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A BROWN-haired beauty who claims she had an unsatisfying one-night stand with Keith Olbermann is getting her sweet revenge – she’s launched a blog to warn other women about the acerbic MSNBC commentator’s boorish bedroom habits. The bitter babe, who calls herself KarmaBites1, says she doesn’t want others “to fall into the same trap . …
The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) has issued a rebuttal to claims by the Radio-Television News Directors Association that its study finding that 77 stations had used unattributed video news releases VNRs in their newscasts was biased and inaccurate. Tim Karr, campaign director for Free Press, which teamed with Center for Media and Democracy …
With its joint venture with four cable operators nearly one year old, Sprint Nextel is trying to kick-start its relationship with the entire cable industry, expanding the role of JV president John Garcia. Garcia will now oversee not just the wireless-phone JV with Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Advance/Newhouse Communications and Cox Communications, but Sprint deals …
The TV viewing habits of family members who are away at college or other schools will be included in the ratings. Moving to assuage critics who say the TV ratings don’t reflect the watching people do outside their homes, Nielsen Media Research said Monday it will start measuring the viewing habits of college students next …
On Sunday, Oct. 1, Dick Ebersol was in Chicago working the night shift. Since the beginning of the football season, the chairman of NBC Sports & Olympics has been putting in seven-day weeks, traveling with announcers John Madden, Al Michaels and about 125 others to the site of the network’s prime-time “Sunday Night Football” broadcast. …
It’s official. Say hello to Chad and Steve, the worlds newest millionaires. Web-search giant Google has acquired YouTube for roughly $1.6 billion. The acquisition of YouTube makes Google the 500 gorilla of online video. And that’s a perfect place to be at a time when consumers are rapidly increasing the amount of time they spend …
William Jonathan Drayton Jr. once made headlines for giving his girlfriend a trouncing on a public street in Roosevelt, his birthplace and an incubator for Public Enemy, the famous rap group. Drayton, aka Flava Flav, was the symbolic keeper of time for the group. That caricatured, giant medallion of a clock, dangling from his neck …
YouTube and CBS said today they have struck a content and advertising deal through which CBS and sibling cable operations Showtime and College Sports TV Networks will provide daily short-form news, sports and entertainment clips to the Internet video distributor. This marks the first distribution agreement between the YouTube and a major broadcast network. YouTube …
The latest prize in the great Internet land grab, online-video company YouTube Inc., could soon be snapped up by Google Inc. Web-search giant Google is in talks to acquire YouTube for roughly $1.6 billion, a person familiar with the matter says. An acquisition of the closely held company would catapult Google to the lead spot …
Over the past year, a handful of executives have risen in prominence at broadcast and cable television networks in the role of “digital doers”-the hands-on men and women who get the job done every day, guiding their companies through the complexities of the new TV landscape on-air, online, on-demand and on mobile phones. Some are …
There are an awful lot of nice things to say about the Philips HTS9800 DVD Home Theater System . This 6.1 wireless home theatre system has an air of Bang & Olufsen about it, minus the price tag. Wafer thin speakers combine with a vertically mounted DVD player to create a system that looks, and …
Looking for more educational content for your iPod? Apple and A&E Television added several shows from the Biography and History Channels to the iTunes Store (US). Some of the shows include Driving Force, The Revolution, Modern Marvels, selections from the Biography series and Criss Angel’s Mindfreak (one of my favorite shows). The addition of more …
ESPN recently ended its highly touted run as a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO)—a company that buys network capacity from a network operator to offer its own branded mobile subscriptions and value-added services—choosing instead to focus on a broader licensing model that frees up its content to be viewed by cellular subscribers on multiple mobile …
The Canadian Broadcasting Company has commissioned eight episodes of “Little Mosque on the Prairie,” a television comedy about a fictional Muslim family struggling to find its place in Canada’s Western prairies after 9/11, Agence France-Presse reported. Jeff Keay, a CBC spokesman, said: “The producers recognize that this is a potentially sensitive topic. But the show …
18 months ago, Symantec, makers of the popular program suite Norton Utilities, had a scary prediction for Mac users. Symantec claimed that the Mac OS was “increasingly becoming a target for the malicious activity that is more commonly associated with Microsoft.” That’s quite an ominous prediction from a company that claims to be the “global …
Perhaps there should be a German version of the popular MTV show Pimp My Ride. German car customizer Mattes Interieurtechnik built a Mercedes CLS with an integrated backseat iMac. Mattes even carefully covered the outer edge of the iMac in leather to help it blend in with the cream colored interior. Where are the cables? …
e-Fuze.com is now back online and better than ever! Now, you not only still get all those daily tech news at the blog found at e-Fuze.com/blog, but you can also submit and vote for your own stories! The new site works like this: Stories you post get rated and those with the highest rating get …
