Category: Television
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The Telegraph’s continuing re-invention
Get your daily business TV news update from your newspaper, not the TV. The newspaper’s website, that is. BrandRepublic reports on moves by the Telegraph Media Group to extend into the broadcasting business: [… Telegraph Media Group] has created a…
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A first skirmish in the digital media war
A major kerfuffle has broken out in the UK between Virgin Media and satellite broadcaster BSkyB, with customers of both services losing out as the ham in the metaphorical sandwich. At midnight last night, a deadline expired for both companies…
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Celebrity Big Brother fall out gets the eyeballs
A very public kerfuffle has erupted in the UK during this week over the Celebrity Big Brother reality TV show that’s extended right up the political chain to Prime Minister Tony Blair. Charges of racism and bigotry have been leveled…
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Al Jazeera launches in English
Arab TV network Al Jazeera launched an English-language service yesterday that, inevitably, attracted criticisms in the US and elsewhere where some see the station purely as a mouthpiece for Osama Bin Laden. The station has consistently denied any such linkage,…
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TOTP tunes out
Nostalgia ruled last night as I watched the very last Top of The Pops on BBC2 which we get here on cable TV. The one-hour special included clips from rock legends who were in the shows during the last four…