The broadcasting venture is only part of Wang's efforts to deliver hockey to China.
And he has been hiring new staff for his internet broadcasting venture, Mercury Radio Arts, which runs a subscription service for political junkies who want more Beck-inspired shows and documentaries.
As president and chief executive of XM Satellite Radio, Hugh Panero has spent much of the last four years courting investors, equipment vendors, automakers and potential customers who, naturally, wonder about the viability of his novel broadcasting venture.
Baker, who presents a Saturday morning show on BBC Radio 5 Live and was closely involved in the return of Chris Evans' TFI Friday to Channel 4, is understood to be looking for partners to take part in a new broadcasting venture backed by the public.
In June, after barely eking out $2.8 million in earnings for its latest fiscal year, the 118-year-old church decided to pull the plug on its remaining broadcasting venture-Monitor Radio-after 13 years of losses.
Smiley rebounded with two new public-broadcasting ventures: a nightly television talk show, "Tavis Smiley," on PBS; and a weekly radio show, "The Tavis Smiley Show," distributed by P.R.I.
In the late 1990s Tom headed the business development team at News International, running investment reviews and development projects within the national titles, Times Supplements, and the company's online, broadcasting and marketing ventures.
That is because this Sunday, he will brave theatrical controversy to kick off his new venture: broadcasting Broadway musicals live to pay-per-view audiences.
S4C, the government-funded Welsh-language broadcaster, has warned that it could face a multi-million-pound funding gap by 2009 if it does not receive further subsidies for digital broadcasting and new media ventures.
Its first venture was broadcasting sporting events to four-foot-high television screens in two London theaters.
