"Geh scheissn, wie drah i des Oaschloch nur um?" Teleshopping hinter den Kulissen mit Pepi Stoissner.


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MythBusters Stars Kari Byron, Tory Belleci and Grant Imahara Are Leaving the Show


t's the end of an era for MythBusters: Kari Byron, Tory Belleci and Grant Imahara are leaving the series. Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman announced the fan-favorites would depart the show at the end of the Thursday, Aug. 21 episode of the hit Discovery program.

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Orson Welles Tells Some Damn Good Stories in the Orson Welles’ Sketch Book (1955)


On the first episode of Orson Welles’ Sketch Book, the man who made Citizen Kane remembers an anxiety-inducing evening early in his career: having somehow already gained a reputation as an entertaining after-dinner speaker, he found himself standing before a roomful of what seemed like every movie star in the flesh that he’d ever seen on the screen. Desperate to impress all these celebrities who had so impressed him, he pulled out the only amusing story in his repertoire, only to realize halfway through the telling that he couldn’t remember how it ended. Luckily, one of California’s earthquakes struck just before he reached that forgotten ending, sending the whole Hollywood crowd out the door and letting him off the raconteur hook. By the time he tells the next tale, of his longer-ago, more stressful and much more formative debut onstage in front of a decidedly uncooperative Dublin audience, you’ll wonder why he couldn’t handle the after-dinner speaking; if anyone has a natural storyteller’s instinct, he does.

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The Incredible Story Of Marion Stokes, Who Single-Handedly Taped 35 Years Of TV News


In a storage unit somewhere in Philadelphia, 140,000 VHS tapes sit packed into four shipping containers. Most are hand-labeled with a date between 1977 and 2012, and if you pop one into a VCR you might see scenes from the Iranian Hostage Crisis, the Reagan Administration, or Hurricane Katrina.

It's 35 years of history through the lens of TV news, captured on a dwindling format.

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Your LG smart TV SPIES on you when you change channels – researcher


LG smart TVs silently log owners' viewing habits to the South Korean company's servers and use them to serve targeted ads, one researcher has claimed.

According to Yorkshire, UK–based hacker "DoctorBeet," the internet-enabled sets try to phone home to LG every time a viewer changes the channel, giving the chaebol the ability to track exactly which channels are being watched, minute by minute.

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Fox News debuts bizarre, giant tablets in its outrageous new newsroom


Fox News has just unveiled a breathtakingly ridiculous newsroom, complete with novelty-sized Windows-based touchscreens, a Twitter wall, and a wannabe Minority Report-style display, which it hopes will connect it with generations of viewers who use smartphones and apps.

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The Man Who Gets The Science Right On 'The Big Bang Theory'


Sure, Bob Newhart may have won his first Emmy for guest-starring as Professor Proton on the hugely popular show The Big Bang Theory, about four young scientists at Caltech. But behind the scenes is a real-life professor, David Saltzberg of UCLA.

Saltzberg studies high-energy particle physics and high-energy neutrino astronomy, using radio-detection techniques when he's not working as The Big Bang Theory's science consultant.

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Weird Japanese commercial compialtion


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Deutsche TV-Sender auf YouTube


Im letzten halben Jahr haben die Investments in YouTube-Inhalte und YouTube-Netzwerke deutlich zugenommen. Das ist nicht weiter verwunderlich, denn die Strukturen auf der Plattform professionalisieren sich zunehmend, so dass man in ausgewählten Fällen bereits von einer neuen Sendergeneration sprechen kann. Es ist also nur eine logische Konsequenz, dass allein in den letzten sechs Monaten Medienkonzerne über $110 Millionen in das Ökosystem investiert haben:

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Vodafone agrees $10 billion Kabel Deutschland deal


Vodafone has agreed to buy Germany's largest cable operator Kabel Deutschland for 7.7 billion euros ($10 billion), betting on TV and fixed-line services in its biggest deal since 2007.

Announcing its second major acquisition for a European fixed-line network in 12 months, Vodafone said it would pay 87 euros ($110) per share for the group to enable it to offer more competitive packages with TV, fixed-line and broadband services to its mobile customers.

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5mal Merkel in einem Fußballspiel – Glotze aus


5mal Merkel in einem Fußballspiel – Glotze aus

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Occupy Radio: ‘Radio Wars’ Documentary About Sirius XM and the History of Radio


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