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47-512: Global Impact! originated in TNA in 2005. Segments displayed the worldwide "Impact!" of TNA, with an unseen Jeremy Borash providing a voice-over. These segments included TNA performers appearing in promotions and tours of different countries, and various happenings in TNA. On April 24, 2006, TNA announced that it would be converting Global Impact! into a weekly webcast show as of May 3, 2006 as part of an agreement between TNA and YouTube . Jeremy Borash

94-590: A Hardcore match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship . Global Impact 3 debuted on pay-per-view on February 24, 2011, and featured matches involving TNA wrestlers from the January 4, 2011, New Japan Pro-Wrestling show Wrestle Kingdom V in Tokyo Dome . The matches included saw Beer Money, Inc. ( James Storm and Robert Roode ) unsuccessfully challenging Bad Intentions (Giant Bernard and Karl Anderson) for

141-428: A 14-team block with 3 wins and 10 losses, earning 6 points. They would team once more in what would be Nakanishi's last World Tag League, finishing in last place in a 16-team block with 2 wins and 13 losses, earning 4 points. Nakanishi would say farewell to the Tokyo Dome on January 4, 2020, after losing a pre-show tag team match with longtime partner Yuji Nagata against Tencozy, being pinned by Satoshi Kojima following

188-430: A 21-minute Victoria's Secret fashion show featuring supermodel Tyra Banks aired exclusively on Broadcast.com . The webcast was promoted by a 30-second television spot during Super Bowl XXXIII and drew an estimated 1.5 million viewers. Broadcast.com servers were reportedly overwhelmed by the spike in traffic, locking out many potential viewers. Virtually all major broadcasters now have a webcast of their output, from

235-531: A bronze medal. In his biggest tournament, Nakanishi participated in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona , Spain , where he was placed eleventh. Nakanishi debuted for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) in October 1992, already taking part on NJPW's Super Grade Tag League , teaming up with Tatsumi Fujinami . The team lost all but one match, this one where they beat the combination of Jim Neidhart and Z-Man , during

282-537: A concert by Metallica on June 10, 1996, live from Slim's in San Francisco. In 1995, Benford E. Standley produced one of the first audio/video webcasts in history. On October 31, 1996, UK rock band Caduseus broadcast their one-hour concert from 11   pm to 12   midnight (UT) at Celtica in Machynlleth, Wales, UK – the first live streamed audio and simultaneous live streamed video multicast – around

329-527: A feature of the fledgling World Wide Web . Later in 1996 an American college student and conceptual artist , Jenny Ringley , set up a web camera similar to the Trojan Room Coffee Pot's webcam in her dorm room. That webcam photographed her every few minutes while it broadcast those images live over the Internet upon a site called JenniCam . Ringley wanted to portray all aspects of her lifestyle and

376-440: A funeral is also a service provided by some funeral homes. Although it has been around since at least 2005, cheaper broadband access, the financial strain of travel, and deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan have all led to increased use of the technology. Manabu Nakanishi Manabu Nakanishi ( 中西 学 , Nakanishi Manabu , born January 22, 1967) is a Japanese retired professional wrestler and former amateur wrestler, who

423-465: A record of two wins and four losses, finishing second to last in their group. On January 4, 2013, at Wrestle Kingdom 7 in Tokyo Dome , Nakanishi teamed with Strong Man, Akebono and MVP in an eight-man tag team match, where they defeated Chaos ( Bob Sapp , Takashi Iizuka, Toru Yano and Yujiro Takahashi ). On April 7 at Invasion Attack , Nakanishi debuted his new finisher, the Uekara Don! , to gain

470-617: A single content source to many simultaneous listeners/viewers. A webcast may either be distributed live or on demand. Essentially, webcasting is " broadcasting " over the Internet. The largest "webcasters" include existing radio and TV stations, who " simulcast " their output through online TV or online radio streaming, as well as a multitude of Internet-only "stations". Webcasting usually consists of providing non-interactive linear streams or events. Rights and licensing bodies offer specific "webcasting licenses" to those wishing to carry out Internet broadcasting using copyrighted material. Webcasting

517-410: A spectator, sitting alongside NJPW and NWA President Seiji Sakaguchi at ringside. Three years later he returned to WCW to wrestle, under the name Kurasawa as a member of The Stud Stable led by Colonel Robert Parker . He frequently teamed with Meng , with whom he feuded against Sting and Road Warrior Hawk . He broke the arm of Hawk using a seated armbar after their tag team match at Clash of

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564-543: A spinal injury in 2011, but he continued to wrestle for a further nine years, before retiring on February 22, 2020. In 1992, Nakanishi won bronze in freestyle wrestling at the Asian Championships . Later that year, he competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona , Spain , and placed eleventh. Manabu Nakanishi began his amateur wrestling career in 1986, competing freestyle in the 220 lbs. division. In July 1986, Nakanishi competed in his very first tournament,

611-655: A victory for his team consisting of him, Akebono, Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Super Strong Machine , defeating the Chaos faction of Bob Sapp, Takashi Iizuka, Tomohiro Ishii and Yoshi-Hashi . On May 3 at Wrestling Dontaku 2013 , Nakanishi and Strong Man received a shot at the IWGP Tag Team Championship in a four-way match with the defending champions, K.E.S. ( Lance Archer and Davey Boy Smith Jr. ), as well as Chaos (Takashi Iizuka and Toru Yano) and Tencozy (Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Satoshi Kojima). Kojima pinned Strong Man to win

658-415: A way of providing higher bandwidth Internet access to home computer users as well as enabling television-based Internet access, driving the development of smart television products. The earliest graphically oriented web broadcasts were not streaming video, but were in fact still frames which were photographed with a web camera every few minutes while they were being broadcast live over the Internet. One of

705-864: Is used extensively in the commercial sector for investor relations presentations (such as annual general meetings), in e-learning (to transmit seminars ), and for related communications activities. However, webcasting does not bear much, if any, relationship to web conferencing , which is designed for many-to-many interaction. The ability to webcast using cheap/accessible technology has allowed independent media to flourish. There are many notable independent shows that broadcast regularly online. Often produced by average citizens in their homes they cover many interests and topics. Webcasts relating to computers, technology , and news are particularly popular and many new shows are added regularly. Webcasting differs from podcasting in that webcasting refers to live streaming while podcasting simply refers to media files placed on

752-676: The BBC to CNN to Al Jazeera to UNTV in television to Radio China, Vatican Radio, United Nations Radio and the World Service in radio. On November 4, 1994, Stef van der Ziel distributed the first live video images over the web from the Simplon venue in Groningen. On November 7, 1994, WXYC , the college radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill became the first radio station in

799-525: The IGF 's version of the IWGP Heavyweight Championship . The show aired on Thursday, January 17, 2008 at 11:00pm EST following the weekly episode of TNA Impact!. According to TNA's recent contract renewal with Spike TV, it is expected that this will be the first of several occasional special-airing shows. On February 28, 2008, TNA released the first Global Impact! special from Japan on DVD. Unlike

846-399: The IWGP Heavyweight Championship by pinning Hiroshi Tanahashi at Dissidence on May 25, 2009. He went on to hold the title for nearly a month until losing it back to Tanahashi at Dominion 6.20 . For the 2010 G1 Tag League Nakanishi formed a tag team named Muscle Orchestra with Strong Man . The team made it to the semifinals of the tournament and was at the end of the year named Tag Team of

893-496: The IWGP Tag Team Championship . He had arguably the upset win of the decade in the 1999 G1 Climax , submitting then-IWGP Heavyweight Champion and nWo Japan leader Keiji Mutoh , to win the tournament. As the years went by, Nakanishi was never able to capitalize on his win in the G1 Climax as he constantly came up short in big matches, and Antonio Inoki's focus on pushing MMA fighters from 2002 to 2005 made matters worse for him. When

940-757: The Wrestle Kingdom III New Japan Pro-Wrestling Tokyo Dome show on January 4. The Motor City Machine Guns ( Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin ) defeating No Limit ( Tetsuya Naito and Yujiro ) for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship , Kurt Angle , Kevin Nash , Masahiro Chono , and Riki Choshu defeating Giant Bernard , Takashi Iizuka , Tomohiro Ishii , and Karl Anderson , and Team 3D ( Brother Devon and Brother Ray ) defeating The Most Violent Players ( Togi Makabe and Toru Yano ) in

987-742: The American jam band Phish webcast one of their concerts for the first time. On October 22, 1998, the first Billy Graham Crusade was broadcast live to a worldwide audience from the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa Florida courtesy of Dale Ficken and the WebcastCenter in Pennsylvania. The live signal was broadcast via satellite to PA, then encoded and streamed via the BGEA website. On February 6, 1999,

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1034-603: The Champions XXXI, in which they lost it was at the event that he was billed as the Terror from the Far East He subsequently feuded with Hawk when Hawk returned from injury heading into Halloween Havoc , beating many local wrestlers on their B-shows, WorldWide and Pro , as well as a big win over Sgt. Craig Pittman on Nitro . He was also known there for nearly defeating "Macho Man" Randy Savage on an episode of Nitro . It

1081-505: The IWGP Tag Team Championship in a three–way tag team match, which also included Muscle Orchestra ( Manabu Nakanishi and Strong Man ), Rob Van Dam defeating Toru Yano in a hardcore match and Jeff Hardy successfully defending the TNA World Heavyweight Championship against Tetsuya Naito. Webcast A webcast is a media presentation distributed over the Internet using streaming media technology to distribute

1128-429: The IWGP Tag Team Championship, but were again unable to win the title. On June 4 Nakanishi was injured during a six-man tag team match after taking a German suplex from Wataru Inoue . The match was stopped immediately and Nakanishi was stretchered out of the arena in a neckbrace. The following day it was announced that Nakanishi had suffered a spinal cord injury, which resulted in numbness and temporary paralysis, but

1175-411: The Internet. The term "webcast" had previously been used to describe the distribution of Web or Internet content using conventional broadcast technologies such as those intended for digital video ( Digital Video Broadcasting ) and audio ( Digital Audio Broadcasting ), and in some cases even leveraging analogue broadcasting techniques traditionally used by Teletext services to deliver a limited "Best of

1222-600: The NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship. On March 25, 2018, Nakanishi made an appearance in All Japan, where he reunited Wild Child for one night with Takao Omori to unsuccessfully challenge Jun Akiyama and Yuji Nagata for the All Asia Tag Team Championship. After teaming with young lion Henare the year prior, Nakanishi reunited with Yuji Nagata for the 2018 World Tag League , finishing second-last in

1269-539: The Web" selection of content to audiences. Overnight broadcasts of data via analogue television signals were claimed by WebTV representatives to be able to offer "a fresh gigabyte of data every day... while you sleep". Typically, webcasting referred to a form of datacasting involving higher bandwidth broadcast technologies delivering Web content, multimedia files in particular, and with any interactivity supported by lower bandwidth return channels such as dial-up Internet access over

1316-716: The World Championship in Tokyo, where he was placed tenth. Over three weeks later, on September 30, he participated in the Asian Games in Beijing , China , where he placed fourth. In October 1991, he took part in his second World Championship in Varna, Bulgaria , where he was placed eleventh. In April 1992, he took part in his third Asian Championship in Tehran, Iran , and was in third place, earning

1363-611: The World Cup in St. John's , Newfoundland , Canada, where he placed fifth. In October 1987, he participated in the Asian Championship in Bombay , India , where he placed fifth. In June 1989, he participated in another Asian Championship in Ōarai, Ibaraki , Japan, and this time moved up to fourth place. In September 1990, Nakanishi took part in two tournaments: On September 6, he participated in

1410-468: The Year by Tokyo Sports . On January 4, 2011, at Wrestle Kingdom V in Tokyo Dome , Muscle Orchestra unsuccessfully challenged Bad Intentions ( Giant Bernard and Karl Anderson ) for the IWGP Tag Team Championship in a three–way match, which also included Beer Money, Inc. ( James Storm and Robert Roode ). On February 20 at The New Beginning , Muscle Orchestra received another shot at Bad Intentions and

1457-417: The camera captured her doing almost everything – brushing her teeth, doing her laundry, and even having sex with her boyfriend. Her website generated millions of hits upon the Internet, became a pay site in 1998, and spawned hundreds of female imitators who would then use streaming video to create a new billion dollar industry called camming , and brand themselves as camgirls or webcam models. One of

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1504-542: The company suffered a massive exodus in main event talent (including Shinya Hashimoto , Shinjiro Otani , Sasaki, and Mutoh), it was considered that Nakanishi might finally live up to his potential, but once again he was overlooked, as NJPW started to look towards building their younger talent like Hiroshi Tanahashi , Shinsuke Nakamura , Togi Makabe , and Hirooki Goto . He formed the popular tag team, Wild Child, with Takao Omori in late 2006 and together they enjoyed another IWGP Tag Team title reign. Nakanishi finally captured

1551-574: The earliest instances of sequential live image broadcasting was in 1991 when a camera was set up next to the Trojan Room in the computer laboratory of the University of Cambridge . It provided a live picture every few minutes of the office coffee pot to all desktop computers on that office's network. A couple of years later its broadcasts went to the Internet, became known as the Trojan Room Coffee Pot webcam , and gained international notoriety as

1598-572: The earliest webcast equivalent of an online concert and one of the earliest examples of webcasting itself was by Apple Computer 's Webcasting Group in partnership with the entrepreneurs Michael Dorf and Andrew Rasiej. Together with David B. Pakman from Apple , they launched the Macintosh New York Music Festival from July 17–22, 1995. This event audio webcast concerts from more than 15 clubs in New York City. Apple later webcast

1645-429: The globe to more than twenty direct "mirrors" in more than twenty countries. In September 1997, Nebraska Public Television started webcasting Big Red Wrap Up from Lincoln, Nebraska which combined highlights from every Cornhusker football game, coverage of the coaches' weekly press conferences, analysis with Nebraska sportswriters, appearances by special guests and questions and answers with viewers. On August 8, 1997,

1692-601: The majority of 2014 and 2015 working the undercard and in multiple man tag matches, teaming with Yuji Nagata during the 2014 World Tag League , failing to advance from their block. On August 19, 2015, Nakanishi donned a mask and going as Maybach Don, teamed up with Nagata (as Maybach Blue Justice) and Maybach Taniguchi to win the Arukas Cup 6-Man Tag Tournament hosted by Pro Wrestling Noah . On January 5, 2017, Nakanishi, Hiroshi Tanahashi and Ryusuke Taguchi defeated Los Ingobernables de Japón ( Bushi , Evil and Sanada ) for

1739-476: The match and the title. On June 22 at Dominion 6.22 , Nakanishi unsuccessfully challenged Rob Conway for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship . From November 24 to December 6, Nakanishi and Strong Man took part in the 2013 World Tag League , where they finished second to last in their block with a record of two wins and four losses, failing to advance to the semifinals. Nakanishi spent

1786-451: The on-air broadcast, it contains the 7 full-length-matches that TNA stars participated in during the January 4 Tokyo Dome Event. It also contained backstage interviews from before and after the event. A full DVD Review can be read at the following link: On December 14, 2008, TNA Wrestling.com officially announced Global Impact 2: Japan. The show aired on Spike TV on October 8, 2009. It featured taped matches involving TNA wrestlers competing at

1833-408: The public telephone network or communication over mobile telephone networks. Such return channels conveyed each user's requests for the delivery of specific content over the broadcast medium. Eventually, DVB satellite operators were to offer a higher bandwidth return channel using DVB-RCS , raising the prospect of "point-to-point connections with users' satellite dishes". Webcasting had been regarded as

1880-606: The show was put on hold with no real reason given. Instead, TNA switched to providing information in the form of an audio podcast . On December 14, 2007, Spike TV issued a press release which indicated that TNA would hold a one-hour special in January of the following year entitled "Global Impact!". The show would feature taped matches involving TNA wrestlers competing at the Wrestle Kingdom II New Japan Pro-Wrestling Tokyo Dome show on January 4, including Kurt Angle facing Yuji Nagata for

1927-555: The wedding in person. On August 13, 1998, the first webcast wedding took place, between Alan K'necht and Carrie Silverman in Toronto Canada . The first webcast teleconference wedding to date is believed to have occurred on December 31, 1998. Dale Ficken and Lorrie Scarangella wed on this date as they stood in a church in Pennsylvania, and were married by Jerry Falwell while he sat in his office in Lynchburg, Virginia . Webcasting

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1974-613: The whole tournament. He wrestled tag matches for the rest of his first year. Nakanishi's first single match came in February 1993, when he lost to Takayuki Iizuka . His in-ring style was very basic early in his career, as is standard for their trainees. After winning the Young Lions Cup in 1995, in order to hone his skills and bulk up, he went on an excursion to North America and joined World Championship Wrestling (WCW). 12 days after his pro debut Nakanishi appeared at Halloween Havoc , as

2021-501: The world to broadcast its signal over the internet. Translated versions including Subtitling are now possible using SMIL Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language . A webcast of a wedding may be called a wedcast ; it allows family and friends of the couple to watch the wedding in real time on the Internet . It is sometimes used for weddings in exotic locations, where it would be expensive or difficult for people to travel to see

2068-483: Was announced as the onscreen host, with Christy Hemme to co-host the inaugural broadcast. TNA website manager Bill Banks (who helped launch similar online shows such as WWE Byte This! and WCW Reload ), was expected to have a large behind-the-scenes role. This agreement would be short-lived after high viewership caused the YouTube server to crash, future episodes were hosted on TNA's official website. On August 19, 2006,

2115-408: Was expected to make a full recovery. Nakanishi returned to the ring on October 8, 2012, at King of Pro-Wrestling , where he teamed with Strong Man and Yuji Nagata in a losing effort against the team of Takashi Iizuka , Tomohiro Ishii and Toru Yano . From November 20 to December 1, Muscle Orchestra reunited to take part in the round-robin portion of the 2012 World Tag League , finishing with

2162-491: Was here that Nakanishi learned the infamous "Road Warrior Workout" from Hawk and Animal , who also taught this routine to Kenta Kobashi and Kensuke Sasaki . When Nakanishi came back to NJPW in September 1996, he appeared more confident and stronger. With his new change in attitude and in-ring style, he found instant success. He formed The Bull Powers with Satoshi Kojima , who returned from Europe. In May 1997, he and Kojima won

2209-477: Was primarily associated with New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). He is a one-time IWGP Heavyweight Champion , one-time G1 Climax winner and three-time IWGP Tag Team Champion . Nakanishi has always stayed based in Japan, but has wrestled for various other promotions including World Championship Wrestling , All Japan Pro Wrestling , Pro Wrestling Noah and Pro Wrestling Zero1 . Nakanishi's career slowly declined after

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