Edward S. Rogers Jr., Canadian Media Mogul, Dies at 75
Edward S. Rogers Jr., who transformed Canada?s first FM radio station into one of North America?s most diverse communications and media companies, died on Tuesday at his home in Toronto. He was 75.

MarketWatch First Take: Media facing huge ad challenge in 2009
Just when it seemed as if the media?s prospects couldn?t get much worse, Fitch Ratings is determined to stuff a big lump of coal in the media industry?s Christmas stocking, writes Jon Friedman.

Edward S. Rogers Jr., Canadian Media Mogul, Dies at 75
Mr. Rogers transformed Canada?s first FM radio station into one of North America?s most diverse communications and media companies.

Cox to Form Media Group
Hoping to leverage operating efficiencies across all its local media divisions, Cox Enterprises announced Wednesday (Dec. 13) it is reorganizing Cox Newspapers, Cox Television and Cox Radio under one business unit, Cox Media Group, effective January 2009.

OnScreen Media Summit: Superserving Sports Fans on the Web
The notion of ?superserving? sports-mad fans came up repeatedly in the session Live Streaming For Sports: Friend or Foe?, the final segment of the B&C/Multichannel News OnScreen Media Summit in New York Tuesday.

Japan Mobile Operator Deploys HP Media Platform
Japan?s largest mobile operator, NTT DOCOMO ( DCM ), has deployed a standards-based media server from HP ( HPQ ) to reduce costs and shorten time to market for new services.

OnScreen Media Summit: YouTube?s Hoffner: Monetization is Coming
New York?YouTube director of content partnerships Jordan Hoffner outlined the Google owned video site?s plans to monetize its content during a keynote at the Broadcasting & Cable/Multichannel News OnScreen Media Summit Tuesday.

Scalpel, forceps, iPod: Ohio State med school students to use portable media players
COLUMBUS, Ohio - The iPod is going to medical school. Officials said Tuesday that an Apple Inc. portable media player will become standard equipment for Ohio State University med students.

Iranian media and UN to join hands to create awareness on disaster risk reduction
UN - Media Iranian media and UN agencies in Iran will join hands to educate and advocate for disaster risk reduction (DRR) and create resilient communities in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Diversion Media Slingshots Sling.com
Diversion Media, LLC, a New York-based broadband video company, announced that it has provided technology development and support for the new Sling.com video entertainment destination, which launched to the public on November 24, 2008.

NSO conducts literacy, education and mass media survey
THE National Statistics Office (NSO) has conducted a literacy, education and mass media survey, which aim to gather data on basic and functional literacy rates and educational skills qualifications of the population.

Ethnic clashes take a backseat in media
Pakistan?s broadcast media has gone into overdrive with commentators and analysts trying to figure out what the country?s response should be to the Mumbai attacks and the Indian government?s statements of a Pakistani involvement.

Fitch cautious on media advertising decline
(AP:CHICAGO) Fitch Ratings warned Wednesday that a potential global recession spanning into 2010 could lead to a media advertising decline on par with that of 2001.

Is UK plc losing control of its media?
As in football, an increasing number of leading media businesses are now under foreign ownership. Media Week examines the implications for the future of the UK media industry

Early Glance: Media companies
(AP:NEW YORK) Shares of some top media companies are down at 10 a.m.: Disney fell $.86 or 4.0 percent, to $20.60. NY Times fell $.13 or 1.8 percent, to $7.06.

David Sassoon: Clean Coal, Clean Tar: Media Getting Wise to Oxymorons
To hear Brian Williams take a clean shot at dirty coal seemed like a signal heralding a great thaw of a long media Ice Age that has prohibited honest reporting on the fossil fuel industry.

Supernanny production company Shed Media loses chief executive Eileen Gallagher
Television production group Shed Media announces its cofounder Eileen Gallagher is stepping down as chief executive.

S Korea's Media Reform Bills Draw Fire
SEOUL (AFP)--South Korea's conservative ruling party on Wednesday unveiled a series of bills aimed at removing ownership barriers between print news media and television networks.

Deepak Sandhu named media advisor to prime minister
Deepak Sandhu, principal director general of the Press Information Bureau (PIB) in the ministry of information and broadcasting, has been named the media advisor to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Multicast Routing For Efficient Multi-Media Streaming
LinuxPlanet Classics: Multicast routing is very useful for streaming media, so let's follow Charlie Schluting on a tour of this excellent protocol as we continue the wonderful Networking 101 series.