The Sacramento-based Consul General of Mexico has teamed with credit counseling agency ClearPoint for a weeklong series of foreclosure prevention workshops and personal financial advice, starting Monday in Sacramento and the northern San Joaquin Valley. Events are free to the region's Latino community and will be conducted in Spanish and English. Monday, Sacramento's Univision 19 will host a television...
Renewed in 70 percent of the country, including CBS-owned WBBM-TV If Oprah Winfrey decides to hang up her the mic in syndication after 2011, CBS Television Distribution is going to have an insurance policy. Dr. Phil , the talk show which spun-off from The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2002, has been renewed through 2014 in 70 percent of the country , including the core CBS owned-and-operated station group...
• Yvonne Villarreal reports from Thursday's 10th annual Latin Grammys held at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas and aired on Univision: Puerto Rican alt-hip-hop duo Calle 13 went five-for-five at the awards, winning both album of the year for their politically charged third offering, "Los De Atrás Vienen Conmigo," as well as record of the year for "No Hay Nadie Como Tú."...
Catching up on some things from Thursday's sessions, who would have thought we'd have so much about Canada? Good stuff, and it points out how we need to broaden our research perspectives (yes, folks, consider that a pitch to contribute articles to The Convergence Newsletter ). In separate presentations Kim Kierans, King's College and Marc Edge, Sam Houston State took at look at the Canadian media landscape...
Pushing the boundaries of new media and broadcast journalism. That's the claim of the Berlin Project By covering a modern day Germany 20 years after the fall of the Berlin wall, this five–member team – whose work has been published and broadcast on various high profile media outlets including the BBC, CNN, Sky News, Reuters, CBC and CanWest Media Works – will use multiple platforms...
WINNIPEG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Canwest Global Communications Corp. (“Canwest” or the “Company”) announced today that Canwest and certain of its subsidiaries have agreed with members of the ad hoc committee of 8% senior subordinated noteholders (the “Ad Hoc Committee”) of Canwest Media Inc. to extend until November 30, 2009 the date by which the Company must file a consensual...
Tonight's 10th Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards just added a little more punch, as UFC heavyweight contender Cain Velasquez will be in attendance at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas to join with Alicia Keys and Eva Longoria to salute the finest in Latin music, beginning at 8pm ET on the Univision network.
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Time Warner Cable is a provider for digital cable TV, high-speed online services and digital phone services. Their cable TV selection includes programming packages, derived from over two hundred and fifty channels that cater to the specific interest of the viewer. These selections range from music, with digital music channels, sports packages, HDTV selections, local programming, cultural channels with...
MIKE MCGUFF posted yesterday that various Belo affiliates were rolling out new websites. KHOU-11 has joined the party with a new site that is, on first impression, a nice improvement over the old one. Just don't forget to add the "www" to the web ...
Grammy award winning singer and songwriter Alicia Keys will release her highly anticipated fourth album, The Element of Freedom, on December 15th. To promote the set, Alicia recently took part in a special performance at New York University and during the performance, she performed her second single off her new album, Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart, for the first time live. The performance was recorded...
Col. Danielle Savard, left, departing commanding officer at the Role 3 hospital, poses for photos with her replacement, U.S. Navy Capt. Darin Via at a change of command ceremony at RC South headquarters at Kandahar Airfield, Afgahanistan, Oct. 15, 2009. Photograph by: Bruce Ward, Canwest News Service.Thank you and well done, Canada!KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan — The multinational hospital here...
Legal News: Investment bank claims media co. not conveying major changes -- U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs has initiated a legal battle with beleagured Canuck broadcaster Canwest Global Communications over control of Canwest's Canadian cable channels.
TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As Canadians struggle to understand how best to protect their families from H1N1, Canwest and The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) today announced a partnership that will help. Each week a series of articles from AboutKidsHealth, developed with the child health experts of SickKids, will appear in the family and child pages of canada.com – www.canada.com/sickkids...
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