Larry Ryckman
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Lawrence G. Ryckman is an entertainment, technology and sports entrepreneur born in Toronto, Canada. He is best known for developing technologies used in the music and entertainment industries and for his ownership of the Calgary Stampeder Football Team of the CFL. He has also served as CEO of several private and public companies
in diverse industries. He is currently President and CEO of Studio One Media's, MyStudio, Inc. and AfterMaster HD Audio, Inc.
company American Artists, Inc. He went on to establish American Artists Music and was involved with A&R and production. Filmography includes: Virgin Queen of St. Francis High, Snowballs, and Crime of the Century.
, an audio technology company to develop a series of proprietary audio technologies for the music, film, TV industries, computer and video game
industries. QSound's proprietary technologies provides three dimensional audio from a stereo source. Ryckman became President and CEO and led the Company to listings on the Toronto Stock Exchange
and NASDAQ
. Ryckman raised QSound over $20 million and assembled a team of entertainment industry professionals to assist in building the company, including CAA and super agent Michael Ovitz
, music industry veterans Jimmy Iovine
(VP of Music), Shelly Yakus
(VP of Audio Engineering), and Bob Ezrin
and film producer, George Folsey
Chairman. Early on, Ryckman and Warner Bros.
director Salah Hassanein negotiated the sale of 10 percent of the Company to Todd-Ao/Glen Glenn Studios which was the world's largest motion picture and television sound studios for $4 million. While Ryckman was CEO the Company achieved a market capitalization
approaching $500 million and secured over a dozen patents. The Company was broadly covered in major publications including Barron's
, LA Times
, Wall Street Journal
, The New York Times
and The Hollywood Reporter
.
In 1990, Ryckman and music attorney Allen Grubman negotiated a first of its kind deal with Polygram NV, then the world's largest record company, for the payment of a mechanical cash royalty on all albums sold that were mixed with QSound. Ryckman oversaw the engineering of several albums using QSound including Madonna
's "The Immaculate Collection", Michael Jackson
's "Dangerous', Paula Abdul
's "Spellbound", Sting's "The Soul Cages" and Julian Lennon
's "Help Yourself". In addition, three music recordings engineered with QSound during Ryckman's tenure won GRAMMY awards
including the motion picture soundtrack, Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves.
In 1991, Ryckman moved from CEO to co-chairman of QSound after the Company's first profitable quarter which included a $4 million advance licensing fee from Nintendo
for the use of QSound. Archer/QSound shares were trading at $17.00 per share when Ryckman announced he was moving from CEO to director and co-chairman. Shortly thereafter Ryckman and Jimmy Iovine
left QSound to start a record label but Ryckman soon left the entertainment business to move into professional sports and purchased the Calgary Stampeders
of the CFL
. Iovine then partnered with Ted Field
and formed Interscope Records
.
, food preparation and distribution, electrical contracting and a specialty automotive parts
manufacturer located in Hamburg, Germany
. Westgroup Corporations, Inc. was featured in the Alberta Stock Exchange
annual report as one of the most successful junior industrial companies trading on the exchange with consolidated sales approaching $75 million in only two years of operation.
team from bankruptcy which at the time was heavily in debt.
Many changes took place under his ownership, including the signing of Heisman Trophy
winning quarterback, Doug Flutie
, and quarterback Jeff Garcia
from San Jose State
and in team management and player personnel. Offices and locker rooms were renovated, new stadium signage was created and a new marketing campaign
was built around "The New Calgary Stampeders". During his tenure the Stampeders broke dozens of league and team records, participated in five Grey Cup Championship
games, and won the Grey Cup
in Toronto in 1992, for the first time in 21 years. The team was featured in the Globe and Mail as "Canada's Team."
During his five years in the CFL, Ryckman co-chaired the CFL expansion committee with late actor John Candy
and served on the Executive Committee of the CFL Board of Governors
. In 1993, he purchased the rights to host the 1993 Grey Cup game for the City of Calgary
from Toronto Argonauts
owners Bruce McNall
, John Candy and Wayne Gretzky
. The 1993 Grey Cup festival drew a capacity crowd of over 50,000 spectators. Ryckman constructed new private luxury box
es at the Stampeders home field, McMahon Stadium
in Calgary and donated them to the stadium. Ryckman was also awarded the CFL's Outstanding Contribution Award for his contributions to both the league and as a Governor.
Despite the games won and league-leading attendance, the team continued to lose money after the termination of provincial Lottery funding and in the absence of a meaningful league TV contract. Ryckman sold the team in 1996 through a voluntary receivership which served to eliminate the prior government debts the club inherited when he took over the team. The Stampeders remain one of the top teams in the CFL.
s, Mystudio.net and related technologies. In 2007, Ryckman sold his interest in Studio One Entertainment to public company, Studio One Media in an all stock transaction valued at $30 million and became the largest shareholder of Studio One Media, Inc. MyStudio is an HD audio and video production
studio designed for installation in malls which allows the public to record studio quality audio and broadcast quality
video in a stand alone recording studio. MyStudio videos can be created for music, modeling, comedy, auditions, job resumes, dating and personal greetings. As CEO of MyStudio, Ryckman negotiated multi-year deals with The GRAMMY Foundation, EMI Music Publishing, Universal Music and reality TV pioneer, Mark Burnett
. Twenty-four patents have been filed related to MyStudio and its underlying processes and technologies.
In 2008 Ryckman negotiated a groundbreaking music license with publishing giant EMI
which allows consumers to legally create music video
s at MyStudio using popular music
for public online posting at the mystudio.net website. The EMI license was followed up with multi-year licenses with Universal Music and Sony ATV. In April, 2011, Ryckman finalized a multi-year agreement involving Fox, Freemantle, Sony and Simco for the use of MyStudio's for Simon Cowell's "The X Factor."
Ryckman serves as Chairman of Studio One Media's advisory board
which includes music producer, Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, songwriter, Diane Warren
, music producer, Richard Perry
, media investor, Ted Field
, music executive, Jason Flom
, casting director, Sheila Jaffe, former Lucasfilm CEO, Charles Weber and music executive, Phil Quartararo.
with a loudness, fullness and clarity unachievable through traditional mastering techniques. The first major music releases using MyStudio Masters AfterMaster HD Audio process were Janet Jackson's "Make Me" produced by Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, and Lady Gaga's multi-platinum "Telephone." Personal mastering credits include: Lady Gaga
, Diddy
, Janet Jackson
, Shontelle
, Ray J
, Adam Lambert
, Chris Medina
, 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards
.
1985 - Most notable personal production accomplishment was the award winning, one-hour documentary, The Aryan Nation, which he produced and hosted. The critically acclaimed investigative news program
was an exclusive and powerful expose of the Aryan nations
and the growing neo-Nazi movements
in North America. Ryckman and his film crew
were the first to enter and film inside the Aryan Nations Hayden Lake Idaho compound after 20/20 and 60 Minutes
were denied entry.
1992 - Listed as one of the top 25 most powerful people in Canadian sports by the National Globe and Mail newspaper.
1993 - Received the national Vanier Award for his business and community accomplishments. This is one of Canada’s most prestigious national awards and is presented to young Canadians under the age of 40 who have made recognized and significant achievements of national interest.
1994 - Voted Runner-Up
to the Premier of the Province of Alberta in the category of top Civic, Business and Political leader of the last 100 years in the City of Calgary Centennial Awards.
Awarded the "CFL’s outstanding contribution award" for his contributions to the league both as an owner and Governor.
Received the First Calgary Community Vision Award of Merit for his community contributions.
Received the Achiever's Canada award for entrepreneurial leadership and success.
Youngest President and CEO of a NASDAQ listed public company.
Youngest President and CEO of a Toronto Stock Exchange listed company
and TSE index listed company.
Youngest owner of a Professional sports franchise in North America.
Youngest Member of Who's Who in Canada
Public company
This is not the same as a Government-owned corporation.A public company or publicly traded company is a limited liability company that offers its securities for sale to the general public, typically through a stock exchange, or through market makers operating in over the counter markets...
in diverse industries. He is currently President and CEO of Studio One Media's, MyStudio, Inc. and AfterMaster HD Audio, Inc.
American Artists
From 1982 to 1986, he was Vice President, Development, and later promoted to President and CEO of the film and TV productionTelevision
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
company American Artists, Inc. He went on to establish American Artists Music and was involved with A&R and production. Filmography includes: Virgin Queen of St. Francis High, Snowballs, and Crime of the Century.
Music Industry - QSound
In 1986, Ryckman provided the start-up capital and co-founded Archer Communications, Inc./QSound, Ltd.QSound Labs
QSound Labs is an audio technology company based in Calgary, Canada. It is primarily a developer and provider of audio enhancement technologies for entertainment and communications devices and software...
, an audio technology company to develop a series of proprietary audio technologies for the music, film, TV industries, computer and video game
Computer and video games
A video game is an electronic game that involves human interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device. The word video in video game traditionally referred to a raster display device, but following popularization of the term "video game", it now implies any type of...
industries. QSound's proprietary technologies provides three dimensional audio from a stereo source. Ryckman became President and CEO and led the Company to listings on the Toronto Stock Exchange
Toronto Stock Exchange
Toronto Stock Exchange is the largest stock exchange in Canada, the third largest in North America and the seventh largest in the world by market capitalisation. Based in Canada's largest city, Toronto, it is owned by and operated as a subsidiary of the TMX Group for the trading of senior equities...
and NASDAQ
NASDAQ
The NASDAQ Stock Market, also known as the NASDAQ, is an American stock exchange. "NASDAQ" originally stood for "National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations". It is the second-largest stock exchange by market capitalization in the world, after the New York Stock Exchange. As of...
. Ryckman raised QSound over $20 million and assembled a team of entertainment industry professionals to assist in building the company, including CAA and super agent Michael Ovitz
Michael Ovitz
Michael S. Ovitz is an American talent agent who co-founded Creative Artists Agency in 1975 and served as its chairman until 1995. Ovitz later served as President of the Walt Disney Company from October 1995 to January 1997....
, music industry veterans Jimmy Iovine
Jimmy Iovine
James "Jimmy" Iovine is an American music producer, entrepreneur and chairman of Interscope-Geffen-A&M.-Biography:...
(VP of Music), Shelly Yakus
Shelly Yakus
Shelly Yakus is considered as one of the best engineers and mixers in the music industry. Formerly chief engineer and vice president of A&M Records, Yakus' engineering work has help sell in excess of one hundred million records, equaling over one billion dollars in sales...
(VP of Audio Engineering), and Bob Ezrin
Bob Ezrin
Robert Alan "Bob" Ezrin is a Canadian music producer and keyboardist, known for his work with artists including Alice Cooper, Kiss and Pink Floyd. He was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 2004.-Biography:...
and film producer, George Folsey
George J. Folsey
George J. Folsey, A.S.C. was an American cinematographer who worked on 162 films between 1919 and his retirement in 1976....
Chairman. Early on, Ryckman and Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...
director Salah Hassanein negotiated the sale of 10 percent of the Company to Todd-Ao/Glen Glenn Studios which was the world's largest motion picture and television sound studios for $4 million. While Ryckman was CEO the Company achieved a market capitalization
Market capitalization
Market capitalization is a measurement of the value of the ownership interest that shareholders hold in a business enterprise. It is equal to the share price times the number of shares outstanding of a publicly traded company...
approaching $500 million and secured over a dozen patents. The Company was broadly covered in major publications including Barron's
Barron's Magazine
Barron's is an American weekly newspaper covering U.S. financial information, market developments, and relevant statistics. Each issue provides a wrap-up of the previous week's market activity, news reports, and an informative outlook on the week to come....
, LA Times
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....
, Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....
, The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
and The Hollywood Reporter
The Hollywood Reporter
Formerly a daily trade magazine, The Hollywood Reporter re-launched in late 2010 as a unique hybrid publication serving the entertainment industry and a consumer audience...
.
In 1990, Ryckman and music attorney Allen Grubman negotiated a first of its kind deal with Polygram NV, then the world's largest record company, for the payment of a mechanical cash royalty on all albums sold that were mixed with QSound. Ryckman oversaw the engineering of several albums using QSound including Madonna
Madonna (entertainer)
Madonna is an American singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance. After performing in the music groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she released her debut album in 1983...
's "The Immaculate Collection", Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...
's "Dangerous', Paula Abdul
Paula Abdul
Paula Julie Abdul is an American singer-songwriter, dancer, choreographer, actress and television personality.In the 1980s, Abdul rose from cheerleader for the Los Angeles Lakers to highly sought-after choreographer at the height of the music video era before scoring a string of pop music-R&B hits...
's "Spellbound", Sting's "The Soul Cages" and Julian Lennon
Julian Lennon
John Charles Julian Lennon is an English musician, songwriter, actor, and photographer. He is the son of John Lennon and Lennon's first wife, Cynthia Powell. Beatles manager Brian Epstein was his godfather. He has a younger half-brother, Sean Lennon. Lennon was named after his paternal...
's "Help Yourself". In addition, three music recordings engineered with QSound during Ryckman's tenure won GRAMMY awards
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
including the motion picture soundtrack, Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves.
In 1991, Ryckman moved from CEO to co-chairman of QSound after the Company's first profitable quarter which included a $4 million advance licensing fee from Nintendo
Nintendo
is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel....
for the use of QSound. Archer/QSound shares were trading at $17.00 per share when Ryckman announced he was moving from CEO to director and co-chairman. Shortly thereafter Ryckman and Jimmy Iovine
Jimmy Iovine
James "Jimmy" Iovine is an American music producer, entrepreneur and chairman of Interscope-Geffen-A&M.-Biography:...
left QSound to start a record label but Ryckman soon left the entertainment business to move into professional sports and purchased the Calgary Stampeders
Calgary Stampeders
The Calgary Stampeders are a Canadian Football League team based in Calgary, Alberta and named in reference to the Calgary Stampede. The Stampeders play their home games at McMahon Stadium...
of the CFL
Canadian Football League
The Canadian Football League or CFL is a professional sports league located in Canada. The CFL is the highest level of competition in Canadian football, a form of gridiron football closely related to American football....
. Iovine then partnered with Ted Field
Ted Field
Frederick Woodruff "Ted" Field is an American media mogul and entrepreneur and film producer.-Biography:Field was born in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, the son of Katherine Woodruff Fanning, an editor of the Christian Science Monitor, and Marshall Field IV, who owned the Chicago Sun-Times. He is...
and formed Interscope Records
Interscope Records
Interscope Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group that currently operates as one third of UMG's Interscope-Geffen-A&M label group.-History:...
.
Westgroup Corporations
In 1988, Ryckman Founded Westgroup Corporations, Inc., a diversified conglomerate comprising subsidiaries in industries such as specialty valves for the oil industryPetroleum industry
The petroleum industry includes the global processes of exploration, extraction, refining, transporting , and marketing petroleum products. The largest volume products of the industry are fuel oil and gasoline...
, food preparation and distribution, electrical contracting and a specialty automotive parts
Auto part
This is a list of auto parts, which are manufactured components of automobiles:-Body and exterior:Body components, including windows and trim:-Engine cooling system:* Air blower* Coolant hose* Cooling fan* Fan blade* Fan clutch* Radiator...
manufacturer located in Hamburg, Germany
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
. Westgroup Corporations, Inc. was featured in the Alberta Stock Exchange
Alberta Stock Exchange
The Alberta Stock Exchange was a stock exchange based in Calgary, Alberta. It featured mostly mining, resource exploration, and oil sands stocks....
annual report as one of the most successful junior industrial companies trading on the exchange with consolidated sales approaching $75 million in only two years of operation.
Sports - Calgary Stampeder Football Club of the CFL
In 1991, Ryckman became the youngest professional sports team owner in North American history after purchasing and privatizing the Calgary Stampeder Football Club of the Canadian Football League (CFL). Ryckman was widely credited for saving the community ownedCommunity ownership
Community owned assets or organisations are those that are owned and controlled through some representative mechanism that allows a community to influence their operation or use and to enjoy the benefits arising....
team from bankruptcy which at the time was heavily in debt.
Many changes took place under his ownership, including the signing of Heisman Trophy
Heisman Trophy
The Heisman Memorial Trophy Award , is awarded annually to the player deemed the most outstanding player in collegiate football. It was created in 1935 as the Downtown Athletic Club trophy and renamed in 1936 following the death of the Club's athletic director, John Heisman The Heisman Memorial...
winning quarterback, Doug Flutie
Doug Flutie
Douglas Richard "Doug" Flutie is a former American and Canadian football quarterback. Flutie played college football at Boston College, and played professionally in the National Football League, Canadian Football League, and United States Football League...
, and quarterback Jeff Garcia
Jeff Garcia
Jeffrey Jason "Jeff" Garcia is an American football quarterback who is currently a free agent. He played college football at San Jose State University....
from San Jose State
San José State University
San Jose State University is a public university located in San Jose, California, United States...
and in team management and player personnel. Offices and locker rooms were renovated, new stadium signage was created and a new marketing campaign
Marketing
Marketing is the process used to determine what products or services may be of interest to customers, and the strategy to use in sales, communications and business development. It generates the strategy that underlies sales techniques, business communication, and business developments...
was built around "The New Calgary Stampeders". During his tenure the Stampeders broke dozens of league and team records, participated in five Grey Cup Championship
Grey Cup
The Grey Cup is both the name of the championship of the Canadian Football League and the name of the trophy awarded to the victorious team. It is Canada's largest annual sports and television event, regularly drawing a Canadian viewing audience of about 3 to 4 million individuals...
games, and won the Grey Cup
Grey Cup
The Grey Cup is both the name of the championship of the Canadian Football League and the name of the trophy awarded to the victorious team. It is Canada's largest annual sports and television event, regularly drawing a Canadian viewing audience of about 3 to 4 million individuals...
in Toronto in 1992, for the first time in 21 years. The team was featured in the Globe and Mail as "Canada's Team."
During his five years in the CFL, Ryckman co-chaired the CFL expansion committee with late actor John Candy
John Candy
John Franklin Candy was a Canadian actor and comedian. He rose to fame as a member of the Toronto branch of The Second City and its related Second City Television series, and through his appearances in comedy films such as Stripes, Splash, Cool Runnings, The Great Outdoors, Spaceballs, and Uncle...
and served on the Executive Committee of the CFL Board of Governors
Board of governors
Board of governors is a term sometimes applied to the board of directors of a public entity or non-profit organization.Many public institutions, such as public universities, are government-owned corporations. The British Broadcasting Corporation was managed by a board of governors, though this role...
. In 1993, he purchased the rights to host the 1993 Grey Cup game for the City of Calgary
Calgary
Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies...
from Toronto Argonauts
Toronto Argonauts
The Toronto Argonauts are a professional Canadian football team competing in the East Division of the Canadian Football League. The Toronto, Ontario based team was founded in 1873 and is one of the oldest existing professional sports teams in North America, after the Chicago Cubs and the Atlanta...
owners Bruce McNall
Bruce McNall
Bruce Patrick McNall is a former Thoroughbred racehorse owner, and a sports executive who once owned the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League and the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League .McNall claimed to have made his initial fortune as a coin collector, though...
, John Candy and Wayne Gretzky
Wayne Gretzky
Wayne Douglas Gretzky, CC is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and former head coach. Nicknamed "The Great One", he is generally regarded as the best player in the history of the National Hockey League , and has been called "the greatest hockey player ever" by many sportswriters,...
. The 1993 Grey Cup festival drew a capacity crowd of over 50,000 spectators. Ryckman constructed new private luxury box
Luxury box
A Luxury box is a special seating section located within stadiums, arenas and other sporting and entertainment venues. They are typically located in the midsection of a stadium grandstand, usually providing the best views of the event...
es at the Stampeders home field, McMahon Stadium
McMahon Stadium
McMahon Stadium is a Canadian football stadium located in Calgary, Alberta. The stadium is owned by the University of Calgary and operated by the McMahon Stadium Society....
in Calgary and donated them to the stadium. Ryckman was also awarded the CFL's Outstanding Contribution Award for his contributions to both the league and as a Governor.
Despite the games won and league-leading attendance, the team continued to lose money after the termination of provincial Lottery funding and in the absence of a meaningful league TV contract. Ryckman sold the team in 1996 through a voluntary receivership which served to eliminate the prior government debts the club inherited when he took over the team. The Stampeders remain one of the top teams in the CFL.
Controversy
In 1996, Ryckman's high-profile and well publicized meteoric rise in business, entertainment and sports abruptly came to a halt when a scandal erupted with the Alberta Securities Commission (ASC). The ASC alleged that Ryckman had conducted illegal 88 wash trades over a six month period in the stock of Westgroup in 1994. The ASC held a quasi-judicial hearing at their offices and banned Ryckman from trading in Alberta for 18 years and assessed costs of approxiamtely $500,000. The trading ban was adopted through reciprocity by Ontario and British Columbia. Ryckman denied the allegations and asked that the hearing be heard in a civil court, which was denied. Ryckman also asked to call evidence in his defense at the hearing but was denied. The legal challenges that Ryckman faced at that time followed a public battle between the Premier of the Province of Alberta and Ryckman over the Government cutting lottery funding for his Calgary Stampeders Football team.Entertainment/Technology - MyStudio
In 2004, Ryckman formed and became President and CEO of Studio One Entertainment, Inc., a private company established to develop MyStudio interactive recording studioRecording studio
A recording studio is a facility for sound recording and mixing. Ideally both the recording and monitoring spaces are specially designed by an acoustician to achieve optimum acoustic properties...
s, Mystudio.net and related technologies. In 2007, Ryckman sold his interest in Studio One Entertainment to public company, Studio One Media in an all stock transaction valued at $30 million and became the largest shareholder of Studio One Media, Inc. MyStudio is an HD audio and video production
Video production
Video production is videography, the process of capturing moving images on electronic media even streaming media. The term includes methods of production and post-production...
studio designed for installation in malls which allows the public to record studio quality audio and broadcast quality
Broadcast quality
Broadcast Quality is an term stemming from quad videotape to denote the quality achieved by professional video cameras and time base correctors used for broadcast television, usually in standard definition...
video in a stand alone recording studio. MyStudio videos can be created for music, modeling, comedy, auditions, job resumes, dating and personal greetings. As CEO of MyStudio, Ryckman negotiated multi-year deals with The GRAMMY Foundation, EMI Music Publishing, Universal Music and reality TV pioneer, Mark Burnett
Mark Burnett
Mark Burnett is a British television producer and executive producer, based in the United States. He currently is the executive producer of five network television series with seven hours of network programming. Works with which Burnett is associated have won multiple awards and recognition...
. Twenty-four patents have been filed related to MyStudio and its underlying processes and technologies.
In 2008 Ryckman negotiated a groundbreaking music license with publishing giant EMI
EMI
The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...
which allows consumers to legally create music video
Music video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...
s at MyStudio using popular music
Popular music
Popular music belongs to any of a number of musical genres "having wide appeal" and is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. It stands in contrast to both art music and traditional music, which are typically disseminated academically or orally to smaller, local...
for public online posting at the mystudio.net website. The EMI license was followed up with multi-year licenses with Universal Music and Sony ATV. In April, 2011, Ryckman finalized a multi-year agreement involving Fox, Freemantle, Sony and Simco for the use of MyStudio's for Simon Cowell's "The X Factor."
Ryckman serves as Chairman of Studio One Media's advisory board
Advisory board
An advisory board is a body that advises the board of directors and management of a corporation but does not have authority to vote on corporate matters, nor a legal fiduciary responsibility...
which includes music producer, Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, songwriter, Diane Warren
Diane Warren
Diane Eve Warren , is a US songwriter. Her songs have received six Academy Award nominations, five Golden Globe nominations, including one win and seven Grammy Award nominations, including one win. She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2001...
, music producer, Richard Perry
Richard Perry
Richard Perry is an American music producer. Perry began as a performer in his adolescence, but shifted gears after graduating college and rose through the late 1960s and early 1970s to become a highly successful and popular record producer with over a dozen gold records to his credit by 1982...
, media investor, Ted Field
Ted Field
Frederick Woodruff "Ted" Field is an American media mogul and entrepreneur and film producer.-Biography:Field was born in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, the son of Katherine Woodruff Fanning, an editor of the Christian Science Monitor, and Marshall Field IV, who owned the Chicago Sun-Times. He is...
, music executive, Jason Flom
Jason Flom
Jason Flom is an American music industry executive. He has served as the Chairman and CEO of music labels including Atlantic Records, Virgin Records, and the Capitol Music Group. In 1995, he founded Lava Records...
, casting director, Sheila Jaffe, former Lucasfilm CEO, Charles Weber and music executive, Phil Quartararo.
AfterMaster HD Audio Mastering
In late 2009, after four years of development, Ryckman and his audio engineering team, Shelly Yakus and Ari Blitz, released AfterMaster HD Audio, a process for mastering audio recordings. The proprietary (patents pending) AfterMaster hardware and software process creates a final audio master recordingMaster recording
A multitrack recording master tape, disk or computer files on which productions are developed for later mixing, is known as the multi-track master, while the tape, disk or computer files holding a mix is called a mixed master.It is standard practice to make a copy of a master recording, known as...
with a loudness, fullness and clarity unachievable through traditional mastering techniques. The first major music releases using MyStudio Masters AfterMaster HD Audio process were Janet Jackson's "Make Me" produced by Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, and Lady Gaga's multi-platinum "Telephone." Personal mastering credits include: Lady Gaga
Lady GaGa
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta , better known by her stage name Lady Gaga, is an American singer and songwriter. Born and raised in New York City, she primarily studied at the Convent of the Sacred Heart and briefly attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts before withdrawing to...
, Diddy
Sean Combs
Sean John Combs , also known by his stage names Diddy and P. Diddy, is an American rapper, singer, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur. He has won three Grammy Awards and two MTV Video Music Awards, and his clothing line earned a Council of Fashion Designers of America award. He was originally...
, Janet Jackson
Janet Jackson
Janet Damita Jo Jackson is an American recording artist and actress. Known for a series of sonically innovative, socially conscious and sexually provocative records, as well as elaborate stage shows, television and film roles, she has been a prominent figure in popular culture for over 25 years...
, Shontelle
Shontelle
Shontelle Layne , known professionally as Shontelle, is a Barbadian singer, and songwriter. She released her debut album Shontelligence in November 2008. Her sophomore album, No Gravity, was released in September 2010...
, Ray J
Ray J
William Ray Norwood Jr. , better known by his stage name Ray J, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and actor.-Early life:...
, Adam Lambert
Adam Lambert
Adam Mitchel Lambert is an American singer, songwriter, and actor from San Diego, California. In May 2009, he finished as the runner-up on the eighth season of American Idol...
, Chris Medina
Chris Medina
Christopher Edward "Chris" Medina is an American singer born in Chicago, Illinois. Medina is most notable as a former American Idol contestant during the tenth season of Idol and his single, "What Are Words", which went to #1 in Norway and Sweden and spent 19 weeks at number 1 combined...
, 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards
62nd Primetime Emmy Awards
The 62nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, presented by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, took place on August 29, 2010, at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, California beginning at 5:00 p.m. PDT...
.
Acknowledgments and Awards
2010 - Studio One Media was awarded the Technical Achievement Award at the 2010 Hollywood Music and Media Awards for its MyStudio and AfterMaster HD Audio technologies developed by Larry Ryckman and his engineering team.1985 - Most notable personal production accomplishment was the award winning, one-hour documentary, The Aryan Nation, which he produced and hosted. The critically acclaimed investigative news program
News program
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was an exclusive and powerful expose of the Aryan nations
Aryan Nations
Aryan Nations is a white supremacist religious organization originally based in Hayden Lake, Idaho. Richard Girnt Butler founded the group in the 1970s, as an arm of the Christian Identity organization Church of Jesus Christ–Christian...
and the growing neo-Nazi movements
Neo-Nazism
Neo-Nazism consists of post-World War II social or political movements seeking to revive Nazism or some variant thereof.The term neo-Nazism can also refer to the ideology of these movements....
in North America. Ryckman and his film crew
Film crew
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were the first to enter and film inside the Aryan Nations Hayden Lake Idaho compound after 20/20 and 60 Minutes
60 Minutes
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were denied entry.
1992 - Listed as one of the top 25 most powerful people in Canadian sports by the National Globe and Mail newspaper.
1993 - Received the national Vanier Award for his business and community accomplishments. This is one of Canada’s most prestigious national awards and is presented to young Canadians under the age of 40 who have made recognized and significant achievements of national interest.
1994 - Voted Runner-Up
Runner-up
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to the Premier of the Province of Alberta in the category of top Civic, Business and Political leader of the last 100 years in the City of Calgary Centennial Awards.
Awarded the "CFL’s outstanding contribution award" for his contributions to the league both as an owner and Governor.
Received the First Calgary Community Vision Award of Merit for his community contributions.
Received the Achiever's Canada award for entrepreneurial leadership and success.
Youngest President and CEO of a NASDAQ listed public company.
Youngest President and CEO of a Toronto Stock Exchange listed company
Stock market
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and TSE index listed company.
Youngest owner of a Professional sports franchise in North America.
Youngest Member of Who's Who in Canada
External links
- Variety - X Factor/Simon Cowell (http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118035139?categoryid=4076&cs=1&cmpid=RSS%7CNews%7CLatestNews)
- Hollywood Music and Media Awards (http://www.hmmawards.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=197&Itemid=77)
- Mastering Credit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Gravity_(Shontelle_album)
- Vanier Award for Outstanding Young Canadian (http://www.jcicanada.com/docs/vanier%20history%20and%20listing%20%20en%20rev%2009.09.pdf)
- TV Guide page for The Virgin Queen of St. Francis High (http://movies.tvguide.com/virgin-queen-st-francis-high/cast/12644)
- Ryckman Purchase of Calgary Stampeders in 1991 (http://www.historyorb.com/day/october/24?p=2)
- Calgary Stampeders (http://www.stampeders.com/team/tradition/
- New York Times article about QSound technology (http://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/24/arts/recording-process-puts-the-listener-amid-the-music.html
- Spokane Chronicle article about The Aryan Nation (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1345&dat=19870122&id=8qQVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=2fkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7031,1064591)
- Calgary Herald Scandal (http://www.calgaryherald.com/entertainment/Welcome+reinvention+Larry+Ryckman/3753701/story.html)
- Studio One Advisory Board (http://mystudio.net/Corporate.aspx)
- Ryckman retires Stampeder Debt (http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0001177)