The National News Archives

TOT says it will use all means at its disposal to remove Article 78 from the draft law establishing a single broadcasting and telecom regulator.

Lou Dobbs in CNN studio. AP "It's time we confront the fact that behind violently anti-immigrant and supremacist rhetoric is a real urge and a real encouragement for actual violence," wrote Sally Kohn, senior strategist with the Center for Community Change, in September blaming all American-firsters for the acts of a few.

The Constitutional Court upheld yesterday disputed media reform laws railroaded by the ruling Grand National Party despite acknowledging violations in the passage.

An ad Labour says is propaganda for the National Government will finish running its course before being replaced with another, TVNZ says.

An upcoming electronic field trip to Great Smoky Mountains National Park will introduce students from across the country to the park's unique and rich ecosystem.

This image rendered from video on Friday, Oct. 23, 2009 and made available by KGW-TV in Portland, Ore., shows Northwest pilot Richard Cole at his home in Salem, Ore.

Broadcasters have offered up arguments to the FCC for why the government should not be in a rush to reclaim their spectrum to feed the wireless beast, including that they remain the home of educational programming and news and emergency information.

Painting is a silent art but the best painters engage all our senses. They are concerned with the illusion of space, conveying texture and evoking smell and with rhythm, tone and harmony... ...Sounds of the Gallery.

Twenty years after the revolutions of 1989 brought down communism, a fresh crop of books attempts to unpack this epic story.

IT HAS travelled through time and space and now the Tardis has arrived at the National Botanic Garden of Wales.

KCCI Meteorologist Bryan Karrick accepted the National Weather Association's Broadcaster of the Year award on Wednesday.

The FCC has announced the agenda and participants for its upcoming media ownership workshops, and wants input on just how to go about reviewing its rules, as Congress has said it must do every four years.On tap for review are "the newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership rule, the radio/television cross-ownership rule, the local television ownership ...

From The Globe and Mail : The wide-ranging programming changes for different news shows and the new look for The National were unveiled yesterday in a splashy presentation.

Newshounds already get their headlines from CNN, while business junkies learn the latest from BNN.

Labour leader Phil Goff says National is still enjoying a honeymoon with the public after a new poll showed it had double the support of his party.

With the rival CTV network continuing to boycott the news categories at Canada's TV awards, there was no surprise in the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.'s sweep of the first night of the Gemini Awards on Monday.

This just in from NASA: the Augustine committee will release its final report Thursday.

More than one thousand employees of St. Petersburg's federal TV station, Channel Five, have signed an open letter to President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warning them that the staff of the city's main television channel are facing redundancies.

LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE, Calif. a " Southern California communities near wildfire burn areas are preparing for the possibility of mudslides as a strong Pacific storm remains on course for the West Coast.The National Weather Service says there's a potential for widespread rain Tuesday and Wednesday, with the possibility of mud and debris flows from the ...

Legislation to make radio stations pay royalties to performers when they broadcast their music won the Senate Judiciary Committee's approval Thursday.

The NFL punts to left-wing political intimidation. From 'The Wall Street Journal': The National Football League, in which each Sunday men weighing 365 pounds slam headlong into men weighing 245 pounds, has decided it can't handle Rush Limbaugh, talk-show host, age 58.

It was one small bus trip for a broadcaster, one potentially giant leap for broadcasting-kind. That was the message Friday as broadcasters celebrated mobile DTV on what they said was a historic day for the future of the medium.

Radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh makes remarks at the National Association of Broadcasters in 2003 in Philadelphia, Penn.

A TELEVISION show will pay tribute to a great Wrexham composer to mark the centenary of his birth.

Caption: Julia Roberts on the set of her upcoming film 'Eat, Pray, Love' shooting in Manhattan New York City, USA .... JULIA ROBERTS' mother is recovering after undergoing emergency surgery following a reported heart attack last month .

As a child growing up in High Point, Debra Terry knew she wanted to be a comedian.

The series, titled "Alaska State Troopers," starts Wednesday on the National Geographic Channel.

I want my MTV And the political fall out beginsA A A Govt told TVNZ to lead World Cup counter bid The Government told TVNZ to put together a consortium for a bid it will financially back to ensure all New Zealanders get to see Rugby World Cup games.

The Rev. Al Sharpton wants the National Football League to block conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh from bidding on the St.

Slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers will be honored Friday with a Navy supply ship named for him.

Having had to deal with the shenanigans at the SABC, MPs are now targeting the simmering tensions and power struggle between the management and the council of the communications regulatory body, Icasa.

Also, for the first time, Coisir Og Ghaidhlig Ile, the Islay-wide community choir for children under 19 will be competing.

A SPACECRAFT slammed into the moon's south pole at 9000 km/h last night, kicking up a 10-kilometre-high shower of debris that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration hoped would confirm the presence of enough water to supply future visits by astronauts.

Ia ve enjoyed watching Ken Burnsa "The National Parks: Americaa s Best Idea". This is a shortened version of the even longer and more awkwardly titled, "The National Parks: Americaa s Best Idea is to DVR This Thing if Youa re Ever Going to Make it Through All Twelve Hours". Burns is the master of therapeutic filmmaking.

Bhopal, Oct 8 : Expressing concern over the unprecedented surge in crimes against women, National Women's Commission chairperson Girija Vyas Thursday, citing the National Crime Record Bureau figures, said Madhya Pradesh reported the highest number of rapes in the country in the last five years.

The National Parks: America's Best Idea If you missed it when it aired on PBS, fret not.

WAP2000091112- 09 SEPTEMBER 2000 - WASHINGTON, DC, USA: Dr. Drew Pinsky, co-host of MTV's Loveline and drDrew.com, speaks at the National Press Club in Washington, DC while launching a new nationwide anti-drug public service campaign in partnership with the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

A PUSH for a radical restructuring of the National Rugby League seems to be gathering pace, with the former prime minister John Howard reportedly approached to head an independent commission to run the game.

Tegucigalpa, Oct 4 The immediate restitution of overthrown President Manuel Zelaya is an indispensable condition to guarantee elections in Honduras, according to a resistance leader.

Little old Inyo County takes home the gold once again, with ABC News voting Death Valley National Park as the number one park in America.

Gannett announced today the launch of a major company-wide, cross-divisional campaign for the National Breast Cancer Foundation.

NEW DELHI: A face-off between NDTV Imagine and the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights appears to be on the cards over reality show 'Pati Patni Aur Woh' in which television couples are made to look after "borrowed" babies.

ORANGEBURG - A child psychiatrist from Chicago has become deputy director of the Nathan Kline Institute, replacing an administrator who is retiring after half a century in the field of mental health.

Former SABC board chairwoman Khanyi Mkhonza instituted clandestine investigations against the broadcaster's top executives, with her investigative consultants recommending charging the managers and enlisting the police and spies to screen employees who "pose a threat" to the corporation.

Abu Dhabi // Inside The National, broadcast from inside the newsroom of The National, will be shown in a new time slot and for the first time with Arabic subtitles from today.

SURGEONS from throughout the UK gathered at a medical research centre at Basingstoke hospital to learn trailblazing keyhole surgery.

After World War II, Americans returned to the parks en masse, creating traffic jams in the wilderness.

N DTV Imagine's reality television show Pati Patni Aur Woh finds itself mired in controversy with the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights sending a notice to the makers of the show asking them to stop its telecast.

With everything on TV these days - from reality TV to game shows, special interests, food programs and sports and news - it's hard not to find something to watch.

Civilian formations marched in Tian'anmen Square as another centerpiece of the National Day fete marking the 60th birthday of the People's Republic of China.

Season 1, Episode 3 of 4 : Glacier Lodges This episode features three lodges and a smaller mountain chalet in Glacier National Park, high in the mountains of northwestern Montana.

A grizzly bear fishes for salmon at Brooks Falls in Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska.