Kromer Promoted at Nederlander Concerts

Vanessa Kromer has been promoted to vp communications for Nederlander Concerts, it was announced Tuesday.

With nearly two decades of entertainment publicity and special-events experience, the popular Kromer manages all aspects of public relations for Nederlander Concerts’ event and corporate entities, including the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, the San Jose Civic Auditorium and the City National Grove of Anaheim, as well as the company’s third-party facilities throughout California. 

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“Vanessa has been an integral part in growing Nederlander Concerts’ footprint and brand throughout California,” said CEO Alex Hodges. “She is a dedicated and enthusiastic team member who has taken great initiative in the marketing department, managing publicity for hundreds of artists who have played our venues. She is a proven leader in our industry.”

Kromer had served since 2009 as the senior director of publicity for Nederlander. She created national media opportunities for the company, including Last Call With Carson Daly’s “Greek Week” series for the Greek's 80th anniversary, She also spearheaded the reopening of the San Jose Civic in 2012 and coordinated induction events for Neil Diamond, Heart and The Go-Go’s at the Greek’s new Rock Walk of Fame.

Kromer also has managed publicity for Nederlander’s executive team and for the hundreds of artists that have played Nederlander venues over the years.

From 2001-08, Kromer was Nederlander’s publicity director. She left for a stint in the consumer, sports and entertainment division of Rogers & Cowan before returning.

A Southern California native, Kromer started her PR career at the Honda Center in Anaheim, then shifted to Staples Center in Los Angeles.

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Panasonic’s New Mirrorless Camera Is Smaller Than Many Point-and-Shoots

Tiny cameras usually have tiny sensors. A camera that fits comfortably in your pocket almost never has interchangeable lenses. The pint-sized Panasonic Lumix DMC-GM1 breaks both of those rules, packing the same 16-megapixel Micro Four-Thirds sensor and processing engine as ...

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What Happened When Piers Morgan Asked Bill O'Reilly to Appear on CNN

Bill O'Reilly didn't give Piers Morgan the time of day -- until he had to. 

That, at least, was the story told by the CNN host when he appeared on Howard Stern's SiriusXM show on Wednesday morning.

Morgan recounted that when he first joined the cable news network, he approached the Fox News personality to appear on his talk show. The O'Reilly Factor host apparently didn't show a flicker of recognition for Morgan and quickly declined the offer.

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"I've just joined CNN, you may have seen the promos? Nothing," Morgan remembered of the incident, later adding: "What a dick."

But then Morgan said that shortly after the conversation, O'Reilly approached him. The Fox News host asked if his daughter and her friend could take a picture with him because she was a fan of America's Got Talent, which the CNN personality previously hosted.

O'Reilly was "simmering with volcanic lava" at the time, Morgan said. 

The CNN host appeared on Stern's radio program during the press tour for his new book, Shooting Straight. 

In his book, Morgan notes that he similarly invited News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch to appear on his show. He was told there would be a "zero in a hundred" chance of that happening. 

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The Lost Google Novel That Takes a Better Look at Tech Culture Than The Circle</em>

With The Circle, novelist Dave Eggers added his voice to a growing contingent of intellectuals worried and disgusted at a Silicon Valley ethic that — in their view — enriches nerds by enlisting customers as unpaid workers in a user-content, surveillance-friendly economy. Eggers has said that he didn’t base his diabolical corporation, The Circle, on Google or Facebook, and that he has done little direct research. But clearly the company’s culture is based on what Eggers, a Bay Area resident, has absorbed about those companies. Part of the book’s credibility comes in constructing a viable facsimile of what you’d find on those campuses.

He does a good job on that front, so much that the book reminded me of one of the most detailed and entertaining accounts of life at Google, a 2005 novel called Virtual Love written by a then-Google executive named Kim Malone Scott. I assume that Eggers never heard of Scott’s book, mainly because it was never released. (Eggers has already had to fend off one charge of plagiarism by a woman who wrote about her experiences at Facebook.) After a few rejections, Scott stashed it on her hard drive, partly relieved that she didn’t have to deal with the complications of publishing a novel about her peers.

I heard about Virtual Love while researching In the Plex, my non-fiction book about Google, and sought her permission to read it and quote from it. Since her book is an unabashed roman á clef, it provided a great window into Google’s culture. (When I drew the information from the book, I had to work with her to delineate which details hewed to bedrock reality and which were fictionalized.)

Unlike Eggers, Scott has no huge critical points to make about the dangers of social networking or surveillance. Her book is definitely one of the heart, a first-person account of a young woman seeking connection in a real-life high-tech fantasyland. At first glance, the two books are almost doppelgängers.

The similarities begin with the protagonists. Egger’s Mae Holland comes to The Circle because of her close friendship with one of the company’s top executives, Annie. Likewise, the heroine of Virtual Love is Virginia Libert, whose long-time friend Sarah is one of Google’s key executives. (In real life, Malone was brought to Google by a business school buddy, Sheryl Sandberg.)

Both books portray immersively connected companies, using snippets of email and online chat to move the plot. In both, the newbies are stunned at the friendliness of the workplace and the bountiful freebies provided to employees. Both have encounters with the company doctor. Both find escape in outdoor activities off campus. Both have to negotiate romantic relationships with fellow workers. And in both cases, there are intimations (though in Scott’s case purely fanciful) of Founder Sex.

As the books progress, they become less similar. Eggers is writing a scary parable in which paints The Circle as villainous beyond what even the harshest critics of Google and Facebook would allege, while Scott’s barbs come in the form of gentle eye-rolling at the current looniness of the real Silicon Valley. Nonetheless, there is an unmistakable kinship between these two works, most of all in the remarkably similar starry-eyed approach of their heroines. Mae and Virginia are both capable and ambitious young women who are bowled over by their employer’s indulgences. But while Eggers’ character rises in the company because of contrived circumstances, Scott’s character actually uses intelligence and management skills to get things done.

In Scott’s book, you get far more of the actual texture of a real-life company. And she doesn’t duck behind a fictional name for her firm. Virginia Libert might be an imagined character but she works for Google. Scott even puts Virginia on the same team she led in real life — AdSense — where she becomes the “Priestess of the Long Tail.”

Scott left Google in 2009, and has since worked stints at Apple and Dropbox. She’s currently consulting at Twitter. Now, spurred by Egger’s work, she has dusted off her book, revising it and self-publishing on Amazon and iBooks. (Here’s the Kindle link, and iBooks is coming next.) It might owe more to Jane Austen than George Orwell, but I consider Virtual Love an essential piece of Google literature.

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Jonas Brothers Deactivate Group Twitter Account as 'Rift' Reportedly Deepens

Hope for a Jonas Brothers reunion is getting dimmer by the day.

Just one week after the trio scrapped plans for a nationwide tour, with the band's rep citing a "deep, creative rift," the official Jonas Brothers Twitter account has disappeared.

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Sources previously told The Hollywood Reporter that disagreements between Kevin, 25, Joe, 24, and Nick, 21, became painfully apparent when the brothers sat down in Los Angeles to discuss plans of their long-anticipated fifth album. "Once they realized they couldn't agree on music, it became a question of, 'Why would we want to go out on tour right now?' Their thought process was to get everything straight in terms of the creative. It was not a small thing [to call off the tour]," said the source.

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On Wednesday, a People report proclaimed that the rift had become "uglier than you think," with unnamed sources telling the mag that all three members had begun looking into solo projects. However, the brothers are said to remain on speaking terms.

The multiplatinum group was once a teen tour de force with its own TV shows, movies, a concert documentary and multiple tours, but has fallen off the radar in recent years. At the same time, eldest brother Kevin has been enjoying a second career in reality television as the star of E!'s Married to Jonas along with his wife, Dani, who is currently pregnant. A source tells THR that the decision to cancel their tour has nothing to do with Dani's pregnancy.

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Prince Harry Opens Blast Injury Center in London

Fresh off a morning playing rugby, Prince Harry cleaned up for an appearance at the opening of the Royal British Legion Centre for Blast Injury Studies in London.

The red haired prince looked handsome in a dark blue suit and a striped tie as he toured the facility, even donning a personalized "HRH" lab coat to check out the "Shock Tube" Laboratory.

Taking up the cause, which was very important to his late mother, Princess Diana, Harry remarked "Today, I have had a brief insight into the work of the Center including how injured cells are analyzed. In the past I've met numerous service men and women injured in operations, many by IEDs and landmines. Their stories are harrowing and inspirational as I am sure you all know. Watching the IED simulation reminded me of the catastrophic trauma experienced by the human body during IED or mine-strikes."

He continued, "To me this makes their extraordinary stories of recovery all the more outstanding. This issue affects people on a global scale and whilst work at the Center is strongly focussed on military casualties, its findings will no doubt also provide significant humanitarian benefits across the world. The Royal British Legion and Imperial have joined forces to tackle this issue head on. Without this partnership the Centre would quite simply not become a reality."

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'The Walking Dead' rules ratings in strong return

NEW YORK (AP) — The zombies on AMC's "The Walking Dead" are relentless. The series returned for its fourth season Sunday with its biggest audience ever and is easily the most popular drama on television among young viewers this season.

The 16.1 million people who watched the AMC series Sunday shattered the show's previous record of 12.4 million, which was set for April's final episode of the third season, the Nielsen company said.

An estimated 10.4 million of those viewers were ages 18 to 49, which is the demographic sweet spot for those who sell television advertising. No broadcast network drama came close. NBC's "Blacklist," with 3.9 million viewers in that demographic last week, came in second. The most popular broadcast drama so far this season was the Sept. 24 showing of "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." on ABC, with just under 6 million young viewers.

The discussion series that followed the premiere, "The Talking Dead," had 5.1 million viewers with 3.3 million in the young demographic, Nielsen said.

AMC President Charlie Collier credited series creator Robert Kirkman and his deputies for the strong showing. "Thanks to them, the dead have never been more alive," Collier said.

"NCIS" on CBS, with 18.3 million viewers, was the week's most popular drama. Only 3.6 million of those viewers were in the young demographic, making the show less valuable to many advertisers.

Fox News Channel's Megyn Kelly made a strong debut in the network's prime-time lineup last week. "The Kelly File" averaged 2.3 million viewers, or 38 percent more than Sean Hannity had been averaging in the 9 p.m. Eastern time slot since the beginning of July. Kelly was second only to Fox's Bill O'Reilly in popularity on cable news last week.

Despite all the new fall programming, last week's ratings indicated what truly rules in the season: five of the 13 most popular programs were either football games, football highlights shows or a football pregame show.

CBS won the week in prime time, averaging 9.2 million viewers. NBC had 8.4 million, Fox had 7.5 million, ABC had 7 million, Univision had 3.2 million, the CW had 1.7 million, Telemundo had 1.14 million and ION Television had 1.05 million.

TBS was the week's most popular cable network, averaging 4.2 million viewers in prime time. ESPN had 2.7 million, AMC had 2.2 million, The Disney Channel had 2 million and Fox News Channel had 1.8 million.

NBC's "Nightly News" topped the evening newscasts with an average of 8.2 million viewers. ABC's "World News" was second with 7.3 million and the "CBS Evening News" had 6.4 million viewers.

For the week of Oct. 7-13, the top 10 shows, their networks and viewerships: NFL Football: Washington vs. Dallas, NBC, 22.07 million; "NCIS," CBS, 18.33 million; "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 17.64 million; "The Walking Dead," AMC, 16.11 million; "Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick," NBC, 16.02 million; "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 14.84 million; "The Voice" (Monday), NBC, 14.64 million; "The OT," Fox, 14.11 million; "Dancing With the Stars," ABC, 13 million; "Football Night in America," NBC, 11.78 million.

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ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Co. CBS is owned by CBS Corp. CW is a joint venture of Warner Bros. Entertainment and CBS Corp. Fox is owned by 21st Century Fox. NBC and Telemundo are owned by Comcast Corp. ION Television is owned by ION Media Networks.

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