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Mission Stations Return to Dish After Year-Long Blackout
Mission Broadcasting and Dish Network have announced a comprehensive, multiyear distribution agreement that will return 27 Mission television stations in 25 markets to the satellite pay TV service. Specific terms of the agreement were not disclosed. The stations—which are owned by Mission Broadcasting and White Knight Broadcasting and operated by Nexstar—were removed from Dish in…
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Review: the masterful ‘Masters of the Air’ is Spielberg-sized television
Time Out says 5 out of 5 stars With movie star leads and supersized air combat sequences, this Spielberg-produced Apple TV+ series is a worthy successor to Band of Brothers Callum Turner and Austin Butler bring A-list charisma to a mighty, melancholy nine-part war epic that charts the nightmarish experiences of American bomber crews during…
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Masters of the Air review – Spielberg and Hanks’s Band of Brothers follow-up is absolutely classic TV
There has been a strange lack of hype around Masters of the Air. It is a huge, epic second world war drama, more than a decade in the making, filled with matinee-idol movie stars. It follows Band of Brothers and The Pacific, but moves the story from land and water to the sky. Steven Spielberg…
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What Dogs Prefer to Watch on Television
Photo by BazzaDaRambler (CC BY 2.0 Deed) Does your dog watch television? Does he have a favorite program or style of programming? These are the kinds of questions that a research team, headed by senior researcher Freya Mowat from the School of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Wisconsin at Madison has been asking. A…
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TVBlog: At CNN, In Comes Digital, Out Goes Television
From now on, CNN will be a “digital-first” news-content company, officially consigning the company’s TV network to legacy status. Or maybe it already was digital-first. No matter. The situation was clarified earlier this month in a long memo from CEO Mark Thompson. As a matter of fact, the phrase “digital-first” …
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Phi Beta Kappa, Film and Television Awards Season, ‘Best Scientists in the World,’ and More
Columbia News produces a monthly newsletter (subscribe here!) and article series featuring a roundup of awards and milestones that Columbia faculty, staff, and students have received in recent days. In this edition, you’ll find awards and milestones from December 21, 2023 to January 24, 2024. If you have an accomplishment you’d like to be considered…
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Gray Television (NYSE:GTN) Has No Shortage Of Debt
The external fund manager backed by Berkshire Hathaway’s Charlie Munger, Li Lu, makes no bones about it when he says ‘The biggest investment risk is not the volatility of prices, but whether you will suffer a permanent loss of capital.’ When we think about how risky a company is, we always like to look at…
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Jesse Palmer: From NFL Quarterback to Television Personality and Bachelor Host
In his youth, Jesse Palmer aspired to compete as an athlete on the field. As a Canadian, I have had the privilege of watching Jesse James Palmer’s versatile career unfold. After showcasing his football talents for the Florida Gators in college and later with the New York Giants and San Francisco 49ers in the NFL,…
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Upcoming in 2024: historical anniversaries, exhibitions and television
Characters Rosalind Clifford (NATALIE QUARRY), Nurse Phyllis Crane (Linda Basset), Dr Patrick Turner (Stephen McGann) in Call the Midwife. (Photo by BBC Pictures) Apple TV+ brings us Masters of the Air on 26 January, a gripping tale about an American bomber squadron during the Second World War. Also upcoming on Apple TV+ is The New…
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Lichfield businesses delve into Titanic history on popular television show
The 19th series of Dickinson’s Real Deal is currently being broadcast on ITV1 and an episode last Friday (January 19) featured auction scenes with Richard Winterton at The Lichfield Auction Centre, Fradley. It also showed celebrity antiques expert David ‘The Duke’ Dickinson talking to Simon Price, CEO of cutlery manufacturer Arthur Price. Simon visited the…
