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BBC World News, Dec 23, 2011

Netflix UK Debut Without 'Downton Abbey' Shows Local Grip
BusinessWeek
Local consumers can already choose from video-streaming services by Amazon.com Inc.'s Lovefilm unit, Channel 4, the BBC, British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc and ITV, the country's biggest commercial broadcaster. As with theBBC deal, Netflix may only be ...
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NPR's “Wait, Wait…Don't Tell Me” is on BBC America television tonight
Radio-Info.com
The weekly radio news quiz show starring Peter Sagal and Carl Kasell will salute its BBC America TV appearance by producing what the Los Angeles Times calls an “Anglo-American video edition subtitled 'A Royal Pain in the News. ...
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Would you want work email blocked after work hours?
CBC.ca
By Community Team Volkswagen in Germany has agreed to stop sending email through its BlackBerry servers to some of its unionized employees after working hours, BBC News reports. Would you want work email to your Blackberry blocked after work hours? ...
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CNN's Morgan testimony has little impact
San Francisco Chronicle
"He's given everybody enough rope to hang him with," said Hewlett, presenter forBBC Radio's "The Media Show." "If anything turns up to show that what he was saying wasn't true, then he's toast," Hewlett said. George Washington's Sesno, however, ...
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VIDEO: Leona Lewis Gives Stunning Performance Of 'Run' On 'X Factor USA' Finale
TaleTela
Leona's version was turned into a single after she wowed the countrywith her performance of the track on BBC Radio 1s Live Lounge. After Leona's performance, Simon Cowell spoke on his protege's success saying: "I can remember being in his position ...
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Get your kicks... on the M25
The Independent
Every Sunday afternoon, Simon presents the UK's only radio travel phone-in programme called The LBC Travel Show with Simon Calder (97.3 FM). He is a regular guest on national TV, often seen on BBC Breakfast, Daybreak, ITV News and Sky News. ...
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CNN's Morgan testimony has little impact
Seattle Post Intelligencer
"He's given everybody enough rope to hang him with," said Hewlett, presenter forBBC Radio's "The Media Show." "If anything turns up to show that what he was saying wasn't true, then he's toast," Hewlett said. George Washington's Sesno, however, ...
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The Voice UK: Judges have agreed to be encouraging
Daily Mail
And Queen of Mean Anne Robinson is also exiting, having filmed the last episode of BBC1 quiz The Weakest Link, which was viewed as not fitting with the new era. An executive at the BBC tells me: 'There's definitely a view that uplifting content works ...
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Daily Mail
Brain teaser 2011
Evening Standard
What did Burmese freedom campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi say "made my life more complete"? a) The wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. c) Dave Lee Travis's requests show on the BBC World Service. 3. "I don't know if it's my public school ...
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22000 views for flash mob video
The Birmingham Post
Ember's YouTube video showing a festive flash mob bringing Birmingham city centre to a standstill has clocked up more than 22000 views in the first few days. The film, which features the BBC broadcaster Richard Bacon and involved all-over lycra “morph” ...
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INDMUSIC Takes On the New YouTube
Tubefilter News
Martinez led his creators to groundbreaking deals with Digital Broadcast Group, BET Digital, Sony Online Entertainment, and BBC Worldwide, among many others. He can be reached via Twitter at @Awesomeosity. Jon Baltz is Co-Founder and VP of Marketing ...
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CMU Review Of The Year 2011: The media and the internet
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Former commercial radio chief John Myers undertook a review of theBBC's national music radio stations this year, concluding that the likes of Radios 1 and 2 are vastly over staffed, and proposing a raft of changes, most of which would help the Beeb in ...
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The Real I-Revolt Apps of the Arab Spring
Inter Press Service
You add to that mix the role played by the 24-hour pan-Arab TV news, especially from the Mubarak-bashing Aljazeera, BBC Arabic, Al-arabiya and even the US-funded Al-Hurra, in spreading the word and you'll get a realistic sense of what a limited role ...
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411 Music Ten Deep 12.23.11: The Top 10 Songs for Christmas
411mania.com
In October 1984, a BBC report by Michael Buerk was aired in the UK, which highlighted the famine that had hit the people of Ethiopia. Boomtown Rats lead singer Bob Geldof (and now of Live Aid fame) saw the report and wanted to raise money. ...
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BBC Switching To HTML5 Support For Videos Across Its Websites
Gadget Helpline (blog)
The BBC is not the first company to change direction with regards to its videoplayers, companies such as Amazon and Lovefilm have already made the switch to HTML5. However, it would appear that the transition may be slow, the BBC are not going to ...
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TV.com's Top 100 Everything of 2011, Vol. 5: Items 60-51
TV.com
But death is playing a really cruel game with her, and The Big C somehow still manages to make it introspective and funny. The Syfy version of the BBC show took one of the latter's pedophile storylines and twisted it in a way that started off lame: ...
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Gannett gives iPhones, iPads, other gadgets to their journalists
DigitalJournal.com
BBC is in the process of creating a specialized iPhone and iPad app which allows their journalists to upload video, photo, and audio content to their system while out in the field, according to Poynter. The ever increasing pressure to change how news ...
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Video of the day: Season's Greetings from New York City
Gadling
Think of it as our gift to you. Want to give us something for the holidays? Post a link in the comments below or add photos to our Flickr Group for our next Photo/Video of the Day. Hat tip to our friends across the pond at BBC Travel for tweeting the link.
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Euro fears 'affecting UK prospects'
WalesOnline
Mr Chote told BBC Radio: "The economy looks like it has probably grown by less than 1% during the course of this year and it is not going into next year with a great deal of momentum. "As we look forward into next year, (the question) is whether we do ...
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Fair Trade Proving Anything But to Farmers in $6 Billion Market
Bloomberg
Tackling Child Labor “It has taken longer than we originally planned to get this underway,” Crowther said of the independent review, which she described as not just a response to the BBC report, but “an assessment of Fairtrade's whole approach to ...
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Bloomberg
La Senza to enter administration
WalesOnline
He told BBC Radio 5 live: "It's sad because it's a company that I used to consider was my baby back in the early 2000s and it's sad to see it go off the high street. But it's a sign of the times I suppose." Accountants KPMG will continue to workwith ...
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BBC News - AT&T ends $39bn bid for T-Mobile USA
US telecoms giant AT&T has said it will not pursue its $39bn bid to buy T-Mobile ...Skip to content; Skip to local navigation; Skip to bbc.co.uk navigation; Skip to ...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16279341
BBC News - Free Syrian Army ...
A journalist who went undercover with the dissident Free Syrian Army says it is poorly equiped and could be smashed by the Syrian army.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16293998
BBC News - Lucha libre in the US ...
Skip to content; Skip to local navigation; Skip tobbc.co.uk navigation; Skip to ... RJ Brewer explains his views in a promotional video for Lucha Libre USA ... going on in the real world and with the experiences that Latinos have as immigrants." ...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16097158
Homeless US families find little to cheer at Christmas
By Ian Pannell & Ian Sherwood BBC News, Denver and Detroit ... With the gap between rich and poor widening in the US, the world's richest nation is now ...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16280580
Is a cure for the common cold on the way?
Skip to content; Skip to local navigation; Skip to bbc.co.uk navigation; Skip tobbc.co.uk search ... In the northern hemisphere, cold and flu season is upon us. ...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16165605
Metal undergoes novel transition under extreme pressure
Skip to content; Skip to local navigation; Skip to bbc.co.uk navigation; Skip tobbc.co.uk ... Combined with computer simulations of just what was going on withthe material's ... "Our new results show, instead, that iron oxide metallises without any change in ... 24 hours of news images from around the world. ... Video/Audio...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16265510
MediaShift . Mediatwits #31: BBC World Invades U.S. ...
Tagged: bbc, bbc world news, comcast, cord cutters, gadgets, peter horrocks, ...to the U.K., where the BBC is pushing its BBC World cable news channel to an... The BBC recently made a deal with Comcast to increase its reach to 15 millionU.S. homes by the end ... 12:10: BBC's live coverage online getting more dynamic ...
www.pbs.org/.../mediatwits-31-bbc-world-invades-us-readwrit...
BBC strikes 'breakthrough' US news deal with cable giant Comcast ...
BBC World News to more than double its US reach, to 15m homes, through Comcast's ... guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 13 December 2011 12.12 GMT; Article history ...
www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/.../bbc-comcast-world-news
BBC World News to Launch Through Comcast's Xfinity TV - The ...
BBC World News is expected to be in nearly 15 million homes in the U.S. by the end of next year. ... and in-depth interviews will be featured on the channel, including BBC World News America with anchor Katty Kay. ... 'Adventures of Tintin' U.K. Premiere ... 'Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' Extended Trailer Released (Video). 4 ...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/.../bbc-world-news-comcast-xfin...
ITV and BBC share Euro 2012 rights - UK & World News - News ...
The network will again share the rights to the competition with the BBC, ...matches on BBC1 as they give us a strong climax to the event, with both semi- finals, ... Your People.co.uk, great videos and pictures from the UK and around the world, ...
www.people.co.uk/.../itv-and-bbc-share-euro-2012-rights-102...
Netflix Signs UK Streaming Deal With the BBC
Netflix has signed a licensing agreement with BBC Worldwide to bring a ...Featured in US & World ... too much for the US subscriber but for USshareholders this is great news! ... Facebook Wants You to Know How it Makes Money [VIDEO] 2 ...
mashable.com/2011/12/20/netflix-bbc/
BBC.com Promises "Light" Instead of "Heat" on New U.S. Election Site
It opens with an introduction to the Republican candidates along with a few topical... It's a redirect to the BBC.co.uk topic page, so it's the same coverage that the ...As the election gears up, the site's content will include articles, video series and... as well as Katty Kay, anchor of the BBC World News America TV program. ...
www.readwriteweb.com/.../bbccom_promises_light_instead_o...
BBC, Comcast Ink Deal That Puts 'World News' in Millions of Homes ...
The BBC has made a deal with cable operator Comcast to distribute its BBCWorld News ... BBC World News is currently available in about 6 million households, but this pact will ... “We know that US viewers increasingly value the smart and impartial international ... Also Read: 'Law & Order: UK' Coming to BBCAmerica ...
www.thewrap.com/.../bbc-comcast-ink-deal-puts-world-news-...
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