State Department on Nobel Prize: Better to be thrown accolades than shoes

From Elise Labott CNN State Department Producer WASHINGTON (CNN) — “Certainly from our standpoint this gives us a sense of momentum when the United States has accolades tossed its way rather than shoes.” That’s the take of Hillary Clinton’s State Department on President Barack Obama being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, according to her spokesman, Assistant Secretary P.J. Crowley. Crowley was referring to an incident last December, when an Iraqi journalist threw his shoes at President G

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Cyclist Lance Armstrong to be spokesman for Anheuser-Busch?s Michelob Ultra beer

Lance Armstrong to be spokesman for Michelob Ultra MILWAUKEE ? Cycling great Lance Armstrong has inked a deal with Anheuser-Busch InBev to be the spokesman for the company’s Michelob Ultra brand of beer. The seven-time winner of the Tour de France and the brewer announced the three-year deal Tuesday. Armstrong will appear in two television ads next year [...]

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England fans left raging at failure to show Ukraine clash on television

England supporters’ spokesman Mark Perryman has blasted the decision not to screen England’s forthcoming World Cup qualifier with Ukraine on the television. more

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Maori TV and the Rugby World Cup

The Herald reports : A taxpayer-funded Maori Television Service bid to screen free-to-air Rugby World Cup matches has been described as “plain stupid” by the Labour Party. “It sets a precedent for an incoherent and almost unbelievable broadcasting policy,” Labour’s Rugby World Cup spokesman, Trevor Mallard, said yesterday. “It would see public money used to up the bidding war and the coffers of the International Rugby Board will reap the benefits.” Maori Affairs Minister Pita Sh

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More details on Slovak DTT revealed

Commercial digital terrestrial television broadcasting (DVB-T) in Slovakia will begin at the end of this year, according to Radio Nederland’s Medianetwork. A spokesman for the Slovak Telecommunications Office, Roman Vavro, told the SITA newswire that “according to valid and effective licences for transmission of television programme service in the DVB-T standard, which the Telecommunications Office [...]

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