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Meanwhile, Clear Channel, the nation's largest station owner, is amping its online presence. More than 600 stations have redesigned their websites, now reaching 10 million people a month, and 2.6 million podcasts (with ads) have been downloaded since June. In August, AOL Radio introduced podcasting to its 16 million monthly listeners. "We're very bullish on podcasting," says Isquith. "Millions of people are interested in the on-demand experience." As for now, AOL's podcasts are commercial free, but that may change. "In podcasting, there are no rules," Curry says. "You don't have to do it to make...
Over the past three years, Wal-Mart has set up minority scholarships for journalism at various universities, and in May Wal-Mart underwrote a documentary, on black soldiers who served in segregated units in different wars, that appeared on TV-ONE, a small cable channel geared to African Americans...
...programming without government permission. Uniformed officers raided News Corp.'s Beijing offices in June and confiscated financial records and equipment. Calling the investigation a "big and serious case," the government is focusing on a company registered to News Corp. employees with regard to its role in leasing satellite-TV channels in China. And China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television terminated a deal that put News Corp. programming on a nationwide satellite channel based in the remote Qinghai province. Executives at Hong Kong's Star TV, a subsidiary of News Corp., declined to comment...
...living rooms to Western culture. Multinational media companies are salivating over the $3.4 billion in TV advertising carried on networks in China last year, only 6% of which went to foreign firms, according to Vivek Couto, a Hong Kong--based media consultant. But government restrictions limit some News Corp. channels to the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, luxury hotels, top government offices and approved apartment buildings. (Time Warner, owner of TIME, sold its controlling stake in a channel that also broadcast to Guangzhou in 2003.) Meanwhile, Beijing has left Disney in the cold by refusing to approve any more foreign...
...Numbers 6 hr. 13 min. Time it took Hilary Lister, a 33-year-old Briton paralyzed below the neck, to sail across the English Channel, sucking and blowing into straws to steer the vessel...