"These are the right kind of folks to do this, " says Bruce Rose, a scientific consultant to the Weather Channel and its former principal scientist.
The diverse judging panel includes TV presenters Ruby Wax and Dermot O'Leary, comedian and actress Nina Wadia, advertising boss Matthew Freud and former Channel 4 chief executive Michael Grade.
Using icons that predict wet weather more often than it occurs has been standard practice in meteorology, said Bruce Rose, a scientific consultant to the Weather Channel and its former principal scientist.
The former Channel 4 boss, who remains executive chairman of Pinewood and Shepperton Studios and chairman of the Octopus publishing group, is also likely to use his broadcasting experience to lobby for a relaxation of the rules restricting the way television can cover lottery draws.
They are director of Liberty, Shami Chakrabarti, the former chief constable of the West Midlands Sir Paul Scott-Lee, former chairman of Ofcom Lord David Currie, former political editor of Channel 4 news Elinor Goodman, former Daily Telegraph political editor George Jones, and former FT chairman Sir David Bell.
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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 low point for the former Fox News Channel "mole" came three weeks ago, when he needed to be escorted from a holding cell in handcuffs to use the bathroom.
Channel 4 viewers also voted out former MSP Sheridan, 44, who was greeted with boos as he left the house.
NMEC's board, packed with experienced businessmen such as Michael Grade, a former chief executive of Channel 4, and Sir Brian Jenkins, chairman of Woolwich, a bank, believed the original visitor forecasts.
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Eventually, Marciniak learned to channel and focus that intensity, her former boss said.
Larry Aidem, the former president of the Sundance Channel, knew Robert Kyncl, Hirschorn told me, and he said he thought they should meet.
Among the potential replacements reportedly being floated about: ABC Family president Paul Lee, Disney Channel Worldwide entertainment chief Gary Marsh and former Lifetime chief Andrea Wong.
Federal investigators apparently accessed records of calls to and from a phone number at Fox News Channel in their leak investigation of a former State Department contractor, according to a court document.
On many cable systems, the former Discovery Health dwells in the channel wilderness, making it hard for viewers to find, to the point that Winfrey herself has resorted to begging viewers to tune in.
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Ruth Watson, former star of The Hotel Inspector on Channel 5, hit out after The Crown and Castle in Orford was given a one-out-of-five food hygiene rating.
The study, led by the former CEO of French pay-TV channel Canal Plus, Pierre Lescure, proposed a total of 75 measures to "protect the cultural exception in the face of digital innovation".
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Pierre Lescure, a former head of Canal Plus, the television channel, was commissioned by Mr Hollande to make recommendations on how France should adapt its commitment to preserving French-language culture in the fast-changing digital era.
Former Scottish Broadcasting Commission chairman Blair Jenkins earlier described the channel as a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity".
Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is joining Fox News Channel as a contributor.
Former CNN journalist Robert Johnson, now director of photography at The Weather Channel, said she will be missed.
"Your brain is a muscle, too, " says Newton, a college dropout and former graphic design teacher who was once the science adviser on the Discovery Channel's hit series MythBusters.
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With his oversight as CEO of Clear Channel, Pittman is once again not just taking on the competition (his own former company included), but reinventing a media brand category altogether.
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When former NBA star Shaquille O'Neal debuts "The Comedy Shaq, " a channel devoted to comedians this fall, viewers will tune in on YouTube.
Bristol-Myers Squibb 's (nyse: BMY - news - people ) former chief financial officer and the former head of its drug business have been indicted in federal court in connection with alleged "channel stuffing" that led Bristol to have to restate its numbers repeatedly. ( Click here for a link to the indictment.) The indictment says that Frederick S. Schiff, the company's chief financial officer until April 2001, and Richard J.
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