Miss America Dropped by ABC
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For the first time in 50 years, the beauty pageant Miss America will be without a TV outlet. ABC dropped the option to televise the contest because of the dramatic drop of ratings this year, drawing a record low 9.8 million viewers.  (respond)  Do you wa...
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ABC has pulled out of the television rights negotiations for the Bowl Championship Series, a source familiar with the talks said Friday.
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NEW YORK  - A portion of a sixth-floor ABC News office housing "Good Morning America" was closed down for five hours Friday afternoon after an employee found a letter containing an unidentified white powder.
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.  - Miss Alabama Deidre Downs,  an aspiring medical student, won the Miss America contest on  Saturday and said she would work to regain public respect for  the event.
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Kentucky native Tara Conner plans to stay in New York after her reign as Miss USA ends on March 23.
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Skimpy swimsuits, a shortened telecast and a last-woman-standing talent competition couldn't help Miss America's TV ratings. A record-low 9.8 million people watched Saturday's pageant, about 500,000 fewer than last year, continuing a trend that threatens the event's future on network television.
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She may be Miss America, but for 50 years she's been married to television. The tube was contest's link from its Atlantic City, N.J. home to millions of heartland living rooms, and it turned the winners into stars. But lately, the relationship has gotten bumpy as ratings dipped and TV executives took more control.
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The Discovery Channel will drop its sponsorship next year of the professional cycling team that was formerly led by Lance Armstrong, leaving the top United States team scrambling to find a primary sponsor.
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So much for Hollywood and the NFL being shocked -- shocked! -- over Janet Jackson&#39;s &quot;accidental&quot; breast nudity. Just when you thought it was safe to go back to watching football, now ABC has decided to cash in on the MTV sleazy-surprise formula.
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The ABC television network said on  Tuesday that it has pulled a miniseries about the Holocaust it  was developing with Mel Gibson's production company.
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The race for ratings among the four top U.S. television networks has turned into a tooth and claw battle, with NBC at risk of losing the top spot as ABC makes a surprise comeback, according to media experts.
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Nearly one-third of US TV stations affiliated to the ABC network dropped Oscar-winning film Saving Private Ryan for fear of facing indecency fines.
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Auckland, New Zealand (Sports Network) - Two-time Grand Slam title winner Mary Pierce withdrew from next week&#39;s season-opening ASB Classic tournament for undisclosed medical reasons.
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LOS ANGELES  - It's game over for  Jennifer Love Hewitt at ABC.
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NBC is taking the  premiere of "Celebrity Apprentice" out of the cross hairs of  the last original episode of ABC's "Grey's Anatomy" . . . or so  it seems.
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LOS ANGELES - ABC has turned off the lights for "Day Break" and "Show Me the Money." The low-rated series airing back-to-back on Wednesday have been pulled by the network.
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Nobody expected it to happen, at least not just yet. But Cyrus Broacha was eliminated on Saturday from Jhalak Dikhla Jaa Â Dancing with the stars-- much to the dismay of all.