1. Word of the Day: Preclude MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A BOOK!!!!! + COMPUTER
Daily Language Task…...
Word of the Day: Preclude
New Forum is up!!!!
MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A BOOK!!!!! + COMPUTER

2. Please get your books out….

3. For Today….. Papers….almost done.
Quick Intro to our next area of study.
Today will be your last full class to work on your infomercials, we will be starting presentations Friday.

4. Positivity Challenge…
Get out an shoot a round of golf.

5. And Talk…. Have you ever cheated at a game and got away with it?
Bacon…..extra crispy, or squiggly.
Have you ever started a rumor?

6. Ethics in Media….

7. Some facts….
Viacom revenues $24.6 billion. Owns 39 broadcast television stations and 185 radio stations. Cable networks include MTV, Nickelodeon and BET. Other businesses include CBS, UPN, Paramount Pictures, Simon & Schuster and an 80.4 percent equity interest in Blockbuster Video.
News Corporation total revenues $17 billion. Owns (80.6 percent) the Fox Entertainment Group, which includes 20th Century Fox, Fox Television Stations, and Fox Cable (includes sports and movie channels, National Geographic Channel). Fox Television owns 60 television stations and has 188 affiliates. News Corporation is the world's largest publisher of English-language newspapers, including the New York Post. Also owns HarperCollins Publishers.

8. AOL Time Warner – 2002 revenues $40. 9 billion
AOL Time Warner – 2002 revenues $40.9 billion. Businesses owned include America Online, CNN, Time Warner Cable, Warner Bros. Pictures, Turner Networks, and HBO. The Warner Music Group’s major record labels include Elektra and Atlantic. The publishing business conducted primarily through Time Inc. includes Time, People, Sports Illustrated, Fortune and Money. The Securities and Exchange Commission and The Department of Justice are conducting investigations into accounting and disclosure practices of the company.
General Electric revenues $31.7 billion. NBC provides network television services to more than 220 affiliated stations, produces television programs, operates 28 television-broadcasting stations, operates four cable/satellite networks around the world, and has investment and programming activities in the Internet, multimedia and cable television. Also owns Telemundo, one of the two largest hispanic broadcasting networks.

9. Walt Disney - 2002 total revenues $25. 3 billion
Walt Disney total revenues $25.3 billion. Operates the ABC Television Network, which has 226 primary affiliated stations. ABC Radio Networks provide programming to more than 4,600 affiliated radio stations. Radio Disney is carried on 51 stations, including 32 that are owned by the company. ABC Radio Networks also produce the ESPN Radio format, which is carried on more than 700 stations, including 215 full-time (four of which are owned by the company), making it the largest radio sports network in the United States. Disney also owns 10 television stations, 44 standard AM radio stations, and 18 FM radio stations.

10. Use your time wisely….