DAVID BAUDER

AP Television Writer
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Who is Oprah's heir apparent in daytime?

Will it be Ellen DeGeneres, Dr. Phil or Dr. Oz? Maybe none of the above. The announced shutdown of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in two years creates room for a new queen (or king) of daytime television.

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Sarah Palin coy about 2012 run, but door is open

Sarah Palin said in an interview broadcast Tuesday that a 2012 presidential bid is "not on my radar," but wouldn't rule out playing some role in the next presidential election.

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Palin talks politics, family ahead of book release

Sarah Palin wouldn't reveal her political plans for 2012 in an interview with Barbara Walters, but when asked whether she'd play a major role replied that "if people will have me, I will."

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CBS launching turn-of-decade project

CBS News is planning an ambitious turn-of-decade look at America's position in the world that's also designed as an opening competitive shot at Diane Sawyer.

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Broadcast pioneer NBC prepares for cable takeover

Eight decades after pioneering the concept of broadcasting, NBC is on the verge of a startling move that illustrates broadcast television's decline.

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NBC enlists prime-time programs in green message

NBC gives new meaning to the phrase "green screen" next week, spreading a pro-environmental message across five of its prime-time entertainment programs.

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CNN finding that prime-time success is elusive

The latest rough patch for CNN illustrates the two contradictions at the network's heart.

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ABC's Roberts gets prime-time spotlight

Robin Roberts is comfortable in the knowledge that when ABC's "Good Morning America" makeover is complete, she will keep her seat at the anchor desk. She just doesn't know who will be sitting next to her.

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HBO filmmakers get inside Obama campaign

Pivotal presidential campaigns are frequently defined in retrospect by documentaries.

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Season of false starts for news organizations

A balloon racing across the Colorado sky without a 6-year-old boy inside. A major lobbyist not changing its position on climate change. A shootout with terrorists on the Potomac River that never happened

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Fox News Channel, Obama administration talking

If the battle between Fox News Channel and the Obama administration is still going on, it has moved behind closed doors.

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CNN's Latino special avoids Dobbs

CNN is airing a four-hour special on Latinos in America this week that ignores its own commentator Lou Dobbs, whose persistent advocacy against illegal immigration has angered many Hispanics.

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Picking a fight: White House vs Fox News

President Barack Obama's communications director says it was Fox News Channel, not the White House, that picked a fight.

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US military backs away from ban on photos of dead

Military leaders in Afghanistan have backed off an attempt to ban news organizations embedded with the Army from photographing or videotaping images of U.S. personnel killed in the war.

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Anka gets credit for co-writing Jackson single

With a familiar high-pitched voice counting off one-two-three-four, a new Michael Jackson single debuted online Monday, prompting a hasty response from the singer's estate after Paul Anka revealed he was the song's co-writer.

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Halderman described as `swashbuckling' newsman

The hard-driving newsman accused of trying to blackmail David Letterman recently produced a piece on crime boss John Gotti and his family. Now he's using one of Gotti's former attorneys to defend himself.

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Dad's list turns into Rosanne Cash's disc

Make no mistake, Rosanne Cash fully understands the value of the sheet of yellow lined paper her father handed to her one summer day in 1973. Now she's giving the world a peek.

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Will women viewers turn away from Letterman?

David Letterman should probably care what women think about him — and not just his wife.

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Letterman is target of the kind of jokes he tells

Late-night hosts didn't waste a moment poking fun at the troubles of one of their own, after a CBS newsman was charged with trying to blackmail David Letterman for $2 million in a plot that forced the late-night comic to acknowledge having sex with some of the women who have worked for him.

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DA: Man charged in Letterman plot was deep in debt

A CBS newsman who prosecutors said was desperate and deep in debt was charged Friday with trying to blackmail David Letterman for $2 million in a plot that forced the late night comic to acknowledge having sex with some of the women who have worked for him.

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Get everyone in US online, high-level panel says

The nation needs to give the same urgency to making sure all Americans have broadband access as the Eisenhower administration did in building an interstate highway system a half-century ago, a report released Friday concluded.

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Will cable roughhousing extract a price?

Amplifying the nation's political division has been good business for Fox News Channel and MSNBC during this season of anger — but it may come at a price.

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Meyers says Palin was 'fastball' for 'SNL' writers

Sarah Palin may not be around as a font of comic material this year, but Seth Meyers of "Saturday Night Live" doubts he'll be starved for things to poke fun at.

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`Dan in Real Life' opens Lerche's music to world

Anyone who saw Steve Carell's romantic comedy "Dan in Real Life" is familiar with Sondre Lerche's music, whether they know it or not.

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TV's 'Newlywed Game' features first gay couple

Even as states and jurisdictions made gay and lesbian marriages legal, "The Newlywed Game" has played it straight — until now.

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