Television
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Rapid growth for Spanish-speaking news
Jul 31, 2008 11:00 pm - TEANECK, N.J. -- On an evening its rivals were preoccupied with Christie Brinkley's divorce and the capture of a Brooklyn murder suspect, New York's WXTV led its local n...
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NBC to show off tech during Olympics coverage
Jul 30, 2008 11:00 pm - As an archery contender at the Summer Olympics lines up a shot, an American TV viewer sits squarely in the bull's-eye. When the arrows fly in Beijing, the view from tiny...
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'Baghdad High' dark but life-affirmingJul 30, 2008 11:00 pm - High school is much the same the world over, but if you think it's an unpleasant experience here, try spending your senior year in Baghdad. The new HBO documentary "Bagh...
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'Dr. Horrible' brings TV closer to computer convergenceJul 29, 2008 11:00 pm - Not long ago, it seemed as if Neil Patrick Harris would never escape the title role of "Doogie Howser, M.D." Now, however, it suddenly seems as if that childhood hit sho...
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Whitaker named NBC News' Washington bureau chief
Jul 28, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Mark Whitaker has been named to replace Tim Russert as head of NBC News' Washington Bureau. The former Newsweek editor, who joined NBC last year as senior vi...
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'Extreme Makeover' house faces foreclosure
Jul 27, 2008 11:00 pm - LAKE CITY, Ga. -- More than 1,800 people showed up to help ABC's "Extreme Makeover" team demolish a family's decrepit home and replace it with a sparkling, four-bedroom ...
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5 reality hosts to preside over Emmys
Jul 25, 2008 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- The reality is, there won't be an Emmy host this year -- there will be five. The reality-TV hosts nominated in the new category that honors their work wil...
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A method to the 'Mad Men'Jul 23, 2008 11:00 pm - Stylish, elegant and yet somehow inert, like a neon cocktail glass from the early '60s era it's set in, "Mad Men" returns for its second season on a competitive new nigh...
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'At the Movies' gets news hosts Lyons, Mankiewicz
Jul 21, 2008 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- Over the years, TV's best-known movie review show has gone from hosts Siskel and Ebert to Ebert and Roeper to Roeper and guest critics. Now it's Lyons and...
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'Deal' goes daily with big money, Mandel
Jul 20, 2008 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- Howie Mandel, the models, the banker and the briefcases all will be in place when the syndicated version of "Deal or No Deal" premieres in September -- al...