NBC tweaks three nights
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LOS ANGELES  - Three nights -- Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday -- will be getting a makeover on NBC this midseason.
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By Peter Johnson  NEW YORK -- Tonight's the night. Finally.  After five months of  hype that produced hundreds of stories for newspapers, magazines and TV entertainment shows, former NBC Today star Katie Couric makes the transition from morning to nights at 6:30 p.m.
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Though NBC is blanketing seven networks with 1,210 hours of Olympics coverage, there's this pesky, bill-paying task called work that keeps me from fully enjoying the televised competition.
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By Peter Johnson  In this celebrity- and lifestyle-obsessed age, it's no surprise that last month NBC said it will add a fourth hour of Today in September mostly devoted to lighter fare: The third hour, hosted by Al Roker, Ann Curry and Natalie Morales, has done just fine in the ratings.
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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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Now that he&#039;s no longer anchoring &quot;Nightline,&quot; Ted Koppel says he doesn&#039;t usually stay up late to watch it. &quot;My whole schedule has changed,&quot; he told The Associated Press on Monday. &quot;Now I get up at 6:30 in the morning, which wasn&#039;t something I used to do.&quot;
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My Network TV's telenovela format, which asked U.S. viewers to tune in nightly for an hourlong installment, will be trimmed back.
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Let the surfing begin. With an ailing king, two would-be successors and a ubiquitous substitute, New Year's Eve on television has more subplots than a party with three ex-girlfriends.
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Olympic laurels. NBC swept the Nielsen ratings medals, with its first three nights of coverage in Athens taking the top three prime-time spots last week (Aug. 9-15) in viewers and advertiser-coveted young adults. The surge ...
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LOS ANGELES  - With "Desperate  Housewives" sitting out the night, NBC was back on top of the  Sunday standings with solid performances from dramas "Law &  Order: Criminal Intent" and "Crossing Jordan."
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NBC, struggling through its first  season without powerhouse sitcom "Friends," has fallen to third  place in the ratings for its target audience and could slip to  No. 4, the network's top executive acknowledged on Friday.
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NBC took ratings gold, attracting big prime-time audiences for its first three nights of Olympics coverage.
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News Item: The major television networks have cut back their live coverage of the Republican and Democratic national conventions to just one prime-time hour a night.
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Networks hope to rejuvenate the genre by experimenting with new formats and unconventional storylines.
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NBC will make episodes of  its programs available for download on its Web site for one  week after their original broadcast, the network said  Wednesday.
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Numbingly low Nielsen ratings for last week made it clear why NBC this week hired a new team to oversee its prime-time entertainment department.
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The seven-hour time difference between here and Athens creates strange viewing patterns in NBC's all-Olympics-all-the-time world. As host Bob Costas said in signing off Wednesday at midnight Boston time (7 a.m. Athens time): &quot;Good night, good morning . . . take your choice.&quot;