12/03/2008 -
Baby television death accidental
A 13-month-old boy died from his injuries after he pulled a television on top of himself, an inquest hears.
Source:
BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/wales/south_west/7762417.stm
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12/04/2008 -
Recycle your old analog television
Trash TV is set to take on a new meaning Feb. 19 when broadcasters switch to all digital signals and viewers start throwing out their old analog television sets.
Source:
Royal Oak Daily Tribune
http://dailytribune.com/articles/2008/12/04/news/srv0000004200668.txt
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12/05/2008 -
Vlad TV: Putin hits airwaves to reassure Russians
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin returned to his favorite method of interfacing with the public Thursday, taking questions for more than three hours via live television hookups around the country, on the Internet, and from a carefully screened studio audience.
Source:
The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20081205/wl_csm/oputin_1
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12/04/2008 -
New Television Campaign in Mandarin to Educate Chinese Americans about Chronic Hepatitis B
PRINCETON, N.J.----Today, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company announced the launch of its first-ever, non-English-language television campaign in the United States. The campaign, exclusively in Mandarin, seeks to raise awareness of chronic hepatitis B and encourages people to talk with their doctors about managing the disease ? one that is disproportionately affecting the Chinese community.
Source:
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/081204/20081204005844.html?.v=1
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12/04/2008 -
Inspector's animal instinct nets television rescue role
FROM the cute and furry to the large and scaly, RSPCA Inspector Laurie Stageman has a natural affinity with animals. The Borallan resident's love of animals has translated to television, where he can be seen rescuing animals of all shapes and sizes as part of RSPCA Animal Rescue.
Source:
Queensland Times
http://www.qt.com.au/story/2008/11/28/apn-inspectors-animal-instinct-nets-televi
sion/
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12/04/2008 -
Somatic Systems, Inc. Featured on International Financial Industry Television Show
Somatic Systems, Inc. will be featured on MoneyTV, the nationally and internationally syndicated financial industry television program featuring interviews and profiles of exciting emerging public and private companies. Somatic Systems CEO Steven Aronstein will appear on MoneyTV in a special interview today, for broadcast on this week's episode.
Source:
Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance
http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/081204/0457757.html
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12/04/2008 -
Last Night's Television: Outnumbered BBC2, Beehive, E4
If you want to understand why Outnumbered is so good, the fade-to-blacks are important. This device ? a little dip into nothingness between scenes ? is hardly a new bit of television grammar and is not exactly unprecedented in comedy. But it's a crucial marker of species identity nonetheless. First of all, it hints at a kinship with documentary, the genus from which this distinctive feature was ...
Source:
Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/last-nights-televisio
n-outnumberedbr-bbc2-beehive-e4-1050513.html
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12/04/2008 -
Update: New South Asian IPTV Network Debuts Premier Television Content
PLAINVIEW, NY -- (Marketwire) -- 12/03/08 -- TV-Desi LLC., a subsidiary of NeuLion Inc. and JumpTV Inc. (TSX: JTV), announced today the launch of a new IPTV service delivering the largest selection of live South Asian television content to viewers in the United States and Canada.
Source:
Broadcast Newsroom
http://www.broadcastnewsroom.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=597812
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12/05/2008 -
Frost/Nixon (2008)
The most popular movies among NYTimes.com readers. Hollywood heavyweight Ron Howard adapts playwright Peter Morgan's West End hit for the silver screen with this feature focusing on the 1977 television interviews between journalist David Frost ( Michael Sheen ) and former president Richard Nixon ( Frank Langella ). At the time Nixon sat down with Frost to discuss the sordid details that ...
Source:
New York Times
http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/375022/Frost-Nixon/overview
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12/05/2008 -
Russian Patriarch Alexy II Dies at 79 Near Moscow (Update1)
Dec. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Patriarch Alexy II , the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, died today, state television reported. Alexy II died at his residence outside of Moscow shortly after 10 a.m. local time, Moscow Patriarchate spokesman Vladimir Vigilyansky said in comments posted on the Web site of state broadcaster Vesti-24.
Source:
Bloomberg
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=a1rtFrwtLpag
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12/03/2008 -
DIRECTV Launches Local Public Television Stations in HD Nationwide
EL SEGUNDO, Calif., BUSINESS WIRE -- xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> Millions of viewers will be able to enjoy their favorite Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) programs in crystal clear HD as DIRECTV begins launching local public television stations in HD in markets across the country today.
Source:
Broadcast Newsroom
http://www.broadcastnewsroom.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=597428
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12/04/2008 -
Putin reassures nation on economy, sees hope for US ties
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin vowed Thursday that Russia would weather the global economic storm, burnishing his image as the country's true leader in a marathon live television appearance.
Source:
AFP via Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081204/wl_afp/russiapoliticsputin_081204203221
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12/05/2008 -
MEDIA: Is this really a 3Defining moment for sports television?
What better way to dress up an otherwise inconsequential Chargers-Raiders late-season meeting on the football field than by cranking it up, "Spinal Tap"-style, to another sensory-overloaded dimension?
Source:
Los Angeles Daily News
http://www.dailynews.com/ci_11142830?source=rss
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12/04/2008 -
Loud background music on television
CAMPAIGNERS who have been trying to get the level of background music on television programmes reduced say a technological break-through may hold the answer. (04/12/2008 09:10:44)
Source:
Bexhill Today
http://www.bexhilltoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?sectionid=494&articleid=4760
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12/05/2008 -
Will your TV work in '09? Tune in tonight
If the digital-television switch has you confused, a test by Phoenix television stations today should send a clear signal.
Source:
The Arizona Republic
http://www.azcentral.com/rsslinks/839053
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