{"id":962,"date":"2009-01-21T10:54:11","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T10:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2009\/01\/21\/british-news-network-films-delta-residents\/"},"modified":"2013-09-03T12:55:26","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T12:55:26","slug":"british-news-network-films-delta-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2009\/01\/british-news-network-films-delta-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"British news network films Delta residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">\n<table cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"1\" width=\"55%\" align=\"center\" summary=\"\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"270\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" src=\"\/Images\/univ_relations\/SkyTV.jpg\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div align=\"left\"><span>Pictured are (seated from left) Kareem Lateef, and Sky News Anchor Jeremy Thompson, (standing from left) Sister Donald Mary of the St. Gabriel Mercy Center; Dr. Luther Brown of the Delta State University Delta Center for Culture and Learning;&nbsp;the Sky TV news team of Jamie Wood, producer; and Neil Hamilton, camera. <\/span><\/div>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The Sky TV <span>News team recently visited the Delta to interview people about their hopes for the new Obama presidency.&nbsp;<\/span><\/font> <\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span>Sky TV is the largest satellite news channel in Europe, and the first all news channel in Great Britain.&nbsp;It reaches <\/span><span>145 million people in 36 countries in Europe alone, as well as Asia, the Middle East and Africa. <\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span>Sky TV also filmed historic Mound Bayou and interviewed the town&rsquo;s mayor, Kennedy Johnson, and its historian, Dr. Eulah Peterson.&nbsp;<\/span><span>The London based news team interviewed several people at the St. Gabriel Mercy Center in Mound Bayou as well. <\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span>Later, they filmed at Poor Monkey&rsquo;s Lounge outside Merigold and ate at The Senator&rsquo;s Place restaurant in Cleveland, where they interviewed Billy Joe McCain of the Bolivar County Community Action Agency.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span>After leaving the Delta, the Sky News team headed to Washington, DC, to cover the inauguration of President Obama.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Pictured are (seated from left) Kareem Lateef, and Sky News Anchor Jeremy Thompson, (standing from left) Sister Donald Mary of the St. Gabriel Mercy Center; Dr. Luther Brown of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41798,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions\/41798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}