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Discussions held about switching advertiser-funded free-to-air digital channels such as ITV2 to subscriptionITV has held talks with BSkyB about switching its advertiser-funded free-to-air digital channels such as ITV2 to subscription, meaning they would no longer be available to Freeview viewers.The commercial broadcaster has been forced to consider the radical option in the face of the worst advertising downturn in its 54-year history. The move comes despite the free-to-air strategy having made ITV2, the youth-oriented entertainment channel that broadcasts shows including Britain's Got More Talent and American Idol, the most watched non-sports digital channel in the UK.It is understood that ITV has held talks with BSkyB about switching ITV2, ITV3 - which focuses on classic ITV dramas such as Inspector Morse - and ITV4, home to more male-oriented programming such as live football, to subscription.Under one option, ITV could pay a nominal carriage fee to BSkyB for broadcasting the chann

Discussions held about switching advertiser-funded free-to-air digital channels such as ITV2 to subscriptionITV has held talks with BSkyB about switching its advertiser-funded free-to-air digital channels such as ITV2 to subscription, meaning they would no longer be available to Freeview viewers.The commercial broadcaster has been forced to consider the radical option in the face of the worst advertising downturn in its 54-year history. The move comes despite the free-to-air strategy having made ITV2, the youth-oriented entertainment channel that broadcasts shows including Britain's Got More Talent and American Idol, the most watched non-sports digital channel in the UK.It is understood that ITV has held talks with BSkyB about switching ITV2, ITV3 - which focuses on classic ITV dramas such as Inspector Morse - and ITV4, home to more male-oriented programming such as live football, to subscription.Under one option, ITV could pay a nominal carriage fee to BSkyB for broadcasting the chann

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani authorities negotiated on Tuesday for the release of about 200 students and staff from a military-run college abducted by Taliban militants as they traveled home for a holiday.

CHAUMONT, N.Y., June 1 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- A book aimed at helping individual students walk a path through metaphysics, to understand and read sacred energies, learn from spirits, including loved ones in the Afterlife and practice astral projection, is the latest work of Mystic Spiritualist Robert Egby. Entitled 'The Quest of the Radical Spiritualist - The Journey Home' (ISBN: 978-0-615-29196-3), the book sets new challenges for the individual Spiritualist, creating new thoughts and offering new philosophies for the future.

Female impersonator Danny La Rue dies at his home following a short illness, according to reports.

The "61st Primetime Emmy® Awards" is moving ahead a week! CBS has moved the broadcast of this year's Emmy Awards from Sunday, Sept. 20 to Sunday, Sept. 13 to accommodate its NFL coverage. "The new date moves the Emmys away from a weekend where CBS has an NFL doubleheader, which can delay the start of primetime on Sunday," said Jack Sussman, Executive Vice President, Specials, Music and Live Events, CBS. "This is better for the live event, the broadcast and our audience at home."

Business News: Displaced WMA agent finds a home -- Paradigm has hired Erwin More, one of the veteran tenpercenters who was displaced as part of the merger between WMA and Endeavor.

A Connecticut newlywed is credited with helping save a family from a house fire while in her wedding gown. Officials say Georgette Clemons had just left her wedding reception Sunday evening when she spotted smoke coming from a home in Bridgeport. Clemons told...

The last survivor of the 1912 sinking of the "Titanic," Millvina Dean, has died in a nursing home in England at the age of 97....

'There's No Place Like Home' for homeless shelter dogs, according to Nigel, the former street-dog-turned-stage-star, who is making his new york professional debut in The Wiz at City Center in June. The need for a home is what inspired Nigel, along with co-star Ashanti (who plays Dorothy) to host 'There's No Place Like Home' Adoption Day on Saturday, May 30th at at City Center (55th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues). BroadwayWorld.com was there for all the 'WIZ' filled fun!