User-Generated Video Gets Its Own TV Channel

"YORK, Pa. (AdAge.com) -- Ready for a TV channel made up entirely of consumer-generated videos? That's right, for  a little less than $3 -- video makers can upload their work with the guarantee that it will run on Fame TV on the BskyB satellite network in the U.K. and...

Celeb pathologist does 2nd Smith autopsy

"A pathologist who gained fame as a critic of the government's probe into John F. Kennedy's assassination and a consultant in Elvis Presley's death performed a second autopsy Sunday on the son of Anna Nicole Smith. Cyril Wecht, a forensic pathologist from Pittsburgh said...

NASCAR hall to offer meeting venue (BizJournals)

" The new NASCAR Hall of Fame is expected to include a corporate meeting facility, but how much space and what it will look like rests in part on whether NASCAR exercises an option to build an office tower at the site. The deal to bring the hall of fame to uptown gave NASCAR...

15 minutes of fame shrinking in reality TV era (Reuters)

" LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - In a reality-TV-dominated, Internet-video-crazy world, just about anyone -- from cab drivers to cocktail waitresses -- can get instant fame and often lose it just as quickly. Homemade videos are booming on the Internet and TV shows make overnight...

First bikini, then bindi

"In the Hindi film industry, asset gains mean something else. Aspiring actresses without the advantages of pedigree know the benefits of half-naked aerobics. "Actresses showing skin are like neon signs that you can't ignore," says producer Sunil Doshi. It is a short cut to...

Rocker-turned-preacher pursuing pop fame again (Reuters)

" BROOMFIELD, Colo. (Reuters) - Rocker-turned-preacher Richard Furay, a founding member of Buffalo Springfield and Poco, says he long felt overlooked for his contributions to two 1960s bands that pioneered the next decade's country-rock explosion. It wasn't until years after...

Rocketboom star exits her famous perch (AP)

" NEW YORK - "The Internet is like a smoothly paved road," Amanda Congdon told viewers the last time she appeared on her popular video blog, Rocketboom. "I can go anywhere I want." She wasn't talking about her career, but she could have been. In less than two years as the...