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Other recordings inducted into the registry include the radio broadcast of the Hindenburg crash from 1937, Orson Welles’ infamous 1938 radio production of “War of the Worlds” and Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech from...
...Murdoch's News Corp. It's all part of the media titan's grand plan to captivate the world's biggest audience. News Corp. thinks it knows what must-see TV means to the Chinese people, and it's not the bland melodramas, giddy variety shows and propaganda classics broadcast on some 50 cable channels run mostly by the country's central and provincial governments. Nor is it the warmed-over Western cartoons and overseas dramas that are dubbed into Mandarin and recycled on the mainland by News Corp.'s main foreign competitor, AOL Time Warner (owner of TIME...
...secures broader distribution rights, "there's no way it has enough viewers to make money in China," says Couto. Although Beijing is easing restrictions on foreign companies in many industries due to China's entry into the World Trade Organization, it's under no obligation to open up the broadcasting sector. "The government has no time line for granting more access," says a Western TV executive who often meets with Chinese broadcast officials...
...Youth, which was modeled on the American hit Friends. During the review process, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television gutted most of one episode in which male characters bemoan the small size of a neighbor's breasts. The state agency then refused to issue the series a broadcast permit?although News Corp. had already shown several episodes without a permit, an embarrassing snafu that a company executive blames on "a paperwork problem" involving its production partner. Under censors' orders, News Corp. pulled Joyful Youth...
...years ago, Gerry Jackson was sitting in her Harare home "going mad. I just wanted to know what was going on in my own country," recalls the ex-DJ with state-run Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation. "I wanted news." But since all broadcast media in Zimbabwe are controlled by the government, there was no reliable source. She tried setting up a station, Capital Radio, in Harare, but Robert Mugabe shut it down six days after it went on air. So she went into exile, to London, where she and a team of seven now run SW (Short- Wave) Radio Africa, beaming...