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  • Montreal lifts boil-water advisory says tap water safe to drink

    Montreal officials say a boil-water advisory has been lifted and residents can drink their tap water after tests showed the water safe to drink. The boil-water advisory, issued Wednesday when the city began receiving calls about discolored water in Montreal's Sud-Ouest distract, was the largest the city has ever experienced, covering a region with 1.3 million residents, Canadian ...

  • Multiplatform World TV Everywhere Still Lacks Simplified Consistent User Experience

    New York -- TV Everywhere still faces hurdles to being dubbed an unqualified success, but consistency of user experience should be one metric to measure it, according to panelists at B&C/Multichannel News' TV in a Multiplatform World event on Thursday. "The ease of which a consumer can discover, fulfill the content they're looking for, should be our success metric," said ...

  • Earthworks Expands Installation Series Microphone Line

    The IM12-W provides an ultra-low profile microphone solution with pristine sound and a 30Hz-30kHz flat frequency response. Patented near-perfect polar technology prevents the loss of high frequencies on or off-axis to the ...

  • Charles Wolfertz new GM at WTAE-TV

    Charles W. Wolfertz III has been promoted to president and GM at Hearst Television's WTAE-TV, the ABC affiliate in Pittsburgh, having served as GSM since March 2012. Wolfertz succeeds Michael Hayes, who has been named senior vice president and group head of Hearst Television, based at the company's New York headquarters. Wolfertz's appointment, effective June 1, was announced by ...

  • Fox Business bests CNBC

    CNBC's newest reality show, Crowd Rules, has not been ruling so much; in fact the ratings have been called "laughable" by CNBC executives. On Tuesday, Fox Business had its first primetime win over CNBC (excluding Election coverage). At 8pmET, "Cavuto" beat "Crowd Rules" by +88,000 Total Viewers and +1,000 demo viewers. At 9pmET, a repeat of "The Willis ...


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Silver Bullet [DVD]

Stephen King's Cycle of the Werewolf was always one of the prolific novelist's slightest works, a short, readable-in-one-sitting novelette constructed as a series of 12 episodes in which a werewolf terrorizes a small American town, with each one corresponding to a month of the year. With a punchy, present-tense prose style and almost no characterization, the best thing about it were the gra ... ...

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    TV alcohol ads under scrutiny in UK The United Kingdom has rules in place which prevent the placement of alcohol advertising on programs designed to appeal to children, but as ...

  • Prototype BBC radio localizes programs

    TV alcohol ads under scrutiny in UK The United Kingdom has rules in place which prevent the placement of alcohol advertising on programs designed to appeal to children, but as ...

  • TV alcohol ads under scrutiny in UK

    The United Kingdom has rules in place which prevent the placement of alcohol advertising on programs designed to appeal to children, but as children have been watching a greater amount of programming aimed at adults, the rules on such ads are getting a look. According to The Guardian, Ofcom is looking into the matter (Ofcom is the British FCC). To Americans, who might see three or four beer ...

  • Sepulveda Nominated as Ambassador

    Former top Senate Communications Subcommittee aide Danny Sepulveda has been nominated by President Obama to the rank of ambassador. Sepulveda has, since April, been Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Communications and Information Policy at the State Department, where his former boss, former Communications Subcommittee chairman Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), is now Secretary ...

  • 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 ...

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