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Vulture (Free subscription) | yesterday
In an article about HIMYM , which has 700,000 viewers in Canada, the CanWest news service addressed the show's constant teasing of its Canuck character, Robin Scherbatsky, played by actual Canadian Cobie Smulders, quoting her co-star Neil Patrick Harris: "By the end of (last) season, Cobie was like, 'All right, dudes, enough with the Canadian jokes." The article is good-humored about the...
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- Are You Riled Up? - (Free subscription) | yesterday
By David Wylie, Canwest News ServiceNovember 17, 2009 StoryPhotos ( 1 ). It’s time to play video games like it’s 1986. With the release of New Super Mario Bros. Wii this month, Nintendo has gone back to the popular plumber’s roots with a … Raccoon Mario introduces flight to the series in Super Mario 3, [...]
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WireTap Magazine (Free subscription) | yesterday
Activists across the country are staging protests and candle light vigils this weekend in response to the brutal murders of gay teenagers in Puerto Rico and Maryland . Last week, Jorge Steven Lopez-Mercado, an openly gay 19-year-old Puerto Rican man, was found brutally beaten, burned, and decapitated. While authorities have arrested one man on suspicion of murder, local authorities also reportedly...
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The Gazetteer (Free subscription) | yesterday
SellingCanadiansDownTheirOwnPrivate CrazyRiverVille From the Big Willbowski: The story starts in 2008. Liberal MP Gerry Byrne prepared a motion calling on the government to introduce an airline passenger’s bill of rights. Travellers would be guaranteed remedies for lost bags, unreasonable delays or overbooked flights. The model was similar to protection in Europe... {snippety-doo-dah} ...MPs...
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Weekly International: Spanish-language channel to stream shows on YouTube -- A deal struck last week between U.S. Hispanic media giant Univision's Interactive Media unit and YouTube will unleash a flood of Univision's inhouse Spanish-language programming onto the search engine by first quarter 2010.
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Little Green Footballs (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Here’s some good news if you live in Canada and you’ve been waiting for Amazon to release their terrific Kindle e-book reader in a Canadian version: your wait is over. In addition to having full access to more than 300,000 titles in the Amazon store, Amazon announced that Canadian newspapers The Globe and Mail and The National Post will be available in Kindle editions, with the newspapers...
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KURDISH BLOG (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
EastKurd: According to Rawa News last night near the Belo village Mariwan region the regime's forces were shooting toward the border workers the effect of a young Kurdish has been killed. His name Wafa son of Majid,he was carrying on gasoline. Annual hundreds of Kurdish by Iranian and Turkish forces on the border are killed, Majority of them are killed by Iranian forces. Comments
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Pension Pulse (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Norma Greenaway of Canwest News Service reports that pension expert proposes fix for Canada's retirement saving shortfall : A supplementary pension plan is needed to give middle-income Canadians without workplace pensions a better crack at securing a comfortable retirement, says Keith Ambachtsheer, one of the country's leading authorities on pensions. Ambachtsheer, director of the Rotman International...
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Page F30 (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
This is a fairly big announcement considering the size of the television station (it was sold in 2007 for $13.7 billion) and thus there are quite a few articles on the announcement - here's one, and another. Telenovelas will not be available due to a dispute with their producer, Grupo Televisa, but everything else will. This page also notes that Univision's Hispanic audience grew by a
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Univision Communications Inc., the premier Spanish-language media company in the United States, announced today the dedication of the building that is home to network operations in Miami to former president and chief operating officer Ray Rodriguez. In a ceremony which took place today at 2pm in front of the Univision building, Joe Uva, president and CEO of Univision Communications...
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Applelinks Release News About iColl (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
• MacWorld Releases Macintosh Buying Guide For The Holidays • Windows 7's Dirty Secrets Revealed • Netbooks 'Not Just A Consumer Fad' - Business Keen On 'Em Too • Addressing Nonfunctional "Turn Airport On/Off" Settings • Google Holding Chrome OS Event Today. Complete Overview And Launch Plans To Be Revealed • Apple Launches MacBook, iMacs and Magic Mouse In Taiwan...
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Reel SEO Video Marketing (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Did you see the headline earlier this week that YouTube had struck a deal with Spanish Television Network, Univision? If you’re a typical American, you might have passed right over it. Maybe you noted it mentally, but figured it wasn’t terribly important to you since you don’t speak Spanish. The deal actually seems pretty important to [...] This is a post from ReelSEO Online Video...
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Accidental Deliberations (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
On Monday, the Sask Party "notified the media" that RCMP officers would be entering the NDP caucus office at the legislature - insinuating that the opposition as a whole was somehow under police investigation. And the RCMP did indeed turn up - to invite the opposition to participate in a fund-raiser. The media reaction: a verdict of "boys will be boys". On Wednesday, the NDP raised...
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Archuleta Avenue Malaysia (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Kaleidoscope MP3s & MP4 Thanks to Sheila! Pat-A-Pan MP3 Silent Night MP3 The First Noel MP3 Pat-A-Pan MP4 CFTH Reviews! The Deseret News: A few hours ago, I talked with David Archuleta. He was in New York taping a TV special that will be aired on Univision on Dec. 10. Anyway, we talked about his Christmas CD “Christmas From the Heart,” and his upcoming [...]
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TO411 Daily (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Cable companies have gained so much power they have become a threat to Canadian broadcasting, and the national telecommunications regulator is mostly to blame, says Canada's second-largest private broadcaster. Canwest Global Corp. president Leonard Asper blamed the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission for setting ground rules that have impoverished broadcasters and put cable...
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