The move followed a decision by Ladbrokes last week to suspend betting on C after an “unprecedented” surge in bets, raising fears of a leak.
Tag: 10.12.10
Crowd-Sourced Video Pays Tribute To Johnny Cash
“The project is a unique Web-only music video where every frame is a fan-created drawing. Work on the project — a complex mix of software design and editing — began last September.The website launched in March. After more than 250,000 submissions, a broadcast version of the video has been released for TV stations and eligibility for 2010 Grammy nominations.”
What Really Pays The Bills In Bookstores
“Publishing houses earn kudos from having a Booker prize-winner on their books, but it is these Christmas tomes, written by actors, television presenters, pop stars and sports personalities, that offer many publishing houses their best hope of stiffening their commercial backbone.”
Rushdie Writing Account Of His Life Under Fatwa
“Salman Rushdie has revealed that he has already written 100 pages of the memoir that will tell the story of his decade in hiding under the threat of death.”
Pasadena Playhouse Emerges From Bankruptcy With A New Season
The Pasadena Playhouse’s path back appears to be a middle way, paved not with megabucks and glitter, but relying instead on such old-fashioned virtues as patience, perseverance and thrift — which may turn out to be the new “sexy.”
Tech Industry To Broadcasters: Don’t Force Us To Include Radio
“The Consumer Electronics Assn., the trade group behind the annual CES event, has lashed out at the radio industry’s push for FM radio tuners to be a government-mandated addition to mobile devices.”
TV Networks Look To Replace Ad-Skipping DVRs
“Picture a day when instead of recording that episode of “Two and a Half Men” on your DVR, you order it on video-on-demand. The only difference would be that on VOD the ads would be there and you wouldn’t be able to skip them.”
Could Lions Gate Take Over MGM?
“In a surprise move, Lions Gate Entertainment has made another merger proposal to MGM lenders, potentially upsetting a proposed prepackaged bankruptcy plan that would hand debt-holders about 95% of the studio, according to people close to the matter.”
Board Battle at Virginia Opera Over Artistic Director’s Ouster
“Eight Virginia Opera board members and other supporters staged a news conference Monday to protest that longtime Artistic Director Peter Mark is being ‘secretly’ forced out of his job, but the board’s president-elect later disputed that the action was being done in secret.”
A Musical Theater Lab in Midtown Manhattan
The New York Musical Theater Festival, now six years old, “presents 30 shows in various Midtown venues. Typically, the shows are at an early stage of development and may go through many changes (plus budget increases) if they are eventually produced elsewhere.” The festival’s star “graduate” thus far is the Pulitzer-winning Next to Normal.