TV News: Rain could impact broadcast of NHL Winter Classic — NBC could be facing its second postponement of a major sports broadcast in a week, if weather forces the delay of Saturday’s NHL Winter Classic.
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NBC faces another sports postponement
TV News: ESPN, NBC primetime packages at record ratings levels — Thursday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday — it doesn’t matter what night — auds are turning out in huge numbers for NFL action.
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NFL scoring big on all nights
TV News: ABC’s ‘Modern,’ ‘Grey’s’ most heavily played back on DVRs — For better or worse — and there are good arguments both ways — the DVR has forever changed the primetime economic model.
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Primetime time-shifting on rise
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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Quiet week on ratings front
TV News: New series gets two-week jump on new season of ‘Idol’ — After years of playing off Simon Cowell and Ryan Seacrest on the “American Idol” stage, Paula Abdul will be in the smallscreen spotlight as the broadcast TV calendar turns to 2011 and a wave of premieres looks to find some January traction.
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Abdul’s ‘Live to Dance’ kicks off 2011 broadcast premieres
TV News: Key distrib deal set for net’s Jan. 1 launch — Just in time for its Jan. 1 launch, the Oprah Winfrey Network closed a gaping hole in its distribution base by cutting a carriage deal with Cablevision.
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OWN locks in Cablevision carriage
TV News: Annual Christmas broadcast up 39% this year — L.A. TV viewers, still recovering from last week’s rain, gathered ’round the TV yule log as they dried off on Christmas morning.
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Holiday yule log heats up in L.A.
TV News: ‘Soy Tu Duena’ finale tops broadcast on Monday — On a night loaded with repeats, Univision led the broadcast pack in the key young-adults demo Monday behind a strong finale for novella “Soy Tu Duena.” ESPN, meanwhile, was expected to beat everybody with its “Monday Night Football” finale.
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Univision novella goes out big
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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Comcast OK near, with conditions
TV News: Org, DoJ expected to approve venture — The proposed merger of Comcast and NBC U is on track to win approval from both the FCC and the Dept.
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Comcast-NBC U merger on right track
