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...shows--and wins. He co-founded Si TV to produce them, and its show The Brothers Garcia, a comedy based partly on Valdez's childhood with nine siblings in Colorado, is a hit for Nickelodeon. This summer EchoStar will distribute the new Si TV network, the first English-language channel for Latinos, to U.S. cable and satellite customers...
...China. There's Wanted! In China to help catch murderers and Late Night Talk with a Letterman knock-off reading Top 10 lists. But censors have refused to clear a Friends-style show with allusions to premarital sex. Although News Corp. won the right to beam its Mandarin-language channel, Starry Sky, across the country to certain hotels and apartments, it is unclear whether Rupert Murdoch will be allowed to reach China's 95 million ordinary cable subscribers. The Communist Party will be the judge on that one. --By Matthew Forney/Beijing...
...delivery vehicle is a new Mandarin-language TV channel called Xing Kong Wei Shi (Starry Sky). Rolled out last year by News Corp.'s Asian subsidiary, Hong Kong-based Star Group Ltd., the new channel has already produced 700 hours of programming based on Western concepts. There's a real-life police show reenacting grisly mainland murders (Wanted! In China), China's first televised male beauty contest (Women in Control), a talk show with a wisecracking host ? la David Letterman (Late Night Talk), and soon there will be Sang Lan, the gymnast who won hearts after a paralyzing fall...
...Elsewhere, such fare has been gold for News Corp. In the U.S., Murdoch's Fox network owns several runaway hits including Joe Millionaire and American Idol. In India, the company's Star Plus is the leading cable channel, thanks largely to the popularity of a Hindi-language version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. The success of Star Plus helped the Star Group, which is run by Murdoch's son James and reaches 53 countries, turn its first profitable quarter last year, after losing an estimated $1 billion in its previous 10 years of operation...
...Cable programming provides a form of information and entertainment that is presently not available to Harvard students. CNN provides national and international coverage for students who don’t want to listen to NPR or wade through websites for their news. Stations like the Discovery Channel and History Channel are educational in nature. And there are dozens of channels that provide entertaining programming that Harvard students consistently enjoy when they’re home on break...