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...ComCor-TV (CCTV), a Moscow broadband provider, in the fall. CCTV has wired some 130,000 dwellings in the city and plans to connect 70,000 more in the upscale Central Administrative District by next March. A 47-channel package, which includes Russian-language versions of Animal Planet and Fox Kids, costs $12 a month. (Unlimited high-speed Web service adds $61.) "This is a unique opportunity for us. Muscovites want exposure to Western content," Baker says. His partner in this project? CCTV chairman Yuri Pripachkin, a former captain in the Soviet army. --By Sean Gregory
...round of cuts) and budgets but leaves the range of activities pretty much intact. There's a constant tension between the BBC's aim of making what Byford calls "brilliant, outstanding, special, standout content" and the need to justify its existence by attracting mass audiences, which, as Fox Television has proved, tend to gather at the bottom of the taste pyramid. Consider the huge popularity of reality TV, which is cheap to produce and capable of provoking controversy that hooks big audiences. Controversy is, of course, hard to control. Channel 4's last run of Celebrity Big Brother sparked riots...
...offers a formidable combination of resources: the globe's most prestigious business organization linked with the planet's best journalists to report on the heated competition among nations for investment. Alex Perry and Zoe Eisenstein file from Africa on the disparate development of Mauritius and Angola. In Denmark, Justin Fox analyzes the country's success amid high tax rates. Asia hand Kathleen Kingsbury examines China's push to land R&D labs. Latin America expert Tim Padgett assesses the surprising economic strength of Argentina, Brazil and Chile. And business writer Barbara Kiviat explains the significance of the WEF's country...
...NASN programming contains something Europeans need in order to jaw knowledgeably with displaced Yanks: the motormouthed color commentary from the ESPN, Fox Sports, CBS, MSG and Raycom networks, which Schwartz says gives Euroviewers "the local San Francisco, L.A. or Detroit background and feel." Good luck handling that NASCAR drawl...
...television, you have to bear down and try to translate these complicated decisions without condescending or pandering,ā€¯ said Wiehl, who is a legal analyst at Fox News...