![]() ![]() In 2018, in celebration of our tenth anniversary, we started our ‘Hope Rises’ fundraising concert series with Chris Pinnella. We offer a full service client-choice food pantry provide emergency shelter, rental/mortgage, and utility assistance and administer transportation aid to Ocean County residents in need. ![]() Inside the Grunin Center lobby - located on the campus of Toms River’s Ocean County College - Hope Center Executive Director Amy VanBezooijen explains, “We are a non-profit organization which opened in 2008. A fundraising event for Toms River’s Hope Center, tonight’s event features Pinnella performing the music of Billy Joel and Elton John. “Comcast certainly knows how to launch entertainment programming,” Dawson said.Music lovers stream into the Grunin Center auditorium in Toms River, NJ this Friday, Jevening for the third annual “Hope Rises” concert starring musician Chris Pinnella, former vocalist with The Trans-Siberian Orchestra. ![]() “For that alone it will be hard to give up.”īut he said he believes in Fallon and in NBC’s corporate owners Comcast, the nation’s largest cable company. “Jay has always been a great friend to the affiliates,” he said. John Dawson, general manager for five NBC affiliates that have extensive reach throughout Kansas, said it will be difficult to give up a program that wins its time period by 33%. The first public effort toward making the transition smooth came Monday night, when Leno and Fallon appeared in a comic video making fun of the late-night rumours. That only made Leno go after NBC management much harder. Leno had been cracking jokes about NBC’s prime-time futility, angering NBC entertainment chief Robert Greenblatt, who sent a note to Leno telling him to cool it. The Leno-Fallon changeover didn’t begin smoothly. In morning television, the Today show has taken a ratings nose dive in large measure because of anger at how Ann Curry was treated when she was ousted last year as Matt Lauer’s co-host. NBC has long prided itself on smooth transitions but that reputation took a hit with the short-lived and ill-fated move of O’Brien to Tonight and Leno to prime-time a few years ago. But it may have short-term ramifications.” “I think it’s a good move for them long-term. “The guys at NBC are not totally stupid and are not going to shoot themselves in the foot,” said Gary Carr, senior vice-president and executive director of national broadcast for the ad buying firm TargetCast. ABC moved Kimmel’s time slot to directly compete with Leno earlier this year.īut the move also has the potential to backfire with Leno’s fans, who did not embrace O’Brien when Leno was temporarily moved to prime time a few years ago. NBC is worried that ABC’s Kimmel will establish himself as a go-to late night performer for a younger generation if the network doesn’t move swiftly to install Fallon. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. ![]()
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