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...networking events--and loving it. And her circle is about to expand again as she prepares to launch an Internet radio program offering advice for juggling work and home duties. She's the queen of WorldWIT, a global e-mail networking group with outposts all over the planet...
...brand whose global reach is matched only by the likes of MTV and CNN. It is also the foundation of a privately owned cable empire that generates $2 billion a year in revenue and includes channels like TLC (formally the Learning Channel), with its hit show Trading Spaces; Animal Planet, featuring The Crocodile Hunter; the Travel Channel; and Discovery Health, whose weight-loss face-off Body Challenge has become...
...anyone who remembers the pre-cable heyday of National Geographic documentaries or Wild Kingdom (which now airs on Animal Planet) on broadcast TV, it may seem surprising that Discovery has so quietly become a cable powerhouse. That may just be a consequence of a 500-channel universe. But now that cable is entering the digital age, Hendricks is hoping to give Discovery a much higher profile. He has already started the nation's first 24-hour HDTV subscription service, which provides a variety of Discovery programming in high definition for $8 a month. And he will soon announce plans...
...Lonely Planet's A House Somewhere: Tales of Life Abroad explores what happens when we take the romance of travel one step further and settle down. The 26 stories read like an abridged edition of the past two decades' most popular travel books, with excerpts from Paul Theroux's Sunrise with Seamonsters and Pico Iyer's The Global Soul. For avid travel readers these will be old friends; for those new to the genre, it's a great way to catch...
...what China may want is locally produced cheese like TV Court?Chinese people starring in the kind of voyeuristic reality-show fare that has made News Corp. the planet's reigning king of schlocky but wildly watchable shows. "We wanted programming like they'd never seen," says Jamie Davis, president of News Corp. China. "We wanted that international format and energy?but you have to go local to succeed...