ABC punches up the hype
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You better watch out. The Christmas Day collision between Shaquille O&#39;Neal and Kobe Bryant has sent visions dancing in the fans&#39; heads of the former sending the latter into the third row of
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The drama surrounding Monday Night Football&#39;s controversial opening segment continues. Many viewers were upset when ABC aired a steamy spot promoting its new show &quot;Desperate Housewives.
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By Frank Ahrens, Washington Post Staff Writer  More than 11 million viewers watched free ABC television shows on their computers during May, the first half of the network's two-month experiment with streaming shows on the Internet.
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The intensifying demand is enabling the broadcasters to raise rates for spots scheduled to appear during prime-time shows next season.
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In a quirky fairy tale of a mystery show called âPushing Daisies,â ABC has yet another series that is building strong enthusiasm in advance of the fall television season.
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Many wonder why ABC spent $30 million on a 9/11 mini-series that amounted to a five-hour public service announcement.
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Walt Disney&#39;s perennially slumping ABC Television Network is suddenly a champ again thanks to a couple of unexpected hit shows including a prime time soap called Desperate Housewives (coming to the UK in January).
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Prepared statements were flying like tickertape Tuesday, in the wake of ABC&#39;s racy introductory skit on Monday Night Football.
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"Ugly Betty" delivered  pretty ratings for ABC Thursday night, with sampling of the 8  p.m. comedy-drama boosting it past "Survivor" in its second  half hour.
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By DAVID BAUDER  NEW YORK - ABC faced growing pressure Friday about its planned miniseries on the buildup to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
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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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BUOYED by ever-increasing crowd figures and television ratings, rugby union yesterday announced a significant expansion of the southern hemisphere season which includes an assault on the traditional September AFL and NRL finals series.
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The new prime-time television season officially starts this week, and more than bragging rights to ratings supremacy will be on the line for the broadcast networks.
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After strong ratings in its first two weeks, ABC's new castaway thriller "Lost" appears to have given the network something it has struggled for years to find -- a hit drama.
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ABC and NBC will each be rolling out a multi-night competition show this week.
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Big stars. Even bigger premiere for "Ocean's Twelve."
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How lucky for ABC that it already has set a precedent of using a five-second delay on its live telecast of the Academy Awards. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced yesterday