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Archive for June 28th, 2009

TV Pitchman Billy Mays Found Dead in His Tampa Home

Even as infomercials he hosted aired on local stations across the country this morning, the cable news channels were reporting on the death of pitchman Billy Mays.
50-year-old Mays was found unresponsive by his wife in his Tampa home this morning. Mays was on board a US Airways flight yesterday that made an emergency landing [...]

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Actor Screw-Ups on Social Networking Sites

Being a Twit on Twitter, A Farce on Facebook, A Loon on LinkedIn and a Moron on MySpace.
"Kevin Kemperer is doin’ Brittany in the hot tub."
Sadly the only thing fictional about the sentence prior, pulled from a Facebook status, is the user’s name; Kevin Kemperer. His "doin’ Brittany in the hot tub," whether [...]

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CBS Launches Leno Counterattack

Offers affiliates "Project L.E.N.O." to thwart Jay
By Michael Malone — Broadcasting & Cable
CBS sees opportunity when the 10 p.m. The Jay Leno Show debuts on NBC in the fall, and is looking to maximize it with what it calls "an aggressive, multi-tiered local market campaign" to boost its affiliates’ performance at 10-and in [...]

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