Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather today apologised for a remark that could be taken as a racist slur on President Barack Obama.Rather apologised for his choice of words on a TV current affairs talk sh ...
Cached : Dan Rather sorry for 'watermelons' comment
Ladies on ladders tie fake pohutakawa flowers to the leaves - it's supposed to be December, and New Zealanders will notice if there are no crimson flowers to prove it. At their cue, little girls ...
Cached : Go Girls : Shifting the goalposts and changing the game
NEW YORK - Andy Whitfield, who plays the title role in the Starz Original series Spartacus: Blood and Sand , has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The British-born actor will begin treatment ...
Cached : Spartacus star diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma
Another humid night in Caracas, and in a cafe off Avenida Francisco De Miranda a television glows in the corner. President Hugo Chavez is making a speech.The volume is too low to make out what he is s ...
Cached : Chavez in driver's seat as he silences his critics
Have you guys seen what's happening over at KiwiFM ? It's quite intriguing. Local radio DJ (and host of Wammo) Glenn Williams has been doing some experimenting over the last 6 months.An exp ...
Cached : Local radio innovation over at Kiwi Fm
A One News item that claimed Samoa was "awash with drugs and guns" breached broadcast standards on balance, fairness, and accuracy, the Broadcasting Standards Authority has ruled.The autho ...
Cached : TVNZ fined over Samoan gangs story
A TV3 60 Minutes item on girl gangs in Hawke's Bay did not sufficiently protect the identities of four girls, exploited them and treated them unfairly, the Broadcasting Standards Authority has fo ...
Cached : BSA finds girls treated unfairly in gangs item
NEW YORK - Millions of cable television subscribers in the New York area were scrambling today to hook up antennas or find live TV on the internet in order to watch the Academy Awards after ABC's ...
Cached : Millions in US face Oscars night without broadcast
Television New Zealand's exclusive deal for the "Heartland" channel on pay TV signals a wider and significant change in the media landscape.The key free-to-air broadcaster is bypassing ...
Cached : Heartland deal signals new TV scene
Television New Zealand's exclusive deal for the "Heartland" channel on pay TV signals a wider and significant change in the media landscape.The key free-to-air broadcaster is bypassing ...
Cached : Heartland deal signals new TV scene
Much-hyped digital recording device TiVo has had a disastrous launch, despite a $10 million dollar investment by Television New Zealand.Multiple industry sources estimated there had been fewer than 20 ...
Cached : Kiwi viewers shun TiVo
TV3's John Campbell has raised the ire of his MediaWorks mates at RadioLive by gatecrashing an interview with Brian Tamaki.Campbell has hotly pursued Tamaki for an interview on his current affair ...
Cached : Attempt to gatecrash interview raises hackles
TV3's John Campbell has raised the ire of his MediaWorks mates at RadioLive by gatecrashing an interview with Brian Tamaki.Campbell has hotly pursued Tamaki for an interview on his current affair ...
Cached : 'Stalker' Campbell attempts to gatecrash Brian Tamaki interview
A Kiwi model who starred with Pamela Anderson in a controversial Australian TV ad has hit back at critics.Aucklander Nicola Simpson appears with the Baywatch babe in a 30-second commercial for Aussie ...
Cached : Boardroom bikinis too hot for Oz
I ate some Vogel's toast with cream cheese and tomato while I watched this Wednesday's episode of MasterChef New Zealand . On the urging of judges Judith Tabron, Simon Gault, Ray McVinnie a ...
Cached : Food for thought
Sarah Palin is said to be in talks to make a reality television programme that shows her family's life in Alaska. Some reports said the programme would follow the former Republican vice-president ...
Cached : Palin for reality TV
Television New Zealand is planning a new channel of repeats to be shown exclusively on pay television. Production industry sources said the new channel would be part of the basic Sky package.The chann ...
Cached : Media: Play it again - only on Sky's pay TV
Television New Zealand is planning a new channel of repeats to be shown exclusively on pay television. Production industry sources said the new channel would be part of the basic Sky package.The chann ...
Cached : Media: Play it again - only on Sky's pay TV
There's some boyish energy coming to the Disney Channel this week. It involves guitar strings, amps and frightfully dated hairstyles.The newest music-with-comedy show I'm In The Band was c ...
Cached : Banding together in the name of rock
Free-to-air television bosses are discussing sharing commentators after agreeing to share coverage of the top 16 games during the Rugby World Cup next year.Of the 16 games - including the quarter-fina ...
Cached : TV bosses eye sharing Cup commentators