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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Television personality Pat O'Brien, a host on celebrity news program The Insider, has checked into a rehab facility for undisclosed reasons, the TV show said in a statement Friday. Read More
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Television personality Pat O’Brien, a host on celebrity news program “The Insider” has checked into a rehab facility for undisclosed reason, the TV show said in a statement on Friday. “O’Brien and his doctors felt this is the best course for maintaining his sobriety,” the statement said.
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Every year America commemorates the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with community parades and television news footage showing Dr. King fighting segregation in the South and reciting his dream of racial harmony on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. But how have the lives of black Americans changed in the aftermath of Dr. King?
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ATLAS ( www.atlas-news.com ) is a Spanish production and distribution agency of news and reports for television and the Internet. It has over 70 ENG crews within the Spanish territory as well as correspondents and affiliates around the world including Brussels, Paris, London, Rome, New York, Berlin and more. Atlas Broadcast Services ... provides live stand-ups and play-outs from 13 SNG trucks placed on breaking news spots. For its television customers, Atlas distributes contents through the Hispasat satellite, whose footprint covers almost all Europe. The material is divided into theme slots, allowing each customer to exclusively access those segments of interest or all of them, via use of a simple satellite antenna and a decoder. Atlas offers both current and archive footages to domestic or international TV channels, commercials agencies and documentary producers.
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Television news viewers can often detect the use of VNRs within television newscasts; for example, many movie-star "interviews" are actually VNRs, taped on a set which is located at the movie studio and decorated with the movie's logo. Another frequent example of VNRs masquerading as news footage is videotapes of particular medical "breakthroughs," that are really produced and distributed by pharmaceutical companies for the purpose of selling new medicines.
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-- During the final month leading up to last November's elections (October 7- November 6), local television news viewers received considerably more information about campaigns from paid political advertisements than from actual news coverage. An analysis of local newscasts in seven of the nine markets revealed that during the typical early- and late-evening 30-minute broadcast, nearly four and a half minutes of paid political ads aired compared with an average of one minute and 43 seconds of actual election news coverage.
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