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- TV News: 31-match soccer tournament will run June 7-29 -- PCCW's NOW TV has landed the exclusive local rights to air UEFA Euro 2008. The 31-match soccer tournament will run June 7-29, 2008, in Austria and Switzerland. In addition to TV, PCCW also secured rights for video-on-demand, Internet simulcast and mobile video. |
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- TV News: Nation halts foreign funds in TV, film companies -- China has called a halt to new foreign investment in TV and film production companies, telling international media groups to work instead through individual projects with local partners. |
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- TV News: 'Borat,' 'Dreamgirls,' 'Little Miss Sunshine' named as best -- Comedy and drama were evenly split in the American Film Institute's seventh annual top 10 list, a sharp contrast to last year's emphasis on high-minded and downbeat films. |
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- TV News: Thesps dabble in both media as variety of jobs increase -- The old days of a thesp risking a film career by stooping to take on a TV role is a relic of the past. Network and cable production values are soaring, while at the same time film budgets and stars' salaries are under scrutiny at the major studios. |
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- TV News: Internet set grabs a seat in America's living room -- If this was the year that Web video sites like YouTube encroached on TV programmers' turf, 2007 may mark the year the Internet finally invades the living room. |
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- TV News: Voiceover: History may be written by the guys who win, but often it's the Hollywood version of wars that sticks in the collective memory -- and sometimes gets stuck in folks' craw. |
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- TV News: Pharmaceutical company blocks TV two-parter -- German pubcaster WDR is fighting a restraining order from a Hamburg court that blocked it from airing a film about the thalidomide drug scandal of the early '60s. |
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- TV News: Sievers recording his fight with cancer -- Leroy Sievers is living on borrowed time. The former exec producer of "Nightline" was diagnosed with cancer in his brain and lungs a year ago, the kind that can be slowed but probably not stopped. He was given months to live. |
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- TV News: Dubai Maghrebia to launch in January -- Dubai TV is looking westward with a new channel tailored to North African auds. Dubai Maghrebia will launch in January, using Dubai TV's existing programming; content dedicated to local auds will be rolled out toward the end of 2007. |
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- TV News: Murdoch's comfort with center-left government vexes Berlusconi -- There was a time, not so long ago, when Rupert Murdoch and Silvio Berlusconi acted like best buddies, dining together at Berlusconi's Sardinian seaside estate, Villa Certosa, where in 2004 they are believed to have reached a gentleman's agreement to operate in their media spheres with little competition. |
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- TV News: Chirac celebrates launch of 'CNN a la Francaise' -- France 24, the country's much ballyhooed global TV news network set up to rival news services from CNN and the BBC, has finally taken to the airwaves. |
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- TV News: Newcomer encroaches on BSkyB territory -- British Telecom, the once almighty U.K. telco, has raised the stakes in Blighty's fast-evolving pay TV market -- and established market leader BSkyB may lose out. |
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- TV News: Saudi 'Sex and the City' breaks taboos -- A taboo-busting Saudi bestseller is set to become one of the Mideast's hottest skeins. A satcaster, the Lebanese Broadcasting Corp., is in negotiations with author Rajaa al Sanea to obtain the TV rights to her "Banat al-Riyadh" (The Girls of Riyadh). |
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- TV News: Nine wins year with 29.2% audience share -- The Aussie ratings race -- won in a close contest by the Nine Network -- has produced a slew of local hit skeins. Nine won the year with a 29.2% aud share (total viewers 6 p. |
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- TV News: TV programs raising awareness about issues -- "Humanos en el camino" (Humans on the Road) is stretching beyond the smallscreen to try to raise awareness about poverty and other issues. Rosstoc, the producer, is arranging debates and exhibits and putting viewers and corporations in contact with people and orgs related to the content of the weekly program so they can get involved. |
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- TV News: Delegation looking for buyers in Brazil -- A delegation of about 30 French production companies, nets and distribs is in Rio for French TV Showcase, a seminar and business meetings to be held Dec. 11-13. Event aims to increase the sales of French TV programming and pics to Brazil and boost the countries' co-productions. |
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- TV News: And now, the whole latenight TV thing can potentially get really interesting. Like, Shakespeare interesting. In a long-anticipated deal, CBS officially announced last week that David Letterman, at age 59, has agreed to host "Late Show" well into 2010, a year beyond NBC's scheduled handover of "The Tonight Show" from Jay Leno to Conan O'Brien. |
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- TV News: Audiences take to 'Boys,' 'Items' -- For years, basic cable networks have tried -- and largely failed -- to find any traction in original sitcoms, but TBS may have cracked the elusive genre with a pair of new comedies. |
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- TV News: Show business outsider could provide just the boost that network needs -- Last week, GE tapped Michael Pilot, CEO of its equipment finance unit, to become head of ad sales -- a job that puts him in control of a substantial portion of national TV ad inventory on both broadcast and cable. |
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- TV News: Rivals scramble schedules in frantic bid to cope with Fox's ratings phenomenon -- After five years of virtually unchecked growth, 2007 is the year "American Idol" will finally see its ratings start to fade. At least, that's what execs at every network not owned by Rupert Murdoch are fervently wishing for this holiday season. |
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- Author: theorganicdonut Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 11:48 pm (GMT 0) i love your miss sixty top! are you willing to swap it or are you just selling it? |
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- Venezuela's vice president said tonight that General Augusto Pinochet's death means the former Chilean dictator has managed to escape justice for crimes committed during his rule. |
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- The US and its closest western allies are close to calling for a vote on UN Security Council sanctions against Iran, even at the risk that Russia and China may abstain or oppose the measures, officials said today. |
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- General Augusto Pinochet, the fierce anti-communist dictator who ruled Chile with an iron fist from 1973 to 1990, died this evening from heart complications, the Santiago Military hospital reported. He was 91. |
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- Bangladesh's interim leader President Iajuddin Ahmed said today he called in the army to aid the civil administration as political protests were disrupting public life and to ensure that upcoming elections would be held on time. |
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- A military hospital in Chile has said former dictator Augusto Pinochet has died. |
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- Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery woke up to their first day in space today, where the first order of business will be to make sure their ship was not damaged during launch. |
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- Family and friends of poisoned Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko are unlikely to cooperate with a Russian investigation into his death, it was claimed tonight. |
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- With the publication of Lord Stevens' report into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, out this week, speculation has been rife about what revelations it may contain. |
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- Dissident republican terrorists have been plotting to assassinate Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams, it was claimed tonight. |
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- Conservationists have won the battle to save 16 Moore Street. |
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- Six Irish people who stayed in a top London hotel the same time Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned are being sought by officials, it was confirmed today. |
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- More than 10,000 runners today made history in Dublin by completing a 10km fun run under the city. |
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- Police in the North are treating as sectarian an incident in Ballymena in which a 17-year-old boy was assaulted. |
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- The Minister for Education, Mary Hanafin, has promised more money will be spent on school building and modernisation projects this year than ever before. |
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- A man in his 20's has been charged with the murder of Kilkenny Postmaster Alan Cunniffe. |
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- A man died following a suspected hit-and-run in Co Offaly early this morning, gardai said. |
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