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RT America
RT America was a U.S.-based news channel headquartered in Washington, D.C. Owned by TV Novosti and operated by production company T&RProductions, it was a part of the RT (TV network), RT network, a global multilingual television news network based in Moscow funded by the Government of Russia, Russian government. The channel said it reached an audience of 85 million people in the United States, but this figure is disputed. It was distributed through select cable providers, over-the-top services, a live stream through its website, and three low-power broadcasting, low-power digital subchannels. Since the channel's closure, viewers who tune into the cable channel or their live stream are being shown a live feed of an RT International broadcast instead. Among the channel's shows at its closure included: ''Dennis Miller#Dennis Miller + One, Dennis Miller + One'' with Dennis Miller, ''CrossTalk'' with Peter Lavelle and ''The Keiser Report'' with Max Keiser. Other shows included ''News w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1080i
1080i (also known as Full HD or BT.709) is a combination of frame resolution and scan type. 1080i is used in high-definition television (HDTV) and high-definition video. The number "1080" refers to the number of horizontal lines on the screen. The "i" is an abbreviation for "interlaced"; this indicates that only the even lines, then the odd lines of each frame (each image called a video field) are drawn alternately, so that only half the number of actual image frames are used to produce video. A related display resolution is 1080p, which also has 1080 lines of resolution; the "p" refers to progressive scan, which indicates that the lines of resolution for each frame are "drawn" on the screen in sequence. The term assumes a widescreen aspect ratio of 16:9 (a rectangular TV that is wider than it is tall), so the 1080 lines of vertical resolution implies 1920 columns of horizontal resolution, or 1920 pixels × 1080 lines. A 1920 pixels × 1080 lines screen has a total of 2.1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Miller
Dennis Michael Miller (born November 3, 1953) is an American talk show host, political commentator, sports commentator, actor, and comedian. He was a cast member of ''Saturday Night Live'' from 1985 to 1991, and he subsequently hosted a string of his own talk shows on HBO, CNBC, and also in syndication. From 2007 to 2015, Miller hosted a daily, three-hour, self-titled talk radio program, nationally syndicated by Westwood One. On March 9, 2020, ''Dennis Miller + One'' show, launched on RT America. It ran twice-weekly and featured celebrity interviews. Miller is listed as 21st on Comedy Central's 100 greatest stand-up comedians of all time, and was ranked as the best host of ''SNL''s ''Weekend Update'' by Vulture.com. Early life Miller was born in Pittsburgh and grew up in the suburb of Castle Shannon, Pennsylvania, Castle Shannon. He is of Scottish people, Scottish descent. Miller's parents separated and he was raised by his mother, Norma who was a dietitian at a Baptist nurs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Swann
Benjamin Swann (born July 17, 1978) is an American television news anchor, investigative journalist, and political commentator. He became a TV sports producer, and later a news journalist and producer, and managing editor on network affiliates, FOX, and RT America of the Russian state-owned TV network RT. Swann created a news segment called ''Reality Check'' in association with Fox 19 in Cincinnati and CBS46 in Atlanta, in which he covered "issues other media is not looking at" and uncritically presented alt-right conspiracy theories. He garnered praise for a 2012 in-person interview with President Barack Obama about the so-called "kill list" which is used to direct drone strikes against American citizens, like Anwar al-Awlaki. Swann reported on conspiracy theories about the 2012 Aurora, Colorado shooting, questioned the truth of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, presented 9/11 conspiracy theories, and the false claims of a cover-up by the CDC of data related to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Papantonio
James Michael Papantonio (born October 24, 1953) is an American torts lawyer, television presenter, radio talk show host and writer. He has been inducted into the Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame. As a professional trial lawyer, Papantonio co-hosts ''Ring of Fire'', a nationally syndicated progressive weekly radio program, with Sam Seder, where he is referenced as America's Lawyer. In December 2016, Papantonio began hosting a program on RT America called ''America's Lawyer''. Biography Papantonio graduated from the University of Florida and received his J.D. from Cumberland School of Law. He was admitted to The Florida Bar in 1982 and the bar of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida in 1983. He graduated from DeSoto County High School, Arcadia, Florida. Papantonio is a senior partner in the Pensacola, Florida-based Levin Papantonio Law Firm, a leading mass torts firm. Within the lawyer community, Mike Papantonio is known for his work in mass torts, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Camp (comedian)
Lee Camp (born July 21, 1980) is an American writer, comedian, podcaster, news journalist and news commentator. As a television host he presented the show ''Redacted Tonight'' for several years on the network RT America until the network shut down in March 2022. In July 2022 he started a new show, Most Censored News with Lee Camp with MintPress News. Early life Camp was born in Richmond, Virginia to Laurie Smith Camp who was a federal judge. and lived in Bethesda, Maryland until 1989. His father is a psychoanalyst who served 20 years in the United States military as a doctor, and his mother is a social worker. In 1989, the family moved to Richmond, Virginia, where Camp stayed until he went to college at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. At the University of Virginia, he won a competition to become the humor columnist for the school newspaper ''The Cavalier Daily''. He began performing stand-up comedy on his 19th birthday at an open-mic night at Matt's Pub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sean Stone
Sean Christopher Stone (born December 29, 1984) is an American actor, filmmaker, and television host. Stone hosted a show on the Russian state-funded network RT America until the network was shut down in 2022 after Russia's invasion of Ukraine In his last episode on RT America, Stone criticized celebrities for speaking out against Russia's invasion, and claimed that Oprah Winfrey had banned Tolstoy's ''War and Peace'' from her book club, and said it was wrong to characterize Russian leader Vladimir Putin as "some kind of dictator." Biography Stone was born in New York City. He is the son of Elizabeth Burkit Cox and film director Oliver Stone and has appeared in several of his father's films.Sean Stone and Islam: what is it about religion and Hol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesse Ventura
Jesse Ventura (born James George Janos; July 15, 1951) is an American politician, actor, and retired professional wrestler. After achieving fame in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), he served as the 38th governor of Minnesota from 1999 to 2003. He was elected governor with the Reform Party and is the party's only candidate to win a major government office. Ventura was a member of the U.S. Navy Underwater Demolition Team during the Vietnam War. After leaving the military, he embarked on a professional wrestling career from 1975 to 1986, taking the ring name "Jesse 'The Body' Ventura". He had a lengthy tenure in the WWF/WWE as a performer and color commentator and was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame class of 2004. In addition to wrestling, Ventura pursued an acting career, appearing in films such as ''Predator'' and '' The Running Man'' (both released in 1987 and starring fellow actor-turned-governor Arnold Schwarzenegger). Ventura entered politics in 1991 when he was el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Hedges
Christopher Lynn Hedges (born September 18, 1956) is an American journalist, Presbyterian minister, author, and commentator. In his early career, Hedges worked as a freelance war correspondent in Central America for ''The Christian Science Monitor'', NPR, and ''Dallas Morning News''. Hedges reported for ''The New York Times'' from 1990 to 2005, and served as the ''Times'' Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief during the wars in the former Yugoslavia. In 2001, Hedges contributed to ''The New York Times'' staff entry that received the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for the paper's coverage of global terrorism. Hedges produced a weekly column for ''Truthdig'' for 14 years until the outlet's hiatus in 2020. His books include '' War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning'' (2002), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction; '' American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America'' (2007); ''Death of the Liberal Class'' (2010); ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stacy Herbert
Timothy Maxwell "Max" Keiser (born January 23, 1960) is an American broadcaster and film maker. He hosted ''Keiser Report'', a financial program broadcast on RT that featured heterodox economics theories. Until November 2012, Keiser anchored ''On the Edge'', a program of news and analysis hosted by Iran's Press TV. He hosted the New Year's Eve special ''The Keiser's Business Guide to 2010'' for BBC Radio 5 Live. Keiser presented a season of ''The Oracle with Max Keiser'' on BBC World News. He produced and appeared in the TV series '' People & Power'' on the Al-Jazeera English network. Alongside his wife Stacy Herbert, he co-hosted the weekly economics programme ''Double Down'' on Radio Sputnik, presented a weekly show about finance and markets on London's Resonance FM, and wrote for ''The Huffington Post''. He lived in London from about 2011, but returned to the US in 2017. As of June 2022 it is unclear as to which traditional media Keiser still contributes, if any, following h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rick Sanchez (journalist)
Ricardo León Sánchez de Reinaldo (born July 3, 1958) is a Cuban-American journalist, radio host, and author. After working as the lead local anchor on Miami's WSVN, Sánchez moved to cable news, first as a daytime anchor at MSNBC, later at CNN, where he began as a correspondent and ultimately rose to become an anchor. On CNN, he hosted his own show ''Rick's List'' and served as a contributor to ''Anderson Cooper 360°'' and CNN International, where he frequently reported and translated between English language, English and Spanish language, Spanish. Sánchez was fired from CNN on October 1, 2010, following controversial remarks he made on a radio program. In July 2011, Sánchez was hired by Florida International University, to serve as a color commentator for radio broadcasts of the school's FIU Golden Panthers football, football team. He worked as a columnist for Fox News and Fox News Latino, and a former correspondent for Spanish language network Mundo Fox. He hosted ''The New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry King Now
''Larry King Now'' was a talk show hosted by Larry King, available on Ora TV, Hulu and RT America. Launched on July 17, 2012, the series featured interviews with newsmakers, celebrities, world leaders, and Internet stars. The show was similar to his previous CNN program, ''Larry King Live''. Broadcasting The show was the first venture by Ora TV, an on-demand TV network founded in March 2012 by King, his wife Shawn Southwick King, and Carlos Slim. In May 2013, RT America RT America was a U.S.-based news channel headquartered in Washington, D.C. Owned by TV Novosti and operated by production company T&RProductions, it was a part of the RT network, a global multilingual television news network based in Moscow fund ... announced that ''Larry King Now'' would be broadcast on their network as well, along with the Ora TV show '' Politicking with Larry King''. References External links * {{U.S. daytime talk shows English-language television shows Web talk shows American non ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Keiser
Timothy Maxwell "Max" Keiser (born January 23, 1960) is an American broadcaster and film maker. He hosted ''Keiser Report'', a financial program broadcast on RT that featured heterodox economics theories. Until November 2012, Keiser anchored ''On the Edge'', a program of news and analysis hosted by Iran's Press TV. He hosted the New Year's Eve special ''The Keiser's Business Guide to 2010'' for BBC Radio 5 Live. Keiser presented a season of ''The Oracle with Max Keiser'' on BBC World News. He produced and appeared in the TV series '' People & Power'' on the Al-Jazeera English network. Alongside his wife Stacy Herbert, he co-hosted the weekly economics programme ''Double Down'' on Radio Sputnik, presented a weekly show about finance and markets on London's Resonance FM, and wrote for ''The Huffington Post''. He lived in London from about 2011, but returned to the US in 2017. As of June 2022 it is unclear as to which traditional media Keiser still contributes, if any, following h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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