Archive for July, 2006

A&E reality guru expands

Monday, July 31st, 2006

A&E reality guru expands her realmReality TV: Dubuc promoted to senior veep of nonfiction — A&E senior veep Nancy Dubuc, the programming exec behind"Dog the Bounty Hunter"and"Airline,"is about to put her stamp on the rest of A&E Television Networks.Rookies face harsh realityReality TV:'Book Club,''Guy'fail to find audiences — ABC and CBS took some chances in […]

Sunday's TV news shows

Monday, July 31st, 2006

Sunday's TV news shows (AP)AP - Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows:"Lost"Lands New Star, Reveals Numbers (E! Online)E! Online - Lost has added another bad guy to the island mix. Or, actually, he could be a good guy. Really, the odds […]

A&E reality guru expands

Monday, July 31st, 2006

A&E reality guru expands her realmReality TV: Dubuc promoted to senior veep of nonfiction — A&E senior veep Nancy Dubuc, the programming exec behind"Dog the Bounty Hunter"and"Airline,"is about to put her stamp on the rest of A&E Television Networks.Rookies face harsh realityReality TV:'Book Club,''Guy'fail to find audiences — ABC and CBS took some chances in […]

"Arrested Development"Lives! (E! Online)E!

Monday, July 31st, 2006

"Arrested Development"Lives! (E! Online)E! Online - Gob Bluth's final magic act turned out to be a hat trick.Comics join"Office"payroll (Reuters)Reuters - NBC's"The Office"is adding some new drones."Jeopardy!"KenJen's Poison Pen (E! Online)E! Online - We'll take snarkiness for$1,000, Alex. Ooh, […]

"Lost"Adds One More (E!

Monday, July 31st, 2006

"Lost"Adds One More (E! Online)E! Online - There should be no love lost over Lost's new love.

A&E reality guru expands

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

A&E reality guru expands her realmReality TV: Dubuc promoted to senior veep of nonfiction — A&E senior veep Nancy Dubuc, the programming exec behind"Dog the Bounty Hunter"and"Airline,"is about to put her stamp on the rest of A&E Television Networks.Rookies face harsh realityReality TV:'Book Club,''Guy'fail to find audiences — ABC and CBS took some chances in […]

Music TV battles to

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

Music TV battles to survive in Internet age (Reuters)Reuters - Music television is the endangered species of the pop world, and is learning the hard way that it must adapt to the Internet age, or die."Lost"Adds One More (E! Online)E! Online - There […]

Grim reality for'One'Reality TV:

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

Grim reality for'One'Reality TV: Alphabet cancels competish –"The One"is done. ABC has pulled the plug on the singing competish, barely one week after it bowed to disastrous Nielsen numbers. Skein's July 18 premiere goes down as the lowest-rated adults 18-49 debut for a reality show (a 1.1 demo rating/3 share) in modern TV history.Tensions fan'Model'flameReality […]

iDirect provides satellite broadband

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

iDirect provides satellite broadband platform to Farmacias Similares (Computer Business Review)iDirect Technologies has been selected by Elara Networks, a satellite network service provider in Latin America, to provide the technology platform to Farmacias Similares, a privately held pharmacy chain based in Mexico.Satellite Images Reveal State Of Health Of World's Coral Reefs (Science Daily)A first-of-its-kind survey […]

iDirect provides satellite broadband

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

iDirect provides satellite broadband platform to Farmacias Similares (Computer Business Review)iDirect Technologies has been selected by Elara Networks, a satellite network service provider in Latin America, to provide the technology platform to Farmacias Similares, a privately held pharmacy chain based in Mexico.Satellite to predict quakes (The Star Online)THE launch of an earthquake-monitoring satellite is a […]

Rockot launches Korean satellite

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

Rockot launches Korean satellite (Spacetoday.net)A Rockot vehicle successfully launched a South Korean imaging satellite Friday on the first mission…iDirect provides satellite broadband platform to Farmacias Similares (Computer Business Review)iDirect Technologies has been selected by Elara Networks, a satellite network service provider in Latin America, to provide the technology platform to Farmacias Similares, a privately held […]

South Korea launches satellite

Saturday, July 29th, 2006

South Korea launches satellite (PhysOrg)A rocket carrying South Korea's ninth satellite, the Arirang-2, lifted off Friday from a spaceport outside of Moscow, The Korea Times reported.

Dummy booster rocket tests

Saturday, July 29th, 2006

Dummy booster rocket tests satellite launcher (Los Angeles Daily News)EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE A company vying to develop a new military satellite launch system dropped a 72,000-pound dummy booster rocket from a C-17 transport plane this week, moving the effort closer to a real launch.iDirect provides satellite broadband platform to Farmacias Similares (Computer Business Review)iDirect […]

Grim reality for'One'Reality TV:

Saturday, July 29th, 2006

Grim reality for'One'Reality TV: Alphabet cancels competish –"The One"is done. ABC has pulled the plug on the singing competish, barely one week after it bowed to disastrous Nielsen numbers. Skein's July 18 premiere goes down as the lowest-rated adults 18-49 debut for a reality show (a 1.1 demo rating/3 share) in modern TV history.Tensions fan'Model'flameReality […]

Tensions fan'Model'flameReality TV: WGA

Saturday, July 29th, 2006

Tensions fan'Model'flameReality TV: WGA strikes up support for scribes — The Writers Guild of America West is drawing a line in the sand on"America's Next Top Model."Guild has staged a week's worth of protests in the heat outside the reality show's production offices in West L.A. since the dozen writers on the show went on […]

Tensions fan'Model'flameReality TV: WGA

Saturday, July 29th, 2006

Tensions fan'Model'flameReality TV: WGA strikes up support for scribes — The Writers Guild of America West is drawing a line in the sand on"America's Next Top Model."Guild has staged a week's worth of protests in the heat outside the reality show's production offices in West L.A. since the dozen writers on the show went on […]

Russian Rocket Carries South

Saturday, July 29th, 2006

Russian Rocket Carries South Korean Satellite Into Orbit (TechNewsWorld.com)A Russian rocket carried a South Korean Earth-probing satellite into orbit on Friday, according to a spokesperson for the Russian space organization Space Troops. Carrying the Arirang-2 satellite, a 29-meter-long Russian rocket, Rockot, was launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia at 11:05 a.m. local time.UNM […]

XM Satellite Radio Cuts

Friday, July 28th, 2006

XM Satellite Radio Cuts Subscriber Estimates As Losses Widen (TechWeb via Yahoo! News)XM Satellite Radio slashed its subscriber growth estimates for a second time this year, and reported a wider loss for the second quarter.Boeing Completes Wideband Gapfiller Satellite Ground Compatibility Tests (Space War)by Staff Writers St. Louis MO (SPX) Jul 28, 2006 Boeing announced […]

BSkyB May Post Higher

Friday, July 28th, 2006

BSkyB May Post Higher Full-Year Sales on Satellite Subscribers (Bloomberg.com)July 27 (Bloomberg) — British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc, the pay-television broadcaster chaired by Rupert Murdoch, may say full-year sales rose 2.7 percent as it won satellite subscribers.Crash Of Russian Rocket Destroys Montana's First Satellite (Science Daily)Built by science and engineering students at Montana State University, […]

FX's"30 Days"maintains numbers from

Friday, July 28th, 2006

FX's"30 Days"maintains numbers from first year (Reuters)Reuters - FX's fish-out-of-water reality series"30 Days"opened its second season Wednesday on par with its first-year results."Aquaman"Going Swimmingly on iTunes (E! Online)E! Online - Aquaman is a hit–and this time iTunes, not Vincent Chase, can […]