The group has received funding from pay-TV providers Time Warner Cable Inc.

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While A-list movie actors have long received more prestige and critical acclaim than their TV counterparts, television personalities greatly out-earned movie stars in 2011, thanks to heavy hitters like Oprah Winfrey, Donald Trump and Simon Cowell.

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Officers received a call early Sunday morning from WCBS-TV anchor Rob Morrison's mother-in-law about what was going on at the couple's home in Darien, police said.

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Samsung received two Best of Innovation Awards for its 85-inch UHD TV and Samsung Smart TV Camera.

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The BSC - which can adjudicate on complaints about TV and radio, but cannot impose sanctions against broadcasters - added it had also received a number of letters praising the series.

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Subsequent attacks received breathless media coverage, up to and including near-nightly footage from TV helicopters of swimming sharks.

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For mobiles, Ofcom received the most complaints about 3, while BT Vision was the most complained about pay-TV service.

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SocialGuide, which received first-round funding earlier this year, tracks social conversation to act as living, breathing TV Guide.

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This was supposed to be the year that the TV makers got all gung-ho over Google TV, but the technology for surfing the Web on the big screen has received lackluster reviews, and Google asked the TV makers to hold up.

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