Oprah Winfrey, Discovery to launch cable network
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Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey will create a U.S. cable network with Discovery Communications and said she would soon consider the future of the top-rated weekday television show that has made her a household name.
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Just when Madison Avenue felt the Discovery Channel had lost its way because of mind-expanding fare like "American Chopper," salvation came this spring in the form of a snow leopard and talk-show diva Oprah Winfrey. The leopard was just one of the stars of "Planet Earth," a $25 million co-production with the BBC.
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By Dane Stickney, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Sep. 19--Even with all the new shows making their debut this fall, the biggest change to the fall TV lineup is the addition of an entire network. The CW -- the combination of the WB and UPN -- launches Wednesday.
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U.S. talk show host Oprah Winfrey and her Harpo Productions have teamed with ABC for two new reality series headed for primetime.
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Comcast is launching cellular service for its subscribers that will deliver a host of cable and telephone services on a single bill.
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NEW YORK - The New York Mets Tuesday said it plans to start up a New York regional sports network with Time Warner Cable and Comcast Corp.
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News Corp. said on Thursday it will  launch a widely anticipated business cable network in the  fourth quarter of this year to compete in a space dominated by  General Electric Co. CNBC.
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. announced yesterday that the company's long-rumored cable-TV business news channel will launch Oct. 15.
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Oprah Winfrey and ABC will team up to create two new reality shows, one that encourages creative philanthropy, another bent on helping families in financial crisis.
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Clips and television episodes from the Viacom division's broad lineup of cable networks will start to appear on imeem in February.
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Poet and novelist Maya Angelou said she agreed to host a weekly show for XM Satellite Radio's "Oprah &amp; Friends" channel partly because she's never hosted a radio show before.
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The Dallas Cowboys Channel, a 24-hour cable network devoted to America's Team, will launch Sept. 8 and be available to more than 1.3 Comcast subscribers in Texas and adjoining states.
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Comcast Cable this month will turn up the first US commercial deployment of Microsoft TV Foundation Edition, a digital cable software platform that includes an interactive program guide and supports dual-tuner digital video recording (DVR) services.
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By FRAZIER MOORE  NEW YORK - A new Spanish-language network featuring public-TV fare and other programming with an educational focus will go on the air March 5 in several U.S. cities with large Hispanic populations, the network announced Wednesday.
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Oprah Winfrey will develop talk shows for television syndicator King World, a trade magazine reported.
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Site will run programming from the two networks and hope to compete with YouTube.
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The News Corporation announced that its all-business news cable channel, to be called the Fox Business Network, will start on Oct. 15.