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A Potted History of Dance Music on British Television: Disco Ducks and Acid Explosions
In the first of a three part series investigating how dance music and club culture invaded living rooms round the UK, Josh Baines charts the journey from disco to acid house on the small screen.
Gordon Solie, Wrestling's Lost Voice, Still Lingers
For generations of wrestling fans, Gordon Solie's voice was what wrestling sounded like. Solie left when things got corporate, but he's still around in other ways.
Inciting Terror Is No Biggie As Long As You’re Not the ABC
Why is everyone losing their shit over the ABC airing the views of someone who said something that could possibly be interpreted as a pro-terrorism sentiment, but not bothered by newspapers whose editorials and front pages seemed specifically geared to...
Community TV in Australia Has Days Left to Survive
And here is why you should care, even though you probably still won't.
The Broadcast War Between Canada and Netflix Is Getting Real
And Google just joined the burgeoning war for the future of Canadian broadcasting.
I Went to the Debut of the World's First Atheist TV Channel
A group called American Atheists is bankrolling a fledgling streaming TV channel called Atheist TV, which intends to cater to what they refer to as the fastest-growing religious group in America. The only problem is, they don't even know what to...
NFL Referee Mike Carey is Trading in His Stripes for a Suit
CBS is adding former referee Mike Carey to its NFL broadcast team. It's yet another sign of the league's trend of growing more and more complicated. Is football running the risk of alienating fans?
To Rule on Aereo, the Supreme Court Has To Figure Out What Aereo Is
Plus: A list of things that Aereo might be, as per the court transcript!
Noel Edmonds Actually Wants to Buy the BBC
The English broadcaster and executive declared it to the world on Newsnight last evening.
Ex-Workers Have Hijacked Greece's Former Public Broadcaster
Last Saturday night, some 20,000 people marched from the Polytechnic to the city's US embassy to both commemorate the students' battle against the CIA-backed junta of the 70s and to link it to today's struggles against austerity and state oppression.
After Five Months of Occupation, Greek Riot Police Finally Shut Down the ERT
Back in June, the Greek government tried and failed to shut down ERT, the country’s equivalent of the BBC.The staff managed to hold on to the building for an incredible five months, until riot police entered the building in a pre-dawn raid on Thursday...