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- TV Analysis: Satcaster aiming to maintain monopoly -- Is paybox British Sky Broadcasting's 13-year exclusive hold over the most valuable soccer rights in Europe about to end? Or will the Rupert Murdoch-backed satcaster again outwit European Union bureaucrats and outbid rivals. So far, the score is 1-0 to BSkyB. |
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- TV Analysis: Canuck variety show parody ending after 15th season -- It's rare for a TV skein to end at the top of its game, but that's what Steve Smith says he's doing with "The Red Green Show." |
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- TV Analysis: News Corp. hits 'brick wall' after gov't's U-turn on relaxing controls -- Frustrated by lack of progress in mainland China, News Corp.'s Hong Kong-based satcaster Star Group is targeting other parts of Asia. |
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- H'w'd and D.C.: Villaraigosa also hints that NFL will return -- Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa held a news conference Thursday to underline his commitment to keeping TV and film production jobs from leaving Los Angeles. The mayor, who made his comments in the first of what he promises to be weekly news conferences, also hinted that the NFL will soon return to Los Angeles. |
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- H'w'd and D.C.: Time Warner topper takes jabs about politics, business -- "I don't know if this is profiling, but I think Dick looks like a Democrat. He sort of parties like a Democrat. When he says 'party' it's not the GOP he has on his mind," said new Time topper John Huey of his boss, Time Warner CEO Richard Parsons. |
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- I’ve been gradually working on a new design for the site during the past few weeks and finally had some time to take the XHTML and convert it into Wordpress templates. I still have some more work to do so there are a few rough spots here and there, ... |
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- Business Digest Baltimore Sun - Oct 22 12:37 AM Save to My Web |
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- Just got an email from Disney on Broadway (I assume I must have given them my email address when I bought Lion King tickets several years ago) offering me advance tickets to their new Broadway show, Tarzan. WTF? Admittedly, I thought The Lion King was an odd choice for a stage musical, and it turned out to [...] |
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- Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc., (MMNA) today announced that, as a result of overwhelming consumer interest, the Gas Comes Standard fuel card program will be extended to include selected 2006 model-year vehicles. Previously, the offer of a year's worth of gasoline was offered on only new 2005 model-year vehicles. "Based on the enthusiastic interest in Gas Comes Standard expressed by American consumers, we have decided to allow customers to take advantage of this innovative incentive on the purchase of 2006 Endeavors and 2006 Galants," said David Schembri, executive vice president of sales and marketing at Mitsubishi Motors North America. "The promotion has obviously struck a positive chord with consumers. |
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- No word yet on whether GNU-Darwin will have access to an Apple x86 test machine, and the Distro does not yet have the resources to acquire one. (At this time we are saving for printheads. ;-) |
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- No word yet on whether GNU-Darwin will have access to an Apple x86 test machine, and the Distro does not yet have the resources to acquire one. (At this time we are saving for printheads. ;-) |
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- No word yet on whether GNU-Darwin will have access to an Apple x86 test machine, and the Distro does not yet have the resources to acquire one. (At this time we are saving for printheads. ;-) |
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- Web Only: Blanchett, O'Connor, Weaving, Pearce up for prizes -- Nominations for the 47th Australian Film Institute Awards saw a pod of expat Aussie thesps rewarded for returning to work in the domestic biz. |
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- Web Only: Existential angst hangs heavily over the "craic" animating "Shoot the Crow," the overwritten Owen McCafferty play currently receiving an ace London premiere. A portrait of four Belfast tilers at the end of their tether, Robert Delamere's production makes up in sheer amiability what it lacks in authorial elan. |
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