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Support Grows for NTD Television to Keep Broadcasting Into China

A screenshot of NTD Television Asia Pacific's website. The broadcaster hopes to negotiate a new satellite contract with Chunghwa Telecom, but the latter has remained silent; many suspect the Chinese regime's influence. (Screenshot via The Epoch ...
Judge Judy scores syndie ratings win

During the week beginning 4/29/13, Judge Judy beat back both The Big Bang Theory and Wheel of Fortune to win the household ratings derby a comfortable margin. Bang and Wheel were still one-two respectively in terms of total ...
Embracing Internet program delivery Gray stations deploy Syncbak

Syncbak’s Internet TV platform uses location-based authentication technology to enable local television stations to stream their signal to in-market ...
DirecTV considers RF antennas to challenge broadcast retrans fees

Retransmission fees to broadcasters could top $6 billion annually by 2018, with satellite TV service providers like DirecTV paying an estimated $2 billion of the ...
Samsung develops adaptive array transceiver for 5G cellular communications

The company said 5G mobile communications technology is the next generation of the existing 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) network technology and will be capable of providing a compelling and fast file transfer experience to subscribers ...

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By the time writer/director John Waters made Desperate Living in 1977, he was already a notorious midnight-movie cult celebrity, a genuine fringe iconoclastic auteur whose low-budget cinematic barbs skewered self-aggrandizing hippies as readily as it did fascist oppressors. His early movies, Pink Flamingos (1972) and Female Trouble (1974), had taken the midnight ... ...

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ABC wins Friday 18-49

With back-to-back Shark Tanks, including the season finale at 9pm, leading into 20/20, ABC won the final Friday of the season in Total Viewers and Adults 18-49. ABC's Shark Tank and 20/20 stood as the Top 2 shows of the night in Total Viewers and Adults 18-49. And out of the 4 newsmagazines airing on the evening, ABC's 20/20 ranked #1 in viewers and key adults (AD18-49/AD25-54), ...
Public TV Channel Starts Broadcasting in Russia

MOSCOW, May 19 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Public Television started broadcasting on Sunday, offering TV viewers newscasts, films, entertainment and cognitive programs. The new TV channel, which will not run any commercials, is to become accessible free of charge on Sunday in the networks of all operators of cable, satellite and IP-television. The TV channel can also be watched by accessing ...

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Congress says Food Security Bill would have immensely benefited the poor

The Information and Broadcasting Minister , Manish Tewari, has blamed the opposition for the Governments inability to pass the Food Security Bill, which would have helped the country's poor. He was speaking during his visit to Odisha.

Manish Tewari said that the bill was " so ambitious and breathtaking" in its very conception and would provide food security to 67 percent of the people of this country, including the poorest of the poor, the marginalised, the weakest. Rice would have been provided at Rs. 2 a kg, wheat at Rs. 3 a kg, maize at Rs. 1 a kg . But the bill has been sacrificed at the altar of political opportunism. "Can there be a bigger travesty of both politics and policy in this country?" questioned Manish Tewari.

Commoners like Padma Singh, a mother of five children in a village in Odisha, is struggling to feed her children, she said subsidised food would have helped her sustain her family.

Padma said, "We are very poor and cannot have a proper meal. My family survives by eating only rice and boiled potato, as we cannot afford lentils. The cost of rice in the open market is 20 rupees per kilogram. We do not have a below poverty line card as well, so we cannot access subsidized food," she said. ...