TV News: Repeats, no Sunday football lead to year-low broadcast share — The Christmas holiday, oodles of repeats and a postponement of “Sunday Night Football” resulted last week in one of the lowest-rated frames of the calendar year.

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TV News: Measures expected to test merger clearance — Comcast’s proposed combination with NBC Universal looks more than likely to obtain clearance from federal regulators, but as word of the approval conditions leaked out over the holiday weekend, the question now is just how restrictive the measures will be.

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TV News: Heat-Lakers game draws best regular-season rating in six years — ABC drew big ratings for its marquee NBA game on Christmas Day, racking up the best number for a regular-season hoops game in six years.

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TV News: NBC’s NFL broadcast delayed due to storm — Outdoor weather conditions wreaked havoc with America’s favorite indoor activity Sunday, as an impending Philadelphia blizzard caused the postponement of NBC’s primetime broadcast of the Minnesota Vikings-Philadelphia Eagles game to Tuesday.

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Of the gifts reality TV has given us, it has given us a lot to laugh at and mock. The 2003 Fox series Joe Millionaire formalized that mockery by satirizing The Bachelor, pretending its star was a millionaire when he really was not.
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TV News: Media holdings of Italy’s PM once again under scrutiny — As Silvio Berlusconi pulled his Houdini-like escape from a political deathtrap Dec. 14, surviving a confidence vote in Italy’s lower house, the connection between the country’s premier and his Mediaset TV empire was on high-def display.

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Silvio survives another day
TV News: High profile helmers and stars hit Paris for perfume ad shoots — In the run-up to the Christmas gift-giving season, Gallic cosmetic companies have been shooting a raft of perfume commercials by high-profile directors with a bevy of international stars in Paris, a fact trumpeted by the Ile de France film commission.

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TV News: MacFarlane, Green think alike on parodies — Fox’s DVD launch party for “Family Guy: It’s a Trap” saw more “Glee” thesps walking the black carpet than “Family Guy” guys.

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