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Time Warner is committed to the traditional TV system, while also exploring new opportunities, chairman and CEO Jeff Bewkes said on the entertainment conglomerate's third-quarter earnings conference call on Wednesday.
The call featured much talk about HBO's planned online-only video service, as well as a carriage dispute between the firm's Turner unit and Dish.
The comments came after the company reported better-than-expected quarterly results and raised its full-year earnings growth forecast.
Bewkes said that the company was focused on going after "the large and growing opportunity" in the global video content space by streamling the company and let its collaborative unit heads go after traditional and new business opportunities. He said TW was the "best-positioned" media company to take advantage of this.
He also emphasized "our commitment to a strong multi-channel eco-system" after recent news that HBO would launch an online-only video service.
In a rare occurrence, the call's Q&A portion also included the chiefs of TW's three units - Warner Bros. boss Kevin Tsujihara, HBO head Richard Plepler and Turner chief John Martin. Bewkes said they were on the call to help answer any follow-up questions after the company's investor day last month.
Plepler discussed HBO's online-only plan, reemphasizing that the focus will be on collaborating with pay TV partners. "We want to lean in with them," he said. "Ive talked to all of our distributors." Plepler said he sees "nothing but upside" for all parties.
Plepler reiterated that he wasn't abandoning existing pay TV relationships. This is not binary," he said. He wants to initially go after 70 million pay TV homes that do not get HBO right now, he reiterated. Plus, "theres 4-5 million [broadband-only homes] that we can also get with our partners," he added.
Plepler said he has talked to the top executives at NBCUniversal and Comcast, and they feel they will remain good business partners. NBCU boss Steve Burke had said he had been surprised by HBO's decision to launch an online-only service and said it would have a tough time with it.
CFO Howard Averill said fourth-quarter Turner advertising revenue will be flat due to fewer sports playoff games, a strong dollar and a carriage dispute with Dish. Without these factors, the firm would have seen return to growth in the current quarter, he said. Averill said if Turner and Dish don't settle, the 2014 financial forecast will come in at the lower end of the range. He added that the firm is "working hard" to resolve the dispute.
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Ronda Rousey always seems to crank up the intensity a bit when talking about Cris "Cyborg" Justino.
Speaking on Monday's edition ofThe MMA Hourwith Ariel Helwani (NSFW language),the UFC women's bantamweight champion dished on Cyborg, and the results were critical, as expected.
"Cyborg is just a fraud and a cheat," Rousey told Helwani. "I'll do it (the fight), I'll beat her, I'll prove it to everybody, but it's just, that girl, in my eyes, should be charged with attempted negligent homicide. Coming into the cage with performance-enhancing drugs is the equivalent of walking in there with a weapon."
In Rousey's mind, Cyborg's history of PED usage risks more than just the safety of her opponent on a given night; it puts the entire sport of MMA in jeopardy.
"It's not about who hits the ball farther or something like that," Rousey continued. "If you keep putting PEDs in people, it [the sport] becomes less and less safe. And the day that somebody dies in that Octagon and the other person tests positive for steroids, you're going to have your first murder case involved in MMA, and that is the kind of thing that's going to destroy the sport. It could destroy the sport forever."
Unfortunately for fight fans, it's unclear at the moment whenor ifRousey will get the chance to back up her words inside the cage.
Right now, Cyborg is signed with Invicta Fighting Championships, where she was scheduled to make her 135-pound debut at Invicta FC 10 on Dec. 5.
However, Cyborg was forced off the card after she ruptured the anterior talofibular ligament in her left foot (h/t MMAFighting.com). Now, it's unclear when she'll make her debut for Invicta, and that's a big deal.
Cyborg has never fought at bantamweight, and Rousey has previously said that she has no interest in taking the fight at a catchweight or at featherweight.
As a result, Cyborg would need to prove that she can safely make weightat 135, and she would have to show that she's just as fearsome after shedding 10 pounds.
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By Michael Giebelhausen, Assistant Professor at Cornell University School of Hotel Administration
Executive Summary: Hotels, restaurants, and other hospitality industry operations are experimenting with self-service kiosks, tablet devices, and other technologies intended to augment or replace interactions between guests and front-line employees. While the combination of technology and people is designed to improve service, research suggests that service technologies can impede development of employee-guest rapport and lead to lower service evaluations. The studies presented in this report apply social equity theory to determine when (and why) technology can improve guests' satisfaction with the service process and when it diminishes the guest experience. Equity theory suggests that when the use of technology prevents guests from responding to an employee's friendly advances, guests experience psychological tension and decrease their evaluations of the service experience. The reverse situation also applies, so that when employees are less than friendly the barrier created by technology increases service evaluations by reducing guest anger. However, it is not always the case that friendly frontline staff and technology don't mix. In a follow up field experiment, guests who used a Monscierge touchscreen system located not far from a bell stand preferred interacting with the technology when a hotel employee was nearby though not directly engaging guests. Thus, frontline employees should still develop a rapport with guests, but when technology acts as an "equity barrier," the employees should provide guests with "social space," without abandoning them entirely.
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As the hotel industry ramps up its use of technology for guest service, a nagging question involves whether technology improves guest satisfaction, or whether technology gets in the way. A new study from the Cornell Center for Hospitality Research (CHR) demonstrates how to combine technology with personal service to maintain guest satisfaction. The study, "Cyborg Service: The Unexpected Effect of Technology in the EmployeeGuest Exchange," by Michael Giebelhausen, is available at no charge from the CHR.
"My colleagues and I have conducted several studies intended to find when guests like interacting with technology, and when technology leaves hotel guests dissatisfied," explained Giebelhausen, an assistant professor at the Cornell School of Hotel Administration. "What we found is that technology can really improve the service experience, but guests don't want to have their attention divided between technology and a frontline agent."
The report bases its findings on recent research conducted by Giebelhausen and colleagues, as well as two new experimental studies. "In one experiment, guests used a Monscierge Connect Lobby touchscreen that was located at a slight distance from a bell stand. This allowed enough distance between the two to create a 'social space.' The bell person was still nearby but the guest didn't feel so awkward about not interacting." The other study showed, though, that when guests had to divide their attention between a piece of technology and the frontline agent, satisfaction with the technology decreased. "One thing I've noticed is that guests don't like it when technology comes between them and a frontline agent who has been interacting with them. The idea is that people feel awkward when technology prevents them from responding to an agent's greeting, or if they feel that using the technology is making them appear rude to the agent." The lesson here, says Giebelhausen, "is to make sure the guest, the employee, and the technology work together appropriately."
A unit of the Cornell School of Hotel Administration, The Center for Hospitality Research (CHR) sponsors research designed to improve practices in the hospitality industry. Under the lead of the center's corporate affiliates, experienced scholars work closely with business executives to discover new insights into strategic, managerial and operating practices. To learn more about the center and its projects, visit http://www.chr.cornell.edu.
Center Senior Partners: Accenture, Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group, SAS, STR, and Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces
Center Partners: Access Point Financial, Cvent, Inc., Davis & Gilbert LLP, Deloitte & Touche USA LLP, Denihan Hospitality Group, Duetto, Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, Fox Rothschild LLP, Hilton Worldwide, Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc., Hyatt Hotels Corporation, Intel Corporation, InterContinental Hotels Group, Jumeirah Group, Marriott International, Inc., priceline.com, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Proskauer, RateGain, Sabre Hospitality Solutions, SONIFI Solutions, Inc., Talent Plus, Inc., Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., TripAdvisor, Wipro EcoEnergy, and Wyndham Hotel Group
Center Friends: Cleverdis DK Shifflet & Associates EyeforTravel Hospitality Technology Magazine Hsyndicate iPerceptions J.D. Power and Associates PKF Hospitality Research Questex Hospitality Group
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Increasing numbers of marine turtles are laying eggs on Japanese beaches, the Environment Ministry said in a new report.
It shows a general rise since 2008 in egg-laying by three species green, loggerhead and hawksbill turtles all of which are listed as endangered. The figures were compiled by the Sea Turtle Association of Japan.
The associations head, Yoshimasa Matsuzawa, said the rise may be due to protections introduced in the 1970s. Those measures, he said, may have led to a decrease in the illegal poaching of eggs and helped to boost egg production by mature adults.
However, there has been a rise in eggs being eaten by raccoons and boars. The association has launched efforts to protect egg-laying grounds.
The association organized surveys with the help of volunteers of 41 known egg beaches across the country between fiscal 2004 and fiscal 2012.
The report said egg production has been increasing for all the three species, most markedly among loggerhead turtles: It records a 2.7-fold rise from 3,562 instances of egg-laying in 2004 to 9,661 in 2012.
Egg production by green turtles has been rising since 2010, while nine eggs of hawksbill turtles were confirmed in 2011, an increase compared to recent years.
Sea turtles take 30 to 40 years to mature. They lay eggs every two to four years.
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Mother Nature was not kind to Jean Klock Park in Benton Harbor and Tiscornia Beach in St. Joseph during Friday's storm that swept across the Midwest.
"It's the worst I've seen (at Jean Klock Park) in the 10 years I've been here," said Bob McFeeter, who is in charge of maintaining the park through his position as director of development at Evergreen Development Company in Benton Harbor.
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The WA government has been accused of letting "20 tonnes of shark bait drift onto one of Perth's most popular beaches" in a stinging attack by the opposition.
Labor spokesman for Fisheries Dave Kelly said the government failed to act earlier to deal with the carcass of a humpback whale that drifted in waters off Perth before it washed up on Scarborough Beach on Monday.
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Mr Kelly directed his criticism to Colin Barnett as the Premier had "taken on shark mitigation as a responsibility."
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"While some of the things we've seen at Scarborough beach have been quite comical over the last couple of days and it certainly has been an interesting spectacle, there is actually a quite serious side of what's happens at Scarborough beach, we've effectively had 20 tonnes of shark bait allowed to drift onto one of Perth's most popular beaches," he said.
Mr Kelly added that this was not the first time a whale carcass has floated in metropolitan waters before becoming beached so the government "could not say it was an unexpected occurrence."
"In October last year a shark carcass washed onto Whitfords Beach, the minister at the time, Troy Buswell said it would have made more sense to tow the carcass offshore and that he would speak to his Commonwealth colleagues to make sure that whatever Commonwealth exemptions needed to be in place, they would be in place in the future," he said.
"Twelve months later it appears as if nothing has happened."
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