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...plans to close a $40 million deal to purchase 51% of ComCor-TV (CCTV), a Moscow broadband provider, in the fall. CCTV has wired some 130,000 dwellings in the city and plans to connect 70,000 more in the upscale Central Administrative District by next March. A 47-channel package, which includes Russian-language versions of Animal Planet and Fox Kids, costs $12 a month. (Unlimited high-speed Web service adds $61.) "This is a unique opportunity for us. Muscovites want exposure to Western content," Baker says. His partner in this project? CCTV chairman Yuri Pripachkin, a former captain...
...Planet Earth. But how about Help Me Anthea--I'm Infested or Help, My Dog's as Fat as Me or Freaky Eaters? The latter programs have something in common besides the power of their titles to make BBC executives blush: they were all commissioned by the digital TV channel BBC3. Set up in 2003 to cater to those fickle younger audiences, BBC3 has scored several successes, including the exuberantly tasteless comedy Little Britain. Featuring such popular characters as a pugnacious, latex-clad homosexual named Dafydd Thomas, who has the deluded belief he is "the only gay in the village...
That would hardly help the network attract more younger viewers, counters Danny Cohen, BBC3's 33-year-old head: "We don't make our programs with 50-year-old viewers in mind." Among the channel's new projects are not only dramas and comedies but also a Web-based experiment, which Cohen describes as a "weird mixture of YouTube and talent show." Part of the BBC's updated mission is to boost "media literacy" and push its flock to digital technology as analog is phased out. BBC3 intends to set trends and not just follow them...
...after a meal, a movie, some mingling and a four-hour nap, that leaves you with, oh, my God, nine hours to go. I read Jarhead for a little longer, then switched my video channel to the moving map display. It showed nothing but the huge blue expanse of the Pacific Ocean. Where the hell was Singapore anyway? Then back to the movies! Intolerable Cruelty zipped by. Then a couple of hours more sleep...
...FOIA 2006-0543-F: Records or correspondence related to President Clinton wanting the Sci-Fi Channel at the White House and Camp David...