{"id":10191,"date":"2011-09-12T13:00:01","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T17:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=10191"},"modified":"2011-09-10T10:23:28","modified_gmt":"2011-09-10T14:23:28","slug":"bringing-kimmel-show-to-canada-to-cost-taxpayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/12\/bringing-kimmel-show-to-canada-to-cost-taxpayers\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing Kimmel show to Canada to cost taxpayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3292701\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bringing the Jimmy Kimmel Live! show to Ontario will cost four taxpayer-funded funded tourist agencies a total of $450,000, according to the Niagara-based tourism organization involved in the effort to bring segments of the ABC late-night show to Canada.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is funding involved. It&#8217;s about a half a million dollars for all of the partners and our contribution was $50,000,&#8221; said Robin Garrett, the CEO of the Tourism Partnership of Niagara.<\/p>\n<p>The Niagara tourism agency is funded entirely by the provincial tourism ministry, Garrett said.<\/p>\n<p>With Tourism Toronto leading the effort, the four agencies are putting up the $450,000 to pay for the Kimmel show to shoot segments featuring Kimmel security guard sidekick Guillermo Diaz Rodriguez.<\/p>\n<p>Guillermo, as he&#8217;s popularly known, will be reporting to back to Kimmel \u2014 who will be at his Los Angeles studio \u2014 from the red carpet at the Toronto International Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>The show will also be shooting in Niagara Falls.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Bringing the Jimmy Kimmel Live! show to Ontario will cost four taxpayer-funded funded tourist agencies a total of $450,000, according to the Niagara-based tourism organization involved in the effort to bring segments of the ABC late-night show to Canada. &#8220;There is funding involved. It&#8217;s about a half a million dollars&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26,78,2,49],"tags":[6135,6129,6131,6134,41,83,3119,4152,6133,6137,6128,4681,1155,5647,6132,6136],"class_list":["post-10191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-events","category-niagara-falls-in-pop-culture","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-tourism-industry","tag-guillermo-diaz","tag-international-film-festival","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-jimmy-kimmel-live","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-tourism","tag-provincial-tourism","tag-red-carpet","tag-security-guard","tag-sidekick","tag-toronto-international-film-festival","tag-tourism-agency","tag-tourism-ministry","tag-tourism-partnership","tag-tourism-toronto","tag-tourist-agencies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}