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July 22 - Hooray for Maria Elena Salinas

Posted on July 22, 2020

July 22, 2019 - Maria Elena Salinas joined CBS News as a contributor.

That's just one step in a major career - a career that caused The New York Times to declare Salinas "the voice of Hispanic America." Just check out a few of her accomplishments:

Co-anchor of Noticiero Univision (the evening news broadcast on Univision)

Co-host of the news magazine program Aquí y Ahora

Interviewed many important people, from Bill Clinton and Barack Obama to dictator Manuel Noriega, from Jennifer Lopez to Ricky Martin

Covered important events such as the Mexican presidential inauguration

One of the first female journalists in Baghdad, capital of Iraq

Co-host of a presidential candidate forum and participant in a presidential candidate debate

Author of a column in English and Spanish and of an autobiography

Creator of a true-crime series on TV

Co-founder of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists

Winner of a Peabody Award and a Broadcast Legend Award, among many others

Honored by many organizations, from National Organization for Women to Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute

Maria Elena Salinas was born in Los Angeles in 1954. She lived in Mexico for seven years of her childhood but was largely raised in L.A. and graduated from UCLA. She now lives in Miami, Florida.












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January 29 - Happy Birthday, Oprah Winfrey

Posted on January 29, 2020

Born on this date in 1954...
Born into poverty in rural Mississippi...
Born to a teenage single mother...
Raised in inner-city Milwaukee...

She didn't have a chance for success, did she?

Yet Oprah Winfrey was smart enough, talented enough, ambitious enough, and persistent enough to become one of the richest, most famous, and most respected African American people ever!

She's even one of the few people recognized by just her first name: Oprah! (Cher and Madonna and Beyoncé are in the same situation.)

Check out her job titles:

Oprah started out in radio while she was in high school, and she was co-anchor for local evening news at just 19 years old! Since then she has been a talk show host, actor, television producer, and media executive - as well as a philanthropist and activist! She has co-authored five books, and she publishes her own magazine (O, The Oprah Magazine). AND she has even started her own network (OWN - the Oprah Winfrey Network).



Oprah's show was the highest-rated TV program of its kind in history and ran for 25 years! Here are a few of the honors she has received:
  • Inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame
  • Presidential Medal of Freedom
  • NAACP Image Award Hall of Fame
  • Honorary doctorate degrees from Duke and Harvard 
  • Appearing on lists, sometimes as #1, such as "Most influential woman" / "Most influential people" / "Most powerful celebrity" / "Greatest Americans" / etc. - TIME, Life, Forbes, and more!








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February 17 – Analog to Digital TV Day

Posted on February 17, 2019

This is a bit tough to understand:

For clocks, "analog" means information represented by a continuous physical movement of hands.







For clocks, "digital" means information represented by changing digits, or numbers.

Digital clocks are a lot easier to "read" - kids don't have to be especially taught how to read them! - and also commonly display other useful info, like the date.


But what do analog TV and digital TV mean?

Analog television is the old (original) television technology (just as analog clocks are older technology). Brightness, color, and sound are all represented by rapid variations of amplitude and frequency of the signal. 



Wherever you see "HDTV" (high definition television), that's digital TV. With this technology, pictures - brightness and color - and sounds are encoded by a series of Os and 1s, like information is encoded for computers and on the internet. This allows much greater resolution - clearer, sharper pictures - and many new features. 

Different countries have been making the transition from analog to digital television according to different timetables. 

Because many people had old television sets that are incapable of receiving digital signals, broadcasters had been simultaneously offering analog and digital broadcasts. However, the various nations and cities of the world have been or are currently moving toward eventually shutting off analog broadcasting. In 2003, Berlin became the world's first city to switch off terrestrial analog signals. And in 2006, the tiny nation of Luxembourg became the first country to complete its terrestrial transition to digital TV.

(The transition involves "terrestrial" broadcasts - signals transmitted with radio signals - AND cable TV - signals transmitted through cable - AND satellite TV - signals transmitted to and from satellites in space.)





In the U.S., the transition was finalized (among full-power TV stations) on June 12, 2009, when all stations in the nation ended their regular programming on analog signals no later than 11:59 that day. The government helped consumers with the transition by providing DTV converter box coupons.

By the way, in case you are wondering why today, of all days, is Analog to Digital TV Day, February 17, 2009, was the original goal for the final transition in the U.S. - but it got pushed to the June 12 date for some reason...


Notice that digital TV pictures stay great - until they're really bad or non-existent!



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