Thrillist CEO Ben Lerer explains why Discovery just invested $100 million and made him a new media mogul

Edit Business Insider 16 Oct 2016
The new TV ... But these companies can't get onto TV, which is a critical market, unless they have help from a big partner who knows the ropes (like Discovery). “Linear TV isn’t dead yet,” Lerer says. And TV is a lucrative business, especially while a huge chunk of the ad dollars are still there. That’s why you see companies like Vice, Vox, Ozy, and others pushing onto traditional TV ... He's being taken more seriously as a partner for TV....

Crystal Maze returns after games fans thrill to live ‘escape rooms’

Edit The Guardian 16 Oct 2016
The Crystal Maze is back on Sunday night TV for the first time in 21 years ... A few months after the London launch, Lionetti-Maguire was approached by a production company to see if Channel 4 could film a new version of the TV show ... We co-produced it – we built everything you see on the TV show.”. Tom Beck, Channel 4’s commissioning editor for live TV ......

Make Ajith Singh Nagar as Swachh Nagar, demand locals

Edit The Hindu 16 Oct 2016
In the wake of the municipal corporation's proposal to dump garbage at Pathapadu, locals and political activists are demanding that the corporation first remove the huge amounts of garbage dumped in the yard in between residential areas....

PCC cell opposes government leasing hospitals

Edit The Hindu 16 Oct 2016
The Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) DoctorsCell has opposed the government leasing hospitals to corporate healthcare firms ... Health Minister Kamineni Srinivas, in a statement at Chittoor, had said that the Government was ready to lease more hospitals to corporate groups ... There was every danger of government hospitals on lease becoming “referral centres” for the corporate hospitals, he said....

Jill Stein Claims The Corporate Media Is Propping Up Hillary Clinton

Edit Inquisitr 16 Oct 2016
Jill Stein, the Green Party presidential candidate, issued a tweet today scolding what she described as the corporate media for propping up the campaign of Democrat Hillary Clinton and smearing her political rivals ... Why does the corporate media prop up Hillary and smear her opponents? Because they're huge donors to her foundation ... Jill Stein that the corporate media has a pro-Clinton bias?....

5-year-old pulls brother, 2, from deadly crash

Edit Springfield News-Sun 16 Oct 2016
The family was moving to Galveston when the father, who was driving an 18-wheel truck lost control, hit a guardrail and crashed into a pillar, ejecting and killing the father, according to KPRC-TV....

APEDB inks two MoUs with Russian companies

Edit The Hindu 16 Oct 2016
The Andhra Pradesh Economic Development Board (APEDB) signed two MoUs with Russian corporations in the presence of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit at Goa on Saturday....

Trump says election is rigged

Edit Arabnews 16 Oct 2016
The new accusations were made by a contestant on his reality TV show “The Apprentice,” who cited a 2007 incident, and by a woman who described an incident from the early 1990s ... Hillary Clinton earned about $1.5 million in speaking fees before launching her presidential campaign, while Bill Clinton reaped more than $5 million from banking, tech and other corporate interests, according to financial documents filed by Hillary Clinton....

PAG questions delay in housing project

Edit The Hindu 16 Oct 2016
The Principal Accountant General’s audit of the accounts of Kudumbasree has questioned the undue delay in the implementation of housing projects in the city Corporation under the ‘Basic Services to Urban Poor’ (BSUP) project. The report said even after a lapse of four years since the date of completion of the BSUP project sanctioned initially, the Corporation had not completed the construction works....

Clear our dues, urge municipal contractors

Edit The Hindu 16 Oct 2016
Members of The Vijayawada Municipal Corporation ContractorsAssociation staged a protest in the premises of office of ......

Francisco Lindor’s bat, glove and spirit are stealing ALCS show

Edit New York Post 16 Oct 2016
CLEVELAND — Now we could be entering forgettable territory in this overlooked-from-the-beginning American League Championship Series, and that won’t please the folks up in corporate. But if the Indians continue to make fast work of the Blue Jays, they at least will bring an unforgettable player to the Fall Classic ... “This is awesome,” Lindor said. “This is awesome ... He is must-see TV, and you won’t want to miss his next shining moment. ....

Bus services for Deepavali

Edit The Hindu 16 Oct 2016
The Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) will also operate 200 special services during the three days to the three bus terminals....

Mosquito control drive on course, says Mayor

Edit The Hindu 16 Oct 2016
Prashanth has dismissed reports that the city Corporation does not have the necessary amount of insecticides to take up mosquito control ... At present, the city Corporation has stock ......
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