Broadcaster to pay &#36;2M in bomb scare
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Turner Broadcasting Systems and Interference Inc. have agreed to pay $2 million for a Cartoon Network advertising campaign that caused a widespread bomb scare, the attorney general said Monday.
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An investigation was launched yesterday after a journalist posing as a surveyor sparked a security scare at the Queen&#39;s official residence in Scotland.
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The federal government has agreed to pay an Oregon lawyer $2 million to settle part of a lawsuit he filed after the FBI misidentified a fingerprint and wrongly arrested him in the 2004 Madrid terrorist bombings.
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Turner Broadcasting and a New York  marketing firm agreed on Monday to pay $2 million in  compensation for a "guerrilla" advertising campaign that  sparked fears of terrorism in the Boston area last week.
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Arab satellite TV network Al Jazeera plans to spend up to &#36;30 million to launch an English-language news channel by the end of 2005, a spokesman for the network said Tuesday.
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A parent accused of sending out a fake press release defaming a high school baseball coach who had cut his son from the team has been ordered to pay the coach nearly &#36;800,000.
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The BBC&#39;s worldwide reputation for accuracy took a blow yesterday after it broadcast an interview with a hoaxer who claimed to offer a $12bn settlement to the 120,000 surviving victims of the Bhopal disaster.
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Media & professional: Channel 4 is facing a nervous wait to find out if Ofcom will impose sanctions over You Say We Pay.
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Doctors said that the man who caused an international health scare would still require as much as two years of treatment.
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Ofcom fines channel Â£300,000 for breaches of broadcasting code in phone-in quiz Brainteaser.
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The British Broadcasting Corporation is cutting nearly 3,000 jobs in a drive to reduce costs. Mark Thompson, director-general of the BBC, told staff members Tuesday that 2,500 jobs
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ITV is bracing itself for a penalty of up to Â£2.8m for the GMTV call-TV scandal.
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Australia's APN News and Media   on Monday agreed to a revised A$2.8 billion ($2.2 billion)  offer from a consortium including Tony O'Reilly's Independent  News and Media Plc. .
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Salaries paid to TV and radio personalities such as Jonathan Ross are to be reviewed by the BBC Trust.
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Authorities plan to charge two men on Thursday after an elaborate publicity stunt -- planting blinking devices that were mistaken for bombs -- caused Boston's biggest security scare since the September 11 attacks.
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Two US firms pay $2m after staging a "guerrilla" advertising stunt that sparked bomb scares in Boston.
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Omagh bomb detectives are to run a series of adverts asking people to come forward with information.