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Specialty channel shifts as Corus buys Canadian Learning Television for $73M (MSN Money Canada)
TORONTO – TV viewers were treated to another episode of "Specialty Channel Shuffle" on Friday as Corus Entertainment Inc. (TSX:CJR.B) announced it's buying Canadian Learning Television from CTVglobemedia for $73 million.

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A new way to watch TV (CNN Money)
When Fox and NBC Universal announced last March that they would join forces to put their TV shows online, the pundits of Silicon Valley howled with derision. Old media doesn't get the Internet, they said. Michael Arrington, the influential editor of TechCrunch, rattled off the reasons the project would never succeed and suggested that Fox and NBC quickly name their joint venture before it got …

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'Dexter' author set 'the rules,' but TV series takes its own route (USA Today)
Author Jeff Lindsay is no fan of horror novels, preferring biographies and historical fiction. He doesn't like scary movies and doesn't watch much TV except for the occasional episode of Dora the Explorer with his 4-year-old. But on Sunday nights, he's tuning in to Dexter on CBS. Dexter is based on Lindsay's novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter about a nocturnal serial killer named Dexter Morgan (played …

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Corus buys Canadian Learning Television from CTVglobemedia for $73M (Canadian Business)
TORONTO – Corus Entertainment Inc. (TSX:CJR.B) is buying the Canadian Learning Television specialty channel from CTVglobemedia for $73 million.

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Briton joins Iranian Press TV as presenter (Calcutta News)
Britain born journalist Yvonne Ridley, who was taken into custody by the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2000, is now working as a TV presenter for Iranian Press TV after converting to Islam to honour her promise to captors.

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Rogers Television helps to nab Toronto murder suspect (680 News)
Toronto – Toronto police credited the media and Rogers Television, in particular, for helping them find a murder suspect who's been on the run since 2005.

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Clinton on Experience … (New York Times)
An analysis of the television advertisement for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton that began running on Friday in Texas.

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Carla Lewis-Long Joins AmericanLife TV (Broadcasting and Cable)
AmericanLife TV named Carla Lewis-Long senior vice president for affiliate sales.

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Best Buy Spent $515,000 in 2007 to Lobby Congress on the Transition to Digital Television (Canadian Business)
WASHINGTON (AP) – Electronics and appliance retailer Best Buy Co. spent $515,000 in 2007 to lobby the U.S. government on the transition to digital television.

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New TV episodes? Brace yourself for post-strike rush (Detroit Free Press)
There's good news on the TV front — of new episodes coming our way, with airdates and everything. We're talking "House," "CSI," "Grey's Anatomy," "The Office" and "Reaper," shows with scripts and actors and all the stuff we used to watch before the writers strike.

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TV TODAY: Come back to Dillon High for great teachable moments (Detroit Free Press)
TONIGHT'S MUST-SEE: "Friday Night Lights," 9 p.m., WDIV-TV, Local 4, NBC. Last week brought incendiary moments that defined Dillon High's coach, Eric Taylor. He exploded at the Laribee High coach who manhandled a Dillon player, and he banished Tim Riggins because of a misunderstanding.

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Businesses, city ready for digital television (Plano Courier)
As the countdown to the end of analog television continues, one government agency makes it easier for consumers to switch to digital.

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