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To: GST who wrote (53181)	2/9/2006 8:44:39 AM
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Oprah Signs Three-Year Deal With XM Satellite NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! hehe :( we need less oprah more c-span radio and science shows NEW YORK (AP)--Oprah Winfrey has signed a three-year, $55 million deal with XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. (XMSR) to launch a new radio channel beginning in September, Winfrey and XM announced Thursday. The new channel, "Oprah & Friends," will air programming on fitness, health and self-improvement topics with personalities that appear on Winfrey's TV program, "The Oprah Winfrey Show," as well as in O, The Oprah Magazine. It will also feature a weekly radio show with Winfrey and Gayle King. The $55 million deal is a far cry from the $600 million, five-year deal that rival satellite radio broadcaster Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. (SIRI) has with morning shock jock Howard Stern. XM also has signed other big programming contracts, including an 11-year, $650 million deal for Major League Baseball. Winfrey's new channel on XM will feature personalities that appear on her show and in her magazine including Bob Greene, Dr. Mehmet Oz, and Nate Berkus. XM and Sirius are locked in a fierce competition to sign up programming and new subscribers as they both strive to reach profitability. Each service costs about $13 a month and offers dozens of channels of commercial-free music as well as other channels of talk and news. XM, which is based in Washington, D.C., is the larger of the two, with more than six million subscribers, while the New York-based Sirius has more than three million. (END) Dow Jones Newswires February 09, 2006 08:34 ET (13:34 GMT)

To: GST who wrote (53181)	2/10/2006 2:29:07 AM
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DJ India Approves $3B Silicon Chip-Making Facility -BBC . SINGAPORE (Dow Jones)--The Indian government has authorized the country's first micro-processor and silicon chip-manufacturing facility, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported on its Web site Friday. The $3 billion project, called Fab City, will be based in Hyderabad and is expected to create 10,000 new jobs, the BBC reported. As part of the project, 20 micro-processor and silicon chip-manufacturing units for the IT industry will be set up, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy told reporters. He said Fab City would be a public-private partnership project. Vinod Agarwal, the chief of Sem India, the main promoter of the project, said the money would be invested in Fab City in two phases. Sem India is a consortium of U.S.-based non-resident Indians who have secured a license from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) to make microprocessors and chips. The project will help India become self-sufficient in manufacturing electronic goods such as mobile phones, high-end TVs, DVDs and telephones, the BBC report said. Web site: news.bbc.co.uk