ABC, NBC End Race to Interview Paris Hilton
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After a flurry of accounts this week about financial offers to land the first postprison interview with Paris Hilton, both ABC and NBC said yesterday that they no longer had any interest in securing the interview.
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In the extremely tight ratings race between the two leading evening news broadcasts, ABCâs âWorld News With Charles Gibsonâ last week edged past its rival, NBCâs âNightly News With Brian Williams,â for the first time in eight weeks. Nielsen estimated that the ABC newscast drew 9.8 million viewers, its highest average in nearly a year and slightly more than the 9.6 million who tuned in to NBC. ABCâs slim margin of victory was only modestly higher in the age bracket of adults 25 to 54, a demographic the two networks split evenly during the previous week. The last time ABC finished No. 1 was during the November sweeps period. Last week CBSâs âEvening News With Katie Couricâ remained a distant third (7.13 million).
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Hotel heiress Paris Hilton&#39;s search for her beloved Chihuahua Tinkerbell is over, after the pooch was found alive.
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ABC-TV has pulled the plug on Miss America, leaving the famous beauty pageant without a network television sponsor for the first time in 50 years.
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A day after NBC said it  would delay the January 3 premiere of "Celebrity Apprentice" by  a week to avoid clashing with the last original episode of  "Grey's Anatomy," ABC on Thursday moved its medical drama to  January 10, forcing NBC to reverse its decision.
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Paris Hilton won't joke about her peeps. The hotel heiress canceled an appearance at next week's Billboard Music Awards because she didn't like the jokes written for her, according to a spokesman.
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ABC has pulled its contract offer to the Bowl Championship Series, a move that could result in three of college football&#39;s biggest games moving to another network.
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The TV star and former Senator ends a run for the Presidency that was scuttled by the candidate's own apparent apathy
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NEW YORK  - The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. and NBC engaged in eleventh-hour sessions Sunday to try to save the boycott-stricken Golden Globes, with NBC appearing to be seriously considering pulling the telecast as a result of the Hollywood writers strike.
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Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey has replaced Tom Cruise as the world's most powerful celebrity and jailbird Paris Hilton has dropped off the annual Forbes magazine list of the 100 most influential stars.
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So you may have heard: Paris Hilton was ticketed the other day for driving with a suspended license. Not huge news, even by celebrity-gossip standards. Here at The Associated Press, we put out an initial item of some 300 words. But it actually meant more to us than that. It meant the end of our experimental blackout on news about Paris Hilton.
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CNN Headline News said  Monday it will eliminate its 4-6 p.m. ET newscast in order to  bolster its editorial resources elsewhere. Co-anchors Thomas  Roberts and Kathleen Kennedy will remain at the cable news  channel in as-yet-unspecified roles.
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The Belmont Stakes is leaving NBC to return to ABC in 2006, ending a Triple Crown TV partnership with the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes.
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Sheriff Lee Baca said Friday that Paris Hilton will not be allowed to give television interviews while serving her jail sentence and that aggressive steps were being taken to prevent cameras from being smuggled into the facility.
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Six-time gold medalist Michael Phelps probably spoke for millions of Olympic-saturated television viewers Sunday during his umpteenth and final NBC interview in Athens. "I just want to go home and sleep," Phelps said, a mission he could have begun early if he had NBC's last Olympic broadcast to sedate him.
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ABC News said it lost its bid because the network was unwilling to make a âhigh six-figure dealâ with the Hilton family.
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NEW YORK  - With CBS putting up a "CSI" repeat, ABC and "Grey's Anatomy" ran away with Thursday's primetime ratings race.