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News Corp. board approves spinoff plan
News Corp. directors will move forward with CEO Rupert Murdoch's plans to split the company into two divisions next month. The board also approved a $500 million stock repurchase program to follow the split. The spinoff, set for 6/28, will create "21st Century Fox," (at one point it was to be called "Fox Group") which will include entertainment operations, cable and ...
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NASH FM adds five Cumulus stations
Given the huge success of its Country WNSH-FM NY, Cumulus announces the expansion of the NASH FM Country music and lifestyle brand to five additional stations. These stations will be known as NASH FM - with their logos, websites and on-air promotions. The stations adopting include WPKR/WPCK (Appleton-Oshkosh/Green Bay, WI), KHKI (Des Moines, IA), WKAK (Albany, GA),KQFC (Boise, ID) and WLXX ...
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Louisiana takes ALERT FM and GSSNet statewide
Louisiana has completed the implementation of the ALERT FM and GSSNet systems across the state, improving the way the state delivers voice and text emergency notifications to the public, the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness announced. GOHSEP will use the ALERT FM system to send out its emergency alerts, as will emergency managers from all 64 parishes and 42 ...
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Pandora gets record Q1 big subscriber growth
Total revenue for Q1 of fiscal 2014 was $125.5 million, a 55% YOY increase. Non-GAAP total revenue was $128.5 million, a 58% YOY increase, including $3.0 million in revenue relating to subscription return reserve. Ad revenue was $105.1 million, a 49% increase. Non-GAAP subscription and other revenue was $23.4 million, a 114% YOY increase, including $3.0 million in revenue relating to ...
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Raidix At Koba 2013
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It's always a shame to see a great character in a lousy movie. It's a waste because one inspired character isn't enough to elevate the movie above its basic mediocrity, even if he or she makes it almost worth watching. And, at the same time, you can't help but wonder how even more effective the character would have been had he or she been placed in the context of a better movie. ...
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NUGEN Audio LM-Correct making Asia debut at BroadcastAsia2013
Avid environment. LM-Correct is ideal for rapid, intuitive correction in situations where time is limited, providing an automatic method of rapidly conforming audio to current loudness standards. The program can be used as a one-stop solution for loudness correction, fixing audio that has not been mixed with loudness standards in mind, or in conjunction with a real-time loudness meter such as ...
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Broadcasters should stick to program making
Red faces at the BBC as John Linwood, the BBC's chief technology officer, is suspended following the scrapping of their in-house project to develop a file-based production platform. The project had a troubled history, being handed on a plate to Siemens, their technology outsourcing provider. In 2009 the BBC took control of a project going nowhere and brought it back in house. Since then, ...
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BBC Cans Tapeless Production Project at Huge 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 ...
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DMI from beta to bust
approves 81m in funding and greenlights the first phase of the Digital Media Initiative (DMI).Future media and technology director Ashley Highfield describes DMI as "the single most important initiative we are working on. Without DMI, we simply can't deliver many of our planned exciting new on-demand ...
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We must define the nature and scope of this struggle, or else it will define us. Neither I, nor any President can promise the total defeat of terror. What we must do is dismantle networks that pose a direct danger.
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The U.S. president was speaking on his administration's counter terrorism policy.
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Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel
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