Oprah Winfrey has launched a news radio station called Oprah and Friends on US satellite radio.

The stiaion features shows from the queen of chat, which includes her best friend,Gayle King, as a co-host. It is hoped that the queen of TV chat, will be able to bring in some 30 million listners to its station. However there are those who have their doubts, especially since Oprah will have limited on air activity with the station

"Oprah is not a radio personality, she’s a TV personality," Kit Spring of investment bankers Stifel Nicolaus told Reuters.

"She mainly appeals to women and probably won’t compel that many potential subscribers to go out and buy a radio."
Source  Tags: Oprah Winfrey Gayle King  Oprah and Friends

A boss at GMTV(UK) has quit her job after accidentally sending a text message intended for her  husband, to presenter Lorraine Kelly saying she hated her.

Benedetta Pinelli meant to send the text message to her husband, but obviously selected to send the message  to Lorraine Kelly in error.  The message read “I hate LK.”

When he released the error she immediately quit.
“Lorraine just wants to forget about it and move on. It’s so rare to hear a bad word about her because she is a very well-loved presenter here.”

Benedatte has already found another job, she told the media "She said: “I’m leaving a strong show behind and I’m very proud of my team. In fact I’m taking them out for a farewell drink tonight.”
Source1  Tags: GMTV  Benedetta Pinelli

The New American Television Network which will replace The WB and UPN has begun broadcasting today. The CW will make its debut with American’s Next Top Model which will be a two hour premier of the show.

"The new CW Network will consist of a six-night, 13-hour primetime lineup including Monday through Friday nights from 8:00-10:00 PM (ET/PT); Sundays from 7:00-10:00 PM (ET/PT); Sunday from 5:00-7:00 PM (ET/PT) outside of prime time as well as a Monday-Friday afternoon block from 3:00-5:00 PM (ET/PT) and a five-hour Saturday morning animation block. Altogether, the network will program 30 hours a week over seven days." (Official website) Tags: CW

Sky has rolled out an update to it’s high definition set top boxes. The idea of the upgrade to the existing software, is to provide a fix for some of the current bugs in the software. Some of the updates include the following (taken form Digital Spy UK).

Fast Forward & Rewind: We have made improvements to the way that FFWD and REW work and you will now find: - that the box is more responsive to the FFWD and REW buttons - that x30 is now faster however this may mean that when you press play the programme being fast forwarded starts 15 seconds later than expected.

Tags: Sky HD