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...A couple of other runners cross the line, the clock runs down, and: “5,4,3,2,1 . . . that’s it! Man beats horse!”...
...Within the East Village is Alphabet City, named for avenues A, B, C and D — presumably because there were no better ideas after 1, 2 and 3....
...The cabinet secretary read out a section saying that all decisions were taken “collectively”. Ms McVey, a former television presenter, quit the next day....
...Fox is selling its international assets, leaving a group comprising the Fox broadcast network, Fox News Channel, sports cable network and a portfolio of US TV stations....
...When I meet Mills at his office in downtown Baton Rouge, his television is tuned to Fox News; an array of taxidermy dots the walls. He carries a firearm in his briefcase, he tells me....
...Looking back now, with a wonderful baby bouncing beside my desk at 5.30am as I write this, it feels like a distant but glorious memory....
...“I think our view is that we’d like to make our programming more available, not less,” James Murdoch, Fox’s chief executive, told investors this week....
...They greet regular customers by their first names, say hello to the bouncers and know which part of Soho is favoured for Class A drugs and which for Class B....
...The space’s lofty windows and natural light are not the easiest fit for broadcast television. “Anyone who wanted to do a TV station would say that this is a nightmare,” Hanick says....
...A) Snake in the tunnel B) Bird in the bushes C) Fox in the hedge D) Goat on the cliff E) Salmon in the stream 19....
...Cutting funding for Radio 1 and Radio 5, whose output could be partly replicated by commercial radio stations, would be similarly inadequate....
...The NBC discussion show Meet the Press has been a staple of US television for decades but anyone tuning in on a recent Sunday was in for a shock....
...televisions....
...The news comes a week after the Chicago-based company announced its $2.7bn acquisition of 19 stations from Local TV, making it the largest US commercial TV station owner....
...News Corp owns and operates 27 local television stations and the Fox broadcasting company, which together generated $4.8bn of revenue and $681m in operating profit in its last financial year....
...a variety of US stations....
...Yet the film has a distinctly international gloss. Much of the action was filmed in London; its catchy anthem song, “Chammak Challo”, is sung by Senegalese-American R&B star Akon....
...… 24.08.10 The next day, Tuesday August 24, the Sun and the Mirror both pick up the story and TV crews begin to swarm: BBC 1, BBC 2, ITV News, Channel 5, Channel 4, Sky News and Fox News take it in turns...
...Mr Carey has similarly hinted that News Corp’s Fox TV stations could act more like cable networks and demand fees from distributors to retransmit local TV signals and for prime sports programming....
...12 Who were the authors of the children’s books adapted for the screen in (a) Fantastic Mr Fox and (b) Where the Wild Things Are?...
...The short films made for the Imax format are often quasi-educational and narrated by Hollywood A-listers (for example, a deep sea film voiced by Kate Winslet and Johnny Depp, and a space station documentary...
...B.”...
...practising dentist, he also produces a make-over show on Portuguese television....
...For New Yorkers, Mr Copps said, the deal would also mean that a single company would operate two of the area’s most popular television stations and two of its most popular newspapers....
...FT: How have you found your new role at News Corp, which now includes television stations in addition to Fox News Channel? AILES: More challenging....
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