Barry Charles Diller (born February 2, 1942) is an American businessman. He is chairman and senior executive of IAC and Expedia Group and founded the Fox Broadcasting Company and USA Broadcasting . Diller was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1994.
147-518: CH Media , doing business as Dropout , is an Internet comedy company based in Los Angeles which produces content for release on its streaming service, Dropout , and on YouTube . It was originally founded as the CollegeHumor website , created by Josh Abramson and Ricky Van Veen in 1999, and was owned by InterActiveCorp ( IAC ) from 2006 until January 2020, when IAC withdrew funding and
294-605: A gross metropolitan product of over $ 1.0 trillion, making it the city with the third-largest GDP in the world, after New York and Tokyo . Los Angeles hosted the Summer Olympics in 1932 and 1984 , and will also host in 2028 . Despite a business exodus from Downtown Los Angeles since the COVID-19 pandemic , the city's urban core is evolving as a cultural center with the world's largest showcase of architecture designed by Frank Gehry . On September 4, 1781,
441-673: A metropolitan area of 12.8 million people (2023). Greater Los Angeles , which includes the Los Angeles and Riverside–San Bernardino metropolitan areas, is a sprawling metropolis of over 18.3 million residents. The majority of the city proper lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending partly through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into
588-430: A "censorship issue" – Reich claimed many topics may result in being "marked as not safe for advertisers" so the ideal content for these platforms is "a little milquetoast". In 2023, the company did its first profit sharing with anyone who made at least $ 1 with the company during the year. In early 2024, Reich said that Dropout had twenty employees, up from fifteen in 2023 and with plans to continue that slow growth to 25 by
735-521: A 4,800 square-foot loft in TriBeCa . Wired highlighted that for people "who know CollegeHumor from its glossy sketch-comedy heyday, the website's earlier incarnations might be unrecognizable; it was a chaotic repository for the collective horny collegiate id, more of a precursor to the Chive or Barstool Sports than the showcase for UCB graduates it eventually became". In 2006, prior to its acquisition,
882-400: A TV spin-off on truTV . Stories about a never-seen narrator who gets involved in wacky situations. A series that revolves around the life of Mary-Kate Olsen (played by Elaine Carroll ), a rich young woman who is heir to Woody Allen , and her sensible bodyguard . A series starring Pat Cassels and Josh Ruben. Ruben is placed in prosthetic and make-up by their make-up artist Hannah. From
1029-451: A cartoon on Fox Kids , Furry Force tells the story of four teens named Leon (voiced by Brian K. Murphy), Gary (voiced by Caldwell Tanner), Callie (voiced by Emily Axford), and Trang (voiced by Rachel Ilg) who become anthropomorphic animals to take on the evil plots of Victor Vivisector (voiced by Adam Conover) and his henchmen Hip Hop (voiced by Adam Conover) and Krunk (voiced by Josh Ruben) that mostly involve Victor Vivisector trying to turn
1176-478: A diverse economy with a broad range of industries. Despite a steep exodus of film and television production since the COVID-19 pandemic , Los Angeles is still one of the largest hubs of American film production , the world's largest by revenue; the city is an important site in the history of film . It also has one of the busiest container ports in the Americas. In 2018, the Los Angeles metropolitan area had
1323-736: A donation of $ 20 million to support the completion of the High Line park in Manhattan. In 2012, Diller donated $ 30 million to the Hollywood Fund, which provides health and social care to retired individuals from the show-business world. In 2015, Diller and his wife committed to donate $ 260 million toward Little Island , a public park and performance space on a reconstructed pier 55 in the Hudson River in New York City. It
1470-478: A family connection in the mailroom of the William Morris Agency after dropping out of UCLA after three weeks. His proximity to the company's file room meant that he could spend free time reading through the archives and learning the entire history of the entertainment industry. He was hired as an assistant by Elton Rule , then West Coast head of ABC , who was promoted to network President at
1617-480: A few big corporations as an oligarchy , saying the concentration strangles new ideas. Diller was "the highest-paid executive [of fiscal year 2005]", according to a report by The New York Times on October 26, 2006, with total compensation in excess of $ 295 million (mostly from stock). In October 2019, Diller had a $ 4.2 billion fortune in technology companies, after investing early on in companies such as Match.com and Vimeo . In 2012, Diller became an investor in
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#17328008606481764-614: A group of 44 settlers known as " Los Pobladores " founded the pueblo (town) they called El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles , 'The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels';. The original name of the settlement is disputed; the Guinness Book of World Records rendered it as "El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río Porciúncula "; other sources have shortened or alternate versions of
1911-629: A member of Barry Diller's Office of the Chairman at IAC/InterActiveCorp . On March 9, 2022, The Wall Street Journal reported that Diller, David Geffen and his stepson, Alex Von Furstenberg were being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the United States Department of Justice for insider trading of options on Activision Blizzard just three days before Microsoft's announced acquisition. Diller denied
2058-414: A minority stake in the business, according to a person familiar with the matter". Reich clarified that the company would continue releasing pre-recorded CollegeHumor productions on its streaming platform Dropout for at least the next 6 months and stated that he hoped to use that time in order to "save Dropout, CollegeHumor, Drawfee, Dorkly, and many of our shows". Knibbs commented that "Reich is beloved within
2205-479: A month, about twice the number of views then received by CollegeHumor videos on YouTube"; by 2019, the Facebook video monthly views slipped "to about one-third of the 2017 tally". The Washington Post opined that the pivot to partnering with Facebook "probably sounded the death knell for the humor site" as Facebook had falsely inflated video metrics. In contrast, Wired commented that its sources "suggested YouTube
2352-513: A number of series—notably "Hardly Working", "Jake and Amir", and "Nerd Alert"—which were shot in the CH office and starred the CH staff members themselves. Most of these series are now available in their entirety on the Dropout streaming service. A series of short sketches about two former CH writers, Jake Hurwitz and Amir Blumenfeld , who often act out the odd couple act . The show depicts Jake as
2499-425: A profit; the other, according to an analysis of contemporary newspaper reports, was the 1932 Summer Olympics , also held in Los Angeles. Racial tensions erupted on April 29, 1992, with the acquittal by a Simi Valley jury of four Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers captured on videotape beating Rodney King , culminating in large-scale riots . In 1994, the magnitude 6.7 Northridge earthquake shook
2646-572: A regular guy constantly annoyed by Amir's idiotic antics, while Amir sincerely just wants to be good friends with Jake. A series of sketches written by and starring Sarah Schneider and David Young about two coworkers and their attempts to keep their relationship hidden. Each episode usually begins with them waking up in the same bed after having one of their numerous one night stands. This series ended when Sarah Schneider left College Humor in November 2011. An animated parody of popular TV series using
2793-437: A scripted comedy that premiered on MTV on February 8, 2009. The half-hour comedy was written by and starred nine CollegeHumor editorial staff members (Ricky Van Veen, Jake Hurwitz , Amir Blumenfeld , Dan Gurewitch , Patrick Cassels, Sarah Schneider , Streeter Seidell , Sam Reich and Jeff Rubin), who played fictionalized versions of themselves. Los Angeles Los Angeles , often referred to by its initials L.A. ,
2940-622: A series of battles, culminating with the signing of the Treaty of Cahuenga on January 13, 1847. The Mexican Cession was formalized in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, which ceded Los Angeles and the rest of Alta California to the United States. Railroads arrived with the completion of the transcontinental Southern Pacific line from New Orleans to Los Angeles in 1876 and the Santa Fe Railroad in 1885. Petroleum
3087-462: A series of five, three-minute shorts starring Michael Cera and Will Hines. The series was written, directed, and produced by Derek Westerman . Also previously produced by College Humor were Bleep Bloop and Nerd Alert . Bleep Bloop was a video-game-based talk show hosted by Jeff Rubin and Patrick Cassels, featuring various guests. Many comedians were featured on the show. On December 17, 2008, CollegeHumor.com announced The CollegeHumor Show ,
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#17328008606483234-507: A single type, where industrial uses were prohibited. The proscriptions included barns, lumber yards, and any industrial land use employing machine-powered equipment. These laws were enforced against industrial properties after the fact. These prohibitions were in addition to existing activities that were already regulated as nuisances. These included explosives warehousing, gas works, oil drilling, slaughterhouses, and tanneries . Los Angeles City Council also designated seven industrial zones within
3381-571: A sister website to CollegeHumor; this brand focused on fandoms and video game parodies and was edited by CollegeHumor staff. In 2014, IAC merged its "comedy site CollegeHumor with its production company Electus , consolidating its digital studios, production companies and web entertainment properties under the Electus Digital banner". Under Electus Digital, Reich founded CH Media's offshoot production company Big Breakfast, and moved CollegeHumor's video team to Los Angeles. That year, Drawfee
3528-775: A small, moon-sized, planet-destroying space station. Features Aubrey Plaza in a recurring guest role as the Princess. A second season following a new generation of troopers was later released as a Dropout exclusive. A stop-motion series released via Nintendo Video on the Nintendo 3DS . The stop-motion shorts focus on Craig the Triceratops (voiced by Kevin Corrigan) and Todd the Apatosaurus (voiced by Caldwell Tanner) as they work at DinoSoft Limited with co-workers Sheila
3675-504: A source of programming for Madison Square Garden Network cable subscribers and any future regional pay-television network . From October 1984 to April 1992, Diller held the positions of chairman and chief executive officer of 20th Century Fox , where he created and launched the Fox network and greenlighted shows such as Married... with Children and The Simpsons . On February 24, 1992, Diller announced that he would leave Fox within
3822-400: A special animated episode released during the COVID-19 pandemic . Brian K. Murphy and Emily Axford attempt a lovely night out for a romantic meal, but sadly blow their chances by bringing themselves. A cartoon series parodying The Magic School Bus featuring students learning about biology, history, and other subjects, usually in a gross and/or disturbing manner. Mary Pat Gleason voiced
3969-698: A strategic move into the Internet search category. He stepped down as Chief Executive Officer of IAC/InterActiveCorp on December 2, 2010. The new headquarters for the IAC/InterActiveCorp, the IAC Building was designed by Frank Gehry and opened in 2007 at 18th Street and the West Side Highway in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood. The western half of the block is dedicated to the building, which stands several stories taller than
4116-496: A student at Rochester Institute of Technology , and Zach Klein , a friend of Van Veen's from Wake Forest. By the time the group graduated from college the site had earned more than $ 100,000 and the partners still owned 100 percent of their business, which at that time was attracting 2 million viewers a month. The group moved the company to San Diego briefly before settling in New York City in 2004, where they set up shop in
4263-727: A three-month period, citing a desire to "own my own store". After leaving Fox, Diller's company Arrow Investments Inc. purchased a $ 25 million stake in the QVC teleshopping network. Despite owning less than 3 percent of the network, Diller gained supervision of the network after forming a partnership with Liberty Media Corporation and the Comcast Corporation which made all of their shares a single group on matters which required shareholder approval. New York Times journalist Calvin Sims noted on December 11, 1992, that Diller sought "to turn
4410-678: A three-way ownership of the USA Network in 1981 in order to prevent the Gulf+Western owned Madison Square Garden from selling its interest in the network. Diller also focused on having the Madison Square Garden maintain rights to its sports games, which in turn could allow for an extended level of broadcasting for future Madison Square Garden events as not only a source of programming for the USA Network, but also as
4557-607: A trend in California to give places Spanish, or Spanish-sounding, names and pronunciations. In 1908, librarian Charles Fletcher Lummis , who argued for the name's pronunciation with a hard g ( / ɡ / ), reported that there were at least 12 pronunciation variants. In the early 1900s, the Los Angeles Times advocated for pronouncing it Loce AHNG-hayl-ais ( / l oʊ s ˈ ɑː ŋ h eɪ l eɪ s / ), approximating Spanish [los ˈaŋxeles] , by printing
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4704-506: A wacky action, such as wearing progressively smaller clothes as a day goes by, or playing paintball solo against a group of US Army soldiers. The person who does these things is usually chosen at the beginning of the episode. A series that has Adam Conover informing the other character and the audience about the misconceptions related to the character's statement. Adam also voices versions of himself in animated segments with some of them being narrated by Chris Parnell . This segment later gained
4851-581: A warm and genuine one". Diller is a member of the Democratic Party and supporter of related political causes. In 2012 , he stated his support for Barack Obama 's reelection campaign despite misgivings with aspects of the Obama administration's record, and expressed his approval of then- Mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg . In 2015, Diller criticized Republican candidate Donald Trump 's impact on political discourse and said he would leave
4998-438: Is Mount San Antonio , locally known as Mount Baldy, which reaches 10,064 feet (3,068 m). Further afield, the highest point in southern California is San Gorgonio Mountain , 81 miles (130 km) east of downtown Los Angeles, with a height of 11,503 feet (3,506 m). The Los Angeles River , which is largely seasonal, is the primary drainage channel . It was straightened and lined in 51 miles (82 km) of concrete by
5145-651: Is a common problem in this population. Although Serieys et al. 2014 find selection of immune genetics at several loci they do not demonstrate that this produces a real difference which helps the bobcats to survive future mange outbreaks . Los Angeles is subject to earthquakes because of its location on the Pacific Ring of Fire . The geologic instability has produced numerous faults , which cause approximately 10,000 earthquakes annually in Southern California, though most of them are too small to be felt. The strike-slip San Andreas Fault system, which sits at
5292-480: Is almost for everyone else". On moving away from the CollegeHumor style of shortform sketches, Reich highlighted that was in part due to the transition from advertisement-based video on demand (AVOD) to subscription-based video on demand (SVOD) as they felt they "needed to offer something more meaningful". The SVOD model also allows Dropout to have editorial freedom as AVOD platforms such as YouTube and TikTok have
5439-603: Is available on the Dropout streaming platform. In December 2022, the CollegeHumor YouTube channel had over 7.39 billion views and 14.6 million subscribers. Digiday stated that "CollegeHumor's YouTube channel was at one time YouTube's seventh largest by number of subscribers". Wired highlighted that YouTube became so central to the company that they "abandoned" the CollegeHumor "website in favor of rerouting CollegeHumor.com to its YouTube channel". In 2017, CollegeHumor had "upward of 200 million Facebook video views
5586-452: Is complicated by rugged terrain, which has necessitated having different grids for each of the valleys that Los Angeles covers. Major streets are designed to move large volumes of traffic through many parts of the city, many of which are extremely long; Sepulveda Boulevard is 43 miles (69 km) long, while Foothill Boulevard is over 60 miles (97 km) long, reaching as far east as San Bernardino. Drivers in Los Angeles suffer from one of
5733-437: Is divided into many different districts and neighborhoods, some of which had been separately incorporated cities that eventually merged with Los Angeles. These neighborhoods were developed piecemeal, and are well-defined enough that the city has signage which marks nearly all of them. The city's street patterns generally follow a grid plan , with uniform block lengths and occasional roads that cut across blocks. However, this
5880-502: Is expected to continue to drop in the coming years because of aggressive steps to reduce it, which include electric and hybrid cars, improvements in mass transit , and other measures. The number of Stage 1 smog alerts in Los Angeles has declined from over 100 per year in the 1970s to almost zero in the new millennium. Despite improvement, the 2006 and 2007 annual reports of the American Lung Association ranked
6027-489: Is no longer updated. In 2011, Kevin Morris of The Daily Dot reported that CollegeHumor had lifted several images from Reddit without permission of the copyright holders and had added the CollegeHumor logo to these images. CollegeHumor posted original writing from its staff and users, including humorous essays, comics, interviews and weekly columns on sports, video games, college life, and dating. Contributing writers to
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6174-488: Is rich in native plant species partly because of its diversity of habitats, including beaches, wetlands , and mountains. The most prevalent plant communities are coastal sage scrub , chaparral shrubland, and riparian woodland . Native plants include: the California poppy , matilija poppy , toyon , Ceanothus , Chamise , Coast Live Oak , sycamore , willow and Giant Wildrye . Many of these native species, such as
6321-411: Is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California . With an estimated 3,820,914 residents within the city limits as of 2023 , it is the second-most populous city in the United States, behind only New York City ; it is also the commercial, financial and cultural center of Southern California . Los Angeles has an ethnically and culturally diverse population, and is the principal city of
6468-593: The Stegosaurus (voiced by Emily Axford), Richard the Diplodocus (voiced by Brian K. Murphy), various interns, and their boss Terry the Tyrannosaurus (voiced by Sam Reich). The dinosaurs face typical office problems such as rushing to meet deadlines and trying to decide what to have for lunch while also facing less typical problems such as asteroid warnings on the news, volcano drills, and Terry eating
6615-413: The 1916 New York City Zoning Ordinance did. Second, the residential zones did not distinguish types of housing; they treated apartments, hotels, and detached-single-family housing equally. In 1910, Hollywood merged into Los Angeles, with 10 movie companies already operating in the city at the time. By 1921, more than 80 percent of the world's film industry was concentrated in L.A. The money generated by
6762-805: The Army Corps of Engineers to act as a flood control channel. The river begins in the Canoga Park district of the city, flows east from the San Fernando Valley along the north edge of the Santa Monica Mountains, and turns south through the city center, flowing to its mouth in the Port of Long Beach at the Pacific Ocean. The smaller Ballona Creek flows into the Santa Monica Bay at Playa del Rey . Los Angeles
6909-591: The Bronfman family . Due to Home Shopping getting more notoriety on the cable networks from his former dealings with the QVC Network, Diller sought to repurpose the broadcast stations into independent, locally run stations as part of a station group dubbed USA Broadcasting of which the flagship station was WAMI-TV in Miami Beach, Florida . In October 1997, it was announced that Diller would be acquiring
7056-547: The Hillside Stranglers murder cases in 1977–1978. In early 1984, the city surpassed Chicago in population, thus becoming the second largest city in the United States. In 1984, the city hosted the Summer Olympic Games for the second time . Despite being boycotted by 14 Communist countries , the 1984 Olympics became more financially successful than any previous, and the second Olympics to turn
7203-487: The Los Angeles sunflower , have become so rare as to be considered endangered. Mexican Fan Palms , Canary Island Palms , Queen Palms , Date Palms , and California Fan Palms are common in the Los Angeles area, although only the last is native to California, though still not native to the City of Los Angeles. Los Angeles has a number of official flora: The city has an urban population of bobcats ( Lynx rufus ). Mange
7350-555: The Madison Square Garden Sports Corp. , which helped create the USA Network with Koplovitz. He was also the one who put together the 1981 USA Network ownership agreement between Paramount, Time Inc. and MCA which convinced Madison Square Garden management to not sell their interests in the network. Diller's purchase of the USA Network was finalized in February 1998. In April 1998, Diller would assume
7497-477: The Maker Studios YouTube channels for "almost $ 1 billion". Willens stated that CollegeHumor began to use Facebook as a platform for videos which, in 2017, had a higher reach than YouTube. However, Facebook never delivered the expected revenue which led to a pivot towards developing a subscription service "by mid- to late 2017" to "better monetize its audience". Video production staff were split –
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#17328008606487644-567: The San Fernando Valley , with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to its east. It covers about 469 square miles (1,210 km ), and is the county seat of Los Angeles County , which is the most populous county in the United States with an estimated 9.86 million residents as of 2022 . It is the third-most visited city in the U.S. with over 2.7 million visitors as of 2023. The area that became Los Angeles
7791-550: The USA Network , which was run by Kay Koplovitz , and other Seagram -owned Universal TV businesses, which included the Koplovitz-run USA Network spinoff Sci Fi Channel , for $ 4.1 billion and that these networks would be owned by Diller's Home Shopping Network. Diller previously had owned stock in the USA Network in the early 1980s, when Paramount Pictures acquired part of the network under his leadership. Paramount parent company Gulf + Western also owned
7938-505: The respelling under its masthead for several years. This did not find favor. Since the 1930s, / l ɔː s ˈ æ n dʒ əl ə s / has been most common. In 1934, the United States Board on Geographic Names decreed that this pronunciation be used by the federal government. This was also endorsed in 1952 by a "jury" appointed by Mayor Fletcher Bowron to devise an official pronunciation. Common pronunciations in
8085-507: The 20th century, Los Angeles substantially reduced the amount of housing that could be built by drastically downzoning the city. In 1960, the city had a total zoned capacity for approximately 10 million people. By 1990, that capacity had fallen to 4.5 million as a result of policy decisions to ban housing through zoning. Racial tensions led to the Watts riots in 1965, resulting in 34 deaths and over 1,000 injuries. In 1969, California became
8232-458: The Angels'. The present-day city has the largest Roman Catholic archdiocese in the United States. Two-thirds of the Mexican or ( New Spain ) settlers were mestizo or mulatto , a mixture of African, indigenous and European ancestry. The settlement remained a small ranch town for decades, but by 1820, the population had increased to about 650 residents. Today, the pueblo is commemorated in
8379-554: The CollegeHumor back catalog of over 1,500 videos. Following its acquisition by Reich, the company primarily focused on production for Dropout until the rebrand in 2023. The CollegeHumor website was created in December 1999 by Josh Abramson and Ricky Van Veen when they were both freshmen in college. Abramson and Van Veen were high school friends from Baltimore , Maryland; Abramson was at the University of Richmond and Van Veen
8526-413: The CollegeHumor community—WIRED spoke with more than a dozen former employees, and the praise was unanimously effusive, rare for someone who just laid a bunch of people off". In July 2020, a Dropout.tv newsletter noted that production had begun on new seasons of various Dropout shows. The company continued to upload content on the CollegeHumor YouTube channel. Also that month, it was announced that Drawfee
8673-400: The CollegeHumor website had "about six million unique visitors per month" with "revenues between $ 5 and $ 10 million". In August 2006, Abramson and company sold 51% of Connected Ventures, CollegeHumor's parent company, whose properties include CollegeHumor, Vimeo and BustedTees, to Barry Diller 's IAC for a reported $ 20 million. After being discovered by CollegeHumor Media in 2006, Sam Reich
8820-454: The Dorkly homepage that they would be ceasing the publication of new articles and comics on the Dorkly site in favor of shifting to other platforms for new material, citing increased costs of the website and the decline of ad based revenue for publications such as Dorkly. On January 8, 2020, it was announced that IAC was selling CH Media to its Chief Creative Officer, Sam Reich , resulting in
8967-629: The Los Angeles area include the 1933 Long Beach , 1971 San Fernando , 1987 Whittier Narrows , and the 1994 Northridge events. All but a few are of low intensity and are not felt. The USGS has released the UCERF California earthquake forecast , which models earthquake occurrence in California. Parts of the city are also vulnerable to tsunamis ; harbor areas were damaged by waves from Aleutian Islands earthquake in 1946, Valdivia earthquake in 1960, Alaska earthquake in 1964, Chile earthquake in 2010 and Japan earthquake in 2011. The city
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#17328008606489114-502: The Los Angeles area was the headquarters of six of the country's major aircraft manufacturers ( Douglas Aircraft Company , Hughes Aircraft , Lockheed , North American Aviation , Northrop Corporation , and Vultee ). During the war, more aircraft were produced in one year than in all the pre-war years since the Wright brothers flew the first airplane in 1903, combined. Manufacturing in Los Angeles skyrocketed, and as William S. Knudsen , of
9261-548: The Los Angeles region. In 1846, during the wider Mexican-American war , marines from the United States occupied the pueblo. This resulted in the siege of Los Angeles where 150 Mexican militias fought the occupiers which eventually surrendered. Mexican rule ended during following the American Conquest of California , part of the larger Mexican-American War . Americans took control from the Californios after
9408-685: The Los Angeles/Long Beach port complex, Los Angeles suffers from air pollution in the form of smog. The Los Angeles Basin and the San Fernando Valley are susceptible to atmospheric inversion , which holds in the exhausts from road vehicles, airplanes, locomotives, shipping, manufacturing, and other sources. The smog season lasts from approximately May to October. While other large cities rely on rain to clear smog, Los Angeles gets only 15 inches (380 mm) of rain each year: pollution accumulates over many consecutive days. Issues of air quality in Los Angeles and other major cities led to
9555-523: The National Defense Advisory Commission put it, "We won because we smothered the enemy in an avalanche of production, the like of which he had never seen, nor dreamed possible." After the end of World War II Los Angeles grew more rapidly than ever, sprawling into the San Fernando Valley . The expansion of the state owned Interstate Highway System during the 1950s and 1960s helped propel suburban growth and signaled
9702-696: The San Fernando Valley. Other hilly parts of Los Angeles include the Mt. Washington area north of Downtown, eastern parts such as Boyle Heights , the Crenshaw district around the Baldwin Hills , and the San Pedro district. Surrounding the city are much higher mountains. Immediately to the north lie the San Gabriel Mountains , which is a popular recreation area for Angelenos. Its high point
9849-527: The Southern Californian coast, is subject to a late spring/early summer weather phenomenon called " June Gloom ". This involves overcast or foggy skies in the morning that yield to sun by early afternoon. More recently, statewide droughts in California have further strained the city's water security . Downtown Los Angeles averages 14.67 in (373 mm) of precipitation annually, mainly occurring between November and March, generally in
9996-765: The Spanish founded the Pueblo de Los Ángeles . Iyáangẚ has also been translated as "the valley of smoke". Maritime explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo claimed the area of southern California for the Spanish Empire in 1542, while on an official military exploring expedition, as he was moving northward along the Pacific coast from earlier colonizing bases of New Spain in Central and South America. Gaspar de Portolà and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí reached
10143-445: The TV assets to Univision after rejecting a bid from The Walt Disney Company . The USA Network and its assets were later sold off to Vivendi . Diller was still involved with the USA Network until the Vivendi sale was announced in December 2001. Diller retained the assets of the Home Shopping Network and the subsequent Internet assets he acquired later to bolster the HSN Online stable that later became IAC/InterActiveCorp . Diller
10290-455: The Thursday release slot of CollegeHumor. A second series, See Plum Run , was later released as a Dropout exclusive. A cartoon series which is a parody of the supreme leader of North Korea and the propaganda of that country . Kim Jong Un is shown to possess various abilities and powers, which he uses to battle enemies of the state, plotting to harm True Korea . His adversaries are generally depicted as weak and foolish individuals. Typically
10437-419: The United Kingdom include / l ɒ s ˈ æ n dʒ ɪ l iː z , - l ɪ z , - l ɪ s / loss AN -jil-eez, -iz, -iss . Phonetician Jack Windsor Lewis described the most common one, / l ɒ s ˈ æ n dʒ ɪ l iː z / , as a spelling pronunciation based on analogy to Greek words ending in -es , "reflecting a time when the classics were familiar if Spanish
10584-410: The allegations and claimed "It was simply a lucky bet". In December 1992, it was publicly noted how Diller saw potential in online service. In 2001, Diller married fashion designer Diane von Fürstenberg , mother of Prince Alexander von Fürstenberg and Princess Tatiana von Fürstenberg . Diller owns an estimated third of her eponymous fashion company. As of June 2020, Diller's estimated net worth
10731-655: The birthplace of the Internet, as the first ARPANET transmission was sent from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park . In 1973, Tom Bradley was elected as the city's first African American mayor, serving for five terms until retiring in 1993. Other events in the city during the 1970s included the Symbionese Liberation Army 's South Central standoff in 1974 and
10878-632: The boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate , passes through the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The segment of the fault passing through Southern California experiences a major earthquake roughly every 110 to 140 years, and seismologists have warned about the next "big one", as the last major earthquake was the 1857 Fort Tejon earthquake . The Los Angeles basin and metropolitan area are also at risk from blind thrust earthquakes . Major earthquakes that have hit
11025-485: The boundary of a Mediterranean climate ( Köppen : Csb on the coast, Csa otherwise). Daytime temperatures are generally temperate all year round. In winter, they average around 68 °F (20 °C). Autumn months tend to be hot, with major heat waves a common occurrence in September and October, while the spring months tend to be cooler and experience more precipitation. Los Angeles has plenty of sunshine throughout
11172-648: The chairman and chief executive officer of Paramount Pictures Corporation from 1974 until 1984. With Diller at the helm, the studio produced hit television programs such as Laverne & Shirley (1976), Taxi (1978), and Cheers (1982) and films that include Saturday Night Fever (1977), Grease (1978), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and sequel Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), Terms of Endearment (1983), and Beverly Hills Cop (1984). The New York Times reported in 1983 that Diller
11319-537: The chairman and CEO positions which Koplovitz previously held at USA Networks since 1977. During Diller's time as head of the USA Network, the network's flagship WWF programming experienced a dramatic ratings turnaround, with WWF Raw dominating the ratings on cable television. Under Diller's leadership, the USA Network also showed tolerance to the growing WWF angles which were breaking with traditional censorship and were considered controversial, with even his USA Network spokesman David Schwartz describing an incident where
11466-404: The city as the most polluted in the country with short-term particle pollution and year-round particle pollution. In 2008, the city was ranked the second most polluted and again had the highest year-round particulate pollution. The city met its goal of providing 20 percent of the city's power from renewable sources in 2010. The American Lung Association's 2013 survey ranks the metro area as having
11613-537: The city is 342 miles (550 km). Los Angeles is both flat and hilly. The highest point in the city proper is Mount Lukens at 5,074 ft (1,547 m), located in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains at the north extent of the Crescenta Valley . The eastern end of the Santa Monica Mountains stretches from Downtown to the Pacific Ocean and separates the Los Angeles Basin from
11760-560: The city, causing $ 12.5 billion in damage and 72 deaths. The century ended with the Rampart scandal , one of the most extensive documented cases of police misconduct in American history. In 2002, Mayor James Hahn led the campaign against secession, resulting in voters defeating efforts by the San Fernando Valley and Hollywood to secede from the city. In 2022 , Karen Bass became the city's first female mayor , making Los Angeles
11907-497: The city. However, between 1908 and 1915, the Los Angeles City Council created various exceptions to the broad proscriptions that applied to these three residential zones, and as a consequence, some industrial uses emerged within them. There are two differences between the 1908 Residence District Ordinance and later zoning laws in the United States. First, the 1908 laws did not establish a comprehensive zoning map as
12054-598: The continued growth of the city. Because of clauses in the city's charter that prevented the City of Los Angeles from selling or providing water from the aqueduct to any area outside its borders, many adjacent cities and communities felt compelled to join Los Angeles. Los Angeles created the first municipal zoning ordinance in the United States. On September 14, 1908, the Los Angeles City Council promulgated residential and industrial land use zones. The new ordinance established three residential zones of
12201-552: The country if he was elected. During the 2020 Democratic primary , Diller expressed reservations over Elizabeth Warren , but stated he would support her over Trump if she was nominated. In 2024, Diller was among those who called for U.S. President Joe Biden to end his bid for re-election after his poor debate performance and other disconcerting signs on the campaign trail. In 2011, the Diller-von Fürstenberg Family Foundation announced
12348-475: The current slate of shows still reflected the January 2020 reduction "to a skeleton team with far fewer resources and full-time staff to create original content. When it comes to new, weekly shows these days, it's basically all Breaking News improv bits and game shows. There's also an incredibly heavy emphasis on the popular tabletop role-playing game show Dimension 20 ". In May 2023, it was announced that Dorkly
12495-477: The demise of the city's privately owned electrified rail system , once the world's largest. As a consequence of World War II, suburban growth, and population density, many amusement parks were built and operated in this area. An example is Beverly Park , which was located at the corner of Beverly Boulevard and La Cienega before being closed and substituted by the Beverly Center . In the second half of
12642-471: The deranged teacher, Professor Foxtrot. Previously, CH Originals produced The Michael Showalter Showalter , a Charlie Rose -style comedic interview series hosted by Michael Showalter and featuring guests such as Paul Rudd , Andy Samberg , David Cross , Zach Galifianakis , and Michael Cera . They also gained notoriety for Street Fighter : The Later Years , which was nominated for "Best Series" by YouTube's Video Awards. In 2011, they featured Bad Dads,
12789-506: The difference between the average daily low and the average daily high is over 30 °F (17 °C). The average annual temperature of the sea is 63 °F (17 °C), from 58 °F (14 °C) in January to 68 °F (20 °C) in August. Hours of sunshine total more than 3,000 per year, from an average of 7 hours of sunshine per day in December to an average of 12 in July. Due to
12936-448: The employees. A traditionally animated series released via Nintendo Video on the Nintendo 3DS . The series features a bear (voiced by Kevin Corrigan) and a shark (voiced by Owen Parsons) teaming up to eat a man named Steve (voiced by Caldwell Tanner); while they are always successful, Steve manages to return in each episode, and he slowly develops a strange friendship with his pursuers as the series continues. A Nintendo 3DS game based on
13083-484: The end of the year. CollegeHumor produced original comedy videos under the CH Originals (formerly known as CHTV) banner. In addition, the website hosted a large collection of user-submitted viral videos , encompassing home movies, bizarre sports highlights, sketches, and such. These videos were released one month prior to being posted on the CollegeHumor YouTube channel. The CollegeHumor archive of over 1,500 videos
13230-448: The ending of each episode features a scene in which Kim Jong Un's recently deceased father returns from the dead in some way and violently fights with his son. His enemies are mostly shown as democratic leaders like Obama . Kim rides on a unicorn that flies on a flying carpet. A cartoon series featuring anthropomorphic superheroes which won the 2014 Ursa Major award for "Best Anthropomorphic Dramatic Short Work or Series". Described to be
13377-474: The entertainment executive Barry Diller, but then wrote a confidential letter to the board saying that “the fact he is a homosexual should have no weight,” which, at the time, all but guaranteed Mr. Diller would never succeed him. However, New York wrote in 2001 that Diller is "often referred to as bisexual", stating that he has "lived most of his adult life as a more or less openly gay man", but also that his relationship with Diane von Fürstenberg "is said to be
13524-464: The forests into a parking lot. Leon turns into an anthropomorphic lion in a male g-string, Gary turns into a "wolftaur", Callie turns into an anthropomorphic squirrel with large breasts, and Trang turns into an anthropomorphic cow with large udder-shaped breasts. The Furry Force's animal forms appear to be a combination of both gross and sexy to most people in a given episode, which often causes Hip Hop and Krunk to kill themselves (yet turn up alive in
13671-407: The form of moderate rain showers, but sometimes as heavy rainfall during winter storms. Rainfall is usually higher in the hills and coastal slopes of the mountains because of orographic uplift. Summer days are usually rainless. Rarely, an incursion of moist air from the south or east can bring brief thunderstorms in late summer, especially to the mountains. The coast gets slightly less rainfall, while
13818-467: The founder and CEO of private equity firm ZMC , the chairman and CEO of video game company Take-Two Interactive ), Don Simpson (who was President of Production at Paramount under Diller and Eisner before forming an independent production company initially based on the Paramount lot with Jerry Bruckheimer ), Dara Khosrowshahi (CEO of Uber ), Dawn Steel (a VP of Production for Paramount when Diller
13965-436: The friend zone or having "monsters" for roommates. The videos are narrated in second-person, using Ruben as an analogy for the viewer. A series that documents the escalating pranks that are played between former CH staffers Streeter Seidell and Amir Blumenfeld . Prank War gained national notoriety after Amir staged a fake public marriage proposal from Streeter to his girlfriend Sharon at a New York Yankees game. The incident
14112-482: The historic district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street , the oldest part of Los Angeles. New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, and the pueblo now existed within the new Mexican Republic . During Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico made Los Angeles the regional capital of Alta California . By this time, the new republic introduced more secularization acts within
14259-501: The industry kept the city insulated from much of the economic loss suffered by the rest of the country during the Great Depression . By 1930, the population surpassed one million. In 1932, the city hosted the Summer Olympics . During World War II Los Angeles was a major center of wartime manufacturing, such as shipbuilding and aircraft. Calship built hundreds of Liberty Ships and Victory Ships on Terminal Island, and
14406-521: The inland and mountain areas get considerably more. Years of average rainfall are rare. The usual pattern is a year-to-year variability, with a short string of dry years of 5–10 in (130–250 mm) rainfall, followed by one or two wet years with more than 20 in (510 mm). Wet years are usually associated with warm water El Niño conditions in the Pacific, dry years with cooler water La Niña episodes. A series of rainy days can bring floods to
14553-435: The job loss of nearly all employees and staff. Reich said in 2024 that he had paid nothing for CH Media, as IAC's aggressive approach towards quickly selling the company had resulted in it receiving very few offers. The restructured company was reduced to seven people; Brennan Lee Mulligan , Dungeon Master of the series Dimension 20 , was the only creative left on the payroll. Bloomberg News reported that, "IAC will keep
14700-575: The largest U.S. city to have ever had a woman as mayor. Los Angeles will host the 2028 Summer Olympics and Paralympic Games , making Los Angeles the third city to host the Olympics three times. The city of Los Angeles covers a total area of 502.7 square miles (1,302 km ), comprising 468.7 square miles (1,214 km ) of land and 34.0 square miles (88 km ) of water. The city extends for 44 miles (71 km) from north to south and for 29 miles (47 km) from east to west. The perimeter of
14847-516: The likeness of retro-style role-playing games . Sketches shot from the point-of-view of the main character, often voiced by Vincent Peone, CollegeHumor's cinematographer. These sketches are known for realism and relatability (in a humorous manner) and are among CH's most popular videos. In most POV videos the phrase "How is that even possible?" is often used as a running gag. A set of videos starring Josh Ruben , each of which feature six outrageous scenarios in certain situations, such as getting out of
14994-514: The longer name. The local English pronunciation of the name of the city has varied over time. A 1953 article in the journal of the American Name Society asserts that the pronunciation / l ɔː s ˈ æ n dʒ əl ə s / lawss AN -jəl-əs was established following the 1850 incorporation of the city and that since the 1880s the pronunciation / l oʊ s ˈ æ ŋ ɡ əl ə s / lohss ANG -gəl-əs emerged from
15141-490: The lowest is 28 °F (−2 °C), on January 4, 1949. Within the City of Los Angeles, the highest temperature ever officially recorded is 121 °F (49 °C), on September 6, 2020, at the weather station at Pierce College in the San Fernando Valley neighborhood of Woodland Hills . During autumn and winter, Santa Ana winds sometimes bring much warmer and drier conditions to Los Angeles, and raise wildfire risk. Owing to geography, heavy reliance on automobiles, and
15288-505: The lowlands and mudslides to the hills, especially after wildfires have denuded the slopes. Both freezing temperatures and snowfall are extremely rare in the city basin and along the coast, with the last occurrence of a 32 °F (0 °C) reading at the downtown station being January 29, 1979; freezing temperatures occur nearly every year in valley locations while the mountains within city limits typically receive snowfall every winter. The greatest snowfall recorded in downtown Los Angeles
15435-518: The massive Chelsea Piers sporting complex just across the West Side Highway. The extra floors guarantee a panoramic Hudson River view from Diller's sixth-floor office. Diller has been on the board of Coca-Cola since 2002. In 2003, on the PBS program NOW with Bill Moyers , Diller voiced a strong warning against media consolidation . In the interview he referred to media ownership by
15582-546: The mountainous terrain of the surrounding region, the Los Angeles area contains a large number of distinct microclimates , causing extreme variations in temperature in close physical proximity to each other. For example, the average July maximum temperature at the Santa Monica Pier is 70 °F (21 °C) whereas it is 95 °F (35 °C) in Canoga Park, 15 miles (24 km) away. The city, like much of
15729-545: The nation's worst smog, and fourth in both short-term and year-round pollution amounts. Barry Diller Diller was born on February 2, 1942, in San Francisco , California , to Michael Diller and his wife Reva (née Addison). However, he was raised in Beverly Hills . In May 2012, New York magazine noted that Diller was "a second generation Austrian Jewish kid". Diller began his career through
15876-483: The network was to have the flagship, WAMI, produce sports and news programming while testing locally produced general-interest programming for the other stations in the group. Due to the high costs of producing and acquiring talent for shows outside the typical areas of New York City and Los Angeles , plus the significantly low ratings such shows received in Miami Beach , the remaining shows were moved to Los Angeles to regain traction, but never did. Diller eventually sold
16023-695: The next episode). Actor Brian Huskey personifies the search engine Google , who deals with a variety of people who come into his office and tells him what to search. He reacts to the search depending on the person searching and the actual question. Cameos of other website personas include Siri ( Alison Becker ), WebMD (Roger Anthony), the NSA ( Brian Sacca ), and Bing ( Randall Park ). Other notable guest stars include Colton Dunn , George Basil , D'Arcy Carden , Milana Vayntrub , Jon Gabrus , Alison Rich , Nathan Barnatt , with Mark McGrath and Charles Shaughnessy as themselves. Jewel guest starred as herself in
16170-435: The offer and continued to grow the company themselves. Abramson said in an interview that they wanted to start "an advertisement-based business because at the time the advertising market was pretty hot and we'd seen other people develop Web sites that were popular making a lot of money." Their aim was to create a humor site that would appeal to the advertiser-friendly college-aged demographic. In 2001, they added Jake Lodwick ,
16317-514: The passage of early national environmental legislation, including the Clean Air Act . When the act was passed, California was unable to create a State Implementation Plan that would enable it to meet the new air quality standards, largely because of the level of pollution in Los Angeles generated by older vehicles. More recently, the state of California has led the nation in working to limit pollution by mandating low-emission vehicles . Smog
16464-486: The present site of Los Angeles on August 2, 1769. In 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel , the first mission in the area. On September 4, 1781, a group of 44 settlers known as " Los Pobladores " founded the pueblo (town) they called El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles , 'The Town of Our Lady the Queen of
16611-470: The prosthetic, Ruben spontaneously creates a character which Pat then interviews. The series was rebooted in 2023 as the Dropout original series Very Important People . A series that parodies of sci-fi movies and shows, particularly Star Wars . Shorts mostly focus on a pair of stormtrooper-like soldiers, Larry (portrayed by Josh Ruben) and Rich (portrayed by Sam Reich), and the humorous problems that arise from working for an evil interstellar empire aboard
16758-536: The rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and became part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4, 1850, five months before California achieved statehood . The discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The city was further expanded with the completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, which delivers water from Eastern California . Los Angeles has
16905-563: The rest of the surrounding landscape. Most construction is done in separate units, rather than wall-to-wall . However, Downtown Los Angeles itself has many buildings over 30 stories, with fourteen over 50 stories, and two over 70 stories, the tallest of which is the Wilshire Grand Center . Los Angeles has a two-season semi-arid climate ( Köppen : BSh ) with dry summers and very mild winters, but it receives more annual precipitation than most semi-arid climates, narrowly missing
17052-571: The same time Diller went to work for him in 1964, taking him on to New York City . Diller was soon placed in charge of negotiating broadcast rights to feature films . He was promoted to Vice President of Development in 1965. In this position, Diller created the ABC Movie of the Week , pioneering the concept of the made-for-television movie through a regular series of 90-minute films produced exclusively for television . Diller served for 10 years as
17199-787: The series was digitally released via the Nintendo eShop on May 2, 2013, to negative critical reviews. A series that parodies the Christopher Nolan Batman films . The shorts involve Batman (played by Pete Holmes ), who—unlike in the movies and comics—is portrayed as oblivious and incompetent, much to the annoyance of friends and foes alike. Matt McCarthy plays a number of roles, including Commissioner Jim Gordon , Detective Flass , Two-Face , and The Riddler . Other guest stars include Kumail Nanjiani and Patton Oswalt . A series parodying Here Comes Honey Boo Boo , starring Josh Ruben and Elaine Carroll and written by Carroll and Sam Reich . It replaced Very Mary-Kate in
17346-490: The shopping channel into an on-line entertainment and merchandising service in which the subscriber and the cable company can freely interact". He then launched a bid to purchase Paramount Communications , but lost it to Viacom . Diller resigned from QVC in 1995. In August 1995, Diller acquired the assets of Silver King Broadcasting . His ownership of Silver Broadcasting would be finalized in March 1996. In August 1996, it
17493-554: The sister website Dorkly, centering on fandoms and video game parodies in the vein of CollegeHumor before the site ceased publication of new articles in January 2019. Like CollegeHumor, despite the website shutting down, Dorkly continued to release new original content on YouTube. Dorkly is now owned by CH Media's longtime partner for animated content, Lowbrow Studios. Drawfee is also now an independent creator-owned company. IAC launched CH Media's streaming service Dropout in 2018. The streaming service includes original series along with
17640-780: The site have included notable comedians Steve Hofstetter , Christian Finnegan , Brooks Wheelan , Paul Scheer , Amir Blumenfeld , and Judah Friedlander . Andrew Bridgman curated the articles and edited the website's front page. CH Originals, established by Sam Reich in 2006, was CollegeHumor's original comedy video section, featuring sketches and short films written and produced by the CollegeHumor staff, which included Patrick Cassels, Emily Axford , Adam Conover , Mike Trapp, and Brian Murphy (among others). CH Originals videos included sketch comedy, film and television parodies, animation, and music videos. In addition to stand-alone viral comedy shorts or "one-offs", which are usually shot on location and feature hired actors, CH Originals also produced
17787-535: The staff for Big Breakfast, which focused on production licensed to third parties, was reduced to six people while the upcoming subscription service had a staff of over 60 people. On September 26, 2018, CH Media launched Dropout , a subscription service that includes uncensored and original video series, animations, and other forms of media including comics and fictionalized chat conversations. In October 2018, IAC sold Electus, which included Big Breakfast, to Propagate Content. On January 23, 2019, CH Media announced on
17934-838: The streaming service company Aereo . Aereo went out of business in June 2014 after the United States Supreme Court ruled that its method of streaming media content violated copyright laws. Since 2013, Diller has co-produced more than ten Broadway shows in partnership with Scott Rudin , including To Kill A Mockingbird , West Side Story , Carousel , The Humans , Three Tall Women , Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus , and A Doll's House, Part 2 . IAC Films has also backed numerous films produced by Rudin, including Uncut Gems , Lady Bird , Eighth Grade , The Meyerowitz Stories , and Ex Machina . In early 2020, Diller took over Expedia's day-to-day operations alongside
18081-691: The vice chairman Peter Kern, after the company's CFO stepped down in December 2019. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Expedia's shares plummeted along with those of other travel companies. Diller announced that Expedia is generating no revenue and would have to cut costs. And he has been member of the advisory board of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation . Diller is responsible for what the media dubs "The Killer Dillers" – people whom Diller mentored and who later became major media and internet executives in their own right. Examples include Michael Eisner (who
18228-717: The website shut down. The current CEO of CH Media is Sam Reich , a veteran performer and former Chief Creative Officer of CollegeHumor, who purchased the company in 2020 from IAC. In September 2023, the company formally dropped the CollegeHumor branding in favor of its Dropout branding, which originated with its streaming service. After it was acquired by IAC, CollegeHumor Media became CH Media which consisted of three main brands: CollegeHumor.com, Drawfee.com and Dorkly.com. The former CollegeHumor site featured daily original humor videos and articles created by its in-house writing and production team, in addition to user-submitted videos, pictures, articles and links. Many of its staff also operated
18375-635: The worst rush hour periods in the world, according to an annual traffic index by navigation system maker, TomTom . LA drivers spend an additional 92 hours in traffic each year. During the peak rush hour, there is 80% congestion, according to the index. Los Angeles is often characterized by the presence of low-rise buildings, in contrast to New York City. Outside of a few centers such as Downtown , Warner Center , Century City , Koreatown , Miracle Mile , Hollywood, and Westwood , skyscrapers and high-rise buildings are not common in Los Angeles. The few skyscrapers built outside of those areas often stand out above
18522-475: The wrestler Jacqueline exposed one of her breasts as "not worse than anything you see on broadcast television at that time of night, such as NYPD Blue". Shaun Assel and Mike Mooneyham's book Sex, Lies, and Headlocks: The Real Story of Vince McMahon and World Wrestling Entertainment stated that "the terrain shifted completely under everyone's feet" following Diller's purchase of the USA Network and also resulted in him and Universal TV executive Bonnie Hammer , who
18669-582: The year, with an average of only 35 days with measurable precipitation annually. Temperatures in the coastal basin exceed 90 °F (32 °C) on a dozen or so days in the year, from one day a month in April, May, June and November to three days a month in July, August, October and to five days in September. Temperatures in the San Fernando and San Gabriel Valleys are considerably warmer. Temperatures are subject to substantial daily swings; in inland areas
18816-469: Was $ 4.2 billion. He owns Eos , one of the largest private sailing yachts in the world. The media has speculated on Diller's sexual orientation. As reported in James B. Stewart 's 2005 book DisneyWar , Michael Eisner sent a confidential letter to The Walt Disney Company board of directors in 1997 during its search for a successor to Eisner. Pressed by the board to name a successor, Mr. Eisner cited
18963-446: Was 2.0 inches (5 cm) on January 15, 1932. While the most recent snowfall occurred in February 2019, the first snowfall since 1962, with snow falling in areas adjacent to Los Angeles as recently as January 2021. Brief, localized instances of hail can occur on rare occasions, but are more common than snowfall. At the official downtown station, the highest recorded temperature is 113 °F (45 °C) on September 27, 2010, while
19110-613: Was Chair & CEO; she went on to become President of Columbia Pictures , one of the first women to run a major movie studio) and Garth Ancier (former president of BBC America ). Diller worked with Stephen Chao at Fox Television Network , whom he later hired as President of Programming and Marketing at USA Network. Julius Genachowski , chairman of the Federal Communications Commission , served as Diller's General Counsel during their tenure at USA Broadcasting, and again as Chief of Business Operations and
19257-418: Was President of Paramount Pictures while Diller was its Chairman & CEO, and went on to become Chairman & CEO of The Walt Disney Company ), Jeffrey Katzenberg (a head of production of Paramount under Diller who became a co-founder of DreamWorks SKG and former head of DreamWorks Animation and Walt Disney Studios ), Strauss Zelnick (President at Fox while Diller was its Chairman and CEO who became
19404-625: Was agreed that Silver King Broadcasting, now under Diller's leadership, would buy back the Home Shopping Network (HSN), a former Silver King asset which split from the company in 1992, and that the two companies would merge. In December 1996, Silver King Broadcasting acquired an 80% stake in HSN for $ 1.3 billion worth of stock, and afterwards changed its own name to HSN, Inc. Through his purchase of HSN, Diller would also eventually acquire Universal's cable and domestic-television assets from
19551-600: Was also "one of the three key executives" for then Paramount parent company Gulf+Western , with A. D. Murphy, director of the motion picture producing program at the University of Southern California, even describing him as "probably the most successful executive in the film business today". In the same article, Diller stated, among other things, that he wanted to use Paramount to make movies based on games distributed by then Gulf+Western-owned video game manufacturing company Sega . As head of Paramount, Diller also put together
19698-425: Was also spun off into its own channel. CollegeHumor was listed on New Media Rockstars Top 100 Channels, ranked at number 76, in December 2014. In the same month, Fortune reported that IAC was considering selling CollegeHumor with the aim of finding a buyer who would "pay around $ 100 million" for the company; this was part of a trend of comedy websites and other video outlets seeking to be sold after Disney acquired
19845-465: Was at Wake Forest . They began by posting photos of themselves as well as jokes, links and other material they collected from emails circulating among college students. Within three months the site was receiving over 600,000 visitors per month and $ 8,000 in monthly revenue. In under a year, they received a buyout offer from an Internet company called eFront for $ 9 million, most of which would have been financed with stock shares. Abramson and Van Veen refused
19992-435: Was discovered in the city and surrounding area in 1892, and by 1923, the discoveries had helped California become the country's largest oil producer, accounting for about one-quarter of the world's petroleum output. By 1900, the population had grown to more than 102,000, putting pressure on the city's water supply . The completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, under the supervision of William Mulholland , ensured
20139-512: Was far more central and influential to CollegeHumor's business model than" Facebook – CollegeHumor ran into trouble creating videos which YouTube would allow monetization of as flagged videos would be banned from advertisement placement. CollegeHumor's pictures section featured user-submitted photographs. Like the site's videos, CollegeHumor's pictures were of a humorous or bizarre nature. CollegeHumor also occasionally held photo-based contests for its users. This feature has since fallen out of use and
20286-481: Was hired as Director of Original Content. He was then promoted to President of Original Content along with the premiere of The CollegeHumor Show on MTV in 2009. Kate Knibbs, for Wired , stated that after the acquisition "IAC wanted CollegeHumor to get big, and then bigger. [...] With corporate money and Reich's appetite for experimentation, CollegeHumor became a full-blown incubator for new talent". Max Willens of trade magazine Digiday commented that "CollegeHumor
20433-614: Was known as "The Yankee Prankee" and was later featured on VH1 's "40 Greatest Pranks Part 2". Seidell and Blumenfeld have appeared twice on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to discuss their pranks. They have both since acknowledged the pranks to be pre-planned in advance and fake. An annual event started in 2007 in which the CH staff shoots and posts 12 videos in one night between 9 pm and 9 am. While doing so, they communicate with fans via Twitter and UStream. A series involving Kevin Corrigan and Brian K. Murphy, who each bet each other to do
20580-598: Was nominated for the Webby Award in the humor category in 2007, and many of their individual videos have been nominated for and/or won Webby Awards: winners include "Pixar Intro Parody" for Best Animation, "Web Site Story" for Best Individual Short or Episode, and Jake and Amir for Best Series. Their shorts "Awkward Rap" and "Hand Vagina" were nominated for the Webby Award for Best Comedy: Individual Short or Episode in 2008 and 2009. In 2010, IAC launched Dorkly as
20727-515: Was not". The settlement of Indigenous Californians in the modern Los Angeles Basin and the San Fernando Valley was dominated by the Tongva (now also known as the Gabrieleño since the era of Spanish colonization). The historic center of Tongva power in the region was the settlement of Yaanga ( Tongva : Iyáangẚ ), meaning "place of the poison oak ", which would one day be the site where
20874-511: Was only intermittently profitable throughout its 20-year history" but it "was consistently innovative and forward-thinking. It started to sell merchandise in 2004; in 2006 it began developing original video content, and by 2009 it was licensing original long-form programming to streaming platforms and television networks. CollegeHumor embraced revenue diversification almost a decade before most media companies were even considering it". CollegeHumor became known for its original comedy content. The site
21021-600: Was originally inhabited by the indigenous Tongva people and later claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542. The city was founded on September 4, 1781, under Spanish governor Felipe de Neve , on the village of Yaanga . It became a part of the First Mexican Empire in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence . In 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War , Los Angeles and
21168-520: Was regarded as the most sympathetic USA Network executive when came to relations with the WWF, thwarting an attempt which Koplovitz and other USA Network executives, including network entertainment head Rod Perth, made to remove the WWF from the USA Network in May 1998. Hammer, who has openly credited Diller as her mentor, would in later years serve on the board of directors at IAC/InterActiveCorp. The purpose of
21315-440: Was the Chairman of Expedia and the Chairman of IAC/InterActiveCorp , an interactive commerce conglomerate and the parent of companies including HomeAdvisor , Match Group (until 2020), Citysearch , and Connected Ventures , home of Vimeo and CollegeHumor (until 2020). IAC/InterActiveCorp is also the parent company of Tinder , UrbanSpoon , The Daily Beast , and more. In 2005, IAC/InterActiveCorp acquired Ask.com , marking
21462-560: Was to be spun off into an independent company, owned by Lowbrow. The announcement was made on the various Dorkly social media accounts, including Instagram and Twitter . On September 26, 2023, it was announced that the branding of CollegeHumor would be retired, in favor of Dropout. This included rebranding the CollegeHumor YouTube channel to the Dropout YouTube channel. Reich stated that, "More people who are active fans think of us as Dropout than CollegeHumor now, and this message
21609-592: Was to be spun off into an independent company, owned by creators who had previously lost their CH Media jobs. In December 2020, Reich commented that: We saw this opportunity to sort of right size it. 'Okay, if the expensive content isn't moving the needle, maybe that opens up a window for us to do a less expensive version of this.' And it's that pitch that we made around town to try to sell CollegeHumor. And it's only when no one took us up on that offer that I went 'you know what, I think I believe enough in this to try to do it myself.' In July 2022, PC Magazine commented that
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