12/05/2008 -
Last Night's Television: Cutting Edge: The Fun Police, Channel 4 Apparitions, BBC1
People can get very hot under the collar about health and safety, though speaking for myself, it's illness and danger that really get me worked up. At the end of Cutting Edge's "The Fun Police", Ed Friend, a health-and-safety consultant, read from a Richard Littlejohn tirade against health and safety, which mentioned the Stasi and suggested that "in another life, these are the very people who ...
Source:
Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/last-nights-televisio
n-cutting-edge-the-fun-police-channel-4br-apparitions-bbc1-1052199.html
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12/05/2008 -
Television - Entertainment
Film3 has a The Day the Earth Stood Still poster, framed and signed by Keanue Reeves, up for grabs.
Source:
Scoop.co.nz
http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/entertainment/16297.html
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12/05/2008 -
NBC Sports chief talks Yale, Olympics
In 1965, Dick Ebersol ?69 was a freshman in Timothy Dwight College. Just two years later, he was working at ABC Sports under Roone Arledge, oftentimes called the father of American sports television.
Source:
Yale Daily News
http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/26826
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12/05/2008 -
Television - Entertainment
Robert Pattinson: 'Twilight hysteria is insane!' Actor Robert Pattinson is baffled by the obsessed fans of vampire movie Twilight - because he openly admits he "doesn't get it".
Source:
Scoop.co.nz
http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/entertainment/16296.html
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12/05/2008 -
Job cuts at Star Tribune, KSTP-TV, including 'Smiley Face Killer' reporter Piehl
Employees at two Minnesota newspapers and a Twin Cities television station learned this week of a round of job cuts that will affect newsroom operations.
Source:
Pioneer Press
http://www.twincities.com/news/ci_11142082?source=rss
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12/05/2008 -
NDTV.com: Mumbai terror strikes frustrated us: Irfan
The Indian cricket team felt helpless and its frustration grew more and more after watching on Television the worst-ever terror attack in Mumbai last week, disclosed pace bowler Irfan Pathan, who was filled with a cocktail of emotions including hurt and anger.
Source:
NDTV
http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/showsports.aspx?id=SPOEN20080075345
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12/05/2008 -
China bans miming on New Year's Eve TV show
China has extended a proposed ban on lipsynching to its most important annual television show the New Year's Eve spectacular beamed around the country.
Source:
Daily Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/3564168/China-bans-miming-o
n-New-Years-Eve-TV-show.html
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12/05/2008 -
Switch-off: Analogue TV to be history by 2013
The Federal Government's timetable for switching off the analogue television signal has been approved by the Parliament.
Source:
ABC via Yahoo!7 News
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/5193899/switchoff-analogue-tv-to-be-history-
by-2013/
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12/05/2008 -
Former TV store in Arlington stays in family as an art studio
By SUSAN SCHROCK ARLINGTON ? A place that got its start selling black-and-white televisions is now bringing a little more color to downtown Arlington. Virgil Scott and his wife, Kim Neiman, recently opened Studio 204, an artist gallery and letterpress studio on East Street near J. Gilligan?s Bar & Grill. The two-story building was originally Virgil Scott Motorola, one of the first television ...
Source:
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
http://www.star-telegram.com/arlington_news/story/1076152.html
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12/05/2008 -
Television - Entertainment
It's a shame Ozzy Osbourne isn't writing an autobiography - he certainly has plenty of stories to tell.
Source:
Scoop.co.nz
http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/entertainment/16295.html
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12/05/2008 -
A twinkle in their eyes
Bill and Jennifer Gehrman's lives changed dramatically a couple weeks ago - inconspicuously enough, while they were watching television.
Source:
Greeley Tribune
http://www.greeleytribune.com/article/20081205/NEWS/812059991/-1/rss05
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12/05/2008 -
On the record: Mumbai and media coverage
Sixty hours of live television at the best of times is impossibly difficult. But when it involves an ongoing and precarious terrorist operation and a potential danger to the lives of hundreds of people, it throws up challenges of the kind that none of us have ever dealt with before.
Source:
NDTV
http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/mumbaiterrorstrike/Story.aspx?ID=COLEN20080
075194
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12/05/2008 -
Television - Business
Desperate US automakers ran into fresh obstacles from sceptical lawmakers today as they appealed with rising urgency - and a new dose of humility - for a US$34 billion bailout.
Source:
Scoop.co.nz
http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/business/16294.html
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12/05/2008 -
Barack Obama's halfbrother thrills Chinese with calligraphy demonstration
Presidentelect Barack Obama's brother has been filmed on Chinese television practising the ancient art of calligraphy to the delight of local viewers.
Source:
Daily Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/3564212/B
arack-Obamas-half-brother-thrills-Chinese-with-calligraphy-demonstration.html
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12/05/2008 -
SCETV announces it will cut jobs
COLUMBIA ? South Carolina Educational Television officials say they will cut 15 permanent jobs and 28 temporary positions to help make up a $2 million cut in state funding.
Source:
The Post and Courier
http://www.charleston.net/news/2008/dec/05/statebrfs64074/
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