Some experts argue that rather than fund additional residencies, Medicare should find ways to channel more U.S. medical students away from specialty fields and into primary-care medicine in rural areas.
Gottsch launched a sister channel in the U.K. last year, Rural TV, that is available via satellite in Western Europe.
The BBC, for instance, recently announced that it would be launching a 24-hour news channel in the U.S this July.
At the same time, it is launching a new national sports channel in the U.S. on Aug. 17 called Fox Sports 1, which it hopes to build into a competitor to The Walt Disney Co.
Mr. Frankfort said the retailer continues to expand its Web presence: Online sales are its fastest-growing full-priced channel in the U.S. Direct-to-consumer sales, which are largely made up of online sales, grew 17% in the second quarter.
But the renamed ABC Family Channel reaches 80 million U.S. homes, more than its other cable channels.
Saving Face will air on HBO on Sunday morning (check local listings for times), and on Channel 4 in the U.K. in April.
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In addition to establishing stronger consumer brand awareness, Yang would like Lenovo to build more sophisticated retail channel networks in the U.S. and forge closer relationships with wireless carriers, he said.
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Channel checks in the U.K. and Canada, where the phones are already available, by Canaccord Genuity have forced them to revise their sales estimates for the new Z10s, which are now expected at only 300, 000 in the February quarter, down from a previous estimate of 1.75 million units.
Today, they can afford to invest in a U.S. distribution channel, and their products are much more suitable for U.S. buyers, especially in terms of quality.
In 2012 Ardila Lulle struck a deal with Rupert Murdoch to create a Spanish-language channel for Hispanics in the U.S. to compete with Telemundo and Univision.
In January, Al Jazeera bought Current TV, the struggling cable channel co-founded by former vice president Al Gore, and announced plans to launch a new U.S.-based channel.
The ability to use your iPhone or iPod touch to control your U-verse TV with a full-featured, intuitive U-verse remote control with channel, guide, DVR, interactive app and on-demand controls, now available on the U-verse App for iPhone and iPod touch.
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U.S. channel partners include the full range of more than 900 Best Buy retail outlets, which will be selling the HP DreamScreen 100 starting Oct. 11.
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In the Las Vegas demonstration, PBS Channel 10 (RF channel 11) is the first U.S. broadcast station to transmit 3D images via the ATSC Mobile DTV Standard.
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Customers can order Screen Pack on U-verse TV channel 9910.
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The Georgetown University English graduate was a story consultant on the 2009 documentary "American Harmony, " about competitive barbershop quartet singing, and produced the recent Discovery Channel program "Under Siege, " about terrorism and smuggling across the U.S.-Canada border as well the History Channel series "Madhouse, " on modified race-car drivers in North Carolina.
On January 6, five boats belonging to Iran's Revolutionary Guard "harassed and provoked" three U.S. Navy ships in the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow shipping channel leading into and out of the Persian Gulf, the U.S. military said.
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The ad-supported basic cable and satellite channel, available in about 62 million U.S. homes, did a road test of the new name and found significantly more people said they would watch UP over the alphabet-soup GMC.
The channel currently has distribution deals with several U.S. cable networks, including GlobeCast , a subsidiary of France Telecom (nyse: FTE - news - people ), and online streaming operators JumpTV and BDC.
Asian pop culture began seeping into the West in the 1990s, with a stream of Japanese imports: "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, " Nintendo's Pokemon, "Iron Chef" and anime cartoons, notes Adam Ware, CEO of Mnet, a new U.S. cable channel featuring only Asian content.
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The channel also plans to expand the number of U.S. bureaus beyond the ones it currently has in New York, Washington, Los Angeles, Miami and Chicago, the company said in January.
Diplomacy, he added, required risk-taking and secrecy such as when President Richard Nixon engaged China in the 1970s or U.S. back-channel talks were able to end the Cuban missile crisis a decade earlier.
And in the U.S., TV cable channel watching is up 1% from a year ago.
The Clear Channel buyout remains the largest pending buyout in the U.S., according to Dealogic.
Last year the company bought U.K.-based Travel Channel International, and Scripps is starting to produce shows unique to different countries.
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The channel has close to 100 million subscribers in the U.S., which speaks of the huge demand as well as bundling strategies that pay-TV service providers adopt.
And in Venezuela, Hugo Chavez ordered Intercable and DirecTV, two U.S.-based cable carriers, to stop broadcasting a critical U.S.-based television channel, RCTV International, on its networks or lose all business in Venezuela.
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This past weekend viewers in the U.S. could on one channel watch Olympic Team trials, and on another the breaking story of a missing Norwegian jihadist, said to be trained by al Qaeda and involved in a plot to attack the Olympics.
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Clear Channel, which owns 1, 200 stations in the U.S., is the company's biggest customer.
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