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‘Survivor’ Rescues CBS Thursday

(Corrects ratings time element for “‘Til Death”)The penultimate episode of “Survivor” gave CBS a Thursday night ratings victory and the highest-rated “Survivor” episode of the season, while “The OC” rebounded a bit for Fox. The CBS reality series earned a…

Sun Sets For ‘Day Break’

Hours after confirming the cancellation of game show “Show Me the Money,” ABC has axed another Wednesday night series, “Day Break.”The Taye Diggs drama about a detective reliving the same day over and over has shown a steady decline among…

MyNetworkTV Executives Plot Schedule Changes

By Chris Pursell and James Hibberd Faced with disappointing, last-place ratings, MyNetworkTV executives are plotting changes that could cut the network’s current all-telenovela programming from six nights a week down to as few as two, multiple sources close to the…

ABC Dumps ‘Money,’ Hires Oprah

ABC has canceled its low-rated game show “Show Me the Money,” hosted by William Shatner, the network confirmed Friday, and has ordered two new prime-time series from Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions. ABC announced just one week ago it was ordering…

NFL Net Rejects Time Warner’s Texas Bowl Proposal

The NFL Network late Thursday rejected proposals from Time Warner Cable to enable subscribers in the New York metropolitan area to see Rutgers University play Kansas State in the Texas Bowl on Dec. 28.TWC is among the cable operators that…

Station Executive Cooperstein Dies at 80

Edwin Cooperstein, television director and station executive, died Wednesday at the age of 80.Mr. Cooperstein directed “Open End,” a talk show hosted by David Susskind, for WATV in New York, which later evolved into WNET-TV. In 1965 he founded WNJU-TV,…

Romance to Bloom for Tyrie on ‘The Real World’

Tyrie, one of the housemates on MTV’s “The Real World: Denver,” is getting involved with a local woman and their future is uncertain.The show’s creator-executive producer Jon Murray Thursday described how the romance will develop in his weekly “Producer Shop…

C-SPAN Seeks Its Own Cameras in House

C-SPAN is asking incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to allow it to operate its own cameras during House of Representatives sessions rather than relying on the House feed.In a letter Thursday to Rep. Pelosi, C-SPAN chairman and CEO Brian Lamb…

‘Loser’ Finale Wins Night For NBC

The two-hour finale of “The Biggest Loser” gave NBC a rare Wednesday night victory, helping the network squeak past CBS to win the night in the coveted 18 to 49 demographic. “Loser” had a 4.8 rating, which along with a…

LIN TV Beefs Up Communications Team

With an eye toward raising its leadership profile, LIN TV has added a corporate communications position and named Courtney Guertin public relations specialist. In the newly created position, Ms. Guertin will develop and implement corporate communications programs for the company,…