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National Park Service Teams With TV Worldwide to Salute Troops, With Live Satellite and Web Simulcast of Nation's ... (Broadcast Newsroom) WASHINGTON, DC -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 07/03/08 -- TV Worldwide, a fast-growing web-based global TV network, in cooperation with the National Park Service, will again produce a free live simulcast via satellite and the web of the Washington, D.C., National Capital 4th of July Fireworks Celebration for the benefit of American military personnel and their families stationed overseas.
Sky considering ?2.5bn bid for Digital+ (Digital Spy) Sky is considering a bid of more than ?2.5bn (£2bn) for Spanish satellite pay TV firm Digital+.
Roger Keating Joins Hearst-Argyle Television as Head of Digital Media Unit (Broadcast Newsroom) NEW YORK , July 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Roger Keating is joining Hearst-Argyle Television , Inc. (NYSE: HTV) as Senior Vice President, Digital Media.
Cablevision ups HD in battle with satellite, FiOS (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Cablevision Systems Corp will give customers another 15 free high-definition channels as it faces stiffer competition from satellite TV providers and Verizon Communications Inc .
Long wait for satellite radio deal may end soon (AP via Yahoo! Finance) Sirius Satellite Radio Inc.'s acquisition of rival XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. may be cleared by federal regulators this month, and it can't happen fast enough for XM.
BSkyB considers bid for Spain?s Digital+ (Financial Times) British Sky Broadcasting , the UK satellite group, is considering making a bid of more than ?2.5bn for Digital+, the Spanish pay-TV platform, which would mark its first foray outside the UK and Ireland since an ill-fated move into Germany in 2000.
Paving way with good inventions (Colorado Springs Gazette) Mario Salazar gambled his retirement savings and borrowed more than $60,000 on his credit cards in hopes that his digital miter gauge would attract enough attention at an Atlanta trade show to keep him out of bankruptcy.
Regulators take aim at 'collecting societies' for music (International Herald Tribune) Regulators want to end the current European system, under which the collecting societies effectively have monopolies in their domestic markets.
Digital TV conversion will open medium to multicasting (The Indianapolis Star) So, you think you know everything about next year's national conversion to digital TV? You know that on Feb. 17 of next year analog television signals will be shut off and full-power stations will start broadcasting their shows exclusively in digital.
Letters to Sunday Datebook (San Francisco Chronicle) Readers can't stop writing about mix-tape Memories Editor - Reading the June 1 letters to Datebook about the joys of mixing cassette tapes brought back fond memories. I was over in Japan teaching English to the locals, pre-satellite TV, CDs and computers....
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