EBIZZ.TV and the web-video world is the future of entertainment

. That is the quintessence of an interview with the Hollywood star Tom Hanks.

"I would like to describe it in the following way: The concept of entertainment must be newly defined. That is because today most of it happens in the peoples’ homes. The classical forms are on the verge of extinction," says Hollywood star Tom Hanks. "Since over a year, my children show no wish to see a film in the cinema. They watch things on YouTube or some other place in the Internet. You have access to entertainment 24 hours a day on the Internet."

Internet TV broadcaster EBIZZ.TV presents more than 5 Million Premium Videos for Free

EBIZZ.TV donates the ROBERT TRACHINGER AWARD FOR

EXCELLENT YOUNG MEDIA PROFESSIONALS in honor of media pioneer Robert Trachinger

• for his professional and humanistic values - to young international media

artists and our current new world of media professionals.

Robert Trachinger stands for responsibility and sensitivity to the human

condition: the artistic and managerial courage to tell today's stories well.

The award is valued $ 10.000,-.

About Robert Trachinger (born 1923, New York, NY)

Robert Trachinger's professional life combined the corporate world and academia.

He is Professor Emeritus of UCLA and a Fulbright scholar. From 1968 to 1998 he

taught at UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television, with emphasis on

humanistic leadership, ethics, creative media skills, production competence, and

the remarkable art of storytelling.

His original career was in television. He retired in 1985 as Vice President and

General Manager of ABC-TV in Hollywood, California.

A television pioneer, Robert Trachinger had joined WTMJ-TV, Milwaukee/Wisconsin,

in 1948 as cameraman and video operations engineer. In 1950, the American

Broadcasting Company in Hollywood hired him as cameraman evolving into a 35-year

tenure. He was Technical Director on many of the network's first coast-to-coast

shows. When promoted to Manager of Broadcast Engineering in 1958, he worked side

by side with Roone Arledge, President of ABC-TV Sports, on the evolution and

development of innovative concepts revolutionary for television sports

production. In 1964, he was made Director of Program Development and Operations

at ABC Sports in New York. In that capacity, he was involved in the production,

development, and design of many shows, including the "American Sportsman". He

produced and supervised shows in Kenya, India, France, Russia, and throughout

the United States.

Robert Trachinger is best known in engineering circles for initiating the

original concept and experimental work resulting in the first successful

black-and-white slow motion videotape. He was responsible for the development of

the first broadcast quality hand-held cameras which were the forerunners of the

electronic news gathering (ENG) cameras. The underwater electronic camera was

developed in his home swimming pool. All of these creative innovations were

exclusive to ABC-TV for years and contributed greatly to ABC Sports' foremost

position. The National Association of Broadcasters honored him for his work on

the development of videotape.

1966 saw him promoted to Executive Producer for ABC's owned television station

in Los Angeles. He won two EMMY AWARDS for documentaries and was recognized for

"Decision to Die" which exposed and explored the high rate of suicide among

American adolescents - a subject which had been unmentionable in TV for 20

years. UCLA invited him to a symposium on the production of his documentaries

which grew into the avocation of teaching. This led to his parallel academic

career spanning over 30 years at UCLA.

In 1971, UCLA recruited him for a year to reorganize its Media Center. He then

returned to ABC-TV and maintained his professional relationship with the

university. Robert Trachinger was promoted to Vice President of ABC-Television

in 1978. In 1980, he was assigned the additional duties of Executive in charge

of Broadcast Operations and Engineering for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los

Angeles.

Upon retiring from ABC-TV after 35 years, Robert Trachinger received a one year

Fulbright-Award as Senior Professor at Gutenberg University, Institut fuer

Publizistik, Mainz/Germany, in 1985-86. Professor Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann and

Professor Hans-Mathias Kepplinger were hosts. Teaching German students in

English to create television productions was an eye-opening cross-cultural

enrichment. During the Fulbright year, he followed invitations to teach at the

Sorbonne in Paris and Tel Aviv University.

Back in the USA, he occasionally taught at the College of Santa Fe, New Mexico,

where he also fostered a partnership between academia and the corporate world.

Trained as a para-professional in the field of psychology, Robert Trachinger has

worked with young people in Upward Bound programs and facilitated encounter

groups for disadvantaged youths. After moving from Los Angeles to San Diego in

1989, he lectured at the University of California San Diego, and became a

counselor for caregivers of Alzheimers patients. Counseling young people is an

ongoing avocation.

On Crystal Cruise ships, he turned storyteller about the hilarious early days of

live television. A "Media Legend" award was bestowed on him in 1997.

In the new millenium, Robert Trachinger lives with is wife Helga in Rancho Santa

Fe, California. He has a son Set in Boulder, Colorado. His daughter Mia

Trachinger, a UCLA graduate, is a script writer and filmmaker and lives with her

husband Jason Brush and daughter Lotte in Los Angeles.

For more information about the Robert TRACHINGER AWARD FOR EXCELLENT YOUNG MEDIA

PROFESSIONALS please contact award@ebizz.tv.

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Communication Officer

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E-Mail: office@ebizz.de

Tom Hanks comments further: "If Hollywood studios offer a product on a website from which they could profit, the authors must also have a share in the business. If an episode of a series is downloaded three million times, the author maybe should earn a few dollars from it as well. It’s not just the authors going on strike against the producers, there is a whole new definition of show-business behind it."

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