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31 Oct, 2011

Yaccarino hired by NBCUniversal

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A week after leving Turner, Yaccarino is hired as President, Cable Entertainment & Digital Advertising Sales at NBCUniversal. Yaccarino takes responsibility for all cable entertainment and digital advertising sales for the company including USA, Syfy, Bravo Media, E! Entertainment, Oxygen Media, Style, G4, Sprout, Chiller, Cloo and their respective digital platforms. Additionally, Yaccarino will oversee the sales efforts for NBC.com, AccessHollywood.com, NBCSports.com, NBCOlympics.com and GolfChannel.com and the stand alone digital businesses DailyCandy, Swirl, Fandango, iVillage and Television Without Pity. Company:

Linda has a proven track record in driving commercial success through industry-leading innovations and creative strategic marketing solutions for her clients.

in 2016, Yaccarino described her first year at NBCU:

The first year at NBCUniversal was the hardest year I have ever had in my entire career. I was hired to come and head up an entire sales and marketing department. But I was also hired to transform the company. [There were 15 different sales teams]and they were rigidly siloed and they were almost allergic to collaboration. I believe [the ad sales system] was invented by Scooby-Doo. It was held together with duct tape and paper clips…The compensation plan, I quickly dubbed the sales prevention plan. Incentives were all out of whack. Compared to our competitors, we were about a decade behind…Anyone ever watch that show Naked and Afraid? I felt like that every day. I didn’t know where to start. I was pretty sure I wasn’t ready…I was hired to transform the company and it didn’t matter if I was ready or not. I learned really quickly that if I was going to be successful transforming this company, I was going to have to get used to being lonely. Because I was never more lonely than when I managed over 1,000 people.

29 Oct, 2011

Amurri, Martino marry

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eva-amurri-wedding-278x400Amurri and Martino gets married in Charles, South Carolina. The nuptials were hosted Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins. They capped off a weekend of festivities including a scavenger hunt, cocktail party and casual oyster roast and barbeque rehearsal dinner.

22 Oct, 2011

Pappas, Stagliano marry

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deanna-wedding-01 DeAnna and Stephen gets married. The couple marry in her home state of Georgia. The bride walks down the aisle in a strapless Disney Bridal wedding gown with a birdcage veil and cowboy boots.

They were giddy with excitement. She looked incredibly happy.

17 Oct, 2011

Starts year at Worcester College

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While a permanent student at Brown University, Watson begins her 2011-2012 academic year abroad to study English at Worcester College, England.  In a message on her website, the actress tells her fans that she’s been busy studying and wishes them luck with their own:

You might not hear from me for a while because I will be really busy studying but I wanted to just say hi and bye : )

16 Oct, 2011

Reed, McDonald marry

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nikki_reed_wedding_2_0Reed marries McDonald at a private ranch in Malibu, California, in front of 100 guests.

We couldn’t be happier! [We were] surrounded by our family and friends. We’re so glad this day has come!

Funeral

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Jobs is remembered by a small gathering of close friends and family attending at the Campus of Stanford Universities Memorial Church.  Among the guests present are Bill Clinton, Bill Gates and Joan Baez. California Gov. Jerry Brown declares the day to be Steve Jobs Day in the state of California and went on to say.

His innovations transformed an industry, and the products he conceived and shepherded to market have changed the way the entire world communicates. Steve Jobs embodied the California dream.

9 Oct, 2011

McCartney, Shevell marry

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paul-mccartney-4-440McCartney marries Shevell during an afternoon ceremony in London. The couple are greeted with cheers as they arrive at the Old Marylebone Town Hall. Shevell wears a flower in her hair and long-sleeved, v-neck, knee-length ivory dress and shoes by her new stepdaughter, Stella McCartney, who also made her father’s navy blue suit.

5 Oct, 2011

Dies at 56

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Jobs passes away surrounded by his loving family. He had been ill for a number of years suffering from pancreatic cancer and was 56 years old. Apples board of directors say:

Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives.

3 Oct, 2011

Appointed director of public safety

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South Carolina Governor Haley announces that Major Smith is director of public safety. He replaces Colonel F. K. Lancaster Jr. Haley:

We’re going to get someone in there who is going to lead, who is ready to show that it’s time to move on and Smith is going do that.

Oct 2011

Produces Tennis album

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Carney produces the sophomore album of pop group Tennis. The album is titled Young & Old and is recorded in Nashville.

They basically just e-mailed and asked me if I was interested in helping them make an album, and I was. I like working with bands that have that kind of pop aesthetic but are still coming from a different direction. I try not to do that much production work. But for them, it kind of worked out perfectly because they came to Nashville, and we made the album in, like, 10 days in my garage.

26 Sep, 2011

Sims, Stuber marry

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molly-sims-1-300Stuber and Sims gets married in an idyllic outdoor setting. Sims wore a flowing white Marchesa wedding gown and carried a peach-colored bouquet of flowers on her special day. The groom wore a black Tom Ford tuxedo and white tie and the bridesmaids wore Elizabeth Kennedy dresses. Source:

Molly wanted her the wedding be simple but elegant; she wanted it to be magical.

18 Sep, 2011

Ferguson, Hirsi Ali marry

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HirsiAli-NaillFergussonFerguson and Hirsi Ali marry in Boston, Massachusetts. The wedding is attended by Henry Kissinger, who was the subject of a biography by Ferguson. None of Ferguson’s three children are understood to have been at the ceremony.  Hirsi Ali is due to give birth to the couple’s first child in the next few months.

12 Sep, 2011

Officially out

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AOL announces that Arrington is officially out of the blog. Arrington:

It’s no longer a good situation for me to stay at TechCrunch. [It’s] a sad day for me.

AOL spokeswoman:

We love Mike and it was the right, amicable decision that we came to together. We’re super excited about our relationship with him going forward.