Ending Tradition, NBC Dismisses Fall Debuts
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NBC Universalâs move to a year-round schedule of staggered program debuts could alter an American cultural cycle that dates back to the days of radio.
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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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Big media bites back US TV networks NBC and Fox have finally taken the dustsheets off Hulu.com, their belated response to YouTube.â¦
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By TIM CUPRISIN  One of the interesting little footnotes to the new TV season is the way the networks are getting some of their new shows out to potential viewers before their actual premiere dates.
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NBC's two late-night franchises are coming back. Will the laughs come with them?
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NEW YORK  - The fall season opened   Monday with so-so starts for two anticipated series, NBC's   "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" and CBS' "The Class."
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NEW YORK -- Apple Inc. escalated a dispute with NBC Universal over the pricing of television shows by announcing Friday it would not sell any of NBC's programs for this fall season on iTunes.
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NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff  Zucker on Monday dismissed repeated rumors that the media  company would be sold by parent General Electric.
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Desperate for original  programming, NBC put a revamped "American Gladiators" on its  schedule card with a two-hour premiere Sunday night. The show  had been off the air for a decade. Even then, it appeared only  in syndication, presumably too embarrassing a spectacle to  interest network programmers.
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By John Keenan, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Sep. 15--With the fall season opening this month, Fox has "Vanished" from a rural Nebraska cable system.
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The fall season opened  Monday with so-so starts for two anticipated series, NBC's  "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" and CBS' "The Class."
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By Mary Hopkin, Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.  Sep. 16--The new fall television season won't just offer Mid-Columbians new versions of their favorite old programs.
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By Gary Levin  September. January. March.    Until recently, TV networks rolled out their arsenals like clockwork.
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The first breakout new  series of the season, NBC's drama "Heroes," has become the  first freshman show to receive a full-season order.
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NBC, off to a rocky post-"Friends"  start in the ratings this fall, is counting on a rebound with  supernatural dramas, quirky comedies and a supermodel reality  show, its executives said on Wednesday.
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NBC Universal said Tuesday that it will shake up its ad sales and take a year-round approach to the television season, which has traditionally been tucked into nine months.
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Following a row between the two companies, Apple said it would refuse to sell NBC's shows debuting this fall, but they are there anyway.