This years superbowl is actually the most watched Superbowl ever!

Sunday's game now the most-watched ever

NEW YORK (AP)-Upon further review, Nielsen Media Research now says that the Arizona-Pittsburgh Super Bowl game was the most-watched in history.

Nielsen said 98.7 million people, on average, were watching Pittsburgh's exciting 27-23 victory Sunday night. That beats the 97.5 million who watched the 2008 game, which held the record for most popular Super Bowl.

On Monday, Nielsen had reported that this year's game had 95.4 million viewers-impressive, but not a record-setter.

Nielsen explained the discrepancy of more than 3 million viewers by saying a more complete check of their records revealed additional viewership on some digital tier networks. The company hadn't been aware that they were showing the game

Source: Associated press

Sky retain rights to broadcast Premier League matches till 2013

Sky's 17-year dominance of live Premier League football is to continue as the satellite broadcasters retained the rights to at least 92 games after the first round of bidding for the 2010-2013 rights deal closed on Tuesday.

The broadcasters are understood to have been awarded four of the six packages of 23 matches after a day of deliberation by Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore and his advisers in London. The total rights fee paid is expected to exceed £1 billion, with sources suggesting Sky may have matched the £1.31bn they paid for their current three-year deal.
The four packages are understood to be the ones Sky currently screen, featuring the most attractive Sunday 1.30pm and 4pm kick-offs, as well as giving the broadcasters the first pick from each round of Premier League fixtures.

There is just far too much money involved in Football, damn my passion being in music which is constantly dwindling in funds, whilst football in going up by the day.

Redundancies Galore

It doesn't seem like a day goes past that there isn't news of more companies going into administration or company layoffs.

Disney kicked off what's likely to be a grim earnings season in the media sector by posting on Tuesday a 32% drop in net income for the first quarter. Overall revenue slumped 8% to $9.6 billion, and net income was $845 million.

In the US alone the following job cuts are being made:

Macy's is making 7000 of its workstaff redundant
Panosonic is cutting its staff back making 15,000 people redundant
Kodak is laying off around 4000 people
Starbucks is laying off nearly 7000 people
Target are making 1500 people redundant
Sprint is cutting 8000 jobs from their workforce
Electronic company Phillips are getting rid of 6000 people
Catapillar the manufacturing company are laying off 20,000 people
Home Depot are making 7000 people redundant
Harley Davidson has made 1,100 people redundant
United airlines have axed 2,500 jobs
Intel have got rid of 6,000 employee's
Microsoft are laying off 5,000 employee's
Motorola are axing 4000 employees from their workforce.
Hertz are also axing 4000 employees from their workforce.
Boeing are cutting 4000 jobs
Bank Of America will be cutting 35,000 jobs in the next 3 years
Sony are planning to cut 8,000 jobs
AT&T will be cutting 2,500 jobs
MTV has slashed 850 people from its workforce (it should be renamed RTV anyways - Reality TV)
Washington Mutual slashing 1,600 jobs from their offices/banks
Rolls Royce are axing 2000 jobs
Citigroup plan to shed 40,000 people from their staff


On a positive note:

US fast-food giant McDonald's said Monday its 2008 net profit soared 80 percent from a year, lifted by growing demand from consumers seeking low-cost meals in a deepening global recession.
Net profit for the full year totaled 4.3 billion dollars, compared with 2.3 billion in 2007, the Oak Brook, Illinois-based company said in a statement.

Beckham in Europe and Posh in London again

Talk is rife in the world that David will be remaining as a permanent fixture on AC Milan's team, lawyers are trying to find a loophole in his contract, as at the moment he is bound to LA galaxy for the rest of this season which starts up in March in the US.

Also his wife Victoria is being mentioned as one of the possible replacement hosts for Dannii Minogue on the X Factor. Other names thrown into the ring are both Charlotte Church and Lily Allen, but with Geri Halliwell already having been a host on Popstars The Rivals back in 2002 and both Mel B and Emma being on Strictly Come Dancing/Dancing With The Stars, maybe Victoria will use this platform to help her promote the Beckham brand even more...

New track from Natalie Imbruglia album - "MY GOD"

North Korea Preparing For Ballistic Missle Launch

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea appears to be preparing to test-launch its longest range ballistic missile, media reports said on Tuesday, stoking tensions just days after the reclusive state warned that the Korean peninsula was on the brink of war.

North Korea, which typically carries out missile tests in times of political friction, last week said it was scrapping all agreements with South Korea in a move analysts said was aimed at pressuring Seoul and grabbing the attention of new U.S. President Barack Obama.

The North, which tested a nuclear device in 2006, is seen as one of the greatest threats to regional security. But experts say they do not believe Pyongyang has developed the technology to miniaturize an atomic weapon so it can be mounted on a missile as a warhead.

South Korea's Yonhap news agency and Japan's Sankei Shimbun cited unnamed government sources as saying the North had been moving equipment used in the launch of its Taepodong-2 missile, which the test-fired in July 2006 only to see it fizzle and destruct a few seconds after leaving the launch pad.

A train carrying a large object had left a factory and was headed to the site of a newly constructed launch pad on the North's west coast, Yonhap quoted an unnamed South Korean government source as saying.

Yet another live venue shuts in London

The Soho Revue Bar is reportedly set to close, joining a long list of live venues in central London shutting their doors.

Calls to the company went unanswered at time of publication, but promoters have been told that the venue closed on Thursday 29th January 2009.

Speaking to musicOMH, the venue's booking manager Walt Etz says that a buyer for the venue, which entered administration in March 2008, could not be found.

However Alex Martin, of Curious Generation which promotes live music at the venue, says that he expects a new owner will be found. “I am fully confident that the Revue Bar will re-open,” he says. “Although not in the very, very short future.”

Curious Generation is rearranging the events it had planned at the Soho Revue Bar to other central London venues of a similar size and is coordinating with other promoters looking to so the same thing.

In recent months The Astoria, The End and the Metro Club have all closed their doors.

“It is unfortunate about The Metro and The Astoria but that was Crossrail related,” Martin adds. “But there is always going to be a market for central London venues and especially of that size.”

Source: Music Week

Woolworths to continue as online trading company

The Woolworths name is to live on, after the Barclay brothers, who also own internet retailer Shop Direct, bought the brand.

Woolworths will re-launch online in the summer, alongside Shop Direct brands such as Littlewoods. The company says it will give details of the product ranges to be offered in the next few months.

The Barclay brothers have also bought Woolworths' childrenswear brand Ladybird from the administrator.

Shop Direct Group chief executive Mark Newton-Jones says, "We are delighted to be re-launching the Woolworths name online. Woolworths is a much loved brand that engenders huge affection among British consumers and is an important part of the country's retail heritage. In what will be Woolworths' 100th year, we are proud to be reviving the brand for future generations."

"This is great news and we are confident that Woolworths, as an online brand, will once again prosper and, quite rightly, stay at the heart of British retailing,” he adds.

Woolworths went into administration in November.

Transformers - Revenge Of The Fallen

I can't wait!!!!!

Hatin On The Club - RIhanna single from new album

My friend Rudy Rudes Maya produced and wrote this.