TV News: Producer turns to newspaper website to avoid glut of TV drama — Argentina’s Mancha Prods. is taking a fresh approach to secure exposure and build business by targeting Internet fiction, a market with growth potential, and tying it to a newspaper’s website.
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Mancha finds a niche in Internet drama
TV News: CBS dramas also fare decently Wednesday — ABC’s full night of comedy repeats topped Wednesday’s primetime ratings race among young adults, with encores of dramas keeping the lights on as well for CBS. NBC’s original “Undercovers,” meanwhile, drew a tiny audience.
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TV News: ‘Kennedy Center Honors’ down for CBS — NBC’s special Tuesday night edition of top-rated franchise “Sunday Night Football” obliterated the primetime competition last night, with only CBS offering up any kind of a resistance.
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NBC’s Tuesday football huge
TV News: ‘Kennedy Center Honors’ down for CBS — NBC’s special Tuesday night edition of top-rated franchise “Sunday Night Football” obliterated the primetime competition last night, with only CBS offering up any kind of a resistance.
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NBC’s Tuesday football huge
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: 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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Wintry weather wreaks havoc on ratings
