| What Women Watch: SoapNet Fills a Niche, Builds a Winning Model | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 11:13:05 PM by Blog57 Team | | Soap operas have always appealed to female viewers, and on cable, the choice for soaps is clear. SoapNet is the premier outlet for American daytime dramas, re-airing daily episodes of five of the most popular soap operas-"All My Children," "Days of Our Lives," "One Life to Live," "General Hospital" and "The Young and the Restless"-for viewing in prime time. In addition, the network offers original programming about the genre, such as the reality show "I Wanna Be a Soap Star," and classic episodes of past daytime and prime-time soaps. "We are the No. 1 destination for female soap fans on television," said Deborah Blackwell, executive VP and general manager of SoapNet. SoapNet's success proves that daytime dramas shown conveniently a second and third time in prime time and late-night works.... | |
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| | | KOREA: Hanarotelecom enhances corporate value | | Posted Wednesday, October 25, 2006 11:16:27 PM by Blog57 Team | | Two Korean ratings agencies recently upgraded the status of Hanarotelecom Inc., Korea's second-largest fixed-line telephony and broadband operator by one notch to BBB+. Korea Investors Service said the change reflects the company's healthy subscription base, reduced financial burden based on strong cash flows and improved profitability helped by its rapidly-expanding convergence service. Korea Ratings cited the company's strengthened capacity after taking over Thrunet Co. and settlement of syndicated loans as reasons for its credit upgrade. Behind this enhanced corporate outlook lies Hanarotelecom's convergence service called hanaTV. Last July, Hanarotelecom launched the service that offers video-on-demand content along with telephony and broadband services, in a bid to diversify its revenue sources and carve out a bigger stake in the country's highly competitive broadband market.... | |
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| | | Nvidia has balls and may circumvent X86 licences | | Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 1:12:04 PM by Blog57 Team | | NVIDIA IS MAKING a CPU, but the only questions are what kind of CPU, and how the heck is it going to do it. Making an X86 based CPU is not a trivial venture, and there are enough problems to make even a company with the engineering bandwidth of Nvidia cringe. Those problems are mainly called lawyers. There is no doubt that given engineers, time and money, Nvidia is capable of making an X86 CPU. The Stexar people have done it before, several times in some cases, so it is even less of a problem. It can be financed, and while it may not happen soon enough, it will happen before Nvidia runs out of cash. The overwhelming problem is patents and other evil things often used to bludgeon the bright eyed and bushy tailed into submission. Any X86 implementation would have to negotiate a minefield of patents and deals just to make it out of the fab.... | |
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| | | Zimbabwe: Stock Market Investors Sold a Dummy | | Posted Saturday, October 14, 2006 3:17:03 AM by Blog57 Team | | ZIMBABWEAN investment markets have the same kind of drama contained in television soap operas. On Friday last week the bank rate was 300% for secured lending and the money market was awash with liquidity such that players were not taking any short term deposits. With regard to returns, sovereign assets with a tenor of six months and one year were attracting yields of 125,5% and 147%, respectively. On that day the stock market continued on a roll with the bulls seemingly unstoppable. The industrial index closed the week at an all-time high of 488 026,69 points after gaining 2,51%, or 16 544,44 points, on the day to cap a really fine week. Although the stock market was at face value very firm, the eagle eyed within the investment community would have noticed that all of a sudden the number of sellers had increased.... | |
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| | | Soap opera surrounds Cowboys-Titans game | | Posted Monday, October 02, 2006 7:18:47 AM by Blog57 Team | | NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ? Internet buzz, the head coach angrily blasting a player, fans upset over the direction of the team and a rookie quarterback making his first NFL start against a team he grew up watching. That's just the Tennessee Titans. Now mix in the Dallas Cowboys and the traveling T.O. circus, and what seemed like just another NFL matchup now features the kind of drama and attention not even soap operas generate. The Titans (0-3) only hope all the attention over receiver Terrell Owens' hospital visit distracts the Cowboys (1-1) enough to let them pull out their first victory this season, stopping a six-game skid going back to last season. And they're desperate enough to start Vince Young, the first quarterback drafted last April. "Whatever you want to call it — frustrated, desperate, hungry, in need of — whatever you want to put on it, this team is definitely looking for a win any way we can get it," Titans receiver Drew Bennett said.... | |
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| | | Racy soap opera rivets Colombian viewers | | Posted Tuesday, September 19, 2006 11:14:16 PM by Blog57 Team | | In a nation obsessed with soap operas, it's the hottest telenovela in years. Airing nightly in prime time, "Sin Tetas no hay Paraiso" ? "Without (Breasts) There's No Paradise" ? revolves around a 17-year old call girl who agonizes that her flat chest is a barrier to deliverance from poverty and a life of ease as a drug trafficker's pampered plaything. .... | |
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| | | It's all soap operas all the time on My Network TV | | Posted Wednesday, September 06, 2006 9:27:42 PM by Blog57 Team | | The minds behind My Network TV, an off beat new network experiment from those sly-as-a-Fox folks at Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. media behemoth, aren't reinventing the entertainment wheel. They're just giving it a new escapist spin with a female-appeal eye-candy plan -- all soap operas all the time -- rooted in the wildly popular serial-style telenovela format. OK, it's wildly popular in Latin America and other countries around the world. But now the jaunty telenovela sensibility is being channeled into an Americanized melodramatic mix of catfights and possibly campy delights with My Network TV, which premieres tomorrow on more than 160 TV stations across the country. The My Network programming -- two series, 8-10 p.m. Monday through Friday with weekly recap shows 8-10 p.m.... | |
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| | | Soap offers serious message about teen sex | | Posted Wednesday, August 30, 2006 7:14:47 AM by Blog57 Team | | Women are always getting pregnant on soap operas. They are always having affairs or regrettable one-night stands or having sex while also having amnesia. And getting devastatingly pregnant as a result. Unintended pregnancies are a staple of soap-opera plots, but it usually happens to the grown-ups. Phyllis is pregnant as the result of her affair with Nick on The Young and the Restless, but she has a grown son. It was a shock because she didn't think she could get pregnant. .... | |
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| | | Can soap operas draw attention to the Amazon? | | Posted Thursday, August 24, 2006 9:18:42 AM by Blog57 Team | | Rio de Janeiro - Brazil's Globo TV network this month starts filming a soap opera set in the Amazon that the producers hope will stir debate at home and abroad on the plight of the world's biggest rain forest and the mostly poor people who live there. Globo's soaps, or "telenovelas", attract huge audiences and have been marketed in more than 80 countries. They often deal with pressing social issues such as racism and gun violence. "Amazonia" will depict the historic fight for independence from Bolivia by rubber tappers in the Acre region of the remote western Amazon at a time when Brazil ruled the world rubber industry. "Acre is symbolic of the history and problems of the Amazon. The series will stimulate popular discussion," producer Marcos Schechtman told reporters on Monday. The telenovela shows Acre's slide from splendour as Malaya (now Malaysia) overtook Brazil as the No.... | |
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| | | First Beat Media Inc. Opens Soap Opera Website | | Posted Friday, August 18, 2006 3:10:00 PM by Blog57 Team | | First Beat Media Inc. has opened a full service soap opera website, http://www.Soaps.com, showcasing nine popular soap operas. An online entertainment media company, First Beat Media Inc.'s primary goal is to create and deliver high quality Internet sites that attract massive amounts of traffic, creating a brand that our customers can trust. In turn, we are dedicated to making Soaps.com the best source of information for all the public's favorite daytime dramas. Our goal is to present the most current news about soap opera viewers' favorite shows, as we hear it, guaranteeing Soaps.com to be the one stop on the net for all soap opera information needs. Our written daily updates are imaginative and meant to take the reader away, allowing them to enjoy the romance, passion, drama, intrigue, and mystery of the shows without having to watch the shows.... | |
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