2-Track Global Inc. Announces Contract with Low Earth Orbit Satellite Provider OrbComm Asia Limited (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)2-Track Global Inc. today announced that it has entered into commercial contract with OrbComm Asia Limited, the satellite data communications company that offers data communication and transmission services via its satellite subscriber communications and low earth orbit […]

SurvivorReality TV: Who wants to be a millionaire? Sixteen people who abandoned their jobs, families and remote controls to spend 39 days on a South China Sea island — that's who. CBS'much-hyped"Survivor"doesn't have a phone-a-friend option and $200 questions about cereal aren't applicable. Instead, this"Real World"-meets-"Lord of the Flies"gamer offers up snakes, rats, cash and […]

'Big Brother'double playReality TV: Competition skein's jackpot being increased to $1 mil — CBS summer staple"Big Brother"is getting a million-dollar facelift for 2005 — in more ways than one.

Aligning the"Stars"Numbers (E! Online)E! Online - Dialer error, not network error, is responsible for Dancingwith the Stars'star-crossed phone voting, ABC said Wednesday.ABC Pulls'Neighborhood'Reality Series (AP)AP -"Welcome to the Neighborhood,"an ABC reality series that pushes hot buttons of racism and anti-homosexuality, was pulled by the network before its debut.Stern Exiting E! (E! Online)E! Online - The […]

PBS Under Seige Thanks to Politics (AP)AP - Is there anyone who doesn't have a beef with public television? Me, I've never quite recovered from when PBS was airing John Tesh music specials nearly a decade ago.Bush's Iraq speech draws career-low TV audience (Reuters)Reuters - President Bush's latest address tothe nation, urging Americans to stand […]

SurvivorReality TV: Who wants to be a millionaire? Sixteen people who abandoned their jobs, families and remote controls to spend 39 days on a South China Sea island — that's who. CBS'much-hyped"Survivor"doesn't have a phone-a-friend option and $200 questions about cereal aren't applicable. Instead, this"Real World"-meets-"Lord of the Flies"gamer offers up snakes, rats, cash and […]

Big BrotherReality TV: Ten strangers, three months and one network that has taken the reality TV craze one step too far. CBS'much hyped Euro import"Big Brother"debuted Wednesday night with all of the style and drama of a Publishers Clearing House Prize Patrol commercial.'Big Brother'double playReality TV: Competition skein's jackpot being increased to $1 mil — […]

Survivor: The Australian Outback (Survivor II)Reality TV: Die-hard fans might miss Richard, Rudy and the queen of tapioca, but there are plenty of greedy and paranoid players on the prowl for $1 million in"Survivor: The Australian Outback."CBS shrewdly scheduled its money train right after the Super Bowl, and the show that earned the year's most […]

TRAI proposes zero-entry fee, 100% foreign ownership for satellite radio (telecomasia.net)(Economic Times via NewsEdge) The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has recommended 100% foreign ownership and zero-entry fee for firms going into satellite radio services.Military Might Draft XM Satellite Radio (AP via Yahoo! News)Customers of XM Satellite Radio Inc. aren't the only ones who appreciate […]

"Family Guy"Flick Hits DVD (E! Online)E! Online - Stewie Griffin is returning to the scene of the crime.MTV launches new gay cable TV channel (Reuters)Reuters - The prospect of a television channelentirely devoted to gay programs for gay people may strike someas unnecessary and others as a sign of immoral times. Mediagiant Viacom thinks there's […]

Joint consortia bid wins Galileo satellite contract (AFP via Yahoo! News)A joint bid by two previously competing consortia won a contract to run a future European satellite navigation system, Galileo, aimed at rivaling the US-run Global Positioning System (GPS).

SurvivorReality TV: Who wants to be a millionaire? Sixteen people who abandoned their jobs, families and remote controls to spend 39 days on a South China Sea island — that's who. CBS'much-hyped"Survivor"doesn't have a phone-a-friend option and $200 questions about cereal aren't applicable. Instead, this"Real World"-meets-"Lord of the Flies"gamer offers up snakes, rats, cash and […]

Military Might Draft XM Satellite Radio (AP via Yahoo! News)Customers of XM Satellite Radio Inc. aren't the only ones who appreciate its digital quality and nationwide coverage. The U.S. military might draft XM's service for homeland security purposes.Joint consortia bid wins Galileo satellite contract (AFP via Yahoo! News)A joint bid by two previously competing consortia […]

Red-Carpet Maven Cojocaru Has More Surgery (AP)AP - Hollywood fashion commentator Steven Cojocaru underwent surgery Monday for removal of a transplanted kidney that had become infected, a spokesman said.Miss America pageant moving to CMT (Reuters)Reuters - After a half-century onbroadcast network television and a decade of declining ratings,the Miss America pageant has found a home […]

Paul Winchell, voice of Tigger, dies in Calif. (Reuters)Reuters - Paul Winchell, a famedventriloquist best remembered as the voice of the irrepressibleTigger in the Winnie the Pooh series, has died, an associatesaid on Sunday. He was 82.Red-Carpet Maven Cojocaru Has More Surgery (AP)AP - Hollywood fashion commentator Steven Cojocaru underwent surgery Monday for removal of […]

Big BrotherReality TV: Ten strangers, three months and one network that has taken the reality TV craze one step too far. CBS'much hyped Euro import"Big Brother"debuted Wednesday night with all of the style and drama of a Publishers Clearing House Prize Patrol commercial.SurvivorReality TV: Who wants to be a millionaire? Sixteen people who abandoned their […]

Bands on the RunReality TV: If video did indeed kill the radio star, then made-for-reality TV bands have their weapons drawn for the gussied-up video stars who fill what's left of musicvideo in music television. VH1 updates"It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"for a trio of scruffy rock bands, adds an element of the entrepreneur […]

Big BrotherReality TV: Ten strangers, three months and one network that has taken the reality TV craze one step too far. CBS'much hyped Euro import"Big Brother"debuted Wednesday night with all of the style and drama of a Publishers Clearing House Prize Patrol commercial.Bands on the RunReality TV: If video did indeed kill the radio star, […]

The MoleReality TV: The race is on. Not the race to identify the fink in ABC's new reality series"The Mole,"but rather the network-wide scramble to create a new"Survivor"– that is, other than"Survivor 2."The Alphabet net thinks it has a winner with this action mystery series, mainly because"The Mole"is a big hit in Europe. But then […]

Runaway Bride Says"I Do"to TV (E! Online)E! Online - Runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks might have scooted away from thealtar, but she's not hesitating to say"I do"to a television projectabout her misadventures.Producers Predict Record Live 8 Broadcast (AP)AP - Producers of the upcoming Live 8 concerts said Saturday the shows will be shown around the world […]