TV News: Showbiz politicians have more satisfactory outcomes — President Obama carries no shortage of problems and challenges on his shoulders, but part of that burden was placed there — at least among disgruntled liberal supporters — by the wonderfully vivid if not entirely realistic mind of Aaron Sorkin.
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Sorkin’s tough political act to follow
TV News: Deal builds on relationship — Spanish broadcast network La Sexta has bought a package of more than 60 movie classics from Warner Bros. Intl.
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La Sexta, Warner ink on classics
TV News: Comedians stage tongue-in-cheek event on National Mall — In the shadow of the Capitol and close to the election, comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert entertained a huge throng rallying on Saturday for “sanity,” poking fun at the nation’s diversity and its ill-tempered politics.
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Stewart, Colbert lead rally in D.C.
TV News: Bourgholtzer was Peacock’s first fulltime White House correspondent — Pioneering Peacock newsman Frank Bourgholtzer died Oct. 8 in Santa Monica. He was 90.
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Pioneering NBC newsman dies
Teresa Giudice might continue to dismiss stories about bankruptcy as “gossip” even as she defends filing for bankruptcy as an American cornerstone, but the contents of her home are scheduled to be auctioned to pay off her creditors on Oct.
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Teresa Giudice’s property to be auctioned, including a stroller and a suit of armor
TV News: Goal is to generate more competition in market — Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon issued a decree Thursday that will accelerate the nation’s terrestrial analog-to-digital switchover by six years to 2015.
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Mexico accelerates digital TV switchover
TV News: Cable news network adept at tapping into deep-seated concerns — Networks cater to all kinds of demographics.
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Fox’s summer of fear
TV News: Pflimlim faces nomination hearings — President Nicolas Sarkozy has chosen Remy Pflimlin to replace Patrick de Carolis as the president of pubcaster France Televisions when he steps down Aug. 23, the first time the appointment has been made by a French president.
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Sarkozy picks pubcaster head
TV News: Game 6 of the NBA Finals secures victory for ABC — On a night when the NBA Finals put up more impressive ratings on ABC and President Obama’s address to the nation interrupted viewing patterns, original programming on other nets took a hit.
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Lakers-Celtics continue to dominate ratings
TV News: President Pinera’s pact to sell off Chilevision stumbles — It appears that Chile’s president won’t be selling his television network after all.
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Chile TV deal cancelled
