13902. Speedy Muffler King "Golfer" (01:00)

Date:
1975
Main contributors:
Speedy Muffler King
Summary:
An advertisement for Speedy Muffler King auto repair shops in which a man attempting to sneak out of his home to go golfing without waking up his wife has his plans thwarted when his car makes loud noises that disrupt the entire neighborhood. The man brings his car into an auto repair shop as an offscreen male narrator describes how Speedy Muffler Repair's service makes the customer feel like a "somebody." One of the winners of the 1975 Clio Awards.

13903. Jordan Hall Greenhouse (05:01)

Date:
2020-02-07
Main contributors:
Spence, Kat
Summary:
The Sample: Surviving an Indiana winter is tough enough but it can seem especially brutal when all the greenery on campus is gone. In this episode of The Sample, take a visit to the Jordan Hall Greenhouse as producer Kat Spence explores what this staple of IU has to offer during the cold Hoosier winter.

13904. Lunar New Year (05:27)

Date:
2020-01-24
Main contributors:
Spence, Kat, Fan, Kelly, Lee, Elise
Summary:
The Sample: Lunar New Year is a time to gather with friends and family to wish each other well in the new year. This week, producer Kat Spence sat down with students Kelly Fan and Elise Lee at the Asian Culture Center to find out more about the traditions surrounding this holiday as well as what the holiday means to them and their families.

13905. Pride (05:18)

Date:
2019-08-30
Main contributors:
Spence, Kate
Summary:
The Sample: While most of the country celebrates LGBTQ+ Pride in June, Bloomington celebrates in the month of August. In this episode of The Sample, Kat Spence heads to the LGBTQ+ Culture Center to ask the students who call Indiana University and Bloomington home, what Pride means to them. Readers! Do You Read by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: chriszabriskie.com/reappear/ Artist: chriszabriskie.com/

13906. Meet the Producers (05:51)

Date:
2019-09-13
Main contributors:
Spence, Kate, Ahmed, Ibby, Keys, James
Summary:
The Sample: In this episode of The Sample, our student producers come out from behind their microphones and computer screens to introduce themselves. Get acquainted with Kat, Ibby, and James, and learn about everything from astrology to mountaineering in the process.

13907. Dean Spencer's Hall of Fame Video Bio (05:59)

Date:
2007
Main contributors:
Spencer, Dean
Summary:
Video bio of Dean Spencer, inducted to Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2007. Producer: Ruth Hiatt; Post-Production: DreamVision Media Partners; Dean Spencer has continued to excel in providing his market with a local emphasis no longer common due to out of town ownerships. He has personally created programs that please his listeners in the Bedford, Indiana, area and is involved in issues that improve the community. In 1975, he designed and built Bedford’s first FM station and 16 years later did the same thing for the town of Mitchell, Indiana. --Words from the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers

13909. Spic and Span "Big Job Cleaner" (01:01)

Date:
1969
Main contributors:
Spic and Span
Summary:
An advertisement for Spic and Span cleaner narrated by a man who is accompanied by music. The scene depicts a young janitor attempting to mop a hallway using a liquid cleaner. An older janitor gives him some Spic and Span and he is then able to clean the floor well. The scene ends with a close-up of the product as the narrator says, "Spic and Span, the big job cleaner, gets the dirt liquid cleaners leave behind."

13911. Extensions to Embedding Regression: Models for Context-Specific Description and Inference (54:32)

Date:
2024-02-02
Main contributors:
Spirling, Arthur
Summary:
Social scientists commonly seek to make statements about how word use varies over circumstances—including time, partisan identity, or some other document-level covariate. For example, researchers might wish to know how Republicans and Democrats diverge in their understanding of the term “immigration.” Building on the success of pretrained language models, we introduce the a la carte on text (conText) embedding regression model for this purpose. This fast and simple method produces valid vector representations of how words are used—and thus what words “mean”—in different contexts. We show that it outperforms slower, more complicated alternatives and works well even with very few documents. The model also allows for hypothesis testing and statements about statistical significance. We also provide extensions of the model to non-English languages and demonstrate applications for the same.

13913. Interview with James Spooner (26:50)

Date:
2009-11-13
Main contributors:
Spooner, James, Mahon, Maureen
Summary:
Maureen Mahon interviews James Spooner during the AAAMC conference, "Reclaiming the Right to Rock: Black Experiences in Rock Music."

13917. Ed Spray's Hall of Fame Video Bio (02:17)

Date:
2019
Main contributors:
Spray, Ed
Summary:
Video bio of Ed Spray, inducted to Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2019; Seymour, Indiana, native Ed Spray earned his bachelor’s degree in radio-television with a minor in journalism from Indiana University. He worked as a producer-director for IU Radio and Television Services and then became a film editor and cameraman at WISH-TV in Indianapolis. In 1966, Spray became producer-director for WMAQ-TV in Chicago and won five Emmy Awards. In 1974, he moved across town to WBBM-TV, the CBS-owned station, where as program director he led one of commercial television’s most honored programming operations, winning nearly all of television’s best-known awards, including National Emmys, two Peabody Awards, and more than 75 local Emmys. Spray transferred to CBS-owned KCBS-TV in Los Angeles in 1986 and served as station manager before being promoted to vice president of programming and development for all CBS-owned stations. In 1994, he joined the E.W. Scripps Company where he was a co-founder of the Home and Garden Cable Television Network, HGTV. The company later acquired the Food Network and under Spray’s leadership launched two more cable networks: DIY and Fine Living. Spray retired as president of Scripps Networks in 2005. --Words from the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers

13918. Ed Spray, BS'63, MA'69 (03:42)

Date:
2018
Main contributors:
Spray, Ed
Summary:
Ed Spray’s legacy in the world of television includes dozens of industry awards, the programming of five CBS television stations and the creation of three cable networks. It culminates in his tenure as president of Scripps Networks, home of HGTV and the Food Network. But it begins in IU’s Radio-Television Building. Spray left his hometown of Seymour, Indiana, to major in radio and television with a minor in journalism at IU. He served as president of Sigma Delta Chi Journalism Society, vice president of his fraternity Kappa Delta Rho and member of the IU Student Foundation. He also earned spare change by shooting film of campus activities for Indianapolis TV stations. Upon graduating in 1963, he married Donna Cornwell, a fellow IU student pursuing a bachelor’s and master’s degree in elementary education. As he worked toward his master’s degree in communications at IU, Spray served as a part-time producer/director for IU Radio and Television Services. He graduated in 1969 and landed his first job as a film editor at WISH-TV Indianapolis, eventually moving on to WMAQ-TV Chicago, an NBC-owned television station. There, Spray gradually rose to producer/director and won five Chicago Emmy Awards during his next nine years of work. Spray left WMAQ but stayed in Chicago, taking a job as director of broadcasting at CBS-owned station WBBM-TV. There, he led one of the most prolific and celebrated programming operations in commercial television, earning nearly all of the industry’s most iconic and coveted awards, including two national Emmys, two Peabodys, several DuPont Columbia Awards, Edward R. Murrow documentary awards and more than 75 local Emmys. In 1986, Spray transferred to Los Angeles CBS-owned station KCBS, where he served as station manager. He was eventually promoted to a CBS corporate vice president position, which put him in charge of developing national programming for the CBS Television Stations group. Spray left Los Angeles six years later, in 1992, opting to transition to higher education full-time. He taught as an associate professor at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Communications. In 1994, he was hired by the E.W. Scripps Company to launch a home and garden cable television network, better known now as HGTV. He co-founded the network and was initially responsible for producing, scheduling and promoting HGTV content. Two years later, the company acquired the Food Network and assigned Spray to lead the relaunch of the network with the new highly successful format it uses today. In 1999, the company started its third network — DIY — and established Scripps Networks, naming Spray president. In his time as president, the company launched a fourth network — now called the Cooking Channel, launched HGTV Canada and acquired two more existing cable networks. Spray retired in 2005 and was named a distinguished professor of journalism and communications at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, where he taught for four years. He was inducted into the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame in 2004. In 2012, the Chicago Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences honored him with membership in the Chicago Silver Circle, an award that recognized his outstanding contributions to Chicago television.

13919. Jerry Springer Documentary Interview (2:44:00)

Date:
2020
Main contributors:
Springer, Jerry
Summary:
Jerry Springer recounts his involvement with the youth-led effort to lower the voting age in Ohio, his testimony before Congress, and youth political attitudes then and now.