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Largest Plasma TV
Unveiled
Panasonic has unveiled the world's largest high-definition
plasma TV measuring nearly-12ft 6in high.
The giant TV was displayed at the International Consumer Electronics Show in
Las Vegas.
The plasma panel features an 8.84 million pixel image resolution. Its screen
is the equivalent of nine 50-inch sets, with an effective viewing area of
11ft, Panasonic said.
January 08 2008 - waveguide.co.uk
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BT Deal
Allows TV Via Games Consol
Microsoft has teamed up with BT to make television shows
available via the Xbox 360.
All BT broadband customers will be able to get the BT Vision service using
the games console later this year.
They will have access to a library of TV shows, sporting events and films
on-demand.
The BT Vision service also gives access to "near live" FA Premier League
football matches.
Dan Marks, chief executive of BT Vision, said: "For the first time consumers
in the UK will be able to experience the advantages of an advanced TV
service together with the benefits of next-generation gaming."
The service will be available to BT broadband customers via their Xbox 360
consoles by mid-2008.
BT Vision is already offered to customers with a broadband connection via a
set-top box, known as the V-Box.
The Xbox 360 console will be able stream video on demand from BT Vision to
television sets in the same way as the V-Box, but will not replicate all of
the V-Box's functions.
Pricing for BT Vision via the Xbox 360 has yet to be announced.
January 08 2008 - waveguide.co.uk
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Fiat Sponsoring Five
Fiat is to sponsor an entire evening of programmes on Five,
it was announced today.
Five is to be the first broadcaster to take advantage of the
change in Ofcom regulations surrounding sponsorship deals.
Five's sales team and media buyer Starcom Mediavest Plus have
developed a broadcast sponsorship package to coincide with the unveiling of
the car manufacturer's new Fiat 500.
The car will be launched to the public on January 21. The period running up
to the launch will be marked on-screen by a countdown clock appearing on
Five every evening until the launch, using 10 and 20-second commercial
spots.
On the launch evening, Fiat branding will appear on Five programme menus, as
well as on a series of integrated 25 second channel idents prior to each
show transmitted after 20:00 on the day.
Finally, the Fiat 500 will feature in 0.5 second ad-break flashes which will
appear between every commercial in every break after the launch.
January 08 2008 - waveguide.co.uk
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Kerry Katona and
Iceland
Supermarket chain Iceland today denied reports that troubled
celebrity Kerry Katona was being dropped from their television commercials
and will not have her contract renewed.
The company issued a statement saying: "Following the piece
in today's Daily Mirror, Iceland can confirm that Kerry Katona is still
under contract as the spokesperson of Iceland advertising.
"We are in negotiations with Kerry for next year's contract. This was
communicated to the Daily Mirror who chose to publish their article anyway."
It was thought that Colleen Nolan and Jason Donovan would take over from
Katona when her contract expires in March.
January 08 2008 - waveguide.co.uk
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Life In Cold Blood
The final chapter of Sir David Attenborough overview of life
on Earth, this time featuring cold blooded animals, is to be shown in the
BBC One series Life In Cold Blood.
"Reptiles and amphibians are sometimes thought of as slow, dim-witted and
primitive," said Sir David. "In fact they can be lethally fast,
spectacularly beautiful, surprisingly affectionate and extremely
sophisticated."
Sir David first brought viewers Life On Earth, then The Private Life Of
Plants, followed by The Life Of Birds, The Life Of Mammals and Life In The
Undergrowth.
Using the latest in filming technology from the BBC's Natural
History Unit ? including ultra-high-speed, thermal, miniature and on-board
cameras - Sir David reveals the intimate lives of the cold-blooded
reptiles and amphibians, discovering the secret of their success.
A transmission date is still to be advised.
January 08 2008 - waveguide.co.uk
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Trisha
Goddard To Join City Talk
Television's Trisha Goddard is to join Emap's new Liverpool
speech station City Talk, which plans to launch at the end of the month.
The talk show host will present a Sunday evening show called
Talk to Trisha that will see her acting as an agony aunt, interviewing
experts and taking calls from listeners between 20:00 and 22:00.
Weekday breakfast will be hosted by Liverpool local Phil Easton, who joins
from Emap-owned Radio City 96.7, and TV star Kim Hughes, who previously
presented ITV daytime show Livetalk.
Oher presenters on the station include former Brookside actor Simon O'Brien
who will host Saturday breakfast, and Rob McLoughlin, a former
presenter of The World in Action will host Sunday breakfast from 07:00 to
10:00.
City Talk station director Richard Maddock said: "City Talk will be a
different format for the UK and will be based on the US commercial talk
radio model, which is more like a TV magazine schedule."
January 08 2008 - waveguide.co.uk
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Richard Bacon To Marry
BBC Radio Five Live presenter Richard Bacon is to marry his
girlfriend later this month.
The former Blue Peter and Capital FM presenter will tie the
knot with Rebecca McFarlane at celebrity venue Babington House in Somerset
on January 17.
Richard, 33, who was sacked from Blue Peter 10 years ago for taking cocaine,
met Rebecca while working at Capital, where she is the station's marketing
manager.
Meanwhile, Bacon told his listeners he is to have a throat
operation to treat a growth on his vocal chord.
"I'll be off work for four weeks and for the first two weeks
I won't be able to speak - not a word," he said. "It couldn't sound more
deathly boring."
He said a specialist had diagnosed a polyp, a non-cancerous growth, by
putting a camera down his throat.
The host, whose voice sounds weaker on air, has been given steroids to help.
"I went to the ENT [ear, nose and throat] guy and he shoved a camera down my
throat," the presenter said.
"I expected it to be the size of a pencil or something, actually it wasn't.
It was about an inch wide.
"He dropped it down and I rejected it a few times in the way that you do
when you put your fingers at the back of your throat. It really was quite an
unpleasant process."
The doctor recorded the camera's findings and Bacon, who hosts the 2200-0100
slot from Mondays to Thursdays, has put a picture of his vocal chords on the
Five Live website.
"Apparently they [polyps] are quite common. Mine is quite an acute one,
hence why I think I have to have this operation," he said.
January 08 2008 - waveguide.co.uk
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Inquest
Opens Into Presenter's Death
The death of TV presenter Natasha Collins, fiancee of CBBC
presenter Mark Speight, is thought to be "non-suspicious at this stage", an
inquest has heard.
"But clearly the cause of death is unascertained and subject
to further investigation," Detective Inspector Simon Whittaker said.
Speight was arrested on Thursday after finding Ms Collins dead in the
couple's flat in north London.
He did not attend the hearing at Westminster Coroner's Court.
Speight has been bailed until the first week of February on suspicion of
murder and supplying cocaine, which he has denied.
Yesterday, the Metropolitan Police said a post-mortem
examination was "inconclusive" and further tests must be carried out on Ms
Collins' body.
The couple met working together on the children's series See It Saw It.
January 08 2008 - waveguide.co.uk
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