'Survivor' Is Most Addictive Show On Television

Are you a "Survivor" junkie? You're not alone. The reality show has been named the most addictive show on television in a recent study measuring the "Emotional Attachment Index (EAI)" of North Americans' favourite...

More watched RNC than DNC on TV

"pdated 5:10 p.m. ET, Fri., Sept. 5, 2008NEW YORK - As a television draw, John McCain was every bit the equal of Barack Obama.The GOP presidential candidate attracted roughly the same number of viewers to his...

2 Out of 3 People Worldwide Watched 2008 Beijing Olympics

Apparently two-thirds of the global population tuned in to some form of 2008 Beijing Olympic coverage in August.And Vancouver thinks it's ready for that kind of attention in 2010. You've got to be kidding."Nielsen...

Australia planning India tour sans Symonds

"Australia coach Tim Nielsen is working on a plan to deal with the feisty all-rounder’s absence in the forthcoming India tour. After Symonds was sent home for missing a compulsory team meeting, when he went fishing instead, Nielsen said he could not assume that the...

Web audience for Olympics hits record high

Not surprisingly, the Beijing Games had the biggest online presence of any Olympics. Yahoo's Olympic site, for example, tripled its traffic compared with Turin in 2006.As this New York Times piece discusses, NBC and...

Aussie basketballers more worred about Beijing pollution than American compet...

"The Australian Women's basketball team's WNBA superstar Lauren Jackson is not fretting about the basketball war with America that awaits her in Beijing; she's more worried about the weather. Asked at a lunch on the Gold Coast about Australia's ultra-intense...

Canadian Flashpoint No. 1 Ranked Show in U.S. and Canada

It started off with a bang - CTV's Friday night Canadian-made series Flashpoint blew away the mold for ratings. And not just in Canada. In fact, the Toronto-based show, which follows a team of Special Response Unit...

Most Powerful Business Woman touts McCain on the Net

UPDATED  The Christian Science Monitor, has posted video of the event. Here's the link. When it comes to presidential politics, Barack Obama has all the buzz on the Internet. He has raised record amounts of money online. He hired a Facebook co-founder to help leverage...

MSNBC Uses Russert Death to Falsely Boost Ratings

"MSNBC which has turned into the Obama network has been cooking the books. Since they can’t seem to get out of last place in the ratings they used the Tim Russert Special to report their viewer numbers. Is this a...

British consumer confidence hits record low, BRC finds

UK retailers are in a panic as study after study shows that consumers are going to be hoarding their cash for some time. A drop in consumer spending power, a bad job market and general economic malaise have contributed to a general belt-tightening in the public mood....

'Idol' Winner David Cook Scores 940,000 Downloads

Is there such a thing as going digital platinum?"David Cook's American Idol win is already paying dividends on the music charts.The 25-year-old singer raked in 942,000 digital downloads in just a week, according to...

ATR may have been damaged in 'barrel roll'

"Danish civil aviation administration SLV is awaiting a detailed statement from regional airline Cimber Air after suspecting that one of its ATR 42-500 turboprops exceeded flight limits by performing a 360° longitudinal roll. Investigations began when the Danish...

Hit It and Quit It: Task-Driven Net Surfers

Jakob Nielsen's annual report on web habits shows that users are more and more task driven when they go online. More than half of pageviews are guided by search, with only 40% generated by visits to a given homepage....

Gulf magnates look to develop Dubai-on-Thames

Something similar to the famous palm islands of Dubai may soon be apearing along the River Thames in London. The gulf magnates who worked in Dubai have proposed to reclaim two three-mile stretches of land between...

Are We Bored of Miley Cyrus Yet?

Are Miley's legions of tween fans turning against her in the wake of the overblown, manufactured controversy of her Vanity Fair appearance? Perhaps not when it comes to her records, movies and live shows, but her...

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