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Business Definition for: Dead Zone

  • an area in which cell phone users are unable to receive signals

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Sci Fi to run 'Dead Zone' episodes. (This Just In).(Sci Fi Channel to air program already running on USA Networks)(Brief Article)
NEW YORK -- Sci Fi Channel will telecast episodes of sister service USA Network's Dead Zone beginning July 12, according to sources. The quasi-repurposing deal -- through which Sci Fi will not show Dead Zone episodes days after their premiere ...
Tags: science fiction
Research articles 2002-07-08
Quick Hits.(USA Network launches The Dead Zone and Psych)(Leonard Maltin in The Secret's Out With Leonard Maltin)(Brief article)
By Staff USA Net Renews 'Dead Zone,' 'Psych' Staff New York -- USA Network is bringing back The Dead Zone for a sixth season and Psych for a second season. ...
Tags: USA Network
Research articles 2006-09-25
'Dead Zone' lives to thrill
With one touch, Johnny Smith can glimpse the future. And what he's seeing is the end of the world. USA Network kicked off the fourth season of its hit supernatural thriller The Dead Zone Sunday (10 p.m. ET/PT). And to help new viewers catch up, Lions Gate has just...
Tags: USA Network
Research articles 2005-06-17
Back for the dead. (Fast Track).("The Dead Zone" returns for second season )(Brief Article)
USA Network's thriller The Dead Zone returns for season two on Jan. 5. In its first installment, the series averaged an impressive 3.1 rating with 4.2 million viewers. A sign of USA Network's original programming success: Dead Zone's Nielsen marks were second to USA's other summer...
Tags: USA Network
Research articles 2002-12-30
USA Skein in rerun 'zone'.(USA Networks Inc.'s 'The Dead Zone', Debmar-Mercury Entertainment)
Mort Marcus and Ira Bernstein's Debmar-Mercury Entertainment has picked up exclusive rights to reruns of USA Network series "The Dead Zone" for cable TV and TV syndication. Kevin Beggs, president of programming and production for Lions Gate, which co-produces the show...
Tags: USA Network
Research articles 2005-10-17
NOAA Scientists Issue Dead Zone Forecast
A team of scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA is forecasting that the dead zone off the coast of Louisiana and Texas this summer will be significantly smaller than the average size since 1990. This summer's dead zone is predicted to be less than 1,400 square miles....
Tags: NOAA
Research articles 2005-08-01
Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone No Smaller Than Last Year
WASHINGTON, DC ENS ? The annual dead zone that forms each year in the Gulf of Mexico is predicted to be between 4,100 and 6,500 square miles again this summer, an area the size of Connecticut and Rhode Island combined. The forecast was issued on Monday by a team...
Tags: NOAA, oxygen, river
Research articles 2004-07-27
Gulf of Mexico's 'Dead Zone' takes center stage Tuesday in New
A public hearing will be held at the Embassy Suites Hotel New Orleans Convention Center, 315 Julia St., from 12 p.m. to 12:30 p.m. Tuesday on the Gulf of Mexico "dead zone." The Environmental Protection Agency's Dead Zone Task Force is running the meeting, according to Matt Rota...
Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Research articles 2007-06-11
Record-Sized Dead Zone Forecast in Gulf of Mexico
WASHINGTON, DC ENS — --> A team of federal government and university scientists is predicting that the "dead zone" off the coast of Louisiana and Texas this summer could be the largest since shelf wide measurements began in 1985, and much larger than the average size since 1990....
Tags: NOAA, oxygen, scientist
Research articles 2007-07-20
NOAA Awards Go to Improve Understanding of Dead Zone
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA has awarded the first year of funding for multi-year grants totaling $2,259,872 that will support research into the causes and impacts of the hypoxic zone in the northern Gulf of Mexico, known as the dead zone. These projects are funded by NOAA's Northern...
Tags: NOAA
Research articles 2007-02-01
Sheedy tours `Zone' with Brat Pack pal. (USA `Club' House).(casting for the Dead Zone)(Brief Article)
"The Breakfast Club" is meeting again--at least two of the original five members. Ally Sheedy and Anthony Michael Hall--two stars of the 1985 John Hughes pic--will be reunited onscreen in an episode of Hall's USA Network series "The Dead Zone." ...
Tags: USA Network
Research articles 2003-02-03
The Dead Zone Pumps Life Into USA Network
Byline: JON LAFAYETTE Original programming has been something of a dead zone on the USA Network, where the lack of both signature programs and a clear identity has been either the cause of management turmoil or the result of it. Last week there was a strong sign that...
Tags: USA Network
Research articles 2002-06-24
Scientists Say Gulf Dead Zone Could be Largest Since 1985
A team of scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA, the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium and Louisiana State University LSU is forecasting that the dead zone off the coast of Louisiana-an area of low or no oxygen which can threaten or kill all marine life in it-has the...
Tags: NOAA, oxygen, river
Research articles 2007-09-01
Power Plant Blamed for 'Dead Zone' in New England's Mt. Hope Bay.
By Beth Daley, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 7--SOMERSET, Mass.--Even among New England's devastating fishery collapses, the story of Mt. Hope Bay is a shock. In this 13-square-mile expanse of water that straddles Rhode Island and Massachusetts, 15 species of fish...
Tags: bay, Government, Massachusetts, PG&E Corp., Regulations, scientist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Research articles 2002-03-07
US corn biofuels will expand Gulf of Mexico 'dead zone': scientists
VANCOUVER, Canada AFP — A planned increase in US ethanol production from corn would spell environmental "disaster" for marine species in the Gulf of Mexico, said a co-author of a science study published Monday. A boost in corn production will worsen the Gulf's so-called "dead zone," an area with...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, biofuel, Gulf, oxygen, pollution
Research articles 2008-03-10
Lions Gate Television and Paramount International Television's Hit Series ``The Dead Zone'' Picked up for Fourth Season by USA Network
SANTA MONICA, Calif. & VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- USA Network Orders 22 New Episodes for Fourth Season, Bringing Total Number of Episodes to 67; Critically-Acclaimed Series Achieved Best Ratings to Date in Third Season "The Dead Zone," the critically-acclaimed hit series produced by Lions Gate Television in conjunction with...
Tags: USA Network
Research articles 2004-09-13
'Dead Zone' enlivens cable's viewership.(USA Networks Inc.)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Headed by a record-setting debut for USA Network's The Dead Zone, basic-cable's summer lineup continued to siphon viewers from the broadcast television networks at unprecedented levels. In the week of June 10 through June 16, ad-supported cable networks reached a record...
Tags: USA Network
Research articles 2002-06-24
'Dead Zone' gets third-year order.
The Dead Zone lives: USA Network renewed the drama series for a third season, despite witnessing a significant ratings decline during the show's sophomore campaign. USA has ordered a 13-episode third season, which will bow sometime next year, said executive vice...
Tags: USA Network
Research articles 2003-08-25
Lions Gate Television and Paramount International Television's Hit Series ``The Dead Zone'' Picked up for Fourth Season by USA Network.
SANTA MONICA, Calif. & VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Sep 13, 2004 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- USA Network Orders 22 New Episodes for Fourth Season, Bringing Total Number of Episodes to 67; Critically-Acclaimed Series Achieved Best Ratings to Date in Third Season "The Dead Zone,"...
Tags: Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., USA Network
Research articles 2004-09-13
Four for 'Zone,' 'Monk': pair of originals are foundation of USA's summer '05.(Programming)(United States of America)
USA Network's two high-profile original series will be rewarded with new episodes in 2005. Supernatural thriller The Dead Zone will be back for a fourth season next summer after an impressive summer 2004 ratings run, the network announced. It will join...
Tags: USA Network
Research articles 2004-09-13