Canadian nationalists will be pleased to learn that a new adult television station promises that at least 50 per cent of its writhing, glistening performers will be 100 per cent homegrown.

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The world's biggest media company, Time Warner, has bowed to shareholder pressure and announced plans to spin off its cable television business.

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A strike at one of French Polynesia's two public television stations is being pursued over the showing of a seven-minute pornographic film.

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Hulu.com is finally going public on Wednesday. After a four-and-a-half-month long public beta, the video site, co-founded and jointly owned by News Corp. and NBC Universal (parent of CNBC), is launching officially.

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Video-sharing website YouTube is preparing to challenge established television broadcasters by offering its own live channels.

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ROYAL OAK, Mich. - A former TV news anchor in Michigan who was accused of embezzling from a man she dated and advised financially has been found dead in her home.

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The robot-powered music streaming service Pandora will close its UK operation next week. The company blames high royalty demands from the two main UK collection agencies. The site will continue to stream to what it recognizes are US-based IP addresses, but will block connections to UK addresses from January 15.

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The conditional sale of Today FM, FM104 and Highland Radio from Emap to Communicorp Group for £135m has now been completed. The sale, announced in July 2007, was conditional on obtaining certain regulatory clearances which have now been received.

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News Corporation announced today it has acquired a 14.58 percent stake in Premiere AG, the leading German pay-TV operator for 287 million Euro in cash.

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Made in Manchester Productions has completed its first commission for the BBC digital network 1Xtra - a documentary about the return of Salt-N-Pepa.

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A BBC children's television presenter arrested on suspicion of murdering his fiancee and supplying cocaine has been released on bail.

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For the first time in recent memory, Germans spent less time in front of their TVs in 2007 than they did the year before, according to a new survey.

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Two French journalists, Capucine Henri and cameraman C. Siomon of France 24 news channel, were detained by the Sri Lankan police Christmas night for video-taping a Tamil family while being questioned by the Sri Lankan military at a road block near Boosa detention camp in Rathgama in Galle district. Expressing serious concern on the conduct of the Sri Lankan security establishment, the Free Media Movement (FMM), a Colombo based media watchdog, Tuesday said videoing a road block was not a national security issue. The FMM urged the police authorities to expedite the investigation and release the journalists in detention without further delay.

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UTV Radio is in exclusive talks with Communicorp Group to purchase Dublin's FM104 for around 50 million euros - according to a report in the Irish Times today. If Communicorp dispose of FM 104, it will leave the company free to purchase three stations from Emap, including national Today FM.

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Classic FM is launching six new online radio streams of the station and a new online television channel. All seven of the services will be available online alongside the original Classic FM channel from January 7th at MyClassicFM.co.uk

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