Lost Remote: ‘WSJ Live’ coming to Google TV, Roku and more

Posted on 7 November, 2011 by Martin Stabe

"The Wall Street Journal’s video service, WSJ Live, has expanded aggressively beyond its iPad debut in September. This week, WSJ announced it has inked distribution deals with Google TV, Roku, Apple TV and Daily Motion. Earlier, it expanded to Boxee and a variety of internet-connected TV sets including Samsung, Sony and Yahoo’s Connected TV platform."

Parliament: Early Day Motions

Posted on 25 April, 2009 by Martin Stabe

"That this House welcomes the rise in popularity of baseball in the United Kingdom ... ecognises the contribution that televised baseball has made in increasing the popularity of the sport and in particular the contribution of Jonny Gould, Josh Chetwynd and Erik Janssen; expresses disappointment at Five.TV's decision to cease showing Major League Baseball on terrestrial television; expresses concern that the rise in popularity of baseball in Britain may suffer as a result; and therefore calls on Five.TV or another free-to-view channel to show Major League Baseball on television."

Press Gazette: The Wire: Roger Parry: Retrain newspaper reporters for TV

Posted on 4 March, 2009 by Martin Stabe

Johnston Press chairman Roger Parry: “If we retrain our local journalists to be fully competent on video and audio, they could become the base of that news pyramid for all the other organisations.”

Media Guardian: Charlie Brooker to focus on news in BBC4 Screenwipe spin-off

Posted on 29 January, 2009 by Martin Stabe

Something tells me this is going to be one of my favourite things on TV: "Charlie Brooker is to take a satirical look at the news media in a spin-off from his BBC4 show Screenwipe."

CBC: CNN’s holograms not really holograms

Posted on 6 November, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"They were quite sophisticated, no doubt," said Hans Jürgen Kreuzer, a professor of theoretical physics at Dalhousie University and an expert on holography who watched the 3-D interviews. "But I immediately said to my wife that I don't think it has anything to do with holograms."

Independent on Sunday: Johnston Press joins the digital revolution

Posted on 2 September, 2007 by Martin Stabe

Johnston Press chief exec Tim Bowdler on bringing 24-hour rolling news to local and regional papers: "Suddenly, we are in the business of breaking news again ... That is something that we have not done for a while, and our journalists are loving it."

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