Television
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TiVo refreshes lineup with 6-tuner Roamio DVRsAug 24, 2013 7:10 am - NEW YORK — TiVo Inc. wants to give television viewers more control over what they watch on traditional channels and over the Internet as the pioneer of digital video rec...
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Review: New TiVo delivers for avid TV viewersAug 24, 2013 7:08 am - EDISON, N.J. — When I bought my first TiVo digital video recorder in 2001, I was a real trendsetter. “You can really pause live television?” friends asked with wonder. “...
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Stars of reality show ‘Pawn Stars’ meet fansAug 24, 2013 5:03 am - MANILA, Philippines — The stars of the cable reality show “Pawn Stars” have left their Las Vegas pawnshop to meet fans in Southeast Asia. And one of them says he never t...
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Former ‘Today’ news anchor Lew Wood diesAug 23, 2013 5:34 pm - LOS ANGELES — Lew Wood, who marched with Martin Luther King, covered John F. Kennedy’s assassination and was a news anchor for NBC’s “Today” show during a distinguished ...
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'Biggest Loser' Danni Allen ready for next set of challengesAug 22, 2013 8:00 am - Danni Allen has jetted to Los Angeles to make commercials, a workout DVD and film an appearance for the upcoming season of “The Biggest Loser,” the NBC reality show on w...
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Google and NFL meet; Sunday Ticket up for grabs?Aug 21, 2013 6:20 pm - PORTLAND, Ore. — Google has been holding talks with the National Football League, raising speculation that the Internet monolith is seeking new inroads into television. ...
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Mt. Prospect native to appear on 'Extreme Cougar Wives'Aug 20, 2013 5:00 pm - Sheri Winkelmann is 50. Her fiance, Desmond Huey, is 26. Their unconventional love story will be featured on Wednesday night's TLC reality show “Extreme Cougar Wives.” ...
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Best-selling author Elmore Leonard dies at 87Aug 20, 2013 9:00 am - DETROIT - He was the master of his genre, the Dickens of Detroit, the Chaucer of Crime. Pretty much every novel Elmore Leonard wrote from the mid-1980s on was a best-se...
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Al-Jazeera America prepares for Tuesday launchAug 19, 2013 4:34 pm - NEW YORK — In a warren of offices at a former bank building near Madison Square Garden, dozens of journalists are at work on gleaming new electronic equipment, ready to ...
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Actor Lee Thompson Young found dead at age 29Aug 19, 2013 2:23 pm - LOS ANGELES — Lee Thompson Young, who began his acting career as the teenage star of TV’s “The Famous Jett Jackson” and was featured in the film “Friday Night Lights” an...