Word: channelling
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...latest in a long string of recent high-profile cases--Martha Stewart, Scott Peterson, Kobe Bryant, Robert Blake, Bernie Ebbers and more--in which cameras have been banned or severely restricted. So desperate is TV for at least a semblance of in-court coverage that the E! cable channel is planning to air daily re-enactments, with actors playing Jackson, the lawyers and the witnesses...
FREED. EIGHT CHINESE MEN, abducted by Islamic militants after traveling to Iraq from their native Fujian province in search of work; in Iraq. In a tape broadcast by Arabic news channel al-Jazeera, a group calling itself the Islamic Resistance Movement threatened to execute the hostages unless Beijing "clarified its position" on the Iraq war; a second communiqu? demanded China agree to a state ban on travel to Iraq in exchange for "merciful" treatment of the hostages. After China advised its citizens to stay out of Iraq, the insurgents released the men, reportedly unharmed...
Since the story appeared on Reuters on Jan. 12, WHTH Boston Channel 7, CNN.com, “Lou Dobbs Tonight” and The Boston Herald all picked up on the story...
...triple its Hispanic advertising and promotional budget in 2005. General Electric, Telemundo's parent company, has identified Spanish-language TV as a strategic growth area. (Univision and Telemundo used to be the sole TV options. There are now 67 Spanish-language cable networks, from ESPN Deportes to the History Channel en Espa??ol.) To counter sluggish growth, Miller Brewing Co. signed a three-year, $100 million deal with Univision in October to sponsor programs, buy commercial time and place products on Univision's radio, cable and broadcast network properties...
...start is partly attributable to its unusual business model. Anyone signed up for PCCW broadband Internet access is eligible for a free set-top box to also hook up the same line to his TV. Instead of selling basic cable-style packages, which often force consumers to pay for channels they don't want, PCCW opted to offer a content menu that is almost entirely ? la carte. Fees for individual channels?among them BBC, HBO, the Disney Channel and MTV?start at about $2 a month. Subscribers can readily drop channels and sign up for new ones...