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Actors set to vote on three-year pact: A final 10 consecutive days of intense bargaining between the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists negotiating committees and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers has…

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Hollywood wants Bush on its side The Hollywood community is urging President George W. Bush to oppose legislation offered by Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., that could result in a government crackdown on companies that market violent, sexually explicit and profane…

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It’s Hollings vs. House on FCC budget request: A Senate appropriations subcommittee supports the Federal Communications Commission’s $248.5 million fiscal year 2002 funding request, panel Chairman Sen. Fritz Hollings, D-S.C., said last week. “I think the committee wants to make…

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Fox sells stations to minority consortium Fox has sold four of its owned stations — WDAF-TV, Kansas City, Mo., WBRC-TV, Birmingham, Ala., WGHP-TV, Greensboro, N.C., and WHBQ-TV, Memphis — to a consortium of minority investors led by New York-based African…

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CBS unveils ‘Big Brother 2’ contestants: CBS revealed the names of “Big Brother 2’s” 12 housemates who will be competing for a $500,000 grand prize when the show debuts at 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. (ET) Thursday, July 5. Under…

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Telemundo confirms plans to acquire KXTX As reported Monday in ELECTRONIC MEDIA, Telemundo will acquire Dallas independent station KXTX-TV from Tom Hicks’ Southwest Sports Television, with the deal closing at the end of the year. This will give Telemundo 10…

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‘Test’ time for Studios USA Syndie player Studios USA is adding talk show “Put It to the Test” to its growing development list for fall 2002. The studio is developing the potential strip with Zoo Productions, sources said. It will…

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NBC to run ‘Spy TV’ twice a week On the heels of its robust June 21 debut, NBC has decided it will now offer a second weekly run of reality series “Spy TV” at 8 p.m. (ET) Tuesday (beginning June…

Quick Takes: Who do you think would be the best owner for DirecTV?

“From the consumer standpoint, I think News Corp. To get BSkyB to compete [in the U.K.], Rupert offered it free for the consumers. In order to compete against [cable in the U.S.], I could see him offering it free and…

`South Park’ stirs up a lotta (bleep)

What the (bleep) will “South Park” do to top last week’s episode, the one in which the cute cut-out animated grade-school kids with the TV MA-rated mouths uttered a certain four-letter expletive (the one that translates as “merde” in French)…