History of Freeform (TV channel)

The American cable and satellite television network Freeform was originally launched as the CBN Satellite Service on April 29, 1977, and has gone through several different owners (as well as six different name changes) during its history. ^[1]

A. H. Belo

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ABC Family Worldwide

ABC Family Worldwide is a subsidiary of the Disney–ABC Television Group that is responsible for the operations of the U.S. cable network Freeform.

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ABC Spark

ABC Spark is a Canadian English-language Category B digital cable and satellite television specialty channel which is owned by Corus Entertainment.

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ABC Studios

Touchstone Television Productions, LLC (d/b/a ABC Studios), is the television production unit of ABC Entertainment Group, part of Disney–ABC Television Group (both ultimately owned by The Walt Disney Company).

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Abortion

Abortion is the ending of pregnancy by removing an embryo or fetus before it can survive outside the uterus.

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Addams Family Reunion

Addams Family Reunion is a 1998 American direct-to-video supernatural children's film based on the characters from the cartoon created by cartoonist Charles Addams.

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Alias (TV series)

Alias is an American action television series created by J. J. Abrams, that was broadcast on ABC for five seasons, from September 30, 2001, to May 22, 2006.

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All American Girl (2003 TV series)

All American Girl is a 2003 reality competition that started with 45 females vying for the title of the same name.

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Allen & Company

Allen & Company LLC is an American privately held boutique investment bank based at 711 Fifth Avenue, New York City.

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American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Disney–ABC Television Group, a subsidiary of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.

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Anime

Anime is a style of hand-drawn and computer animation originating in, and commonly associated with, Japan.

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Another Life (1981 TV series)

Another Life is an American television soap opera produced and broadcast by the Christian Broadcasting Network from June 1, 1981 to October 5, 1984.

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Article (grammar)

An article (with the linguistic glossing abbreviation) is a word that is used with a noun (as a standalone word or a prefix or suffix) to specify grammatical definiteness of the noun, and in some languages extending to volume or numerical scope.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is a U.S.-based not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Atlanta

Atlanta is the capital city and most populous municipality of the state of Georgia in the United States.

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Au Pair (film)

Au Pair is a 1999 American made-for-television romantic comedy film starring Gregory Harrison and Heidi Noelle Lenhart.

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Baby Daddy

Baby Daddy is an American sitcom created by Dan Berendsen that premiered on June 20, 2012 on ABC Family (later Freeform).

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Bachelor Father (U.S. TV series)

Bachelor Father is an American sitcom starring John Forsythe, Noreen Corcoran and Sammee Tong.

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Barry Bonds

Barry Lamar Bonds (born July 24, 1964) is an American former professional baseball left fielder who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the Pittsburgh Pirates and San Francisco Giants.

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Big Brother Jake

Big Brother Jake is an American sitcom starring Jake Steinfeld that aired on The Family Channel from September 2, 1990 to September 1, 1994.

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Bill Carter

Bill Carter (born 1966) is a writer and director.

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Block Communications

Block Communications (also known as Blade Communications) is an American privately held holding company of various assets, mainly in the print and broadcast media, based in Toledo, Ohio.

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Block programming

Block programming or television block is the arrangement of programs on radio or television so that several items of one general class, such as soap operas or popular music, occur in sequence.

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Bonanza

Bonanza is an NBC television western series that ran from 1959 to 1973.

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Bordertown (1989 TV series)

Bordertown is a western-drama television series that aired from 1989 to 1991.

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Brand licensing

Licensing means renting or leasing of an intangible asset.

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Broadcasting & Cable

Broadcasting & Cable is a weekly television industry trade magazine published by NewBay Media.

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Burbank, California

Burbank is a city in Los Angeles County in Southern California, United States, northwest of downtown Los Angeles.

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Butterfly Island

Butterfly Island is a 1985 Australian children's show.

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Buyout

In finance, a buyout is an investment transaction by which the ownership equity of a company, or a majority share of the stock of the company is acquired.

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Cable television

Cable television is a system of delivering television programming to paying subscribers via radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted through coaxial cables, or in more recent systems, light pulses through fiber-optic cables.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Capital Cities/ABC Inc.

Capital Cities/ABC Inc., founded as Capital Cities Communications, and sometimes referred to as CapCities, was an American media company.

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Cartoon Network

Cartoon Network (abbreviated as CN since 2004) is an American basic cable and satellite television channel owned by Turner Broadcasting System.

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Casper Meets Wendy

Casper Meets Wendy is a 1998 direct-to-video fantasy family comedy film based on the Harvey Comics cartoon characters Casper the Friendly Ghost and Wendy the Good Little Witch.

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Casper: A Spirited Beginning

Casper: A Spirited Beginning is a 1997 direct-to-video fantasy family comedy film based on the Harvey Comics cartoon character Casper the Friendly Ghost.

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Cassandra Clare

Judith Lewis (née Rumelt, born July 27, 1973), better known by her pen name Cassandra Clare, is an American author of young adult fiction, best known for her bestselling series ''The Mortal Instruments''.

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CBS

CBS (an initialism of the network's former name, the Columbia Broadcasting System) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation.

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Centaur Media

Centaur Media is a London-based business information, events and marketing solutions provider to professional and commercial markets. It operates through four segments: Marketing, Financial Services, Home Interest and Professional. It was formed in 1981 by Graham Sherren, and is incorporated as a public limited company. The company is also involved in the digital and print publishing; event and information; research data and analysis; exhibitions; and digital information, and training and event activities, as well as provision of agency services. The company's senior executive management comprises Andria Vidler (CEO; appointed Nov 2013) and Mark Kerswell (CFO; appointed 2011). The Operating Board comprises the senior executive and six others:-Andrew Evans - Group Managing Director (joined Sept 2011), Steve Newbould - Group Managing Director (joined Sept 2015), Linda Smith - COO (joined Feb 2016), Grainne Brankin - General Counsel (joined July 2014), Kathleen Jones - Group HR Director (joined Nov 2012) and Jane Turner - Group Managing Director (joined March 2016).

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Challenge (TV channel)

Challenge is a British digital television channel owned by Sky plc.

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Chief executive officer

Chief executive officer (CEO) is the position of the most senior corporate officer, executive, administrator, or other leader in charge of managing an organization especially an independent legal entity such as a company or nonprofit institution.

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Christian Broadcasting Network

The Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) is an American Christian-oriented religious television network and production company.

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Christian media

Christian media can either refer to Christians who work in secular media, or media that is Christian, or refer to various aspects of mass media which is primarily targeting the Christian demographic.

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Christmas

Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ,Martindale, Cyril Charles.

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Christy (TV series)

Christy is an American period drama series which aired on CBS from April 1994 to August 1995, for twenty episodes.

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Cloak and Dagger (comics)

Cloak (Tyrone "Ty" Johnson) and Dagger (Tandy Bowen) are a fictional comic book superhero duo appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

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Communications satellite

A communications satellite is an artificial satellite that relays and amplifies radio telecommunications signals via a transponder; it creates a communication channel between a source transmitter and a receiver at different locations on Earth.

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Condé Nast

Condé Nast Inc. is an American mass media company founded in 1909 by Condé Montrose Nast, based at One World Trade Center and owned by Advance Publications.

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Continuity announcer

A continuity announcer is a certain announcer who is seen or heard in TV during continuity, i.e. between shows, to bridge the gap and give the viewer some information about what is to come next.

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Convertible security

A convertible security is a security that can be converted into another security.

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Corus Entertainment

Corus Entertainment is a Canadian media and broadcasting company.

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Daily Press (Virginia)

The Daily Press Inc. is a daily morning newspaper published in Newport News, Virginia, which covers the lower and middle Peninsula of Tidewater Virginia.

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David Cassidy

David Bruce Cassidy (April 12, 1950 – November 21, 2017) was an American actor, singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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Deadline Hollywood

Deadline Hollywood, also known as Deadline.com and previously known as news blog Deadline Hollywood Daily, is an online magazine founded by Nikki Finke in 2006.

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Denver

Denver, officially the City and County of Denver, is the capital and most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Colorado.

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Diagnosis: Murder

Diagnosis: Murder was an American comedy/mystery/medical crime drama television series starring Dick Van Dyke as Dr.

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DIC Entertainment

DiC Entertainment was an international film and television production company that was also known as The Incredible World of DiC, DiC Audiovisuel, DiC Enterprises, DiC Animation City and DiC Productions at various times in its history.

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Dick Clark

Richard Wagstaff Clark (November 30, 1929 – April 18, 2012) was an American radio and television personality, television producer and film actor, as well as a cultural icon who remains best known for hosting American Bandstand from 1957 to 1987.

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Digimon

Digimon (デジモン Dejimon, branded as Digimon: Digital Monsters, stylized as DIGIMON), short for "Digital Monsters" (デジタルモンスター Dejitaru Monsutā), is a Japanese media franchise encompassing virtual pet toys, anime, manga, video games, films and a trading card game.

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Digimon: The Movie

Digimon: The Movie is a 2000 American-Japanese film adaptation of the first three Japanese Digimon films, distributed by 20th Century Fox.

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Digital cable

Digital cable is any type of cable television distribution using digital video compression for distribution.

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Direct-to-video

Direct-to-video or straight-to-video refers to the release of a film to the public immediately on home video formats rather than a theatrical release or television broadcast.

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Discovery Life

Discovery Life, formerly Discovery Fit & Health, is an American digital cable and satellite ADC television network that is owned by Discovery Inc. The channel's programming focus is dedicated to various life events of a medical or mental nature.

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Discovery, Inc.

Discovery, Inc. (formerly Discovery Communications) is an American mass media company based in Silver Spring, Maryland, first established in 1985.

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Disney Channel

Disney Channel (originally called The Disney Channel from 1983 to 1997 and commonly shortened to Disney from 1997 to 2002) is an American basic cable and satellite television network that serves as the flagship property of owner Disney Channels Television Group, itself a unit of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.

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Disney XD

Disney XD is an American digital cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the Disney Channels Worldwide unit of the Disney–ABC Television Group, itself a unit of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.

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Disney–ABC Domestic Television

Disney–ABC Domestic Television, also operating as ABC Syndication (formerly known as Buena Vista Television, Inc., also known as Disney Domestic Television and currently known as Disney–ABC Home Entertainment and Television Distribution), is the in-home sales and content distribution firm of the Disney–ABC Television Group, a division of The Walt Disney Company.

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Disney–ABC Television Group

ABC, Inc. DBA the Disney–ABC Television Group (simply Disney–ABC), formerly known as Capital Cities/ABC Inc. and ABC Group, is a subsidiary holdings company that manages all of The Walt Disney Company's Disney and ABC-branded television properties.

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DisneyWar

DisneyWar is an exposé of Michael Eisner's 20-year tenure as chairman and CEO at The Walt Disney Company by James B. Stewart.

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Division Series

The Division Series (also known as the League Division Series) is the quarterfinal round of the Major League Baseball playoffs.

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Don't Look Behind You

Don't Look Behind You is a 1990 young adult thriller novel by Lois Duncan.

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Draughts

Draughts (British English) or checkers (American English) is a group of strategy board games for two players which involve diagonal moves of uniform game pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over opponent pieces.

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E. W. Scripps Company

The E. W. Scripps Company is an American broadcasting company founded in 1878 as a chain of daily newspapers by Edward Willis "E. W." Scripps.

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Early Edition

Early Edition is an American television drama series that aired on CBS broadcast network from September 28, 1996 to May 27, 2000.

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ESPN

ESPN (originally an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is a U.S.-based global cable and satellite sports television channel owned by ESPN Inc., a joint venture owned by The Walt Disney Company (80%) and Hearst Communications (20%).

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ESPN Films

ESPN Films (formerly known as ESPN Original Entertainment) is a production company which produces and distributes sports films and documentaries.

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Executive producer

Executive producer (EP) is one of the top positions in the making of a commercial entertainment product.

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Family Channel (Canadian TV network)

Family Channel (often known as simply Family) is a Canadian English-language Category A specialty channel owned by DHX Media.

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Father Knows Best

Father Knows Best is an American sitcom starring Robert Young, Jane Wyatt, Elinor Donahue, Billy Gray, and Lauren Chapin.

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Feminism

Feminism is a range of political movements, ideologies, and social movements that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve political, economic, personal, and social equality of sexes.

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FitTV

FitTV was an American digital cable and satellite channel, owned by Discovery Communications.

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Ford Thunderbird

The Ford Thunderbird is a rear wheel drive automobile which was manufactured by Ford in the United States over eleven model generations from 1955 through 2005.

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Fox Kids

Fox Kids (originally known as Fox Children's Network and later as the Fox Kids Network) was an American children's programming block and branding for a slate of international children's television channels.

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Fox Sports (United States)

Fox Sports is the programming division of the Fox Broadcasting Company, owned by 21st Century Fox, that is responsible for sports broadcasts on the network, and its dedicated regional and national sports cable channels.

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Fox Sports Networks

Fox Sports Networks (FSN; formerly known as Fox Sports Net & simply FSN), is the collective name for a group of regional sports networks in the United States that are primarily owned and operated by the Fox Entertainment Group division of 21st Century Fox.

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Fraternities and sororities

Fraternities and sororities, or Greek letter organizations (GLOs) (collectively referred to as "Greek life") are social organizations at colleges and universities.

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Fraternity

A fraternity (from Latin frater: "brother"; "brotherhood"), fraternal order or fraternal organization is an organization, a society or a club of men associated together for various religious or secular aims.

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Freaks and Geeks

Freaks and Geeks is an American teen comedy-drama television series created by Paul Feig and executive-produced by Judd Apatow that aired on NBC during the 1999–2000 television season.

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Freeform (TV channel)

Freeform is an American cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the Disney–ABC Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company.

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FX (TV channel)

FX (originally an initialism of Fox Extended, pronounced and suggesting "effects") is an American basic cable and satellite television channel based in Los Angeles, California, owned by 21st Century Fox through FX Networks, LLC.

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Game show

A game show is a type of radio, television, or stage show in which contestants, individually or as teams, play a game which involves answering questions or solving puzzles, usually for money or prizes.

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Gannett Company

Gannett Company, Inc. is a publicly traded American media holding company headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia, near McLean in Greater Washington DC.

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Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a state in the Southeastern United States.

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Geri Halliwell

Geraldine Estelle Horner (born 6 August 1972) is an English pop singer-songwriter, clothes designer, author, and actress.

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Go.com

Go.com (also known as The Go Network) is a landing page for Disney content, created as a joint venture between Infoseek and Disney Interactive.

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Google News

Google News is a news aggregator and app developed by Google.

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Greek (TV series)

Greek (typographically stylized as GRΣΣK) is an American comedy-drama television series that aired on ABC Family from July 9, 2007, to March 7, 2011.

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Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston.

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Gymnastics

Gymnastics is a sport that requires balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and endurance.

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Haim Saban

Haim Saban (חיים סבן; born October 15, 1944) is an Israeli-American media proprietor, investor, philanthropist, musician, record, film & television producer.

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Halloween

Halloween or Hallowe'en (a contraction of All Hallows' Evening), also known as Allhalloween, All Hallows' Eve, or All Saints' Eve, is a celebration observed in a number of countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day.

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Harry Potter (film series)

Harry Potter is a British-American film series based on the Harry Potter novels by author J. K. Rowling.

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Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series)

Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman.

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Hazel (TV series)

Hazel is an American sitcom about a live-in maid named Hazel Burke (played by Shirley Booth) and her employers, the Baxters.

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Hearst Communications

Hearst Communications, often referred to simply as Hearst, is an American mass media and business information conglomerate based in New York City, New York.

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Heartland (TV network)

Heartland is an American country music-oriented digital broadcast television network that is owned by Luken Communications and broadcast out of Chattanooga, TN.

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HighBeam Research

HighBeam Research is a paid search engine and full text online archive owned by Gale, a subsidiary Cengage, for thousands of newspapers, magazines, academic journals, newswires, trade magazines, and encyclopedias in English.

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Hilary Duff

Hilary Erhard Duff (born September 28, 1987) is an American actress, singer, songwriter, businesswoman, and author.

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Holiday in Handcuffs

Holiday in Handcuffs is an American crime comedy television movie that originally aired on ABC Family on December 9, 2007, as a part of the network's 25 Days of Christmas programming block.

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Home run

In baseball, a home run (abbreviated HR) is scored when the ball is hit in such a way that the batter is able to circle the bases and reach home safely in one play without any errors being committed by the defensive team in the process.

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Homosexuality

Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender.

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Honey Honey no Suteki na Bouken

is a shōjo manga by Hideko Mizuno first published in 1968 and made into a 29-episode anime television series in 1981 by Kokusai Eiga-sha (Movie International Company, Ltd.). The anime was released in the English language in the United States as Honey Honey and also broadcast in various European countries and in Latin America.

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Houston Astros

The Houston Astros are an American professional baseball team based in Houston, Texas.

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Hugo Chávez

Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (28 July 1954 – 5 March 2013) was a Venezuelan politician who was President of Venezuela from 1999 to 2013.

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Ice Angel

Ice Angel is a 2000 fantasy film from Fox Family.

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Iliza Shlesinger

Iliza Vie Shlesinger (born February 22, 1983) is an American comedian.

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Independent station (North America)

An independent station is a type of television station broadcasting in the United States or Canada that is not affiliated with any broadcast television network; most commonly, these stations carry a mix of syndicated, brokered and in some cases, local programming to fill time periods when network programs typically would air.

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Internal Revenue Service

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is the revenue service of the United States federal government.

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It Takes Two (game show)

It Takes Two is a game show in which contestants gave numerical answers to questions (which usually entail stunts and/or demonstrations).

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Ivy Ruckman

Ivy Ruckman (born May 25, 1931) is an award-winning author of books for children and young adults.

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James B. Stewart

James Bennett Stewart (born c. 1952) is an American lawyer, journalist, and author.

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James Robison (televangelist)

James Robison (born October 9, 1943) is an American televangelist and the founder and President of the Christian relief organization Life Outreach International.

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Jennifer Lopez

Jennifer Lynn Lopez (born July 24, 1969) is an American singer, actress, dancer and producer.

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Jetix

Jetix (formerly Fox Kids in Europe, Latin America and North America) is a defunct worldwide children's television programming block owned by Jetix Europe, Jetix Latin America and ABC Cable Networks Group (The Walt Disney Company).

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Jim Lange

James John Lange (August 15, 1932 – February 25, 2014) was an American game show host and disc jockey.

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Joey Lawrence

Joseph Lawrence (born Joseph Lawrence Migogna Jr.; April 20, 1976) is an American actor, singer, and game show host.

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John C. Malone

John Carl Malone (born March 7, 1941) is an American billionaire businessman, landowner and philanthropist.

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John M. Higgins

John McLaughlin Higgins (17 April 1961 – 21 November 2006) was an American reporter and editor specializing in the cable television industry.

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Joint venture

A joint venture (JV) is a business entity created by two or more parties, generally characterized by shared ownership, shared returns and risks, and shared governance.

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Joseph Prince

Joseph Prince (born 15 May 1963) is the senior pastor of New Creation Church in Singapore.

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Joyce Meyer

Joyce Meyer (born Pauline Joyce Hutchison; June 4, 1943) is a Charismatic Christian author and speaker and president of Joyce Meyer Ministries.

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Judaism

Judaism (originally from Hebrew, Yehudah, "Judah"; via Latin and Greek) is the religion of the Jewish people.

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Katts and Dog

Katts and Dog is a French and Canadian-produced television series which ran from 1988 to 1993.

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Kyle XY

Kyle XY is an American science fiction television series produced by ABC Family.

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Labor Pains

Labor Pains is a 2009 romantic comedy film written by Stacy Kramer.

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Landmark Media Enterprises

Landmark Media Enterprises, LLC (formerly Landmark Communications) is a privately held media company headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia specializing in newspaper publishing, Internet publishing, software and data centers.

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Late-night talk show

A late-night talk show is a genre of talk show popular in the United States, where the format originated.

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Leo the Lion (anime)

is a sequel to the Japanese-American co-produced series Jungle Emperor, or Kimba the White Lion.

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Less than Perfect

Less Than Perfect is an American sitcom created by Terri Minsky and starring Sara Rue and Sherri Shepherd which originally aired on ABC from October 1, 2002 to June 6, 2006.

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Let's Make a Deal

Let's Make a Deal is a television game show that originated in the United States in 1963 and has since been produced in many countries throughout the world.

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Liberty Media

Liberty Media Corporation (commonly referred to as Liberty Media or just Liberty) is an American mass media company controlled by chairman John C. Malone, who owns a majority of the voting shares.

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Life with Bonnie

Life with Bonnie is an ABC television sitcom that originally aired from 2002 to 2004.

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Like Father, Like Santa

Like Father, Like Santa (also known as The Christmas Takeover) is a TV movie starring Harry Hamlin and William Hootkins.

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Lincoln Heights (TV series)

Lincoln Heights is an American family drama television series about Eddie Sutton, a Mission Vista police officer who moves his family back to his old neighborhood, Lincoln Heights, to start a new life and to help out his old neighborhood.

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Linda Blair

Linda Denise Blair (born January 22, 1959)Official website for "The Exorcist".

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Living TV Group

Living TV Group was a British television consortium originally called Flextech before becoming a subsidiary of British Sky Broadcasting, with Sky Living, Real Lives, and Challenge still broadcasting.

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Lizzie McGuire

Lizzie McGuire is an American live-action scripted teen sitcom, whose characters were created by Terri Minsky, who also developed its core format.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Luken Communications

Luken Communications, LLC is a privately owned American broadcast holding company, based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, which owns or operates around 80 television stations in the United States and six digital television multicast networks.

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Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization, the oldest of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada.

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Major League Baseball on TBS

Major League Baseball on TBS (also sometimes referred to as Sunday MLB on TBS during the regular season) is a presentation of regular season and postseason Major League Baseball game telecasts that air on the American cable and satellite network TBS.

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Make It or Break It

Make It or Break It (MIOBI) is an American teen/family comedy-drama television series that focused on the lives of teen gymnasts who strived to make it to the Olympic Games.

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Maniac Mansion (TV series)

Maniac Mansion was a Canadian-American sitcom created by Eugene Levy, which aired concurrently on YTV in Canada and The Family Channel in the United States for three seasons from September 14, 1990, to April 4, 1993.

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Mark McGwire

Mark David McGwire (born October 1, 1963), nicknamed Big Mac, is an American former professional baseball player and currently the bench coach for the San Diego Padres.

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Marketing Week

Marketing Week is a business magazine focused on the marketing industry in the UK.

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Marvel Cinematic Universe

The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is an American media franchise and shared universe that is centered on a series of superhero films, independently produced by Marvel Studios and based on characters that appear in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

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Marvel Television

Marvel Television is a division of Marvel Entertainment, LLC in The Walt Disney Company conglomerate.

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Media market

A media market, broadcast market, media region, designated market area (DMA), television market area, or simply market is a region where the population can receive the same (or similar) television and radio station offerings, and may also include other types of media including newspapers and Internet content.

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Melissa & Joey

Melissa & Joey is an American sitcom television series starring Melissa Joan Hart and Joey Lawrence that aired for four seasons between 2010 and 2015 on ABC Family (now Freeform).

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Melissa Joan Hart

Melissa Joan Hart (born April 18, 1976) is an American actress, voice artist, director, producer, singer, fashion designer, and businesswoman.

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Michael Eisner

Michael Dammann Eisner (born March 7, 1942) is an American businessman.

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Millennials

Millennials (also known as Generation Y) are the generational demographic cohort following Generation X. There are no precise dates for when this cohort starts or ends; demographers and researchers typically use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years.

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Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series

The Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (often shortened to the Cup Series) is the top racing series of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR).

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MTM Enterprises

MTM Enterprises (later known as MTM Enterprises, Inc.) was an American independent production company established in 1969 by Mary Tyler Moore and her then-husband Grant Tinker to produce The Mary Tyler Moore Show for CBS.

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Muslim

A Muslim (مُسلِم) is someone who follows or practices Islam, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion.

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My Little Margie

My Little Margie is an American situation comedy starring Gale Storm and Charles Farrell that alternated between CBS and NBC from 1952 to 1955.

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My So-Called Life

My So-Called Life is an American teen drama television series created by Winnie Holzman and produced by Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz.

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Name That Tune

Name That Tune is an American television game show that put two contestants against each other to test their knowledge of songs.

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NASCAR

National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is an American auto racing sanctioning and operating company that is best known for stock-car racing.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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New York (magazine)

New York is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, and with a particular emphasis on New York City.

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News Corporation

The original News Corporation or News Corp. was an American multinational mass media corporation headquartered in New York City.

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Nickelodeon

Nickelodeon (often shortened to Nick) is an American basic cable and satellite television network launched on December 1, 1977 as the first cable channel for children.

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Nielsen ratings

Nielsen ratings are the audience measurement systems operated by Nielsen Media Research that seek to determine the audience size and composition of television programming in the United States.

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Night of the Twisters

Night of the Twisters is a young adult realistic fiction novel by Ivy Ruckman that was released in 1984 by publisher Harper & Row (now HarperCollins).

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Night of the Twisters (film)

Night of the Twisters is a 1996 made-for-television disaster film that was directed by Timothy Bond.

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Nonprofit organization

A non-profit organization (NPO), also known as a non-business entity or non-profit institution, is dedicated to furthering a particular social cause or advocating for a shared point of view.

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Observer–Reporter

The Observer–Reporter is a daily newspaper covering Washington County, Greene County, and the Mon Valley in Pennsylvania, with some overlap into the South Hills of Pittsburgh in Allegheny County.

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Pat Robertson

Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson (born March 22, 1930) is an American media mogul, executive chairman, politician, and former Southern Baptist minister who advocates a conservative Christian ideology.

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Penske Media Corporation

Penske Media Corporation (PMC) is an American digital media, publishing, and information services company founded in 2003.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, also known simply as the "PG", is the largest daily newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Play (Swedish group)

Play was a Swedish pop girl group consisting of, in total, seven young women.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.

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Popular culture

Popular culture (also called pop culture) is generally recognized as a set of the practices, beliefs, and objects that are dominant or ubiquitous in a society at a given point in time.

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Pretty Little Liars

Pretty Little Liars is an American teen drama mystery thriller television series developed by I. Marlene King and is loosely based on the novel series of the same name written by Sara Shepard.

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Pretty Little Liars (season 6)

The sixth season of the American mystery drama television series Pretty Little Liars, based on the books of the same name by Sara Shepard, was renewed on June 10, 2014 for two additional seasons, making the show ABC Family's longest running original series.

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Prime time

The prime time or the peak time is the block of broadcast programming taking place during the middle of the evening for television programming.

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Production music

Production music (also known as stock music or library music) is the name given to recorded music that can be licensed to customers for use in film, television, radio and other media.

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Progressivism

Progressivism is the support for or advocacy of improvement of society by reform.

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Prometheus Global Media

Prometheus Global Media was a New York City-based B2B media company.

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Promo (media)

A promo (a shorthand term for promotion) is a form of commercial advertising used in broadcast media, either television or radio, which promotes a program airing on a television or radio station/network to the viewing or listening audience.

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Proposed acquisition of 21st Century Fox

On December 14, 2017, The Walt Disney Company announced a bid to acquire 21st Century Fox for $52.4 billion in stock.

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Public company

A public company, publicly traded company, publicly held company, publicly listed company, or public corporation is a corporation whose ownership is dispersed among the general public in many shares of stock which are freely traded on a stock exchange or in over the counter markets.

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Rankin/Bass Productions

Rankin/Bass Productions, Inc. (founded as Videocraft International, Ltd. and was later known as Rankin/Bass Animated Entertainment) was an American production company, known for its seasonal television specials, particularly its work in stop motion animation.

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Ravenswood (TV series)

Ravenswood was an American supernatural teen drama, mystery-thriller television series created by I. Marlene King, Oliver Goldstick and Joseph Dougherty.

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Reality television

Reality television is a genre of television programming that documents supposedly unscripted real-life situations, and often features an otherwise unknown cast of individuals who are typically not professional actors, although in some shows celebrities may participate.

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Rebranding

Rebranding is a marketing strategy in which a new name, term, symbol, design, or combination thereof is created for an established brand with the intention of developing a new, differentiated identity in the minds of consumers, investors, competitors, and other stakeholders.

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Reed Business Information

Reed Business Information is a provider of data services, analytics and information to businesses.

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Regional sports network

In the United States and Canada, a regional sports network (RSN) is a cable television channel (many of which are also distributed on direct broadcast satellite services) that presents sports programming to a local market or geographical region.

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Religious broadcasting

Religious broadcasting is broadcasting by religious organizations, usually with a religious message.

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Rescue 911

Rescue 911 is an informational docudrama television series that premiered on CBS on April 18, 1989 and ended on August 27, 1996.

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Retro Television Network

The Retro Television Network (branded on-air as RetroTV and alternately below as Retro for brevity) is an American broadcast television network that is owned by Luken Communications.

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Rich Cronin (executive)

Richard Cronin is a media consultant and former Cable television executive.

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Richie Rich's Christmas Wish

Richie Rich's Christmas Wish (also known as Richie Rich 2) is a 1998 direct-to-video film based on the Harvey Comics cartoon character Richie Rich.

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Romantic comedy

Romantic comedy (also known as the portmanteaus romedy or romcom) is a genre with light-hearted, humorous plotlines, centered on romantic ideals such as that true love is able to surmount most obstacles.

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Roommates (TV series)

Roommates is an American television sitcom developed by ABC Family and Acme Productions that premiered on March 23, 2009.

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Ruby & The Rockits

Ruby & The Rockits is an American comedy series executive produced by Shaun Cassidy and Marsh McCall.

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Rupert Murdoch

Keith Rupert Murdoch, (born 11 March 1931) is an Australian-born American media mogul.

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Saban Entertainment

Saban Entertainment, Inc. (along with Saban International, which operated outside the US; current legal name is BVS Entertainment, Inc.) is a worldwide-served independent American-Israeli television production company formed in 1980 by music and television producers Haim Saban and Shuki Levy as "Saban Productions".

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San Francisco Giants

The San Francisco Giants are an American professional baseball franchise based in San Francisco, California.

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Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town

"Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" is a Christmas song, written by John Frederick Coots and Haven Gillespie and was first sung on Eddie Cantor's radio show in November 1934.

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Sara Shepard

Sara Shepard (born April 8, 1977) is an American author.

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Satellite television

Satellite television is a service that delivers television programming to viewers by relaying it from a communications satellite orbiting the Earth directly to the viewer's location.

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Scariest Places on Earth

Scariest Places on Earth is an American paranormal reality television series that originally aired from October 23, 2000, to October 29, 2006, on Fox Family, and later ABC Family.

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Scooby-Doo (film)

Scooby-Doo (also known as Scooby-Doo: The Movie) is a 2002 American live-action/computer-animated family comedy adventure film, based on the long-running Hanna-Barbera animated television series of the same name.

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Shadowhunters

Shadowhunters, also known as Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments, is an American supernatural drama television series developed by Ed Decter, loosely based on the popular book series The Mortal Instruments written by Cassandra Clare.

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Shailene Woodley

Shailene Diann Woodley (born November 15, 1991) is an American actress and activist.

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Shaun Cassidy

Shaun Paul Cassidy (born September 27, 1958) is an American television producer/creator, screenwriter, and former singer and actor.

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Shop 'til You Drop

Shop 'til You Drop is an American game show that was on the air intermittently between 1991 and 2005.

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Shopping Spree

Shopping Spree is a game show that aired on the Family Channel (now Freeform) for two seasons from September 30, 1996 to August 14, 1998.

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Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster, Inc., a subsidiary of CBS Corporation, is an American publishing company founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard Simon and Max Schuster.

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Small Talk (U.S. game show)

Small Talk is an American game show hosted by comedian Wil Shriner and produced by Reg Grundy Productions that aired on The Family Channel from September 30, 1996 to January 3, 1997 (reruns continued until January 17).

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Soap opera

A soap opera or soaper is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction presented in serial format on television, radio and in novels, featuring the lives of many characters and focusing on emotional relationships to the point of melodrama.

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Social conservatism

Social conservatism is the belief that society is built upon a fragile network of relationships which need to be upheld through duty, traditional values and established institutions.

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Social media

Social media are computer-mediated technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, career interests and other forms of expression via virtual communities and networks.

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Spartanburg Herald-Journal

The Spartanburg Herald-Journal is a daily newspaper, and the primary newspaper for Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States.

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Spice Girls

The Spice Girls are an English pop girl group formed in 1994.

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Split Second (game show)

Split Second is a game show that was created by Monty Hall and Stefan Hatos and produced by their production company, Stefan Hatos-Monty Hall Productions.

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State of Grace (TV series)

State of Grace is an American comedy-drama series that ran for two seasons on the Fox Family channel during 2001 and 2002.

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Step by Step (TV series)

Step by Step is an American television sitcom that aired for seven seasons.

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Strip programming

Strip programming or stripping is a technique used for scheduling television and radio programming to ensure consistency and coherency.

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Sun-Sentinel

The Sun-Sentinel is the main daily newspaper of Broward County, Florida.

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Super Bowl

The Super Bowl is the annual championship game of the National Football League (NFL).

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Superbook

Superbook, also known as, is an anime television series from the early 1980s, initially produced by Tatsunoko Productions in Japan in conjunction with the Christian Broadcasting Network in the and more recently solely produced by CBN for global distribution and broadcast.

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Sweden

Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.

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Switched at Birth (TV series)

Switched at Birth is an American teen/family drama television series that premiered on ABC Family on June 6, 2011, at 9:00 ET/PT.

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Tatsunoko Production

, previously known as and often shortened to, is a Japanese animation company.

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TBS (U.S. TV channel)

TBS is an American basic cable and satellite television channel owned by Turner Broadcasting System.

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Ted Musgrave

Theodore "Ted" Musgrave (born December 18, 1955) is a retired American race car driver.

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Tele-Communications Inc.

Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI) was a cable television provider in the United States, and for most of its history was controlled by Bob Magness and John Malone.

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Telethon

A telethon (a portmanteau of "television" and "marathon") is a televised fundraising event that lasts many hours or even days, the purpose of which is to raise money for a charitable, political or other purportedly worthy cause.

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Televangelism

Televangelism is the use of media, specifically radio and television, to communicate Christianity.

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Television Critics Association

The Television Critics Association (TCA) is a group of approximately 200 United States and Canadian television critics, journalists and columnists who cover television programming.

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Television film

A television film (also known as a TV movie, TV film, television movie, telefilm, telemovie, made-for-television movie, made-for-television film, direct-to-TV movie, direct-to-TV film, movie of the week, feature-length drama, single drama and original movie) is a feature-length motion picture that is produced for, and originally distributed by or to, a television network, in contrast to theatrical films, which are made explicitly for initial showing in movie theaters.

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Television South

Television South (TVS) was the ITV franchise holder in the south and south east of England between 1 January 1982 at 9.25 am and 31 December 1992 at 11.59 pm.

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Television station

A television station is a set of equipment managed by a business, organisation or other entity, such as an amateur television (ATV) operator, that transmits video content via radio waves directly from a transmitter on the earth's surface to a receiver on earth.

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The 700 Club

The 700 Club is the flagship television program of the Christian Broadcasting Network, airing each weekday in syndication throughout the United States and available worldwide on CBN.com.

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The Adventures of the Black Stallion

The Adventures of the Black Stallion is a television series that starred Mickey Rooney and Richard Ian Cox, as a trainer and a teenaged horse racer and was loosely based on the book series by Walter Farley.

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The Arizona Republic

The Arizona Republic is an American daily newspaper published in Phoenix.

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The Bachelor (U.S. TV series)

The Bachelor is an American dating and relationship reality television series that debuted on March 25, 2002 on ABC.

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The Big Valley

The Big Valley is an American Western television series which ran on ABC from September 15, 1965 to May 19, 1969, starring Barbara Stanwyck as the widow of a wealthy 19th-century California rancher and Richard Long, Lee Majors, Peter Breck and Linda Evans as her family.

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The Campbells

The Campbells is a Scottish-Canadian television drama series, produced by Scottish Television and CTV from 1986 to 1990.

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The Carol Burnett Show

The Carol Burnett Show (also Carol Burnett and Friends in syndication) is an American variety/sketch comedy television show starring Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, and Lyle Waggoner.

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The Cincinnati Enquirer

The Cincinnati Enquirer is a morning daily newspaper published by Gannett Company in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.

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The Daily Show

The Daily Show is an American late-night talk and news satire television program.

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The Dallas Morning News

The Dallas Morning News is a daily newspaper serving the Dallas–Fort Worth area of Texas, with an average of 271,900 daily subscribers.

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The Exorcist (film)

The Exorcist is a 1973 American supernatural horror film adapted by William Peter Blatty from his 1971 novel of the same name, directed by William Friedkin, and starring Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Max von Sydow, and Jason Miller.

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The Family Channel (U.S. TV network)

The Family Channel is an American general entertainment television network owned by Luken Communications, and based in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

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The Flying House (TV series)

The Flying House, known in Japan as, is a 52 episode anime series produced by Tatsunoko Productions broadcast between April 1982 and March 1983 on TV Tokyo, and distributed by the Christian Broadcasting Network in the United States.

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The Fosters (2013 TV series)

The Fosters is an American family drama television series created by Peter Paige and Bradley Bredeweg which first premiered in the United States on June 3, 2013 on the Freeform (previously named ABC Family) television network and concluded on June 6, 2018.

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The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is a multi-platform American digital and print magazine founded in 1930 and focusing on the Hollywood film industry, television, and entertainment industries, as well as Hollywood's intersection with fashion, finance, law, technology, lifestyle, and politics.

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The Little Drummer Boy

"The Little Drummer Boy" (originally known as "Carol of the Drum") is a popular Christmas song written by the American classical music composer and teacher Katherine Kennicott Davis in 1941.

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The Lying Game

The Lying Game is an American teen drama mystery television series developed by Charles Pratt Jr..

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The Mortal Instruments

The Mortal Instruments is a series of six young adult fantasy novels written by Cassandra Clare, the last of which was published on May 27, 2014.

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The Nashville Network

The Nashville Network, usually referred to as TNN, was an American country music-oriented cable television network.

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The New Addams Family

The New Addams Family was an American-Canadian sitcom that aired from October 1998 to August 1999 on YTV in Canada and Fox Family in the United States.

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The New Archies

The New Archies is an American animated television series produced by DiC Entertainment, based upon the characters by Archie Comics.

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The New Republic

The New Republic is a liberal American magazine of commentary on politics and the arts, published since 1914, with influence on American political and cultural thinking.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The New York Times Company

The New York Times Company is an American media company which publishes its namesake, The New York Times.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Rifleman

The Rifleman was an American Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son Mark McCain.

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The Secret Life of the American Teenager

The Secret Life of the American Teenager (often shortened to Secret Life) is an American teen drama television series created by Brenda Hampton.

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The Virginian (TV series)

The Virginian (slightly repackaged as The Men from Shiloh in its final year) is an American Western television series starring James Drury, Doug McClure and Lee J. Cobb, which aired on the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) television network from 1962 to 1971 for a total of 249 episodes.

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The Virginian-Pilot

The Virginian-Pilot is a daily newspaper based in Norfolk, Virginia.

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The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney, is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate, headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

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TheWrap

TheWrap is an entertainment and media news website founded by Sharon Waxman in 2009.

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Times Union (Albany)

The Times Union is an American daily newspaper, serving the Capital Region of New York.

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Toon Disney

Toon Disney was a worldwide digital cable and satellite television channel brand that was owned by the Disney Channels Worldwide, a subsidiary of Disney–ABC Television Group.

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Trivial Pursuit (U.S. game show)

Trivial Pursuit is an American game show that ran on The Family Channel from June 7, 1993 to December 3, 1993, with reruns continuing until July 14, 1995.

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Tronc

Tronc, Inc. (stylized as tronc; formerly Tribune Publishing) is an American newspaper print and online media publishing company based in Chicago, Illinois.

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Truth & Iliza

Truth & Iliza is an American late-night talk and news satire program that airs on Freeform.

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Tuff TV

Tuff TV is an American digital broadcast television network targeted at men owned by the Tuff TV, Inc.

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Turner Broadcasting System

Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. is an American media conglomerate that is part of AT&T's WarnerMedia, and manages the collection of cable television networks and properties initiated or acquired by Ted Turner.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United States dollar

The United States dollar (sign: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ and referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, or American dollar) is the official currency of the United States and its insular territories per the United States Constitution since 1792.

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Urban legend

An urban legend, urban myth, urban tale, or contemporary legend is a form of modern folklore.

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USA Today

USA Today is an internationally distributed American daily, middle-market newspaper that serves as the flagship publication of its owner, the Gannett Company.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is a weekly American entertainment trade magazine and website owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Venezuela

Venezuela, officially denominated Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (República Bolivariana de Venezuela),Previously, the official name was Estado de Venezuela (1830–1856), República de Venezuela (1856–1864), Estados Unidos de Venezuela (1864–1953), and again República de Venezuela (1953–1999).

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Virginia

Virginia (officially the Commonwealth of Virginia) is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States located between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.

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Virginia Beach, Virginia

Virginia Beach is an independent city located on the southeastern coast of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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Wagon Train

Wagon Train is an American Western series that aired on NBC 1957–62 and then on ABC 1962–65.

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Wait 'til You Have Kids

Wait 'til Have Kids!! is a game show that aired on the Family Channel from September 30, 1996 to January 31, 1997.

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Walt Disney Television

Walt Disney Television was the name of the television production division of The Walt Disney Company.

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Western (genre)

The Western is a genre of various arts which tell stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in the American Old West, often centering on the life of a nomadic cowboy or gunfighter armed with a revolver and a rifle who rides a horse.

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Who's the Boss?

Who's the Boss? is an American sitcom created by Martin Cohan and Blake Hunter, which aired on ABC from September 20, 1984, to April 25, 1992.

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Wildfire (2005 TV series)

Wildfire is a US television series that aired on ABC Family from June 2005 to May 2008.

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Wired (magazine)

Wired is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.

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Wordmark

A wordmark, word mark, or logotype is usually a distinct text-only typographic treatment of the name of a company, institution, or product name used for purposes of identification and branding.

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WPCH-TV

WPCH-TV, virtual channel 17 (UHF digital channel 20), is an independent television station licensed to Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

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Young adult fiction

Young adult fiction (YA) is a category of fiction published for readers in their youth.

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Zola Levitt

Zola Levitt (December 3, 1938 – April 19, 2006) was a Jewish convert to evangelical Christianity who founded a ministry, Zola Levitt Ministries, in Dallas, Texas.

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Zorro (1990 TV series)

Zorro (also known as The New Zorro, New World Zorro, and Zorro 1990) is an American action-adventure drama series featuring Duncan Regehr as the character of Zorro.

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10 Things I Hate About You

10 Things I Hate About You is a 1999 American teen romantic comedy-drama film directed by Gil Junger and starring Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Larisa Oleynik.

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10 Things I Hate About You (TV series)

10 Things I Hate About You is an American television sitcom broadcast on ABC Family beginning in 2009.

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100 episodes

In the U.S. television industry, 100 episodes is the traditional threshold for a television series to become viable for syndication.

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1997 Major League Baseball season

The 1997 Major League Baseball season was the inaugural season for Interleague play, as well as the final season in the American League for the Milwaukee Brewers before moving to the NL the following season.

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1998 Major League Baseball season

The 1998 Major League Baseball season ended with the New York Yankees sweeping the San Diego Padres in the World Series, after they had won a then AL record 114 regular season games.

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1999 Major League Baseball season

The 1999 Major League Baseball season ended with the New York Yankees sweeping the Atlanta Braves in the World Series.

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2000 Major League Baseball season

The 2000 Major League Baseball season ended with the New York Yankees defeating the New York Mets in five games, for their third consecutive World Series title.

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2001 Major League Baseball season

The 2001 Major League Baseball season, the first of the 21st century, finished with the Arizona Diamondbacks defeating the New York Yankees in seven games, for the 2001 World Series.

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2002 Major League Baseball season

The 2002 Major League Baseball season finished with two wild-card teams, the Anaheim Angels defeating the San Francisco Giants in seven games, for the 2002 World Series championship.

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2003 Major League Baseball season

The 2003 Major League Baseball season ended when the Florida Marlins defeated the New York Yankees in a six-game 2003 World Series.

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2006 Major League Baseball season

The 2006 Major League Baseball season ended with the National League's St. Louis Cardinals winning the World Series with the lowest regular season victory total in a non-strike season in history.

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20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, doing business as 20th Century Fox, is an American film studio currently owned by 21st Century Fox.

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21st Century Fox

Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc. (stylized as 21st Century Fox) is an American multinational mass media corporation that is based in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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25 Days of Christmas

25 Days of Christmas is an annual season of Christmas programming broadcast during the month of December by the U.S. cable network Freeform.

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4Kids TV

4KidsTV (often stylized as "4K!DS TV" and originally known as FoxBox from 2002 to 2005) is a defunct television programming block and Internet-based video on demand children's network operated by 4Kids Entertainment.

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4Licensing Corporation

4Licensing Corporation (formerly known as Leisure Concepts, Inc. and 4Kids Entertainment) was an American licensing company.

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