NBC Looks for Olympic Success to Bolster New Shows
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If an athlete's true test is  improving each time on the field, television network NBC is due  for laurels when the Athens Olympics end on Sunday, but its  greater challenge will be launching new shows like "Joey" in  coming weeks.
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LOS ANGELES  - As NBC continues its  post-Olympics fall season rollout, the heavily promoted  computer-animated comedy "Father of the Pride" got off to a  modest start in its premiere Tuesday.
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When NBC first called Bob Neumeier, he was asked if he'd be willing to work on Olympics wrestling and rowing coverage in Athens. &quot;I was flattered and grateful for the opportunity,&quot; he said. He was willing to learn the nuances of those sports at the Olympic level and start mastering the pronunciation of hundreds of new names.
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Networks hope to rejuvenate the genre by experimenting with new formats and unconventional storylines.
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NBC Universal said some of its news, entertainment, and sports television programming will be available for use on blogs, social network profiles, and the like as widgets.
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NBC Universal said on Monday it plans  to launch a new television show based on its iVillage Internet  community for women over its Bravo cable network and its 10  network-owned TV stations.
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A look at NBC's coverage of the Summer Olympics from Athens:
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NBC Universal, riding high on a  Summer Olympics that appears on track to set a record for  viewership, will beat early forecasts and turn a profit of $60  million to $70 million for its coverage of the Games from  Athens, an NBC executive said on Thursday.
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"American Gladiators" competitions include jousting, above, wrestling, climbing, and swimming. (NBC) Is "American Gladiators" the unexpected hit of the 2007-08 television season? It's far too early to say anything definitive, but Sunday's two-hour premiere of the NBC reality competition "delivered the highest ratings among adults 18 to 49 of any new show this season on any network," [...].
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NEW YORK  - The Federal Communications  Commission has asked for a tape of NBC's broadcast of the  opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics after it received at  least one indecency complaint.
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By SCOTT COLLINGS Los Angeles Times  HOLLYWOOD - NBC has called a Hail Mary pass with one of its new fall shows.   Its a weekly drama set against the backdrop of prep sports, a relatively unglamorous world that hasnt yielded a TV hit in nearly 30 years.
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The new year will see new shows from Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien, says NBC.
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NEW YORK   NBC took ratings gold, attracting big prime-time audiences for its first three nights of Olympics coverage. Sunday&#39;s 4 1/2-hour broadcast was last week&#39;s most-watched show, winning NBC a huge audience of 25.8 million ...
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NEW YORK  - The Olympics bulldozed the  rest of the network primetime summer fare Sunday, delivering an  average 25.6 million viewers to NBC.
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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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NEW YORK  - NBC Universal pushed past  the 200 million mark in viewership with the 17-day Summer  Olympics, which ended in Athens on Sunday.
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LOS ANGELES  - Three nights -- Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday -- will be getting a makeover on NBC this midseason.