| Record viewers watch fourth Test | | Posted Wednesday, December 27, 2006 3:12:34 PM by Blog57 Team | | CHANNEL Nine's Boxing Day cricket coverage has proved a ratings hit - attracting the biggest Australian television audience in test match history. Yesterday's telecast of the first day of the fourth Test averaged almost 1.7 million viewers across the country and peaked at 2.27 million viewers. The Boxing Day audience was the highest ever single day Australian audience for any Test match, beating the previous record of 1.4 million set on day three of the third Test in Perth on December 16. The highlight of yesterday's play was spin king Shane Warne taking his 700th test wicket. A crowd of 89,155 people packed the MCG for the day's play, just short of the record for a single day of a test match. Share this article (What is this?) .... | |
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| | | CMP Channel Group's CRN Announces Major Redesign of Information Delivery to the Channel; Concentrates Focus on News | | Posted Friday, November 03, 2006 3:43:48 AM by Blog57 Team | | CMP Channel Group's CRN is celebrating 25 years in the market by enhancing its award-winning product line with major investments to expand coverage in both its print and online offerings and serve readers' growing dependence on information about products, technology, vendors and the market. The enhancements, which will be effective on January 1, 2007, include a redesign of CRN which includes a move to a magazine format as well as the launching of CRN Tech, a new monthly publication and on-line offering designed to provide Solution Providers with detailed coverage of technologies they can wrap services around to drive more solution sales. CRN will focus on market, technology and news analysis in print and will continue to provide up to the minute breaking news on-line via CRN.com.... | |
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| | | John Katsilometes checks out a new jewelry store at Neonopolis with a long history in downtown Las Vegas | | Posted Saturday, October 21, 2006 7:11:20 AM by Blog57 Team | | Three years ago John Del Prado III faced unimaginable tragedy and said, "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead." Three years later, he has fulfilled that promise. On the morning of Sept. 2, 2003, Del Prado's mother, Elisa Del Prado, and grandmother, Juana Quiroga, were bludgeoned to death in the Del Prado family business, World Merchants-Importers jewelry store on the corner of Carson and Fourth streets in downtown Las Vegas. (The man charged with the crime, a jewelry repairman, Avetis Archanian, was convicted in 2004 and was sentenced to death, although he has appealed to the Nevada Supreme Court.) But by the time the crimes were committed, Del Prado says, he had soured on the location - foot traffic ebbed after the Clark County Law Library, the old Clark County Courthouse and a couple of banks moved out.... | |
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| | | (wap) (ATTN: TV editors) | | Posted Monday, October 09, 2006 3:14:06 AM by Blog57 Team | | 9 p.m. Monday on History Channel, Egypt: Engineering an Empire: The engineering feats of past civilizations such as the Aztecs, the Persians and the Byzantines come to life in this series, as computer-generated imaging helps re-create ancient structures. Last season's special on Rome's engineering inspired the weekly series, which begins with a two-hour premiere on Egypt's architecture. Through interviews with Egyptologists, the first show looks at the pyramids, the pharaohs who commissioned them and the Egyptian empire itself through the science of structural engineering. Future programs spotlight Greece, Russia, Britain, China and the Mayan empire. Actor Peter Weller, who also is an art historian, is the series host and narrator.... | |
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| | | Emmys awarded for news and documentaries | | Posted Wednesday, September 27, 2006 7:16:19 PM by Blog57 Team | | CBS and PBS each took five awards at the annual news and documentary Emmys, where PBS' Bill Moyers was presented with a lifetime achievement award. The History Channel won four Emmys, while ABC and the National Geographic Channel each won three. The prizes were presented Monday night by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The ceremony will be telecast Saturday on C-SPAN. The winners: Coverage of a breaking news story in a regular newscast: "NBC Nightly News" for "Hurricane Katrina: Moment .... | |
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| | | Activision announces History Channel: Civil War | | Posted Tuesday, September 26, 2006 1:13:46 PM by Blog57 Team | | Activision has announced they've teamed with The History Channel to create the world's first First Person Shooter set during the Civil War. The History Channel: Civil War is being developed by Cauldron and is scheduled to ship for the PC, PS2 and Xbox 360 on November 14. The game will place players in the boots of a Confederate or Union soldier in all of the most famous battles including Gettysburg, Bull Run and Antietam. The game will attempt to recreate the fighting style of the era including authentic weapons and hand-to-hand combat. Other features include: America's Most Historic Battles: Twelve of the most famous battles in the Nation's history including Gettysburg, Bull Run and Antietam. Experience famous locations such as Little Round Top and Lookout Mountain and diverse landscapes including train yards, saw mills, military forts, trenches, towns and large open battlefields.... | |
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| | | Viva! Vision Spices Up Verizon Wireless' V CAST Service with New Latino Youth Channel | | Posted Friday, September 15, 2006 7:17:16 AM by Blog57 Team | | Verizon Wireless and Viva! Vision announced today the addition of Viva! Vision TV, a Latino youth channel, to Verizon Wireless' V CAST service. The channel, available in October, is powered by Viva! Vision, the leading provider of branded, original and user-generated content targeted at the Latino community. With Viva! Vision TV, Verizon Wireless V CAST customers can experience exciting Latino content on their mobile phones. "Verizon Wireless' mission is to deliver relevant content that resonates with our customers," said John Harrobin, vice president of digital media for Verizon Wireless. "Our relationship with Viva! Vision allows us to offer our Hispanic customers great mobile entertainment while capitalizing on Viva's knowledge and experience in dealing with this dynamic, trend-setting community." At the forefront of mobile video adoption, Hispanics are an important market for wireless providers who understand that unique and compelling content can drive new acquisitions, increase average revenue per user (ARPU) and improve customer loyalty.... | |
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| | | TV GUY: Holy Moses! History Channel explores 'Exodus' | | Posted Thursday, August 31, 2006 9:27:11 AM by Blog57 Team | | Produced by James Cameron ("Titanic"), "The Exodus DeCoded" (8 p.m., History) may be the most expensive-looking production in the history of the History Channel. Despite the presence of the word "code" in its title, this documentary is closer in feel to "Raiders of the Lost Ark" than "The Da Vinci Code." Filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici sets out to gather evidence proving that the events mentioned in Exodus — including the Israelites' flight from Egypt, the deadly plagues and the parting of the Red Sea — really happened. Scouring caves in the Holy Land, fields in Egypt and the bowels of museums and archives the world over, he uncovers written accounts of the Exodus story. He also presents a 3,500-year-old image, carved in gold, of what might be the Lost Ark of the Covenant. Jacobovici offers theories about the true location of the spot on Mount Sinai where Moses received the commandments, and offers an overarching scientific theory that explains the biblical plagues and parting of the Red Sea.... | |
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| | | Pune boy creates history in channel swims | | Posted Friday, August 25, 2006 7:13:20 PM by Blog57 Team | | Thirteen-year-old eighth standard schoolboy Aditya Santosh Raut of Pune has created history in long distance open sea swimming by becoming the youngest in the world to successfully complete channel crossing in five continents of the globe. Raut achieved the feat on August 5, fifteen days before he became a teenager, by successfully becoming the youngest swimmer to negotiate the 46-km crossing between Catalina Island to mainland in Los Angeles, breaking American boy Andy Taylor's record who did it when he was 13, his coach Vinay Marathe said at a media conference today. Raut took 11 hours, 50 minutes and 38 seconds to achieve the feat which has been acknowledged and appreciated by the CAtalina Channel Swimming Federation. He thus became only the third Indian swimmer - after Padmabushan Taranath Shenoy (1987) and Arjuna awardee, and MP, Bula (Chowdhary) Chakravarty (2002) - to successfully cross the Catalina Channel.... | |
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| | | The History Channel(R) Save Our History Program Awards 27 ... | | Posted Saturday, August 19, 2006 9:07:05 PM by Blog57 Team | | NEW YORK, Aug. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Building on two successful years of nationwide efforts to help communities preserve their local history, The History Channel today announced that 27 organizations across the country will receive Save Our History preservation grants (www.saveourhistory.com). With the support of national sponsors Lowe's and American Express, as well as cable affiliates in each community, the grants will fund innovative, educational projects designed to bring communities together, actively engage children in the preservation of their local history and communicate the importance of saving local history for future generations. The History Channel, with the counsel of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA), created the Save Our History Grant Program as an extension of the Save Our History philanthropic initiative and is committed to inspiring and motivating local communities to learn about and take an active role in the preservation of their past through projects involving artifacts, oral histories, sites, museums or landmarks that exist in their own neighborhoods.... | |
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