Sky News Enters the US and Canada via Web Subscription

Sky News, the U.K.-based global, satellite news channel is avialable in the United States for the first time, via Livestation, the London-based agregator of of live news programming, Sky News announced today.In March at the Beet.TV executive retreat, we spoke with Livestation CEO Lippe Oosterhof about the viability of providing news on a paid basis and its implications for the industry.The monthly subscription is $2.99. Although Sky News video clips are seen in the U.S. on Fox and CBS News programs, the channel is not available in this country.We are publishing this video with today's news.Andy Plesser

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Jeremy Lin & New York Knicks CRUSHED By Toronto Raptors In Canada -- NY Win Streak Ends -- Report

The Toronto Raptors DESTROY Jeremy Lin and the New York Knicks tonight at Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Linsanity 2.0 winning streak ends at five games, and the Knicks fall into a tie with the Milwaukee Bucks for the eighth and final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference.

Read more about this story and see video highlights of the Knicks-Raptors game:

Box score and video highlights of Knicks-Raptors (scroll up the page to see the video highlights)
http://on.nba.com/GLJSuK

"Knicks get Rap'd up in Toronto, fall 96-79" (NY Daily News)
http://nydn.us/GLTF3Y

"Raptors 96, Knicks 79" (ESPN conversation, featuring reader comments)
http://es.pn/GLt015

"Raptors 96, Knicks 75: 'Just not our night.'" (SB Nation Knicks blog, with reader comments)
http://sbn.to/GO7hto

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Description: A basketball
Date: 26 January 2006
Source: Wikimedia Commons http://bit.ly/eEGPcq
Author: Reisio http://bit.ly/iaAJ51
Permission/License Terms: This image is in the public domain

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