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News Corp Australia
Type
Subsidiary
Industry
Mass media
Predecessor
News Limited
Founded
Adelaide, South Australia
1923; 95 years ago (1923)
Founder
Sir Keith Murdoch
Headquarters
Surry Hills, Sydney, Australia
Area served
Australia
Key people
Michael Miller
(Executive Chairman)
Peter Tonagh (CEO)
Products
Newspapers
Magazines
Internet
Services
Pay television
National Rugby League
Market research
DVD and film distribution
Film and television production
Owner
News Corp
Subsidiaries
Foxtel (65% with Telstra)
Brisbane Broncos (69%)
Website
www.newscorpaustralia.com
News Corp Australia (formerly News Limited) is one of Australia's largest media companies, employing more than 8,000 staff nationwide and approximately 3,000 journalists. The publicly listed company's interests span newspaper and magazine publishing, Internet, subscription television, market research, DVD and film distribution, and film and television production trading assets.[1]
News Corp Australia owns approximately 142 daily, Sunday, weekly, bi-weekly and tri-weekly newspapers, of which three are free commuter titles and 102 are suburban publications (including 16 in which News Corp Australia has a 50% interest). News Corp Australia publishes a nationally distributed newspaper in Australia, a metropolitan newspaper in each of the Australian cities of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth (Sundays only), Hobart and Darwin and groups of suburban newspapers in the suburbs of Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth. The company publishes a further thirty magazine titles across Australia.[2] According to the Finkelstein Review of Media and Media Regulation, in 2011 News Corp Australia (then News Limited) accounted for 23% of the newspaper titles in Australia.[3]
With interests in digital media, the company's sites include news.com.au, Business Spectator and Eureka Report, Kidspot.com.au, taste.com.au and homelife.com.au. It has 50% stakes in CareerOne.com.au and carsguide.com.au, a share in REA Group that operates www.realestate.com.au, as well as websites for most newspaper and magazine titles. The company's other Australian assets include all of Fox Sports Australia, 65% ownership of subscription television provider Foxtel, 65% ownership of the combined entity of Fox Sports (Australia) / Foxtel merger[4] and shares in the Brisbane Broncos NRL team.
Until the formation of News Corporation in 1979, News Limited was the principal holding company for the business interests of Rupert Murdoch and his family. Since then, News Limited had been wholly owned by News Corporation. In 2004, News Corporation announced its intention to reincorporate to the United States. On 3 November News Corp Limited ceased trading on the Australian Stock Exchange; and on 8 November, News Corporation began trading on the New York Stock Exchange.[5] On 28 June 2013, News Corporation was split into two separate companies. Murdoch's newspaper interests became News Corp, which was the new parent company of News Limited.[6] News Limited was renamed News Corp Australia following the listing of the new News Corp on 1 July 2013.[7]
Contents
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1 History
1.1 Editorial conduct issues
1.2 Corporate changes
2 Influence in Australia
3 Acquisitions
3.1 Britain
3.2 United States
3.3 Australia
4 Holdings
4.1 Newspapers
4.1.1 Metropolitan
4.1.2 Community
4.1.3 Regional
4.2 Magazines
4.3 Websites
4.4 NRL properties
4.5 Television
5 See also
6 References
7 External links
History[edit]
News Limited was established in 1923 by James Edward Davidson, when he purchased the Broken Hill Barrier Miner and the Port Pirie Recorder.[8] He went on to purchase Adelaide's weekly Mail[9] and to found The News, a daily newspaper in Adelaide, South Australia. Sir Keith Murdoch acquired a minority interest in the company in 1949.[10] Following the death of his father, Sir Keith, in 1952, Rupert Murdoch inherited The News, which has been described by Bruce Page[11] as the "foundation stone" of News Limited (and News Corporation).
Over the next few years, Murdoch gradually established himself as one of the most dynamic media proprietors in Australia, quickly expanding his holdings by acquiring a string of daily and suburban newspapers in most capital cities, including the Sydney afternoon paper, The Daily Mirror, as well as a small Sydney-based recording company, Festival Records. His acquisition of the Mirror proved crucial to his success, allowing him to challenge the dominance of his two main rivals in the Sydney market, the Fairfax Newspapers group, which published the hugely profitable The Sydney Morning Herald, and the Consolidated Press group, owned by Sir Frank Packer, which published the city's leading tabloid paper, The Daily Telegraph.
In 1964, News Limited made its next important advance when it established The Australian, Australia's first national daily newspaper, based initially in Canberra and later in Sydney. The Australian, a broadsheet, gave News Limited a new respectability as a quality newspaper publisher, and also greater political influence since The Australian has always had an elite readership, if not always a large circulation.[citation needed]
Also in 1964, News Limited made Rupert Murdoch's first overseas newspaper investment – a 29.57 percent stake in the Wellington Publishing Company, subsequently part of Independent Newspapers Limited, INL, New Zealand's largest publishing group. The News Limited holding in INL fluctuated over the years and was just over 49 percent in 1997. The INL business was bought by News Limited's main rival in 2003 – Fairfax Media.
In 1972, News Limited acquired The Daily Telegraph from Sir Frank Packer, making Murdoch one of the "big three" newspaper proprietors in Australia, along with Fairfax Media in Sydney and his father's old Herald and Weekly Times Ltd in Melbourne. In the 1972 elections, Murdoch swung his newspapers' support behind Gough Whitlam and the left wing Australian Labor Party, but by 1975 he had turned against Labor, and since then has almost always supported the rightist Liberal Party.[citation needed]
Over the next ten years, as his press empire grew, Murdoch established a hugely lucrative financial base, and these profits were routinely used to subsidise further acquisitions. In his early years of newspaper ownership Murdoch was an aggressive, micromanaging entrepreneur.[citation needed] His standard tactic was to buy loss-making Australian newspapers and turn them around by introducing radical management and editorial changes and fighting no-holds-barred circulation wars with his competitors. By the 1970s, this power base was so strong that Murdoch was able to acquire leading newspapers and magazines in both London and New York, as well as many other media holdings.
To gain subscriptions for its new pay television business, News Ltd recruited rugby league football administrators, clubs and players to form a new competition, sparking the mid-1990s Super League war.
On 12 July 2006, News Limited announced the creation of a new division, News Digital Media to manage the operations of the news site news.com.au; the online marketplace sites, carsguide.com.au, truelocal.com.au and careerone.com.au as well as the partly owned realestate.com.au, foxsports.com.au and related activities involving Foxtel and the company's newspapers and the Australian versions of Fox Interactive Media sites Myspace and IGN. Chairman and chief executive of News Limited, John Hartigan, announced the appointment of Richard Freudenstein as chief executive of the division.[12]
Editorial conduct issues[edit]
In the wake of the News International phone hacking scandal in the United Kingdom, in July 2011 News Limited announced a review of all payments in the previous three years.[13] On 22 July it was reported that two retired Victorian Supreme Court judges, Frank Vincent AO QC and Bernard Teague AO, were appointed to act as independent assessors of the conduct of the review and also assess the outcome.[14] The editorial and financial review concluded in early November and found no evidence of phone hacking or payments to public officials,[15][16] with Vincent and Teague declaring that the review process did not bring ".....to light any systemic issues with respect to the making of payments to third parties and any substantial amounts paid to individuals in respect of illegitimate activities."[17]
Despite this the Australian division of News Corp has not entirely escaped scandal with allegations in 2012 that News Corp subsidiary, News Datacom Systems (NDS) had used hackers to undermine pay TV rivals around the world, including Australia. Some of the victims of the alleged hacking, such as Austar were later taken over by News Corp and others such as Ondigital later went bust. NDS had originally been set up to provide security to News Corp's pay TV interests but emails obtained by Fairfax Media revealed they had also pursued a wider agenda by distributing the keys to rival set top box operators and seeking to obtain phone records of suspected rivals.[18] The emails were from the hard drive of NDS European chief, Ray Adams. It was also revealed that Australian Federal police were working with UK police to investigate hacking by News Corp.[19]
Corporate changes[edit]
On 28 June 2013, News Corporation split into two publicly traded companies focused on publishing, and broadcasting/media respectively. At this time News Limited was renamed News Corp Australia and became part of the publishing company, News Corp, with Wall Street Journal editor Robert Thomson replacing Rupert Murdoch as CEO. Murdoch remains a chairman and shareholder for both companies.[20]
On 9 August 2013 it was announced that Julian Clarke would replace Kim Williams as the CEO of News Corp Australia. Williams had replaced John Hartigan, who served as CEO between 2000 and 2011, who had in turn succeeded Lachlan Murdoch.[21]
On 9 June 2015, it was announced that Peter Tonagh would replace Julian Clarke as the CEO of News Corp Australia with Michael Millar to be appointed to the role of Executive Chairman.[22] Peter Tonagh and Michael Millar's first day in their new roles was 16 November 2015 [23]
Influence in Australia[edit]
Murdoch's desire for dominant cross-media ownership manifested in early 1961 when he bought an ailing Australian record label, Festival Records, and within a few years it had become the leading local recording company. He also bought a television station in Wollongong, New South Wales, hoping to use it to break into the Sydney television market, but found himself frustrated by Australia's cross-media ownership laws, which prevented him from owning both a major newspaper and television station in the same city. Since then he has consistently lobbied, both personally and through his papers, to have these laws changed in his favour. This occurred in 2006 when the Liberal-National Coalition Government, having gained control of both houses of the Australian Parliament, introduced reforms to cross-media ownership and foreign media ownership laws. The laws came into effect in early 2007.[citation needed]
News Corp Australia has nearly three-quarters of daily metropolitan newspaper circulation and so maintains great influence in Australia. Internal News Corp Australia documents reveal a brazen offer during the 2001 Federal election campaign to promote the policies of a major party in its best-selling newspapers nationwide for almost A$500,000.[24] Other documents include a marginal seats guide written by a senior business manager for internal use. It evidences a corporate strategy to target marginal seats at the 2004 election.[25] Some of the documents appeared on Media Watch.[26]
Murdoch wanted a way to influence politics in his native land. He saw a way to do that through the News Limited publication the Australian.[27] The national daily was used to support Murdoch's political interests over time such as John McEwen with the National Party of Australia and Gough Whitlam with the Australian Labor Party.[28]
Acquisitions[edit]
Britain[edit]
Murdoch moved to Britain and rapidly became a major force there after his acquisitions of the News of the World, and The Sun in 1969 and The Times and The Sunday Times in 1981, which he bought from the Thomson family. Both takeovers further reinforced his growing reputation as a ruthless and cunning business operator. His takeover of The Times aroused great hostility among traditionalists, who feared he would take it "downmarket." This led directly to the founding of The Independent in 1986 as an alternative quality daily.
United States[edit]
Murdoch made his first acquisition in the United States in 1973, when he purchased the San Antonio News. Soon afterwards he founded the National Star, a supermarket tabloid, and in 1976 he purchased the New York Post. Subsequent acquisitions were undertaken through News Corporation.
Australia[edit]
News Limited expanded its newspaper holdings in 1987 when it acquired The Herald and Weekly Times, which published two newspapers in Melbourne (in 1990 these papers would be combined to form the Herald Sun) as well as large stakes in several other newspaper publishers. News Limited went on to acquire the remaining shares of Brisbane's Queensland Newspapers (owner of The Courier-Mail), Adelaide's Advertiser Newspapers (owner of The Advertiser) and Hobart's Davies Brothers (owner of The Mercury).
In 1991, News Limited spun off its longtime magazine house, Southdown Press, as Pacific Magazines and Printing, and sold the former Advertiser magazines, renamed Murdoch Magazines, to Matt Handbury. News Limited reentered the magazine market in 2000 with the start of News Magazines. In 2006, News Limited returned to being a major player in the Australian magazine business with the purchase of Independent Print Media Group's FPC Magazines (Delicious, Super Food Ideas, Vogue Australia).[29]
Holdings[edit]
News Corp Australia operates 170 newspaper and magazine titles in Australia, including the following:
Newspapers[edit]
Metropolitan[edit]
National
The Australian including weekly insert magazine The Deal and monthly insert magazine (wish)
The Weekend Australian including insert magazine The Weekend Australian Magazine
Australian Associated Press (45%)
New South Wales
The Daily Telegraph
The Sunday Telegraph including insert magazine sundaymagazine
mX (Sydney) (ceased publication 12 June 2015)
The Sportsman
Victoria
Herald Sun
Sunday Herald Sun including insert magazine sundaymagazine
mX (Melbourne) (ceased publication 12 June 2015)
Queensland
The Courier-Mail including weekly insert magazine QWeekend
The Sunday Mail
The Gold Coast Bulletin
mX (Brisbane) (ceased publication 12 June 2015)
South Australia
The Advertiser including the monthly insert the Adelaide* magazine
Sunday Mail
Messenger Newspapers, including:
Eastern Courier Messenger
Leader Messenger
City North Messenger
East Torrens Messenger
Mitcham & Hills Messenger
The City
Tasmania
The Mercury
The Sunday Tasmanian
Northern Territory
Northern Territory News
The Sunday Territorian
Community[edit]
Sydney
NewsLocal (formerly Cumberland-Courier Community Newspapers)
Inner West Courier
North Shore Times
The Manly Daily
Central Coast Express Advocate
Melbourne
Leader (Vic) newspapers
Brisbane
Quest (QLD) newspapers
Adelaide
Messenger (SA) newspapers
Perth
Community (WA) newspapers in a joint venture with
West Australian Newspapers[30]
Regional[edit]
New South Wales
Tweed Daily News[31]
Coffs Coast Advocate[32]
South Australia
Messenger Newspapers, including:
Northern Times Messenger
Weekly Times Messenger
Southern Times Messenger
Portside Messenger
Tasmania
Tasmanian Country
Victoria
Geelong Advertiser
Geelong News
Queensland
Gold Coast Bulletin
Townsville Bulletin[33]
Tablelander
Innisfail Advocate
Burdekin Advocate
Northern Miner
Herbert River Express
The Cairns Post
Tablelands Advertiser
The Daily Mercury[34]
Central Queensland News[35]
The Morning Bulletin[36]
Central Telegraph[37]
The Observer[38]
NewsMail[39]
Fraser Coast Chronicle[40]
The Gympie Times[41]
The Sunshine Coast Daily[42]
The Queensland Times[43]
The Chronicle[44]
Warwick Daily News[45]
The Dalby Herald[46]
Chinchilla News and Murilla Advertiser[47]
The Western Star[48]
Magazines[edit]
GQ Australia
Vogue Australia
Vogue Living
Donna Hay
Inside Out
Homelife
Australian Golf Digest
Country Style
Gardening Australia
Super Food Ideas
ABC Delicious
Big League
Gardening Australia Magazine
Taste.com.au Magazine
Websites[edit]
The_Australian is a broadsheet newspaper published in Australia from Monday to Saturday each week since 14 July 1964.
news.com.au publishes stories and multimedia created by a team of about 51 reporters.
The Punch was an opinion and news website, founded in 2009 and merged with news.com.au in March 2013[49]
Business Spectator is a business news website
CareerOne is a job site co-owned by News Corp and Monster.com
Carsguide[50] is a car classified website
Punters.com.au, an Australian horse racing news and form guide website[51]
NRL properties[edit]
Brisbane Broncos Ltd (68.87%)
Television[edit]
Foxtel (65%)
Fox Sports (through Fox Sports Pty Limited)
Sky News Australia (through Australian News Channel)
Sky News Business Channel (through Australian News Channel)
Sky News Weather Channel (through Australian News Channel)
A-PAC (through Australian News Channel)
See also[edit]
Journalism in Australia
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Friday Night Lights
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Peter Berg
Produced by
Brian Grazer
Screenplay by
David Aaron Cohen
Peter Berg
Based on
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
by H. G. Bissinger
Starring
Billy Bob Thornton
Derek Luke
Jay Hernandez
Lucas Black
Garrett Hedlund
Tim McGraw
Lee Jackson
Lee Thompson Young
Connie Britton
Amber Heard
Music by
Brian Reitzell
Explosions in the Sky
David Torn
Cinematography
Tobias Schliessler
Edited by
Colby Parker Jr.
David Rosenbloom
Gabrielle Fasulo
Production
company
Imagine Entertainment
Distributed by
Universal Pictures
Release date
October 8, 2004 (2004-10-08)
Running time
118 min.
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$30 million
Box office
$62 million
Friday Night Lights is a 2004 American sports drama film, directed by Peter Berg. The film follows the coach and players of a high school football team in the Texas city of Odessa, which supported and was obsessed with them. The book on which it was based, Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream (1990) by H. G. Bissinger, followed the story of the 1988 Permian High School Panthers football team as they made a run towards the state championship. A television series of the same name premiered on October 3, 2006 on NBC. The film won the Best Sports Movie ESPY Award and was ranked number 37 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the Best High School Movies.[1]
Contents
1 Plot
2 Cast
2.1 Cameo roles
3 Differences between the movie and events
3.1 Players
3.2 The regular season
3.3 The playoffs
3.4 Permian vs. Carter
3.5 The school and the city
4 Soundtrack
5 Reception
5.1 Critical reception
5.2 Accolades
6 References
7 External links
Plot[edit]
As preseason practice begins for the Permian High School football team in August 1988, the town of Odessa, Texas has high expectations for the players and their coach Gary Gaines to win a state championship with their star running back James "Boobie" Miles. The quarterback, Mike Winchell, runs under the expectation of handing off the ball to Miles on most plays. Fullback Don Billingsley struggles with his ball handling and is abused by his alcoholic father Charles, who won a state championship with Permian. The players frequently party as they deal with the pressures of Odessa's expectations.
In the season opener against the Marshall Bulldogs, the Permian Panthers make the game a blowout. Gaines intends to bench Miles in the waning minutes, but keeps him in after third-stringer Chris Comer is unprepared to go in. Miles tears his ACL after being tackled at the knee, and afterwards Gaines is widely criticized by the town for keeping Miles in. In the next game during the start of district play, Permian gets blown out as Winchell struggles with consistency in his increased role and the second-string running back gets hurt. Comer goes in, but avoids contact, and discussion arises about Gaines losing his job. However, the Panthers start winning again as Winchell and Comer improve, and safety Brian Chavez and linebacker Ivory Christian emerge as defensive standouts.
Miles holds out hope that he can return to playing soon, and although his MRI scan shows otherwise, he rejects it and lies to Gaines so he can suit up again, with his uncle and guardian L.V. backing him up. Permian plays its final district game against Midland Lee, with first place and a playoff spot on the line. The Panthers fall behind, and Gaines puts Miles in out of desperation, but Miles is soon injured again. Winchell leads a comeback drive, but Permian loses as his final pass flies over the receiver's hands. After the game, Billingsley fights with his drunk father, who throws his state championship ring onto the side of the freeway. The next morning, Don reveals to his father that he recovered the championship ring and gives it back to him. Charles partially apologizes and makes the point that his state championship was the best thing that happened to him, and he now has nothing happy except those memories. The loss puts Permian in a three-way tie for first place with Lee and Abilene Cooper, and a coin toss is held to determine which two teams make the playoffs. Permian and Lee win the toss, and as the Panthers prepare for the playoffs, Miles clears his locker. While in his uncle's car, he cries about his future in football becoming bleak.
Permian is successful in the playoffs, but all eyes are on the state powerhouse Dallas Carter High School. Permian and Carter make it to the state championship game, which is held at the Astrodome due to the schools' different demographics. Miles rejoins the team and watches from the sidelines as the Panthers head into the game. They are initially overwhelmed by Carter's superior size and fall behind, but mount a comeback in the second half to pull within one score. The defense improves its tackling, and the offense pushes through despite injuries. After a defensive stop, Winchell, Comer, and Billingsley mount a final drive, but Comer and Billingsley are injured. Billingsley goes back in, and holds onto the ball for a big run, but it is called back for a holding penalty. On fourth down, Winchell is stopped just short of the goal line as the clock runs out, and Carter wins the championship.
Afterwards, Gaines removes the outgoing seniors from his depth chart, and it is revealed that Winchell, Billingsley, Miles, and Chavez went on to have successful lives after their football careers ended, with only Christian receiving a Division I scholarship. The movie ends with the statement that Gaines and Comer led Permian to an undefeated state championship season the following year.
Cast[edit]
Billy Bob Thornton as Coach Gary Gaines
Lucas Black as Mike Winchell
Garrett Hedlund as Don Billingsley
Derek Luke as James "Boobie" Miles
Jay Hernandez as Brian Chavez
Lee Jackson III as Ivory Christian
Lee Thompson Young as Chris Comer
Tim McGraw as Charles Billingsley
B. T. (Bob Thomas) Stone as Slammin' Sammy Stands
Grover Coulson as L.V. Miles
Connie Britton as Sharon Gaines
Julius Tennon as Coach Freddie James
Connie Cooper as Ms. Winchell
Amber Heard as Maria
Kasey Stevens as Flippy
Rutherford Cravens as Kansas Weslyan Recruiter
Stephen Bishop as Loie Harris
Katherine Willis as Booster Wife
Christian Kane as Brian
Brad Leland as John Aubrey
Tim Crowley, Gary Vaught, and Lee Mack Turner as Championship game officials
Cameo roles[edit]
Former NFL wide receiver Roy Williams (a Permian alumnus) had a cameo in the movie as an assistant coach for Midland Lee, Permian's arch-rival.
Some sequences during the state playoffs showed highlights from high school football games in Texas. In one of those highlights, NFL Pro Bowl cornerback Aqib Talib can be seen.
Ty Law played a wide receiver for Dallas Carter, the team Permian played in the movie's state championship game. He wore jersey #2, his last name was Graf, and he caught a one-handed touchdown pass.
The real James "Boobie" Miles played a Permian assistant coach in the film. Although he has no lines, he was seen several times. In the locker room scene at halftime of the state championship game, he was seen standing next to the fictional "Boobie" Miles as Coach Gaines gives his speech.
Differences between the movie and events[edit]
Players[edit]
In the movie, Boobie Miles was depicted as one of the team's three captains, but that honor was held by Ivory Christian, Mike Winchell and Brian Chavez in real life.
In the movie, some of the players' numbers and positions were changed: Boobie Miles was #45 and played tailback in the movie, but in the book he was playing fullback (while Don Billingsley was the tailback) and #35. In the movie, Brian Chavez was the #4 strong safety, while he was the #85 tight end in the book, and Ivory Christian was a defensive end and wore #90, while he was the #62 middle ("Mike") linebacker in the book. At the beginning of the film, as the camera panned over Coach Gaines' depth chart, 'Miles' name was listed under the FB tag. Chris Comer was also the backup fullback in the book, not a third-string tailback. One of the athletic directors in the stadium booth said, "I think he's a sophomore", when Comer was a junior at the time. Comer also wore #45 in the real season, but in the movie he wore #42. Alan Wyles was depicted as a wide receiver when he was the placekicker.
Don Billingsley's father Charlie was depicted in the movie as having won a state championship. In reality, as a junior, the 1968 Permian team lost in the finals.
The regular season[edit]
In the movie, the team was depicted as practicing in full pads and with full contact on the first day of practice. Under rules of the University Interscholastic League (UIL), the governing body for Texas public school sports, teams cannot use pads or hit until the 4th day of practice (however, in the deleted scenes included in the DVD, a non-pad practice was shown).
A Permian booster was heard toasting Coach Gaines' second season as Permian's head coach. It was his third.
Boobie Miles, in the book, injured his leg by getting his foot caught on the AstroTurf during a pre-season scrimmage against Amarillo Palo Duro at Jones Stadium in Lubbock. In the movie, he was tackled by two players at the knee during a blowout non-district game at Ratliff Stadium.
In the movie, the top-ranked Permian Panthers defeated the hapless Marshall Bulldogs in a non-district game. In real life, the third-ranked Marshall Mavericks (whose colors are red and white, not purple and gold) defeated fourth-ranked Permian 13-12. In the movie, the game was the season opener and played on a Friday night in Odessa. In real life, it was Permian's second game of the season, and played at Maverick Stadium in Marshall on a Saturday afternoon. Permian's football team chartered a jet for the 500+ mile trip from Odessa to Marshall, spawning controversy on the cost of the trip. Played before a crowd of more than 12,000 fans at Maverick Stadium, the game was on a searing September afternoon where the temperature topped 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 °C). The footage shown in the movie was from a game against the Midland High Bulldogs, who weren't mentioned in the movie. Permian defeated the Dawgs 42-0 in district play, but the two teams ended up in a three-way tie along with Midland Lee for the district title.
In the movie, district play began in week 2. In the real regular season, district play began in week 4.
In the movie, Permian defeated "North Shore Galena" in a mid-season (presumably district) game. In reality, North Shore High School was within the Galena Park Independent School District located in the Houston suburbs over 500 miles (800 km) southeast of Odessa. Although North Shore and Permian have both been 5A football powerhouses, they have never played. Furthermore, North Shore did not start seeing football success until the mid 1990s.
In reality, the three teams tied for best district record were Permian, Midland Lee, and Midland High, all with 5-1 district records. In the movie, Permian and Lee were joined not by Midland but by Abilene Cooper, and each team had two district losses. The tie breaking coin flip was held at a truck stop outside of Midland, and Midland High lost (Cooper in the movie), so Permian and Lee went on. Midland High's missing the playoffs was poignant as it had not been to the playoffs since 1951 and did not get back to post-season play until 2002.
A Permian player was shown with coach Gaines at the coin toss. In reality, no players from any of the three schools were allowed at the coin toss. All of Permian's players were on the team bus returning from the game that evening at San Angelo Central. Permian assistant coach Mike Belew drove with Gaines from San Angelo to the site of the coin toss.
In a few scenes, players were shown wearing Under Armour apparel and facemask shields, although in 1988, Under Armour and visors hadn't been invented yet. (Under Armour founder Kevin Plank was in high school in 1988.) The book says they wore green visors, which are now outlawed for high school and college teams.
In the movie, the annual duel against Permian's archrival Midland Lee was portrayed as Lee having a handy lead throughout the game with Permian never having a shot at the victory. In real life, Lee had to come from behind with a late-game touchdown to win the game 22-21.
The playoffs[edit]
Permian's first opponent in the playoffs was Amarillo Tascosa and not Dallas Jesuit as in the movie. In 1988, Texas Public Schools (such as Permian, Carter, and Tascosa) and private schools (such as Jesuit) competed in separate leagues with separate playoffs. Jesuit was not allowed to join the previously all-public school UIL until 2003, starting football competition in 2004. Dallas Jesuit and Strake Jesuit of Houston were the only private schools who currently play in the UIL, the rest competing in leagues such as TAPPS and the SPC. Also, with the district setup at that time, it would have been impossible for Permian to play a team from the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex until the third round for the playoffs. Nowadays, Permian could play Fort Worth-area teams in the first round of the playoffs, but still could not play Jesuit until round 3. Permian played Dallas Jesuit in Odessa during the regular season in 1988, winning 48-2. Jesuit's only points came on a missed-PAT return, which was a rule instituted that year (the defensive conversion was not allowed in high school football under National Federation of State High School Associations rules, but Texas played by NCAA rules). Jesuit's helmet was shown as white and orange with a sort of wildcat's head logo on it, but in real life they are solid gold without a logo.
In the movie, it was said that Carter was the state's top-ranked team, when Carter was never ranked higher than No. 3 in the Associated Press poll.
Carter played "Hays" High School in the playoffs, which was depicted as wearing green and white and nicknamed the Rams. The real Jack C. Hays High School, located 15 minutes south of Austin in Buda, used red, white, and blue as its colors, and their nickname was the Rebels. Hays was a Class 4A school in 1988 and did not become 5A until 2000. Hays was in the movie because the makers filmed crowd shots at Hays High during a Rebels home game against the Austin Westlake Chaparrals, another team depicted as a Permian playoff victim.
Permian was depicted as playing "San Angelo" in the quarterfinal round. There were two high schools in the San Angelo Independent School District; until 1998, San Angelo Central High School, the district's only 5A school had been in the same district as Permian (having since been transferred, for football only, to the district with Lubbock and Amarillo schools), and could only have played Permian in the quarterfinal round (owing to the structure of UIL playoffs) if they had qualified. However, Central finished 5th in the district that year, and as only two teams from each district qualified in 1988, Permian and Central did not play in the 1988 playoffs. Instead, Permian played Arlington Lamar in the quarterfinals.
On the playoff brackets it shows just the word "Baytown". There were two high schools in Baytown in 1988 (there are now three), the team in the playoffs was Baytown Lee.
Permian vs. Carter[edit]
Since 1982, the UIL Class 5A (now 6A) football playoffs have had six rounds (though a second, parallel playoff bracket of five rounds was added in 1990, later also expanded to six rounds in 2006), so while Permian played Dallas Carter in the fifth round, it was a semi-final and not a final. In the Texas playoffs, a team from North or Western Texas always plays a team from the Houston area or Southern Texas in the final,[2] so the Carter vs Permian final was not possible. The real-life final featured Carter versus Converse Judson (which defeated Permian in the 1995 state championship). The Carter-Permian game was played in front of 10,000 people in a heavy downpour at The University of Texas at Austin's Memorial Stadium, not in front of 55,000 in the Astrodome in Houston. While the game in the movie was a high-scoring affair (34-28), the real score was 14-9 in favor of Carter. In real life, Permian held a 9-7 lead for most of the game and Carter made the dramatic fourth quarter comeback to win. On the last play of the game, Winchell threw the ball incomplete, rather than running it himself close to the goal line.
The meeting between officials from Permian and Carter at the Midland airport occurred the Sunday prior to the game. Not shown in the movie was the Carter officials changing their minds about a home site from Texas Stadium in Irving to the Cotton Bowl within the Dallas city limits. Under UIL rules, if the schools cannot agree to a neutral site, each side picks a "home" site and a "neutral" site, and two coin tosses are conducted. The first was to determine whether a "home" or "neutral" site will be used, and the second to determine which team's site will be used. After a tense battle between the sides, they agreed to play the game at Austin.
In the movie, Gaines suggested at first suggests San Antonio as a potential neutral site, which would have meant playing the game at Alamo Stadium, since the Alamodome did not open until 1993. The other neutral site suggestion in the movie was College Station, presumably meaning Kyle Field at Texas A&M.
The revocation of Carter's state championship following their use of an academically ineligible player was never mentioned, nor was the prolonged legal battle that Carter went through to enable them to play in the playoffs. Officially, the 1988 state champions were Converse Judson, which lost 31-14 in the final to Carter. Furthermore, Carter was portrayed in the movie as a stereotypical "inner city thug" team (likely due to the shocking series of armed robberies committed by several players after the season ended); Carter at the time was located in a middle-class African-American neighborhood and was not known for dirty play.
The school and the city[edit]
Permian was portrayed in the movie as a single large high school in a small, one-horse town in West Texas. In reality, Odessa was a city of nearly 100,000 people at the time of the events portrayed in the movie, and part of a metropolitan area of nearly 250,000 combining the populations of Midland and Ector counties. (The quaint downtown shown in the trailer for the movie was Manhattan, Kansas.) Also, Permian was (and still is) only one of two large Class 5A high schools in Odessa. The other and first high school in the city, Odessa High School (mascot: the Bronchos), was never mentioned in the movie, despite the fact that they have played Permian every year, as the two schools have been in the same UIL district since Permian opened in 1959 and shared Ratliff Stadium with Permian. An entire chapter in the book was devoted to the "Civil War" between the schools.
In the movie, Odessa was portrayed as being a mostly Anglo town with a sizable African-American population and virtually no Hispanics. In 1988, out of the almost 100,000 people that lived in Odessa, one-third were Hispanic while African-Americans made up only 5% of the population.
Ratliff Stadium was depicted as the location for Permian football practices. In reality, the team practiced mostly on campus, and the stadium, used by both Permian and Odessa, was on the outskirts of town in a fairly unpopulated area about three miles (five km) away from the Permian High campus. It was also unlikely that children would be playing touch football near the stadium, as depicted in the movie, as few houses were nearby at that time. The area around the stadium has grown dramatically since then (which caused an anachronism in the movie—the houses seen near the stadium did not yet exist in 1988).
While Ratliff Stadium has had artificial turf since its opening, in 1988 it had the original AstroTurf, not the modern FieldTurf surface seen on the stadium in the film.
Soundtrack[edit]
Main article: Friday Night Lights (film soundtrack)
The soundtrack for the film predominantly featured post-rock band Explosions in the Sky. Music by Daniel Lanois and rock band Bad Company were also included. Other songs in the film were "Just Got Paid" by ZZ Top during the montage of the Panthers' road to the finals; the pump up song featured as the team ran through the tunnel in the game against Dallas Carter was "New Noise" by the seminal Swedish punk band Refused. During the start of the third quarter during the Championship game, the song "I Wanna Be Your Dog" by The Stooges was used. Three songs from Public Enemy's album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back were also used prominently.
Reception[edit]
Critical reception[edit]
Reviews of the film were highly positive. The film received an 81% "Certified Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 168 reviews, and the consensus stated: "An acute survey of the football-obsessed heartland that succeeds as both a stirring drama and a rousing sports movie."[3] The film also has a score of 70/100 on Metacritic, based on 35 reviews.[4]
While the residents of Odessa held a negative reception of the book, they eagerly anticipated the release of the film.[5]
Accolades[edit]
The film was recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:
2004: AFI'S Top 10 Film of the Year
2008: AFI's 10 Top 10:
Nominated Sports Film[6]
References[edit]
Jump up ^ "50 Best High School Movies". EW.
Jump up ^ Though with the growth in the Houston area, area teams are split between Regions 2 and 3, so an all-Houston final is possible.
Jump up ^ "Friday Night Lights". Rotten Tomatoes. 2004. Retrieved September 3, 2015.
Jump up ^ "Friday Night Lights". Metacritic. 2004. Retrieved September 3, 2015.
Jump up ^ "FRIDAY NIGHT FRIGHTS". The Miami Herald. March 29, 2004. Retrieved September 3, 2011.
Jump up ^ "AFI's 10 Top 10 Nominees" (PDF). Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2016-08-19. CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
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Clearwater Beach
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Sunset on Clearwater Beach
Clearwater Beach includes a resort area and a residential area on the Gulf of Mexico in Pinellas County on the west central coast of Florida. Located just west over the Intracoastal Waterway by way of the Clearwater Memorial Causeway from the city of Clearwater, Florida, of which it is part, Clearwater Beach is at a geographic latitude of 27.57 N and longitude 82.48 W.
Clearwater Beach is characterized by white sand beaches stretching for 2.5 miles (4 km) along the Gulf and sits on a barrier island. It has a full marina on the Intracoastal Waterway side and is linked on the south by a short bridge to another barrier island called Sand Key, where Sand Key Park is located.
"Pirate ship" cruise
The area offers shopping, restaurants, and activities such as parasailing, jet ski rentals, boat tours (with a common sighting of dolphins in the Gulf waters), miniature golf, fishing charters, and "pirate ship" cruises.[1]
Clearwater has frequently been ranked one of the best beaches in the United States.[2][3] Its Sandpearl resort was named one of the best beach resorts in the U.S.[4] In January 2013, Clearwater Beach was awarded the designation of Florida's Best Beach Town by a USA Today reader poll ranking 10 Florida beach destinations.[5] In February 2018, Clearwater Beach was named the best beach in the United States and seventh-best in the world by TripAdvisor.[6]
Contents
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1 Climate
2 Transportation
3 Recreation, entertainment, and shopping
4 See also
5 External links
6 References
Climate[edit]
The beach at end of October
Clearwater Beach is officially classified as having a humid subtropical climate. Clearwater Beach experiences warm and humid summers with frequent thunderstorms and drier winters. The area experiences a significant summer wet season, as nearly two-thirds of the annual precipitation falls in the months of June through September. The area is listed by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) as being in hardiness zone 10, which is about the northern limit of where coconut palms and royal palms can be grown. Highs usually range between 65 and 95 °F (18 and 35 °C) year round. [7]
hideClimate data for Clearwater
Month
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
Record high °F (°C)
86
(30) 87
(31) 89
(32) 92
(33) 97
(36) 97
(36) 96
(36) 96
(36) 95
(35) 94
(34) 89
(32) 87
(31) 97
(36)
Average high °F (°C)
71.4
(21.9) 71.4
(21.9) 76.1
(24.5) 81.2
(27.3) 86.2
(30.1) 89.1
(31.7) 89.9
(32.2) 90
(32) 88.5
(31.4) 83.6
(28.7) 76.4
(24.7) 71.9
(22.2) 81.3
(27.4)
Daily mean °F (°C)
62.3
(16.8) 62.3
(16.8) 66.9
(19.4) 71.9
(22.2) 77.2
(25.1) 80.9
(27.2) 82.1
(27.8) 82.1
(27.8) 80.7
(27.1) 75.1
(23.9) 67.2
(19.6) 62.8
(17.1) 72.6
(22.6)
Average low °F (°C)
52.9
(11.6) 53.2
(11.8) 57.8
(14.3) 62.7
(17.1) 68.2
(20.1) 72.6
(22.6) 74.2
(23.4) 74.2
(23.4) 72.9
(22.7) 66.5
(19.2) 58.1
(14.5) 53.7
(12.1) 63.9
(17.7)
Record low °F (°C)
24
(−4) 27
(−3) 29
(−2) 41
(5) 53
(12) 60
(16) 62
(17) 65
(18) 61
(16) 45
(7) 27
(−3) 19
(−7) 19
(−7)
Average precipitation inches (cm)
2
(5) 3.5
(8.9) 3.5
(8.9) 2
(5) 2.1
(5.3) 6.2
(15.7) 9.5
(24.1) 9.5
(24.1) 7.2
(18.3) 2.8
(7.1) 1.8
(4.6) 2.5
(6.4) 52.6
(133.6)
Source: Weatherbase[8]
Transportation[edit]
Clearwater Beach is approximately 20 miles (30 km) from Tampa International Airport and 25 miles (40 km) from downtown Tampa.
St. Pete-Clearwater International Airport is also within close proximity of Clearwater Beach.
The Clearwater Jolley Trolley has provided transportation up and down the beach since 1982. It currently runs to North Clearwater Beach and down to Sand Key, including Island Estates. Mandalay Avenue is the main drag on the north end of the beach with Gulfview Boulevard being so on the south. Both areas feature a variety of businesses.
Recreation, entertainment, and shopping[edit]
Pier 60 activities
Pier 60, named for State Road 60 which terminates in Clearwater Beach, is a central spot for beachgoers and has a playground, a snack bar with attached souvenir shop, and a long fishing pier. There are professional entertainers who perform on the pier every day, along with children's acts.[9] It's the site of a daily event called Sunsets at Pier 60, which includes street performers and musical acts. On the pier itself is a nightly display of goods sold by local artisans such as jewelry, candles, and other gift items.
Numerous restaurants and shops can be found adjacent to the beach, whose attractiveness was greatly improved in recent years with a beautification project called Beach Walk. The Beach Walk is located just south of Pier 60. There are drinking fountains, shower nozzles for beachcombers to rinse the sand off, and bicycle racks, as part of the upgrade. It also is a great spot for fishing. Beach "renourishment" efforts such as dune restoration enhance the area's natural beauty along a wide curving sidewalk. In addition, directly across from the pier is the Clearwater Municipal Marina, which offers deep sea fishing and boating activities for visitors. [10]
Clearwater Beach looking North from Pier 60
In July 2008 the long-anticipated Beach Walk project was completed, featuring a compact pedestrian zone with high-end hotels and condos.[11][12] The beach is also known for its nightlife scene.[13][14][15][16]
Shephard's Beach Resort and the Palm Pavilion Inn are two of the area's popular night spots. There are also several Frenchy's restaurant locations and retail stores including Surf Style and Ron Jon Surf Shop.
A paved bicycle trail lined by mangrove trees is available nearby which parallels the Clearwater Memorial Causeway to the city.
Just up the causeway from the Beach, in the Island Estates area, is the Clearwater Marine Aquarium (home of Winter, the bottlenose dolphin featured in the movie Dolphin Tale), as well as a grocery store and other amenities.
See also[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Clearwater Beach, Florida.
St. Pete Beach
Treasure Island
External links[edit]
Clearwater Beach webcams
Clearwater Beach Live HD Streaming Beach Cam
Clearwater Beach Weather Station
References[edit]
Jump up ^ TBT article
Jump up ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-03-29. Retrieved 2010-05-12.
Jump up ^ Clearwater Beach Florida Guide : Clearwater Beach Hotels Restaurants Activities : Travel Channel
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Jump up ^ Gillin, Joshua (February 21, 2018). "Clearwater Beach named best beach in the United States, 7 other Florida beaches in Top 25". Tampa Bay Times.
Jump up ^ Tampa Weather Forecasts on Yahoo! Weather Archived December 16, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.. Weather.yahoo.com. Retrieved on 2009-02-06.
Jump up ^ "Weather Clearwater, Florida". Weatherbase. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
Jump up ^ http://www.clearwaterbeachwaterfront.com/Pages/ClearwaterBeachCommunity.aspx
Jump up ^ http://www.clearwaterbeachwaterfront.com/Pages/ClearwaterBeachCommunity.aspx
Jump up ^ [3]
Jump up ^ See what's new along Tampa Bay's beaches | Tampa Bay Times
Jump up ^ Area beach bars offer a cure for spring fever | Tampa Bay Times
Jump up ^ Events at wtsp.com
Jump up ^ Restaurants Neighborhoods in Tampa Bay - Things to do in Tampa Bay | tampabay.com & Tampa Bay Times
Jump up ^ Live Clearwater Beach Video Feed from PIER 60 Archived 2013-03-31 at the Wayback Machine.
Coordinates: 27°35′N 82°29′W / 27.58°N 82.49°W / 27.58; -82.49
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