SATELLITE
Shareholders are threatening to revolt after BSkyB's remuneration committee
announced it would be awarding its departing chief Tony Ball 10.7 million
pounds to agree not to join a rival company within the next two years. [The
Independent]
The Independent

MARKETS & FESTIVALS
Alternative international tendencies for Asia were discussed at the Asia
Media Festival in Singapore. Granada Media's George Sakkalli, Bloomberg
Television's Brian Martinez, RTL Group's Ralph Siebenale, Discovery Networks Asia's
Charmaine Kwan and Coral International's José Escalante, were all in attendance.
Coral International

BROADCAST
Military intelligence agents arrested Tahsin Khayyat, owner and chairman of
the Lebanese TV channel, New-TV, for allegedly collaborating with Israel and
harming the country's foreign relations. [Yahoo! News]
Yahoo! News

ADVERTISING
The faces of TV and movie characters are gracing the packaging of children's
snacks, and parents aren't too happy about it. [New York Times]
New York Times

PROGRAMMING
Oprah Winfrey said that she'll never again appear on David Letterman's
late-night CBS talk show because she has too often been the butt of his jokes.
[Yahoo! News]
Yahoo! News

The Sci-Fi Channel is airing an updated miniseries version of the famed, but
short-lived 1978 series "Battlestar Galactica," about humans in space who must
fend off a band of robots, called Cylons. [New York Times]
New York Times

STUDIES
A new study claims that children who watch more television, eat fewer
vegetables and that American children watch an average of 22 hours of TV a week.
[Yahoo! News]
Yahoo! News

POLITICIANS
U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman is waging a war on the entertainment industry
for selling us television that he calls "garbage" and "cultural poison" to
children." [Yahoo! News]
Yahoo! News

Several NBC affiliates refused to air this past weekend's episode of
"Saturday Night Live," hosted by presidential hopeful, Al Sharpton, because they
feared the federal government would activate "equal time provisions" and force them
to give airtime to the eight other Democratic candidates. [Yahoo! News]
Yahoo! News

TECHNOLOGY
E-mail spamming may have become more common in the last few years, but it
hasn't become any less annoying, so some of the nation's leading Internet Service
Providers and technology companies are devoting lots of time and lots of
money to stop it. [Yahoo! News]
Yahoo! News

Dallas, Texas-based OneDisc Technologies is talking with major and
independent labels about a new single-disc product it wants to launch that will play DVD
videos on one side and audio CDs on the other. [New York Times]
New York Times

In a TiVo world in which viewers can skip commercials altogether,
broadcasters are hoping that interactive television shows will get viewers more involved
with their TVs. [New York Times]
New York Times

CORPORATE IN-FIGHTING
Despite helping to almost double stock prices for the company, it seems that
a lot of people at Disney want Michael Eisner out. [International Herald
Tribune]
International Herald Tribune

Last week's resignations of Roy Disney and Stanley Gold from the Disney board
have people asking: Who will one day fill Michael Eisner's shoes? [Los
Angeles Times]
Los Angeles Times

FILM
Bollywood producers are getting ready for a meeting with Pakistan president
Pervez Musharraf to press him to lift the country's ban on Indian films. [Times
of India]
Times of India

Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear play dim-witted conjoined twins in the Farrelly
Brothers' new comedy, "Stuck on You." [Yahoo! News]
Yahoo! News

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