The unchallenged findings state that the Sparkses filed four short plat applications with the Douglas County Planning Office on March 29, 1990. They contend the requirement that they dedicate strips of land abutting existing roads for future right of way use is arbitrary and capricious and constitutes a taking without compensation. Herschel and Elizabeth Sparks appeal a superior court judgment upholding the Douglas County Commissioners' conditional approval of their short plat applications. McCauley, Prosecuting Attorney, for respondents. The Court of Appeals of Washington, Division Three.
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55 (1993) 863 P.2d 142 HERSCHEL SPARKS, ET AL, Appellants,ĭOUGLAS COUNTY, ET AL, Respondents. "Oral History of Monroe Rifkin", The Hauser Oral and Video History Collection, The Barco Library, The Cable Center, Denver, Colorado.72 Wash.^ "Group W sells Filmation." Broadcasting, February 13, 1989, pg.^ "Filmation purchased by Teleprompter." Broadcasting, June 30, 1969, pg.Kahn, 76, a Founder Of Teleprompter and Cable TV", The New York Times, January 25, 1994 Kahn : CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT No. Kahn and Teleprompter Corporation, Appellants : United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. ^ "472 F.2d 272: United States of America, Appellee, v.^ "1940s-1960s: Birth of an Industry: Monroe 'Monty' Rifkin" Archived at archive.today, "The Time Warner Story" Archived at archive.today, Time Warner Cable website.^ a b "Teleprompter inventor Schlafly dies in Conn.^ Miller, Stephen, "Engineer's Device Eased Speechmakers' Minds", The Wall Street Journal, April 26, 2011, p.A6.Ĭharter Communications (which bought Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks in 2016), and, in some areas, Comcast (which obtaining most of the Filmation library as part of acquisition of DreamWorks Animation in 2016), own and operate cable systems previously run by TelePrompTer. Before that sale was complete, Westinghouse shuttered the film studio on February 3, 1989, which left L'Oréal with only the Filmation library. In 1989, Westinghouse sold Filmation to Paravision International, an investment consortium led by the French cosmetics company L'Oréal. Westinghouse would sell off its cable operations in 1986 to Houston Industries, which became Paragon Cable 25% was sold to Comcast. The Filmation studios were also part of the deal. After the merger, TelePrompTer's cable systems would be renamed Group W Cable, with the broadcasting division renamed "Westinghouse Broadcasting and Cable". The company was later sold to Westinghouse, merging the cable operations into Westinghouse Broadcasting. TelePrompTer grew to become the largest cable television provider in the United States by 1973. TelePrompTer merged with H & B American Corporation in 1970, creating the nation's largest cable company at the time. Scheimer continued as an executive producer for the company until its dissolution.
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In 1969, TelePrompTer acquired the Filmation animation studio from its founders, Lou Scheimer, Hal Sutherland and Norm Prescott. Kahn maintained, before and after his 20-month prison term, that the issue was extortion by the officials and not bribery by the company. Kahn had stepped down as chairman of TelePrompTer several months before his conviction. Kahn was convicted in Federal court in 1971 and imprisoned for 20 months for trying to bribe members of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania city council to award his company a local cable franchise. Schlafly went on to develop microwave video transmission services with Hughes Aircraft Company. TelePrompTer sold its eponymous business in the 1960s and invested in cable and satellite broadcast services. Initially, public relations personnel handled the teleprompters. He unveiled the device on the set of the CBS soap opera, The First Hundred Years, in 1950. Schlafly had invented the teleprompter in order to help a soap opera actor who could not remember his lines.
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Kahn Fred Barton, Jr., a Broadway theatre actor and Schlafly, an electrical engineer. The company started around 1950 by businessman Irving B. Branded as the "TelePrompTer", the name has become a genericized trademark as "teleprompter". The company was named for its eponymous primary product, a display device invented by Hubert Schlafly which scrolls text to people on video or giving speeches, replacing cue cards or scripts. TelePrompTer Corporation was an American media company that existed from approximately 1950 until 1981.