UK News from Times Online:
Fifty years of Olympic Games coverage on the BBC could come to an end in 2014
after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) vowed yesterday to tear up
the way television rights are sold across Europe. (Read More)
Submitted by itafroma
from Google Reader:
In an alternate universe, we're all obsessing about the impending release of The Matrix V and Chronicles Of Riddick 9. Even as we're drowning in retreads of things that launched in the 1960s, just think of all the more recent (Read More)
Boing Boing:
TradeMark Gunderson kindly ripped an out-of-print LP from 1973 by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, called Fourth Dimension. It's awesome.If you know only one thing of their work, it would be the theme to Doctor Who, the venerabl (Read More)
CNN:
TiVO is a fabulous thing! I can control the shows the boys watchwithout having to schedule the TV time to fit when shows are on. Ican record shows I want to watch when I have the time to watchthem- usually not when the shows (Read More)
USATODAY.com - On Politics:
Lifetime Television's Every Woman Counts campaign will report Wednesday morning that its latest polling shows most American women believe Hillary Rodham Clinton and Sarah Palin this year made it more likely that other women w (Read More)
Huffington Post:
It's Sunday night and there's school tomorrow and homework is probably unfinished and not confessed to and likely a quiz unstudied for so Fred isn't in a good mood.He's sixteen and I have to pay bills tomorrow and I'm not fee (Read More)
Submitted by tmaxwell
from blog:
RALEIGH, N.C. - A state House panel moved closer on Monday to recommending that the chamber air video of its daily sessions and some committee meetings and place no restrictions on how the footage could be used.The House sho (Read More)
asp.usatoday.com:
This is a friendly reminder that tonight one of my (and maybe your) favorite holiday specials airs on network television. Santa Claus is Coming to Town kicks off ABC's programming at 8 ET with a much-needed dose of Burgermeis (Read More)
USA Today:
Ted Rogers, creator of Canada's largest cable-television and mobile-phone company and owner of Toronto's Major League Baseball ...
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The Guardian:
Scottish football fans will be denied the opportunity to watch the English FA Cup on ITV this season.The Guardian has learned that Scottish Television, which holds both ITV broadcasting franchises in Scotland, has told the IT (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
BAGHDAD — A special Iraqi court sentenced Saddam Hussein's notorious cousin, "Chemical Ali" Hassan al-Majid, to death Tuesday after convicting him of crimes against humanity for his part in crushing the 1991 Shiite upri (Read More)
Submitted by sarahcrisman:
The Screen Actors Guild released a response to an advertisement from Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers media leaders blasting them for using funds to scold SAG rather than move discussion forward. The statem (Read More)
Reuters Video: Top News:
Dec 2 - North Korea's state-run television KRT runs still photographs of its leader Kim Jong-il, thought to be in poor health, inspecting a North Korean zoo.
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Boing Boing:
Embedded above, and in glorious technicolor downloadable MP4 here: this week's Boing Boing update on Boing Boing tv.♦ We begin with a video chat about O'Reilly Media cofounder DALE DOUGHERTY's guestblog post on why tel (Read More)
New York Times:
Why can't TVs get Internet content? Blame years of tortuous negotiations between TV makers and the cable industry over issues like the channel guide. (Read More)
CNN:
The former Iraqi general known as Chemical Ali has been sentenced to death a second time, the country's official state television reported Tuesday.
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The Guardian:
Britney Spears' 'tell-all' documentary on Sky1, Britney: For the Record was watched by nearly 400,000 viewers. By Leigh Holmwood
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observer.guardian.co.uk:
The "dancing pig in Cuban heels" may just top the charts, come Christmas. John Sergeant, the marvellous and maligned political journalist who won the hearts of the nation on Strictly Come Dancing, has announced plans to relea (Read More)