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Clare Balding’s new chat show to ‘scratch beneath the surface’ of sports stars
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BT Sport has revealed the details of Clare Balding’s “live and unique sports chat show” which will form a major part of its new channels when they launch next month. The series debut on August 8th with the first of 30 episodes, each of which will feature interviews with sporting stars, and will ‘scratch beneath…
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TP-LINK and Sainsbury’s announce new powerline tie-up
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Sainsbury’s has added TP-Link’s range of powerline adapters to its range of technology products at 87 stores nationwide. The adapters make it easy to connect non-wireless TVs, computers and set to boxes to the internet by using the existing electric cabling to transfer data. The tie-up between the two firms sees the TP-LINK TL-PA210KIT, the…
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Sky and BT Sports announce Premier League fixtures
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Sport channel rivals BT and Sky have announced their respective line-ups for the coming Premier League season. The two companies will collectively pay £3bn for the rights to show live Premier League games. BT emerged as a surprised bidder in last year’s auctions, snapping up the rights to 38 games, including almost half the “first…
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TalkTalk offers three months free YouView, Broadband and phone
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ISP and TV provider TalkTalk is offering new and existing customers the chance to bag three months of free TV, calls and broadband. Customers signing up to The Big Free will get three months access to TalkTalk’s TV Starter Boost which includes Sky 1, Sky Living and Sky Arts plus free phone and broadband and…
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Top 5 Poker Shows on TV
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While televised sports tournaments have always been popular, in recent years poker on TV has been flourishing. For many years a number of TV channels have been showing different poker tournaments typically with one or two nights a week dedicated to celebrity poker games. There are numerous reasons behind the success of televised poker. Just…
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US court finds Apple guilty of ebook price-fixing
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Apple has been found guilty of participating in a conspiracy to raise ebook prices and thwart competition. The iBooks operator and iPad maker was being sued by the US Department of Justice over the decision to adopt the agency pricing model for eBooks. Agency pricing sees publishers set the final retail price and pay the…