| Man auctions speeding ticket on web
Wellington - In a strange example of Internet madness, a New Zealander has sold a NZ$130 (about R500) speeding ticket on a local online auction website, a newspaper reported on Friday. Nearly 30 000 people viewed Bob Grieve's ticket on the Trade Me site before Allan Hearn, an insurance assessor from Pukekohe, bought it for 51 New Zealand dollars. Hearn said he had never had a speeding ticket - a gap in his life that is now filled, The Press of Christchurch reported. "For 50 bucks, who cares?" he asked. "I told my missus about it, and she called me an idiot." Grieve, a TV cameraman from Christchurch, posted his photograph holding the ticket on the site and said he had fielded a flurry of amorous comments as well as bids. One woman asked if the holder came with the ticket and bid four times, he said.
Experts suggest bidding for broadcasting licenses
Claiming it is the optimal mechanism to preserve diversity and plurality as to information, the joint judge of the Supreme Court of Justice of Colombia, Guillermo Puyana, suggested granting broadcasting licenses through public biddings. His proposal came following his speech at an international seminar taking place in Caracas called "Freedom of Expression in Democratic Societies."
When asked about President Hugo Chávez Government's threat not to renew a broadcasting license for private TV network RCTV, Puyana conceded the State has the capacity to renew licenses or not. However, he suggested that radiofrequencies should be subject to transparent and equitable biddings. "Regarding the issue of RCTV, if I was in a position to choose, I would rather open a bidding process (on the broadcasting license), in order to preserve information diversity."
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Local producer bids on city's historic theatres
Rising Toronto impresario Aubrey Dan wants to buy what he calls the "beautiful crown jewels" of the Ontario capital's theatrical venues, the 2,200-seat Canon and the 701-seat Panasonic. Dan confirmed yesterday that his company, Dancap Productions, "is participating in the bidding process" for the two heritage theatres, both of which are located on Yonge Street in downtown Toronto and both of which were put up for sale by their current owner, Beverly Hills, Calif.-based Live Nation Inc. "You need theatres to produce and to present, for sure," Dan said. "There's no question about that." Live Nation, spun off in 2005 as the theatrical division of media giant Clear Channel, announced earlier this year that it was selling 13 theatres across North America, 11 of them in the United States, to concentrate on what it calls its "core business" of live music.
First-Time Bidders Kick and Click During Busy Week at Ritchie Bros ...
SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- March 26, 2007 -- Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers (TSX: RBA)(NYSE: RBA), the world's largest auctioneer of industrial equipment, announces that it sold more than US$70 million worth of trucks and equipment during eight industrial and agricultural unreserved auctions held last week. The largest was a two-day auction in Sacramento, California, which generated gross auction sales of more than US$20 million. The Company continues to attract new buyers and sellers to its sales, which was particularly evident at its auction sale in California on March 19 and 20, 2007. "We had more than 2,100 registered bidders for our two-day unreserved auction, and for a good number of them, it was their first time attending a Ritchie Bros. auction," says Ritchie Bros.
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