ABC to Hold &#39;Wife Swap&#39; Meet Year Round
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ABC has given the green light to a full season of its reality series &quot;Wife Swap,&quot; which has proved a solid performer in the competitive Wednesday 10 pm
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Dana Delany might be  co-starring on ABC&#39;s &quot;Desperate Housewives&quot; after all.
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WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- Members of the Securities and Exchange Commission will meet Wednesday morning to discuss proposed amendments to an agency rule that forbids manipulating the outcome of securities offerings.
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Whether it&#39;s true there is no such thing as bad publicity, ABC-TV certainly garnered its share of notice for its Sunday night hit show &quot;Desperate Housewives&#39;&#39; with
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ABC faced growing pressure Friday about its planned miniseries on the buildup to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Former Clinton administration officials, historians and a Democratic petition with nearly 200,000 signatures urged the network to scrap the five-hour drama.
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After complaints from viewers, ABC television and the NFL apologized yesterday for a racy opening to &quot;Monday Night Football&quot; that featured &quot;Desperate Housewives&quot; star
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In a broad discussion at the Consumer Electronics Show, U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC)&#160;Chairman Kevin Martin on Tuesday confirmed that the deadline for the country&#39;s switch to digital TV next year will not be postponed, explained the rationale behind the requirements for the current 700MHz auction, and gave hints about his thinking regarding various communications megamergers.Interviewed at the show by Consumer Electronics Association President Gary Shapiro, Martin said the February 2009 deadline for the digital TV switch is a &quot;hard deadline.&quot; He said a postponement would &quot;dis-incentivize&quot; industry to make the transition.&quot;After all of our efforts we couldn&#39;t just turn around and say &#39;We&#39;re just kidding,&#39;&quot; he said.About 50 percent of all homes in the U.S. now have digital TVs, and the CEA forecasts that some 28 million digital TVs will be bought in the U.S. this year, Shapiro noted.The transition to digital will not only improve picture quality for consumers, but also free up spectrum that can be used for wireless broadband, Martin stressed. He also noted that the extra spectrum provided by the switch would be used to improve public safety, allowing for better communications between fire departments and police. The need for better coordination among law enforcement and safety officials was a major point made in the 9/11 Commission report, he noted.Requirements related to the auction for 700MHz spectrum blocks in the U.S. will play an important part in bringing broadband access to more people, such as inhabitants in rural areas, who have limited wireless options now, he said.The spectrum auction has been broken up into blocks. One block, for example, has open-access rules and is broken up into 12 regional licenses across the U.S. There are also &quot;buildout&quot; requirements that will ensure that auction winners will actually put the spectrum to use in a reasonable timeframe, Martin said.He declined to comment directly on the planned merger of Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio, currently under review by the Department of Justice. But he noted that the companies have been talking about a la carte pricing plans for shows, which would give consumers a wide range of options to choose different bundles of programs and prices. Martin said he would encourage content providers -- especially cable TV companies -- to offer this type of program-options plan.One disappointment in the wake of communications industry deregulation has been the rising price of cable TV, he said.Martin stopped short of saying that approval of the Sirius-XM merger would set a regulatory precedent for a rumored merger deal between satellite TV companies Echostar and DirecTV. But he did say that it would be important for the satellite TV companies to give consumers more pricing and program bundle options as part of any merger plan.&quot;This is the type of thing we&#39;d be looking at,&quot; he said.
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The Reserve Bank of Australia&#39;s board meets today and will probably keep interest rates unchanged ahead of an election next month as retail sales and house prices fall.
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There&#39;s baseball&#39;s postseason, basketball&#39;s preseason, boxing&#39;s never-ending season, and the NFL in full swing. Every fourth year, there&#39;s a presidential race coming down the homestretch too.
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The boards of directors of SBC Communications Inc.  and AT&T Corp.  were to meet on Sunday to vote on a more than &#36;15 billion stock deal in which SBC will buy AT&T, according to sources familiar with the situation.
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The British producers of the ABC television show "Wife Swap" have filed suit over the Fox show "Trading Spouses: Meet Your New Mommy," lambasting it as an illegal rip-off.
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The NHL and the players' association were still talking. With the season on the brink of being canceled, negotiations were planned Thursday night in New York with the chance of another get-together Friday.
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Lifetime Television has  green-lighted a second season of its hit drama &quot;Army Wives.&quot;
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WASHINGTON  Will the scheming ABC prove sexy enough to sweep lonely soap-opera fans off their feet while NBC is out of town, making time with an Olympic temptress? Tune in to find out ...
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LOS ANGELES  - ABC already is making   plans for next summer, ordering a reality series that will   search for the best celebrity impersonator in the country.
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Rivals set date for giving details of collaborative work.
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Oscar is going to keep its home on ABC for six more years. The network's deal to televise the Academy Awards has been extended through 2014, Frank Pierson, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, said Monday.