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Satellite Satellite TV Last anti-Chavez TV station to be sold

Last anti-Chavez TV station to be sold

Monday, 11 March 2013 23:20 Satellite - Satellite TV
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The only remaining pro-opposition television channel in Venezuela, Globovision, is being sold to an insurance company owner friendly with the government, employees told The Associated Press on Monday.


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Free entry-level Amateur Radio class, Feb. 22 and 29

The Yavapai Amateur Radio Club is offering a free class for people who want their entry-level license. The classes will be Feb. 22 and 29 at the Univ. of AZ Ext...

Chino Valley in Brief: Yavapai Amateur Radio Club offering free class Feb. 22, 29

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Vulcan wins feature event

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Happy (belated) World Radio Day!

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Vulcan should make amends

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Fantasy Island: a new owner, then complaints, now closure

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Fantasy Island confirms it has closed

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Coronavirus Live Updates: Trump Might Attend 2020 Olympics

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American journalism is dying. Its survival requires public funds | Victor Pickard

T he McClatchy newspaper chain’s recent filing for bankruptcy is one more data point showing that US journalism is dying. According to the US Bureau of Labor St...
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Satellite TV

Mohammad Jamil

Addressing an international conference in Islamabad, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said that “Pakistan’s solidarity and compassion for hosting Afghan re...

Why Singapore’s admired virus playbook can’t be replicated

Her experience exemplifies the fastidious approach taken to combat the outbreak in the city-state – which has included using police investigators and security c...

UN should focus on repatriation of Afghan refugees

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Rwanda and Tanzania top region’s corruption fight

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INTERVIEWS ‘Wall Street Journal stoops to a new low on China’

The Wall Street Journal has “stooped to a new low” by publishing an editorial calling China the “Sick Man of Asia” as the country is valiantly fighting coronavi...
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Sensors, Vol. 20, Pages 900: DMD Mask Construction to Suppress Blocky Structural Artifacts for Medium Wave Infrared Focal Plane Array-Based Compressive Imaging

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AIR battles 5-hr ‘blackout’ hitch as Prasar Bharti eyes digital switch

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BBC to close Whitehaven medium wave transmitter which broadcasts Radio Cumbria

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Medium Wave Infrared Heater Market Size, Share, Development by 2024

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Medium Wave Infrared Heater Market Size, Share, Development by 2024

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Christian broadcasting

FM home of WAAF sold to contemporary Christian broadcaster

The home of WAAF, the FM station that’s rocked Boston for decades, has been sold to a California-based, contemporary Christian radio broadcaster, its parent com...

Charities steered $65M to Trump lawyer Sekulow and family

But Sekulow, 63, is registered as chief counsel at the American Center for Law and Justice, a non-profit Christian legal advocacy group based in an expansive Ca...

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B efore the end of 2016 there was little in Donald Trump’s life, or frequently offensive political campaign, to suggest that as president he would be hailed as ...

The Evangelicals Who Pray for War With Iran

Last Friday, a day after Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani and nine others were killed in a U.S. drone strike in Iraq, the Christian Zionist advocacy group Chr...
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Sex and Love Meet the Northern Ireland couples who prove it's never too late to fall in love

"He was doing some work with Premier Christian Radio, doing interviews with a Northern Ireland slant. He thought that I might make a good piece to do. He tracke...

Online sports network helps fill coverage void left after WFCO FM sale

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Clarence Thomas named as keynote speaker for dedication of Nathan Deal Judicial Center

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Justice Thomas to help dedicate Georgia judicial building

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Justice Thomas to help dedicate Georgia judicial building

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An understanding of one's salvation

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Christian missionaries boasted the 'God TV' network had stopped ALL suicides in Aboriginal towns

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Christian missionaries retract claim that God TV is preventing suicide in remote Indigenous communities

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Christian missionaries retract claim that God TV is preventing suicide in remote Indigenous communities

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Digital Radio

'Absolute disgrace': RTÉ Gold listeners wrote to Dee Forbes expressing 'devastation' over station closure

LISTENERS TO RTÉ Gold told RTÉ Director General Dee Forbes that she must be “absolutely mad” to axe the digital radio service and called on her to review the de...

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Celebrating the diversity of radio, the medium people use the most

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WA Huawei rail radio project's CCTV, body cam and live-tracking potential revealed

A mobile data network under construction for Perth's public trains by Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei could be used to support body-worn cameras, CCTV a...
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Digital TV

$500 million loan not for NTA upgrade alone – Lai Mohammed

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$500m loan not for NTA alone, Lai Mohammed clarifies

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TVSquared : Releases Pan-European TV Advertising Performance Analysis

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Sprint offers Galaxy S20 for $0 per Month with Eligible Trade-in

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Report: Blue and White officials do not rule out Rafi Peretz and Smotrich

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Pirate Radio

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The DJ on going from playing pirates as a child in Dorset to hosting pirate radio

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