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ABC will unveil the cast for the eighth season of “Dancing With the Stars” throughout its Sunday night programming on Feb. 8 in what the network is dubbing the “All Night Name Drop.” “Dancing” host Tom Bergeron will reveal one name at a time in interstitials during “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,” ...
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ABC News’ coverage of the presidential inauguration on Jan. 20 will begin with a live, three-hour edition of “Good Morning America” at 7 a.m. ET. Diane Sawyer then will join Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulos from the Newseum on Pennsylvania Avenue at 10 a.m. ET for Barack Obama’s swearing-in ceremony...
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NBC morning news programs continue to lead in ratings, as last week’s “Today” and Sunday’s “Meet the Press” performances top their respective time slots. “Today” marked its 680th consecutive week at No. 1 for the week ending Dec. 21, averaging 6 million viewers. NBC beat out ABC’s “Good Morning America...
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"Good Morning America's" Chris Cuomo has landed the first exclusive TV interview since the election with William Ayers, the 1960s radical-turned-Chicago-activist whose association with President-Elect Barack Obama became a campaign controversy. Mr. Ayers will appear live in the studio Friday...
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All three broadcast networks are producing hourlong editions of their flagship newscasts on Monday, the eve of the groundbreaking, high-stakes national election. At last count on Friday, it appeared the rare second half-hour would be carried by significant numbers of local stations, even though clearance...
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ABC News’ interview with Sarah Palin, conducted by Elizabeth Vargas, will air on “Good Morning America” on Thursday and on “20/20” on Friday night. Portions of the interview, which took place today on the campaign trail in Toledo, Ohio, will air on “World News With Charles Gibson,” “Nightline,” ABC News...
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“Good Morning America” co-anchor Robin Roberts will share about her experience living with *** cancer on “Nightline.” The episode, which airs Oct. 8 at 11:35 p.m on ABC, includes never-before-seen footage of Ms. Roberts on her final day of chemotherapy and behind-the-scenes footage of the day she finally...
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The debate within television news organizations over what to call the financial legislation passed last week rivaled the debate over the bill itself. “We’re betting heavily on this bailout, rescue—call it what you want—package,” Diane Swonk, chief economist for Mesirow Financial, said on CNBC’s “Squawk...
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Roger Goodman, ABC’s VP for special projects, has successfully transmitted ABC News programming from a submerged nuclear submarine, an aircraft carrier, a cruise ship and a dinghy rocking in the icy North Atlantic. All his previous challenges pale next to rigging a nine-car Amtrak train to broadcast...
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On Monday and Tuesday, the first two days the full crew of “Today” broadcast together from the Beijing Olympics, the NBC morning show averaged 6.425 million viewers and 6.428 million viewers, respectively, according to preliminary fast national data from Nielsen Media Research. The early data shows that...