" TV Xuxa " presents " Notícia da Hora ", the news program hosted by Edna Tureza, Artur Ismo and Felipe Mingau ; " Triângulo em Ação ", featuring Txutxucão, Felícia Fênix, Dinha, Max Well, Otar, Dongo, and Dona Vânia Catxorra, all body puppets built by Grupo 100 Modos with facial animations controlled by remote control ( as Priscilla from TV Colosso ); and " Kéka Tóke Xou ", a talk-show parody hosted by Bruxa Kéka and Urubu João, in TV Pirata ( 1988-1990 and 1992 ) format.

Originally a magazine named Casseta Popular and a humour newspaper called O Planeta Diário ( in a nod to Clark Kent's Daily Planet ), the two teams joined forces and were hired by Rede Globo to become writers for the network's comedy shows, starting with TV Pirata in 1988.

In April 1988, Rede Globo premiered a new weekly comedy series on their Tuesday prime time slot called " TV Pirata " ( Pirate TV ).

Casseta & Planeta Urgente is one of the most popular humour shows in Brazilian TV being the next generation of TV Pirata, the late 1980s comedy show on the same network.

On 17 September 2010, it became the world's longest-running TV soap opera in production, after the United States soap opera As the World Turns ended.

She ended her acting career in the made-for TV movie Gideon's Trumpet ( 1980 ).

Since the fixed-line voice communication monopoly ended on January 1, 2003, several companies entered the market for fixed voice communication services: Aeronavigācijas serviss, Baltkom TV, Beta Telecom, Latvenergo Tehniskais Centrs, OPTRON, Rigatta, Telecentrs, Telenets, Telekom Baltija and CSC Telecom.

Viewer dissatisfaction with the ending of Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato prompted the production of a second Yamato TV season which retconned the film and presented a slightly different plot against Zōdah ( Prince Zordar in the Star Blazers dub ) and his Comet Empire, and ended without killing off the Yamato or its primary characters.

4Kids Entertainment ended its TV block at the end of 2008 due to a payment and distribution dispute with Fox that has since been settled, with a last airing on December 27, 2008.

The show ended in 1955, but Four Star TV became a highly successful TV production company.

Some large cities where TV development was slow, like Pittsburgh and St. Louis, had only one station on the air for a prolonged period, many more of the largest cities such as Boston only had two, and many sizable cities including Denver and Portland, Oregon had no television service at all until the second half of 1952 after the freeze ended.

The season ended up being the last for long-time radio and former TV announcer Hot Rod Hundley, who announced his retirement after being with the Jazz for their entire history ( 35 years ).

In the 1990s, Horace was intended to star in a new TV series to be created for The Disney Afternoon, titled Maximum Horsepower, intended to explain his disappearance from the shorts after the 1930s ended.

NABTS, the communications protocol for embedding data in the TV signal, also saw continued use after the Telidon project ended.

Dexter's Laboratory ended its initial run in 1998 after two seasons ( with the second season lasting 39 episodes, a notable record for a single TV production season on Cartoon Network ).

By the end of the 1990s, both syndicated and national TV ended up losing most of its children's market to the rise of cable TV channels like Nickelodeon, Disney Channel and Cartoon Network which provided appealing children's entertainment throughout the week at nearly all hours.

TV Land ended its run of the series by giving viewers the opportunity to vote on the show's top 25 greatest episodes of all-time on December 31, 2008 on the network's website.

Since the series ended in 1996, a series of four TV movies were released between 1997 and 2003, a game created by Legacy Interactive was released for the PC platform in 2009.

The anime series aired first on Japan's Yomiuri TV on October 17, 1994, and ended on November 27, 1995.

The series officially ended after the episode " The Pageant ", because Patricia Routledge wanted to focus on other TV and theatre work, including Hetty Wainthropp Investigates which began airing in 1996.

General syndication ended in the 1980s, but they do air occasionally on cable TV.

After Melrose Place ended in 1999, Locklear was cast in the TV sitcom Spin City ( initially opposite Michael J.

4Kids TV ended on December 27, 2008.

With Berle at the helm, Texaco Star Theater was credited heavily with driving American television set sales heavily ; the number of TV sets sold during Berle's run on the show was said to have grown from 500, 000 his first year on the tube to over 30 million when the show ended in 1956.

Because the WebTV client was subsidized hardware, the company had always required individual subscriptions for each box, but with the subsidies ended, MSN started offering free use of MSN TV boxes to their computer users who subscribed to MSN, as an incentive to not stray to discount dialup ISPs.

Dean turned to acting after his TV show ended in 1966.

Ali & Jack ended up being the lowest-rated new series in all of syndication for the 2003-04 TV season, and the show was cancelled by April 2004, through reruns continued until August.

* 1953 – Nippon Television broadcasts Japan's first television show, including its first TV advertisement.

From 2008, the BBC gradually began to drop the BBCi name from its digital interactive TV services also, replacing it with the name BBC Red Button.

He performed his song " Bo Diddley " with Eric Clapton, Robbie Robertson, and longtime bassist and musical director Debby Hastings at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 20th annual induction ceremony and in the UK, Uncut magazine included his 1957 debut album " Bo Diddley " in its listing of the ' 100 Music, Movie & TV Moments That Have Changed The World '.

Charles most notably presented the cult TV hit Robot Wars on BBC2 ( 1998 – 2003 ) and Channel 5 ( 2003 – 2004 ), from series 2 until its conclusion at series 7, which included two Extreme series and numerous ' specials '.

The show spent most of its run on NBC's Thursday night " Must See TV " lineup.

Chicago-based TV shows include the situation comedies Perfect Strangers, its spinoff Family Matters, Married ... with Children and The Bob Newhart Show.

The series premiered in Japan on TV Tokyo from April 3, 1998 until June 19, 1998, broadcasting only twelve episodes and a special due to its controversial content.

When the infant BBC Television service was started in 1936, Rediffusion, which had supplied cable radio services since 1928, started providing " Pipe TV " to its customers who had difficulties tuning into the weak TV broadcast signal.

However, its impact on the market is yet to be measured, as is consumer attitude toward watching TV programs on personal computer instead of television sets.

In 1996 TV Guide ranked him number 36 on its 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time list.

The band's album debut, Tin Machine ( 1989 ), was initially popular, though its politicised lyrics did not find universal approval: Bowie described one song as " a simplistic, naive, radical, laying-it-down about the emergence of neo-Nazis "; in the view of biographer Christopher Sandford, " It took nerve to denounce drugs, fascism and TV [...] in terms that reached the literary level of a comic book.

The show took its name from the message ( frequently seen on the TV screen in those days ) which was displayed when there was a problem with transmission.

Radio enjoys more freedom than TV in its news programs, talk shows and analysis.

His work, as important as it was in its own right, was a part of a continuum of progress in communications and electronics that since his time has brought forward color television, the personal computer, the Internet, cable and satellite radio and TV, personal mobile phones, audio, video and computing, digital stereo radio on both the medium wave and VHF-FM bands, and digital high definition television on VHF, UHF, cable and satellite.

Media watchdog Media Matters for America has cataloged what it called the ten most " egregious examples " of " distortion " by both Fox News and its TV personalities.

The island's historic role as a signal station continues today with its high-technology relay stations carrying vital TV, radio, telephone and military communication links between Shetland, Orkney and the Scottish mainland.

In 1993, TV Guide names Gumby the best cartoon series of the 1950s in its issue celebrating 40 years of television.

After almost 30 years of its release, Gaynor continues to ride the success of " I Will Survive ", touring the country and the world over and performing her signature song on dozens of TV shows.

surpassed it also, making Hee Haw currently the fifth-longest-running off-network American TV program, though the longest of its genre.

This particular fact was reinforced when TV Guide ranked the series number 10 on its 50 Worst Shows of All Time List in 2002 ... a full 10 years after the last first-run episode aired on May 30, 1992 ( although the entry specifically refers to the Hee Haw Honeys spinoff, not the main show itself ).

In recent years the portrayal of Arthur as a real hero of the 5th century has also made its way into film versions of the Arthurian legend, most notably the TV series Arthur of the Britons

Granada TV also featured the cab, which is now in its 4th vehicle and operates in Bolton, Greater Manchester as Clint's Karaoke Cab.

The K-metal in the story was a piece of Krypton which robbed Superman of his strength while giving humans superhuman powers, a plot point which decades later made its way into the TV series Smallville.