From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #4202 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Thursday, May 21 2020 Volume 14 : Number 4202 Today's Subjects: ----------------- The Ingenious new way to learn piano and keyboard ["piano4all" Subject: The Ingenious new way to learn piano and keyboard The Ingenious new way to learn piano and keyboard http://shinehead.bid/0h62CAhKavJ-cYStSkXp0EGfhfNqKGOUbirYAp9Cyo775-hG http://shinehead.bid/JNKSTXHgi9LpGg98v_vMA1-Rs305o_t6qBsKtF3oa1DYdk_6 Some of its original programs, however, have been aimed at families or children, primarily those produced before 2001 (through its original programming division and third-party producers) and from 2016 to 2020 (under its agreement with Sesame Workshop), including Sesame Street, Babar, Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child, Dear America and The Little Lulu Show. Beginning in 2001, most of the family- or kid-oriented programs migrated to HBO Family, with a limited amount of newer family-oriented series being produced for either the primary channel or HBO Family since. (HBO Family continued to maintain a limited slate of original children's programming until 2003.) In a notable example, HBO ventured back into children's programming with its acquisition of the first-run and streaming rights to Sesame Street, a long-running children's television series that had previously aired on PBS for the vast majority of its run, in the aforementioned deal with Sesame Workshop that was announced in August 2015; the migration of Sesame Street and other Sesame Workshop series from the linear television service to the streaming-based HBO Max in 2020, was agreed upon in a renewal of WarnerMedia's content agreement with the studio reached in October 2019. Music programming is occasionally produced in the form of concert specials, featuring major recording artists performing in front of a live audience. One of HBO's first successful specials was The Bette Midler Show in 1976, which launched the Standing Room Only concert series. For a time in the early 1980s, HBO produced a concert special almost every other month, featuring major music stars such as Boy George and The Who. After MTV's successful rollout in 1981, the Standing Room Only series began to produce fewer concerts, but focused more on "world class" music events featuring artists such as Elton John, Tina Turner and Barbra Streisand, as well as fundraisers such as Farm Aid. In recent years, concert specials have become less of a presence among HBO's television specials, having mainly been limited to an occasional marquee event or via the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's annual induction ceremony. The channel also produces stand-up comedy specialsbformerly broadcast under the On Location, HBO Comedy Hour and HBO Comedy Half-Hour bannersbwhich usually premiere on select Saturday nights throughout the year in late prime time (typically following its Saturday movie premiere presentation).[citation needed] The On Location comedy specials, which presented a stand-up comedian's performance in its entirety and uncut, began in 1975 with a special starring Robert Klein. The first of twelve concert specials televised by the network featuring George Carlin aired on HBO in 1977 as part of On Location, featuring Carlin's first televised performance of his classic routine, "The Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television". As other cable channels incorporated comedy specials due to their inexpensive format, HBO began to model its strategy with its comedy specials after its music programming, focusing on a few specials each year featuring popular comedians. HBO also produces its own made-for-cable movies through HBO Films, which, since 2008, has maintained an exclusive pay cable rights agreement with HBO to broadcast the unit's in-house theatrical productions distributed by sister company Warner Bros. Pictures and its subsidiaries. HBO ventured into production of original television films in 1983, through the formation of HBO Premiere Films. Originally developed to produce original made-for-cable movies and miniseries with higher budgets and production values than other television films, The film division began producing original movies for the network in 1983 with the debut of The Terry Fox Story. Differing from most television films produced for cable television, most of the original movies produced by HBO have featured major film actors over the year ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #4202 **********************************************