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 -
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 -
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 -
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/rss02
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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 -
S4C looks to appoint agency for Welsh campaign
Welsh television station S4C is on the hunt for an agency to work on promoting its Welsh-language digital channel in the run up to full digital switchover in the country.
Source:
Mad.co.uk
http://www.mad.co.uk/Main/News/Articlex/e0a762db4035419aad2c2fa4828b1b32/S4C-loo
ks-to-appoint-agency-for-Welsh-campaign.html
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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 -
Belo Corp. (BLC) Television Stations Provide 140 Candidates Free Airtime During the 2008 Political Season
Belo Corp. , one of the nation's largest pure-play, publicly-traded television companies, announced today that its television stations enhanced local voter education by broadcasting more than 210 hours of political coverage on its 15 news-producing television stations during the 2008 election season.
Source:
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/081204/lath067.html?.v=101
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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://www.dailytribune.com/articles/2008/12/04/news/srv0000004200668.txt
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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=20601095&sid=a1rtFrwtLpag
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12/05/2008 -
Chargers roll over Raiders
Maybe the next time prime time television calls, the Raiders should let the answering machine pick up. There's just something about playing under the lights that always leaves the Raiders lit up. Their latest telecast beatdown, 34-7 to the Chargers on...
Source:
San Francisco Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/04/SPO714I6U6.DTL&a
mp;feed=rss.sports
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