News Ratings: NBC on Top; CBS Posts Lowest Numbers Ever (Broadcasting and Cable)

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:00:23 PDT
NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams topped ABC’s World News with Charles Gibson last week, averaging 8.17 million viewers, with 2.39 million of them in news' target demographic of 25- to 54-year-olds, according to Nielsen Media Research.

Alicia Keys scraps two shows on new tour (Reuters)

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:09:10 PDT
Alicia Keys scraps two shows on new tour (Reuters) April 23rd, 2008 by Reuters - Alicia Keys has canceled two shows on her newly launched North American tour because of swollen vocal cords, her record label said on Wednesday. Share This Posted in News | No Comments »

CBS Evening News with Katie Couric (CBS News)

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:30:04 PDT
The day's news presented by Katie Couric. Full broadcast video. xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/DTDs/Podcast-1.0.dtd"> *Click to play, right-click to save MP4 file.

Digital Media Stocks Sector Close-Up Report

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:16:28 PDT
USA Video Interactive Corporation (OTC BB: USVO.OB), Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: DLB), Philips, Sun MicrosystemsKey Trends: Adoption of Digital Watermarking Increasing, Content Identification and Video Storage Optimization Challenge IndustryDisclaimer: http://www.investorideas.com/About/Disclaimer.asp

New Medicare and Medicaid Data Released: Features Up-to-Date Enrollment Trends, State Initiatives, Regional Market ... (PRWeb)

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:05:59 PDT
The new 2008 Managed Medicare and Medicaid Factbook includes valuable information on enrollment trends, Medicare Advantage plan marketing, regional offerings and market share, state initiatives in Medicaid, prescription drug benefits, and mergers and acquisitions. (PRWeb Apr 23, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/04/prweb879444.htm

Media Update II

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:11:32 PDT
I did an interview with Global TV news on Elections Canada Vs. Harper. That's supposed to air tonight at 5:30 PM and again at 11 PM. Note my Newsworld Politics interview is now set for 5:15 PM.

CBS News Records Its Worst Ratings (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance)

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:40:28 PDT
On Tuesday CBS received ratings results that put an exclamation point on its troubles: the “CBS Evening News” recorded the worst five-night run in its history last week.

Study finds driving under the influence trends North (AP via Yahoo! News)

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:49:40 PDT
The upper Midwest has the worst drunken driving rates in the country, according to a government report that says 15 percent of adult drivers nationally report driving under the influence of alcohol in the previous year.


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Canada - Mortgage Insurance is NOT a sure thing

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:56:10 PST
"MarketPlace" was broadcasted on Feb 6 and re-ran on CBC NewsWorld on Feb 9. It was about claims made and declined by the major banks (and their underwriter Canada Life) regarding mortgage insurance that the borrowers took when they assumed their mortgage.Link: http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/in_denial/

Hot on the air: Shredd and Ragan hold their radio audience c

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 08:47:14 PDT
Standards have their regular spots – sports, traffic, WIVB’s Don Postles with a brief preview of his station’s 6 o’clock news. On Friday there’s Mike, a fabulous gay movie reviewer, and NFL.com’s Vic Carucci to talk football.http://www.biloves.com

It's Sunday Morning in My House

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 08:27:10 PDT
It's Sunday morning in America, which in my house means the Sunday morning news talk shows are on the TV. Two and one-half hours of political silliness. Why bother? Because every Sunday patience is rewarded with a bit of wisdom. This morning, that came in the form of a single word uttered by Sen. John McCain. The word was action.

Egypt is the oldest tourist destination on earth.

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:13:45 PDT
Ancient Greeks and Romans started the trend, coming to goggle at the cyclopean scale of the Pyramids and the Colossi of Thebes. At the onset of colonial times, Napoleon and the British in turn looted Egypt's treasures to fill their national museums, sparking off a trickle of Grand Tourists that, by the 1860s, had grown into a flood of travellers,

Study finds driving under the influence trends North (AP via Yahoo! News)

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:28:25 PDT
The upper Midwest has the worst drunken driving rates in the country, according to a government report that says 15 percent of adult drivers nationally report driving under the influence of alcohol in the previous year.

MILFs and Cougars: A Practical Guide

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:54:22 PDT
They're older. They're more experienced. And, according to the current trend, they're dating younger. They're MILFs and Cougars. If you've had the pleasure of being in the company of one or the other (or both, you lucky bastard), you know what the buzz is about.


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Viet Nam News, Vietnam

Ha Noi, world
cheer bard�s birthday

(22-04-2008)

HA NOI � Ha Noi�s Youth
Theatre will join in a worldwide celebration tomorrow of William Shakespeare�s
444th birthday with a performance of an abridged version of the Bard�s famous
Scottish play, Macbeth.

The international event,
entitled Shakespeare 24, is an extraordinary worldwide day of performance
organised by the Shakespeare School Festival in London.

The festival is a unique arts
education initiative which enables young people to perform abridged productions
of Shakespeare�s most famous plays in their local professional
theatres.

Kicking off in New Zealand and
ending 24 hours later in Hawaii, 65 youth theatres and school groups from 35
countries will stage abridged plays at 7pm in their respective time zones on
Wednesday, April 23, Shakespeare�s birthday.

From Mexico to Malawi, Russia
to Rio, the cultural baton will be passed around the world in a day.

In England, the city of
Liverpool, 2008�s "Capital of Culture," is a Shakespear 24 event partner
and will broadcast highlights of the performances.

Receiving the invitation from
the organising board last year, Ha Noi�s Youth Theatre artists have a rare
opportunity to revive a classic play.

Macbeth, written by Shakespeare in 1606-07, is a story of
murderous ambition set in 11th century Scotland.

The Youth Theatre production
tomorrow is based on the production staged by veteran director Le Hung in 2002
and given 68 performanes, including at festivals in Beijing and Shanghai in 2003
and 2005, said the theatre�s deputy director, Truong Nhuan.

The production was
enthusiastically received in China, Nhuan said, especially due to the Asian
theatrical motifs used in the scene depicting the death of Macbeth�s
wife.

"The play is very Vietnamese
in character because director Le Hung used dances from Vietnamese tuong
(classical opera)," Nhuan said.

In the play�s title role,
actor Anh Tu said, "I�m very enthusiastic to play Macbeth as I have played in
many other classic plays from around the world and Viet Nam. I am very proud to
play this role and I try to express the character of Macbeth, who is very
talented but overly ambitious. I like the cause and effect of the play." �
VNS

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