12/05/2008 -
Television - Business
It is 20 days until Christmas, and many of us have not even thought about presents or Christmas dinner. Auckland mum Kelly Emery had. She had been putting away around $40 a week for her family's Christmas celebrations through a company called Christine Laybys.
Source:
Scoop.co.nz
http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/business/16309.html
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12/05/2008 -
Britney, Janet, Ashlee Be Warned: China Bans Lip-Synching
Embarrassed by a lip-synching child who sang at the Beijing Olympics' opening ceremony, Chinese authorities are ordering performers not to fake it during the country's biggest television show of the year.
Source:
Fox News
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,462128,00.html
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12/05/2008 -
'Wagon,' 'M' offer great tough-guy TV
Among my favorite television programs when I was growing up in the 1950s were "M Squad" with Lee Marvin and "Wagon Train" with Ward Bond. They both debuted the same year, and I remember watching them with my dad.
Source:
Deseret Morning News
http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705267874,00.html
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12/05/2008 -
Television - National
Counties-Manukau Police have issued a warning to people to watch out for bag snatchers while doing their Christmas shopping this year.
Source:
Scoop.co.nz
http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/national/16310.html
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12/05/2008 -
Television - Sports
Seven hasn't turned out to be lucky number for the Breakers beaten 104-88 in a home game by the Townsville Crocodiles.
Source:
Scoop.co.nz
http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/sports/16311.html
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12/05/2008 -
Television - Sports
They say if you have not got a front row you have not got a rugby team, and fittingly it was the frontrowers, led by All Black hooker Andrew Hore, who dominated footy's night of honour.
Source:
Scoop.co.nz
http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/sports/16308.html
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12/05/2008 -
Television - Sports
Bad weather again threatens to disrupt the Australian PGA Championship at Coolum on the Sunshine Coast. Palmerston North's Tim Wilkinson was on top of the leaderboard after the first round, but is not going so well today.
Source:
Scoop.co.nz
http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/sports/16306.html
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12/04/2008 -
Television Highlights
Warren Buffett invites cameras inside his business school summits in Omaha for the first time on "Buffett U" (Fox Business Network at 7 p.m.). He also sits down for an interview with Liz Claman.
Source:
Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/03/AR2008120303286.
html
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12/05/2008 -
GVK Ind to sell stake in road project - official
MUMBAI, Dec 5 (Reuters) - GVK Industries Ltd is in talks with several investors to sell 49 percent stake in a road project to raise around 4.5 billion rupees, an official told television channel NDTV Profit on Friday.
Source:
Reuters via Yahoo! Malaysia News
http://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20081205/tbs-gvk-stake-road-7318940.html
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12/05/2008 -
Television - Business
With mortgage interest rates dropping, many home owners are looking to get out of their current contract to remortgage at the new lower rate. But they could be in for a shock as the cost of breaking a fixed-rate mortgage can easily outweigh any benefit.
Source:
Scoop.co.nz
http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/business/16302.html
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12/05/2008 -
Television - National
It was revealed today that a man who pleaded guilty to murdering Korean backpacker Jae Hyeon Kim has murdered before. He is 31-year-old Hayden Brent McKenzie, a white supremacist who was already serving 21 years in jail.
Source:
Scoop.co.nz
http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/national/16305.html
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12/05/2008 -
Television - National
Today's rescue at Aoraki Mt Cook has been a success tinged with sadness. Rescuers saved the life of one climber, but the other perished almost certainly during the early hours of this morning.
Source:
Scoop.co.nz
http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/national/16303.html
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12/04/2008 -
Gore Group, Industry Butt Heads Over 'Clean Coal'
An organization headed by former Vice President Al Gore released a television ad Thursday that takes on so-called clean coal technology. A debate is raging between environmental advocates and industry officials over the technology ? and even the definition of the term "clean coal."
Source:
NPR
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97825453&ft=1&f=100
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12/04/2008 -
'Office' special to follow Super Bowl
BURBANK, Calif., Dec. 4 (UPI) -- An original, hour-long episode of the U.S. television comedy "The Office" is slated to air immediately after Super Bowl XLIII, NBC announced.
Source:
UPI
http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2008/12/04/Office_special_to_follow_Super_
Bowl/UPI-92621228426393/
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12/05/2008 -
It's The Librarian Vs. Dracula!
Not a lot of television actually makes you smile these days. Certainly not the mind-twistingly dense Fringe or the excruciatingly sad Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
Source:
Sci Fi Wire
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=62562
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