Word: aigner
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...issued a harsh warning that the same revenue-reduction fate could befall other sports-rights agencies. In Formula One, the fans seem to have sped away: viewing numbers for the motor sport have dropped about 5% since 1999. And both Greg Dyke, head of Britain's bbc, and Gerhard Aigner of uefa, which runs pan-European football competitions like the Champions' League, wondered whether the audience appetite for televised football had peaked...
Finished video in hand, Aigner-Clark set out to find a store that would sell it, which is where her success story really begins. She spent two full days at a toy trade show looking for someone from the Right Start, a retail and catalog company that sells developmentally appropriate toys and products for infants and toddlers. "I literally hunted down the sales representatives," she says. It took several follow-up phone calls and letters, but eventually the Right Start agreed to sell the video. When it hit the shelves in 1997, it quickly became one of the company...
That's what Julie Aigner-Clark of Littleton, Colo., did after she developed Baby Einstein, her first educational video for infants. A former schoolteacher, Aigner-Clark, 33, was still pregnant with her first daughter, Aspen, when she came across research showing that children learn foreign languages more easily when they are exposed to a variety of language sounds during infancy...
...about a year later when Aigner-Clark, busy raising her baby, and her husband Bill borrowed video equipment and began filming Baby Einstein in their basement. "It took forever," she recalls. "It was all done at night, after my husband came home from work and Aspen went to bed." The award-winning video features images and toys favored by her 1 1/2-year-old daughter, with an audio backdrop of songs and nursery rhymes spoken by mothers in seven different languages. Aigner-Clark hired the women from a nearby language school and instructed them to speak in "motherese," the universal, high-pitched...
...anymore. Baby Einstein's new sibling videos include Baby Mozart, Baby Bach and, the latest release, Baby Shakespeare. Each capitalizes on Aigner-Clark's love of the humanities and her customers' desire to raise brighter babies. The videos are sold at a variety of stores. Sales reached $4.5 million last year...