The Edinburgh International Television Festival is dedicated to the broadcasting industry, featuring masterclasses, screenings and keynote lectures.

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And Arabic-speaking Muslims in Europe are unable to receive programming on one of the few new U.S. government-sponsored international broadcasting initiatives: the Alhurra television network.

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Broadcasting executives are gathering in Edinburgh for the start of the annual international television festival.

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And in Venezuela, Hugo Chavez ordered Intercable and DirecTV, two U.S.-based cable carriers, to stop broadcasting a critical U.S.-based television channel, RCTV International, on its networks or lose all business in Venezuela.

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