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National Geographic History Magazine Debuts in Itlay

National Geographic History Magazine Debuts in Itlay

A new history magazine, National Geographic Storica, launched in Italy in February. It will be published monthly under license from National Geographic by RBA Italia, the Italian branch of RBA Edipresse S.L., Spain’s leading publisher. RBA Italia, formed in 2007, has been developing partwork publications for newsstands and direct mail, and Storica is the company’s [...]

February 28 2009 | Posted in Print | Read More »

Revealing costumes to sex things up in Sunday’s show

Revealing costumes to sex things up in Sunday’s show

The Dancing On Ice girls are going to be sexing things up in this week’s show with raunchy routines and revealing outfits. Jess is wearing a silver crystal encrusted catsuit, Roxy is wearing a costume which she describes as “like a bikini” and Zoe is wearing a gold tassled crystal encrusted dress.
Jess hopes that her [...]

February 28 2009 | Posted in Show Talk | Read More »

Pgatour.com Matches Record High 2.5 Million Video Streams

Pgatour.com Matches Record High 2.5 Million Video Streams

Pgatour.com , the online home of the PGA Tour, once again streamed nearly 2.5 million videos in one day to reach the previous record set for its online coverage of the World Golf Championships – Accenture Match Play Championship.  This marks a two-day high for the site with nearly 5 million videos accessed by users [...]

February 28 2009 | Posted in Digital | Read More »

Mobile can enhance a PC digital advertising campaign : comScore

Mobile can enhance a PC digital advertising campaign : comScore

comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, has reported the results of the first study of its cross-media panel of PC and mobile Internet users in the U.S., finding that  light PC Internet users are 30 percent more likely than heavy PC Internet users to use their mobile devices to  access [...]

February 28 2009 | Posted in Media Research | Read More »

BBC Worldwide takes award-winning British drama to Germany

BBC Worldwide takes award-winning British drama to Germany

BBC Worldwide is taking award-winning British drama to Germany, having concluded deals for hit titles with major German broadcasters ZDF, WDR and RTL2 at BBC Worldwide’s annual television market in Brighton, BBC Showcase.
“These deals give British drama a very wide platform within Germany and enable the genre to reach large audiences throughout the country,” said [...]

February 28 2009 | Posted in Show Talk | Read More »

U.S. News Weekly available on Amazon Kindle

U.S. News Weekly available on Amazon Kindle

U.S. News Media Group, one of the nation’s leading sources of news analysis and service journalism, has announced that its newly released digital-only product U.S. News Weekly is now also available on Amazon Kindle.
Through this new distribution channel, content from U.S. News Weekly, a digital-only magazine that includes hard news reporting, insightful analysis, unique features [...]

February 28 2009 | Posted in Print | Read More »

DISH Network Announces 8th Annual Interactive Television Award Winners

DISH Network Announces 8th Annual Interactive Television Award Winners

DISH Network has announced the winners of its 2009 Interactive Television Summit Awards, which celebrates some of the best programmers and developers in the interactive television (iTV) industry. iTV Summit brings together interactive developers to learn and discuss collaborative opportunities within the next-generation platform.
DISH Network’s iTV service hosts a series of applications including DishGAMES, DISH [...]

February 28 2009 | Posted in TV | Read More »

‘Pros vs Joes’ to showcase famous sports figures of the last decade

‘Pros vs Joes’ to showcase famous sports figures of the last decade

Spike TV’s new season of “Pros vs Joes,” premiering Monday, April 27 at 11:00pm ET/PT will once again showcase some of the biggest and most talked-about sports figures of the last decade. The impressive roster for Spike TV’s “Pros vs. Joes 4: All Stars” includes gridiron greats: Adam Jones, Tim Brown, Simeon Rice, Priest Holmes, [...]

February 28 2009 | Posted in Show Talk | Read More »

Bachelorette’s Dreams Come True on ABC’s The Bachelor

Bachelorette’s Dreams Come True on ABC’s The Bachelor

Celebrity jeweler extraordinaire Neil Lane  adds sparkle to ABC’s “The Bachelor,” from Warner Horizon Television, when Jason Mesnick proposes to one lucky bachelorette on Monday, March 2nd. The top-rated reality series will come to a close as Mesnick will get down on one knee and propose with a hand-crafted Neil Lane marquise-cut diamond and platinum [...]

February 28 2009 | Posted in TV | Read More »

Home Stations Installations to Compete with Cable and Dish Satellite

Home Stations Installations  to Compete with Cable and Dish Satellite

While reports of rising unemployment rates and job cuts have dominated the news recently, a new company, Home Stations Installations, opened in West Pittston, Pennsylvania.
“For the past year, I’ve been working on this new business,” says President/CEO Gary Zurenda of Exeter, Pennsylvania. The business has to do with DTV converter boxes and digital antennas. “I [...]

February 28 2009 | Posted in Digital TV | Read More »