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Category: Apple, News, Universal Studios
From tuaw.com
Now that December has arrived and NBC’s contract has expired, all of their content has been removed from the iTunes Store, as promised. That means no more Bravo, mun2, NBC, NBC News, CNBC, NBC Sports, Sci Fi, Sleuth, Telemundo or USA Network (Go ahead and look. We’ll wait). It looks like the two companies were unable to patch things up, not surprising considering their ugly, public fighting. Good luck to NBC with hulu and that wonderful NBC Direct service, which sounds great. It requires Internet Explorer, the NBC Direct Player (Windows only) and the latest .Net framework. Videos are available for only 7 days after they initially air, and disappear from your computer 48 hours after you begin watching them (unless you remember to renew your license before then). Also, videos will only play on the computer used for the initial download. Mac users cannot use the service, though NBC says a Mac version is “…planned for 2008.” Finally, downloads cannot be transferred to portable devices.
Sad to see NBC go from iTunes since there was tons of shows I liked from there. I guess you can’t win them all.
Posted by Jose Castillo on December 3, 2007 at 9:23 am · Permalink
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Category: Disney, News
From nytimes.com:
Screenwriters moved to the picket lines this morning, as last-minute negotiations between the writers’ unions and producers failed to avert a strike over payments from producers for so-called new media, among other issues.
A sharply different scene was unfolding down the street at Walt Disney Studios. Led by a strike captain armed with a bullhorn, about 60 pickets greeted executives arriving at the studio’s primary gate with a boisterous display of solidarity. “Union!” the strike captain shouted. “Power!” the writers responded.
Walking the line were writer-producers from some of the biggest hits on television. The lead writers and show runners on “Lost” on ABC, marched in front of Greg Berlanti, the writer and producer of “Dirty Sexy Money,” “Brothers and Sisters” and the upcoming “Eli Stone,” all on ABC. Nearby were writers from “Reaper,” a new comedy on the CW network, and “Kyle XY,” a drama on ABC Family.
Despite the gung-ho attitude, it was immediately clear that Burbank is not Detroit. When the strike captain took a break from his bullhorn, half of the picketing writers at Disney started pecking at their BlackBerries.
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Posted by Dr. Disney on November 6, 2007 at 11:47 am · Permalink
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Category: News
From iht.com:
China says it will spend more than $14 billion to clean up a famed lake inundated by so much pollution this year that it became a symbol of the countrys lax environmental regulation of polluting industries.
Officials in Jiangsu Province, in eastern China, posted a notice Friday on a government Web site announcing plans to spend 108.5 billion yuan, or $14.4 billion, for a cleanup of Lake Tai, the countrys third-largest freshwater lake. The campaign would focus initially on eradicating the toxic algal bloom that choked the lake this spring and left more than two million people without drinking water.
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Posted by Dr. Disney on October 28, 2007 at 9:21 pm · Permalink
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Category: Disney, News
From orlandosentinel.com:
A pipe bomb - powerful enough to kill — found along a well-traveled expressway is linked to another device that exploded this summer near Downtown Disney, Orange County sheriffs officials said Thursday.
A St. Cloud man has been arrested, and detectives were hoping to catch four other suspects.
Authorities said Wednesdays bomb, fashioned out of PVC piping, was discarded along State Road 417 near John Young Parkway after its makers were spooked by the publicity surrounding the discovery July 2 of one of their other devices.
That bomb, made of metal, blasted a heavy-duty trash bin in an empty Disney parking lot and garnered national attention. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Dr. Disney on October 26, 2007 at 12:23 pm · Permalink
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Category: Misc, Disney, News, Collectibles, Travel, Universal Studios, SeaWorld, Theme Parks
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Posted by Matt on October 22, 2007 at 4:58 pm · Permalink
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Category: Disney, News
From wsj.com:
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Since its 2001 debut, the Walt Disney Co. theme park Disney’s California Adventure has floundered in the shadow of its legendary neighbor, Disneyland. To fix it, Disney is now planning a $1.1 billion overhaul — the most extensive makeover the company has ever given to a theme park.
Disney’s board recently approved the investment, which will be poured into California Adventure over roughly five years, according to people familiar with the plan. The sum is particularly significant, considering the theme park cost around $1 billion to build and Disney has already spent more than $100 million trying to improve it.
Originally aimed at luring visitors to spend more time and money at the Disneyland Resort, California Adventure has been criticized as lacking Disney’s trademark creative spark. The California theme has fallen flat with visitors from the western U.S., who make up the bulk of attendance. Last year, the park drew just under six million visitors, compared with nearly 15 million at Disneyland and short of Disney’s original forecast of seven million visitors a year for the new park.
Disney’s California Adventure theme park, next to Disneyland, celebrated its grand opening in 2001.
Now Disney hopes to turn the park around by making it more like its successful neighbor, filled with references to company founder Walt Disney, say people familiar with the plan. A key project will be redesigning the entrance plaza, now a hodgepodge of California icons, and replacing it with something akin to Disneyland’s signature Main Street.
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Posted by RavenG4 on October 17, 2007 at 10:47 am · Permalink
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Category: News
From startribune.com:
The running of the bulls was an unexpected feature event on Friday at the Minnesota State Fair.
In a brief, frenzied moment, an angry bull charged through the fairgrounds, barreled past fairgoers, butted a faded red fire hydrant and died. No one was injured. And no damage was done to fair exhibits. “Even our fire hydrant is OK and good to go,” said fair spokeswoman Brienna Schuette.
Usually, mornings are much quieter on the fairgrounds.
Leo Pritschet of Oakdale was daydreaming while he dished up Pronto Pups, Tim Radtke of Lakeville was serving Icees and Matt McClay of Shoreview was slinging hot dogs and fried onions.
But then the crowd parted. Shouts erupted. And there it was: a black bull careening down the street. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Dr. Disney on September 4, 2007 at 1:38 pm · Permalink
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Category: News
From presstv.ir:
They said that you can hear the web screech from the millions of mosquitos trapped in it — wouldn’t it have been neat to have been camping in a tent under this and wake up covered in webs in the morning! Uh……or maybe not. Talk about arachnophobia times ten! - Dr. Disney.
A huge spider web, which has spread over several trees covering an area of 200 yards, has stunned Entomologists and visitors.
“Millions of mosquitoes caught in the web has changed its former white color into brown”, said an official with Lake Tawakoni State Park, where the massive web is found. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Dr. Disney on August 31, 2007 at 6:39 am · Permalink
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From washingtonpost.com:
David Hasselhoff accepted libel damages Friday from the publisher of magazines that accused him of being drunk and abusive in a Hollywood nightclub.
Northern and Shell PLC, the publisher of the British edition of OK magazine and Northern and Shell North America Ltd., the publisher of the U.S. edition of OK Weekly, “accept that their allegations were false,” Hasselhoffs lawyer, Simon Smith, said in court.
The amount of damages in the out-of-court settlement was not disclosed.
Smith said the July 3 U.K. edition of OK accused the 55-year-old former star of TVs “Baywatch” and “Knight Rider” of being “off his face” and abusive in a club shortly after winning a custody battle for his daughters.
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Posted by Dr. Disney on August 24, 2007 at 3:41 pm · Permalink
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From startribune.com:
Divers searching the wreckage of the collapsed Interstate 35W bridge on Sunday found the body of Richard Chit, according to the Hennepin County Medical Center.
Chit, 20, of Bloomington, had been riding in a car with his mother when the bridge collapsed Aug. 1. His mother, Vera Peck, 50, is among the four victims still unaccounted for.
“The weather is hampering our efforts,” said Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek in a press conference this afternoon.
Stanek said increased current from recent rains in the Twin Cities and upstream has now shifted the focus of the rescue effort from a search for victims to concentration on debris removal.
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Posted by Dr. Disney on August 14, 2007 at 7:19 am · Permalink
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