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  • Salinas station goes to Mount Wilson

    Buckley Radio's KYZZ-FM Salinas CA programming can also be heard on its KIDD-AM Monterey CA. But the FM will be getting an identity all its own when a deal to sell it to Mount Wilson FM Broadcasters is completed. For Saul Levine's Mount Wilson, the deal will add to its current holdings in the Los Angeles area. And Buckley will still reach the Monterey-Salines market with the ESPN ...

  • WNTR-FM flips to Hot AC

    Entercom Indianapolis' Variety Hits AC WNTR was re-launched to become Hot AC "1079 The Mix." "Mix will be artist driven and more current than before," said WZPL Operations Director, J.R. Ammons. "Mix's new Hot AC format will play more music than competitors in the market and deliver more of what women want, the best of 2000's and today." "We are ...

  • CMT picks up “Hell’s Kitchen”

    Viacom's CMT has reached a multi-year licensing deal with Debmar-Mercury to become the exclusive cable partner for off-network episodes of "Hell's Kitchen," produced by ITV Studios America. The series debuts weekdays beginning this 5/27, at 12 p.m. ET/PT on CMT and will also be available on CMT VOD. "The high energy and drama Gordon Ramsay brings to this series is a ...

  • Hot dog stand marketing version of sales Volume 8

    WNTR-FM flips to Hot AC Entercom Indianapolis' Variety Hits AC WNTR was re-launched to become Hot AC "1079 The Mix." "Mix will be artist driven and more current ...

  • Report Yahoo Bids for Hulu

    according to Reuters, which cited two anonymous sources. Yahoo has said that it is considering other acquisitions and has been working to expand its video offerings for some time. Other companies that have been mentioned as possible suitors include former News Corp. president Peter Chernin, Time Warner Cable, DirecTV and Guggenheim Digital ...


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Kill Bill: Vol. 1

Kill Bill: Vol. 1

For the past few months, the trailer has promised us that, In the year 2003, Uma Thurman will Kill Bill. It turns out that wont be the case because, as is now widely known, Kill Bill, Quentin Tarantinos expansive, ambitious grindhouse homage, his first film in six years, has been split into two parts, Volume 1 and Volume 2, the latter of which wont bow in theaters until next ... ...

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  • BBC Cans Tapeless Production Project at Great Cost

    BBC Director General, Tony Hall, has scrapped the Digital Media Initiative (DMI) project saying it had "wasted a huge amount of license fee payers' money." The write off equates to the annual receiver tax for around 670,000 homes. Hall revealed, "I have serious concern about how we managed this project." The contract to deliver the DMI was originally awarded to Siemens ...

  • Operators dismiss virtual set top at London summit

    Pay-TV operators denied that the set-top box would disappear up into the cloud anytime soon at the recent Connected TV Summit in London. They also scotched the idea proposed by some leading Telcos that the set top could effectively be replaced by smart TVs with the User Interface then rendered from the cloud. Perhaps more surprisingly they were dismissive of network storage at least in the ...

  • Rupert Murdoch plans to poison News Corp takeover bids

    The plan will act as a powerful disincentive to anyone seeking to challenge Rupert Murdoch's control of the two companies. Photograph: Facundo ...

  • Groups Want DOJ Answers on Targeting Journalists

    Close to five dozen groups have demanded that attorney general Eric holder provide a "full and transparent" account of DOJ's targeting of journalists and whistleblowers, in particular its subpoena of AP phone records in a whistleblower investigation and reports it had seized phone records of a Fox reporter. Craig Aaron, president of Free Press, one of 57 groups that sent a letter ...

  • Why some Telcos are going OTT only

    The conventional wisdom is that while OTT is fine for TV Everywhere service extensions, core pay-TV will continue to be delivered over dedicated walled garden networks for the foreseeable future. But, there are one or two operators flouting this’ wisdom’ and perhaps giving us sight of the future by going all OTT now. This is usually because of some special circumstances pertaining ...

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