner Bros. Discovery Networks (which holds a 69% ownership stake of the network) and Nexstar Media Group (which owns the remaining 31%). Despite this ownership structure, Warner Bros. Discovery has operating control of the channel, and manages and operates it as a division of the Warner Bros. Discovery U.S. Networks Group. The channel airs both special and regular episodic programs about food and cooking. In addition to its headquarters in New York City, Food Network has offices in Atlanta, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Detroit, Jersey City, Cincinnati, and Knoxville. Food Network was established on November 23, 1993, 6:00 am as TV Food Network and in 1997, it adopted its current name. It was acquired by Scripps Networks Interactive; Scripps Networks Interactive later merged with Discovery, Inc. in 2018, and WarnerMedia was merged w ...
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Exit (game Show)
''Exit'' is an American game show on Syfy that premiered on June 4, 2013. Synopsis Based on the Japanese series ' (NTV NTV may refer to: Television * NTV (Bangladesh), a Bengali-language satellite television channel in Bangladesh * NTV (India), Telugu regional channel * NTV (Kenya) * NTV (Mongolia), a television channel based in Mongolia * NTV (Newport Televis ...), ''Exit'' features four teams of two contestants who compete to escape four rooms that each hold a different challenge. Each room has the contestants solve brain games and puzzles under increasingly stressful circumstances, with the team coming in last place being eliminated from the next round. If the last ones standing complete the final room, they go home with $10,000 cash. The show pretends that losers suffer "lethal" consequences. Beam Room * Contestants stand on planks of metal over a seemingly bottomless pit. They must then solve a series of visual puzzles, usually word puzzles but also celebrity face ...
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Syfy
Syfy (formerly Sci-Fi Channel, later shortened to Sci Fi; stylized as SYFY) is an American basic cable channel owned by the NBCUniversal Television and Streaming division of Comcast's NBCUniversal through NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment. Launched on September 24, 1992, the channel broadcasts programming relating to the science fiction, horror, and fantasy genres. As of January 2016, Syfy is available to 92.4 million households in America. History In 1989, in Boca Raton, Florida, communications attorneys and cable TV entrepreneurs Mitchell Rubenstein and his wife and business partner Laurie Silvers devised the concept for the Sci-Fi Channel, and signed up 8 of the top 10 cable TV operators as well as licensing exclusive rights to the British TV series ''Doctor Who'' (which shifted over from PBS to Sci-Fi Channel), ''Dark Shadows'', and the cult series '' The Prisoner''. In 1992, the channel was sold by Rubenstein and Silvers to USA Networks, then a joint venture between P ...
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