Eight faces to watch this fall (Chicago Tribune)
The Watcher: The fall of 2008 won't go down in the history books as television's finest hour. There haven't been many (well, any) new shows to completely rave about, but it's not as if the season is a complete washout.
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Four decades of ‘Dapper Dan’ drew to a close (The Citizens' Voice)
An election year dominated by turmoil in the Middle East on top of an energy crisis, 1980 offered a striking parallel to 2008. Gas prices were high, inflation was rampant and words like “tension” and “conflict” constantly splashed across the headlines.
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Cyber-Surfing Gives Everyone Easy Access to History (Carteret County News-Times)
(ARA) - History is making history on the World Wide Web. With a click of the mouse, lifelong historians and those who just caught the history bug are taking to the Internet in record numbers to explore its nearly limitless access to times gone by.
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Overon Selects TANDBERG Television For European Distribution Of National Geographic Channel HD (DigitalBroadcastingcom)
TANDBERG Television, today announced that it is providing an MPEG-4 AVC high definition (HD) encoding system to Spanish-based broadcast solutions provider Overon for the delivery of National Geographic Channel HD to broadcasters and TV service providers across Europe
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Talk to the Newsroom: Television Reporters (New York Times)
Bill Carter and Jacques Steinberg, who cover television, are answering questions this week.
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Television - National (Scoop.co.nz)
With Canterbury's cup and show week just a month away, Riccarton Park racecourse has been refurbishing part of its racing history.
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Judo black belt Putin shows off moves in DVD (AP via Yahoo! News)
Vladimir Putin is out on video as a judo master. Russian state-controlled media already have shown the powerful prime minister at the wheel of massive racing truck, shirtless on a fishing excursion, and tracking a tiger through the Siberian forest — just a few of the he-man presentations designed to boost his public image.
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Television - Business (Scoop.co.nz)
Days from becoming the largest bankruptcy in US history, Lehman Brothers steered millions to departing executives even while pleading for a federal rescue, Congress was told Monday.
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Prime time show is a real 'hit' (Republican-American)
This fall "America's Funniest Home Videos" begins its 18th season on ABC television. The show is now the longest running prime time program in ABC history. If nothing else, the success of AFV proves that Americans never get tired of watching guys get hit in the crotch. The crotch-shot, of course, is what all viewers eagerly anticipate during every show. Oh sure, there are always some cute videos ...
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Obama?s Personal Ties Are Subject of Program on Fox News Channel (New York Times)
Sean Hannity was the host of ?Obama & Friends: The History of Radicalism,? which attacked the senator?s personal associations.
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