On Wednesday, the Beirut-based al-Mayadeen television station broadcast what it said were armed members of the Meqdad family.

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It was broadcast by a satellite television station in Hunan province and relayed nationwide on cable networks.

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Comcast is the majority owner and manager of NBCUniversal, which owns and operates entertainment and news cable networks, the NBC and Telemundo broadcast networks, local television station groups, television production operations, a major motion picture company and theme parks.

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Such was the degree of enthusiasm for openness that one television channel broadcast live from inside a polling station.

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Nikki Johnson said her parents were channel surfing Sunday -- looking for a cartoon for their granddaughter to watch -- when they saw video of their Shoshana being broadcast by Spanish-language television station Telemundo, before the family had even learned she was missing.

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Regional cable companies will have their monopoly broken by direct-broadcast satellites, and a second commercial television station is slated to begin operations.

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It was broadcast by al-Jazeera, a television station in Qatar.

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She was last seen in a videotape broadcast Feb. 9 by the private Kuwaiti television station Al-Rai.

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This year he and co-owner Henry Primeaux struck a deal with Christian television station KWHB to have all Tulsa Talons games broadcast throughout most of Oklahoma.

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As part of this trend, in 2006 public TV station ZDF broadcast "Dresden: The Inferno, " the most expensive German television production at the time.

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