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‘Idol’ Finalists Get Additional Phone Lines

Starting Tuesday, the last three contestants on Fox’s musical reality series “American Idol” will each get an additional phone line for voting purposes. At the end of each finalist episode, viewers are able to call in and vote for their…

Second Season for Fox’s ‘Trading Spouses’

Fox announced Monday it has ordered a second season of its family reality show “Trading Spouses: Meet Your New Mommy.”In “Trading Spouses,” families trade a parent for one week with a family much different from their own. Families participating in…

Broadband on Scripps’ Menu

Company Launching as Many as Three ‘Vertical’ Channels This Year

Work, Sleep and TV Top Daily Activities

Consumers Spend 11 Percent of Their Lives in Front of Tube

Newcomb Brings a ‘Gentility’

Awards Director Is an Academic at Heart

On the Watch for Excellence

Prestigious Honor Recognizes Service, Achievement in Television, Radio

Regis Philbin Knows How to Listen

Fifty years ago next month, a 23-year-old man of Italian and Irish heritage, fresh from Notre Dame after a stint in the U.S. Navy, got his first job in show business-as a page at NBC in his native New York,…

A Writer’s Kind of Executive

Tinker’s Philosophy Influenced Industry

64th Annual Peabody Winners

Following is a list of winners in the Peabody television categories, for work done in 2004. Information is from the Peabodys Web site. The complete list, including radio, can be viewed at www.peabody.uga.edu. “The Darfur Crisis” BBC Television News, London…

MPAA Draws a Bead on TV Piracy

Group Readies Lawsuits in First Large-Scale Attack on Illegal Downloading of Television Content