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Ted For Mac TED.com features interactive transcripts for most videos in our library. To access a transcript, click the Transcript button underneath the video player. If the talk has been translated into a certain language, you'll be able to view the transcript in that language by clicking the drop-down menu and selecting it. The season finale of Ted Lasso is now available to watch on Apple TV+. The show stars Jason Sudeikis playing a character originally conceived back in 2013 as part of an advertising campaign for. The official TED app presents more than 1600 talks from some of the world's most fascinating people: education radicals, tech geniuses, medical mavericks, business gurus, and music legends. New talks are posted every day from TED events around the world. 1. Ted Macarthur 2. Ted Mack Performers Archives 3. Ted Download For Mac 4. Red For Mac 5. Ted Mack Videos TED stands for Torrent Episode Downloader, a multiplatform application developed in Java to help you find the torrent files for all your fave TV shows. (Note that you'll obviously have to use a BitTorrent client to download the episodes.) CSI in its many different versions, Beti, Eureka, Bones, The Closer, Dexter, House, Heroes, Kyle XY, Prison Break, Grey's Anatomy, or The Simpsons are just a few examples of the shows you can download with TED. The episodes are sorted by season and you can check the availability of an episode with the progress bar right next to its name. We recommend you use Transmission or Vuze as BitTorrent clients for Mac. Notes Requires Java RunTime Environment 1.5 (Redirected from Ted Mack (radio-TV host)) Mack in 1949. February 12, 1904 Born Greeley, Colorado July 12, 1976 (aged 72) Died Nationality American Broadcaster Occupation Bandleader Musician Known for Being host of Original Amateur Hour Ted Macarthur William Edward Maguiness (February 12, 1904 – July 12, 1976), known as Ted Mack, was the host of Ted Mack and The Original Amateur Hour on radio and television. Early years[edit] The son of a railroad brakeman, Mack was born in Greeley, Colorado.[1] His mother was a teacher and a pianist. Mack graduated from Sacred Heart High School in Denver, Colorado, in 1922.[2] He was class president there for three years in addition to playing football and basketball and playing in the school's orchestra. He went on to graduate from the University of Denver, where he majored in Law and Commerce, and funded his college education by playing saxophone in an orchestra.[3] Big bands[edit] Mack's career in show business began in 1926 when he joined Ben Pollack's orchestra.[4] In the late 1920s, clarinetist and saxophonist[2] Mack formed a dance band, under his real name. A nightclub owner didn't like how 'Edward Maguiness' looked on his marquee, so he changed the bandleader's name to the shorter and snappier 'Ted Mack.' The name stuck.[citation needed] At one point, Mack was known as 'the performer with the longest run of any master of ceremonies at the Paramount theater, New York,' having been in that role for five months.[5] Mack and his orchestra spent the summer of 1933 entertaining at the Chicago World's Fair, after which they had an engagement for two months in New York City.[6] A 1934 newspaper review said, 'Ted Mack and his bandmen furnish comedy fare and entertaining music in equal measure, and the group of personable young women who assist display talent as well as good looks.'[7] Ted Mack Performers Archives Film[edit] Mack was musical supervisor for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where he was orchestra director for The Great Ziegfeld and Beat the Band.[3] Original Amateur Hour[edit] The Original Amateur Hour began on radio in 1934 as Major Bowes' Amateur Hour, and ran until the 1946 death of its creator, Major Bowes. Mack, a talent scout who had directed the show under Bowes, revived it in 1948 for ABC Radio and the DuMont Television Network. The show lasted on radio until 1952 and until 1970 on television, where it ran on all four major networks, ending as a Sunday afternoon CBS staple. A success in the early days of television, the program set the stage for numerous programs seeking talented stars, from The Gong Show to Star Search to American Idol to America's Got Talent. Auditions for the show were generally held in New York'sRadio City Music Hall. Those who passed the initial screening were invited to compete on the program, featuring amateurs whose performance were judged by viewers, voting via letters and phone calls. Contestants who won three times earned cash prizes, scholarships, or participation in a traveling stage show associated with the program. Winners who went on to show business careers included singers Gladys Knight, Ann-Margret, Pat Boone, Raul Julia, Teresa Brewer, Irene Cara, The Rock and Roll Trio and Los Concertinos from Puerto Rico. Ted Mack and producer Lewis Graham (the former Lou Goldberg) programmed something for everybody. A single broadcast (Easter Sunday, 1959) featured an opera singer, a trumpet sextet, a dulcimer player, a kiddie dance troupe, a young vocalist, a dancer, a rhythm-and-blues combo, a barbershop quartet, and mother-and-son Irish step dancers. Mack's pleasant manner and unflappable calm put many nervous contestants at ease, and he used the same down-to-earth tone for commercials and public-service announcements. Other television[edit] In 1951, Mack was host of Ted Mack's Family Hour on ABC. A TV reference book summarized the show as 'A Sunday evening program of music, songs and comedy.'[8] In 1955, he had a daily afternoon program, Ted Mack's Matinee on NBC.[8] A review of the April 20 episode in the April 30, 1955, issue of Billboard said, 'Unpretentious and easy-going, NBC's new Ted Mack's Matinee looks as if it's going to provide housewives with a smooth, relaxing stanza to break up her [sic] daytime chores.'[9] Later years[edit] After the Original Amateur Hour ended its broadcast run, Mack became a lecturer at colleges and served as host of local amateur shows.[10] Personal[edit] In 1926, Mack married Ellen Marguerite Overholt.[2] They had no children but fostered children from Catholic charities at their home. Death[edit] Mack died of heart failure[10] July 12, 1976, at Phelps Memorial Hospital[4] in North Tarrytown, New York at the age of 72. He was survived by his wife.[2] References[edit] Ted Download For Mac 1. ^Richards, Bill (April 23, 1976). 'Ted Mack is back, seeking talent on college circuit'. The Daily Reporter. Ohio, Dover. The Washington Post. p. 29. Retrieved June 1, 2016 – via Newspapers.com. 2. ^ abcdQuick, Amanda (October 6, 1976). 'Hard work made Ted Mack a star'. Greeley Daily Tribune. Colorado, Greeley. p. 7. Retrieved June 1, 2016 – via Newspapers.com. 3. ^ ab'Ted Mack Will Emcee Oregon State Fair Revue'. Daily Capital Journal. Oregon, Salem. August 14, 1954. p. 8. Retrieved June 1, 2016 – via Newspapers.com. 4. ^ ab'Talent scout Ted Mack, 72, dies'. The Times Herald Recorder. New York, Middletown. United Press International. July 14, 1976. p. 16. Retrieved June 1, 2016 – via Newspapers.com. 5. ^'Ted Mack and His Merry-Makers to Be Show Feature'. Las Vegas Daily Optic. New Mexico, East Las Vegas. April 30, 1934. p. 3. Retrieved May 31, 2016 – via Newspapers.com. 6. ^'Mack and World's Fair Revue Open At Theatre Here'. The Post-Register. Idaho, Idaho Falls. February 7, 1934. p. 8. Retrieved May 31, 2016 – via Newspapers.com. 7. ^'Mack and Party Entertain Orpheum Fans'. The Salt Lake Tribune. Utah, Salt Lake City. February 25, 1934. p. 57. Retrieved May 31, 2016 – via Newspapers.com. 8. ^ abTerrace, Vincent (2011). Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010. McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN978-0-7864-6477-7. P. 1057. 9. ^Singer, Jack (April 30, 1955). 'Ted Mack Plays To Wives on NBC'(PDF). Billboard. p. 4. Retrieved 27 June 2016. 10. ^ ab'Original Amateur Hour host Ted Mack, 72, dies'. Wisconsin State Journal. Wisconsin, Madison. Associated Press. July 14, 1976. p. 6. Retrieved June 1, 2016 – via Newspapers.com. Red For Mac External links[edit] Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ted Mack. Ted Mack Videos Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Mack_(radio_and_television_host)&oldid=943728558'.
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