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15 September 2008 10:40 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Charles Gibson's one-hour interview with Sarah Palin on a special edition of 20/20 Friday night gave the ABC magazine its best ratings in six months and the highest ratings of the night for any program. The special also trounced the second hour of Dateline which featured a profile of Clark Rockefeller, the man accused of snatching his daughter away from his ex-wife. Other segments of Gibson's interview with Palin attracted big audiences for World News With Charles Gibson and Nightline.

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11 September 2008 10:33 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Charles Gibson's interview with Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, will receive unprecedented exposure on ABC tonight (Thursday) and tomorrow, with segments of the interview airing on ABC World News and Nightline tonight and on Good Morning America and 20/20 Friday night. The Palin campaign set the timing for the interview, which takes place on the same day her son Track is deployed to Iraq.

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25 August 2008 10:36 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

The Democratic National Convention is due to open tonight (Monday), but with Barack Obama already established as the party's presidential nominee and Joe Biden it's vice-presidential, some writers were asking whether the convention -- as well as the upcoming Republican one -- doesn't merely amount to a political infomercial. Others were questioning the need for a political convention at all. Drama was building over whether ailing Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy would attend tonight's (Monday) session. The Boston Herald quoted his son Patrick as saying that his father wants to attend a planned tribute that is to be staged for him tonight. Meanwhile, ABC News is using the convention to launch the expansion of its news programming into HDTV. Not only will it carry the conventions in HDTV, but also its World News With Charles Gibson, Nightline, Primetime and 20/20.

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25 August 2008 10:36 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Word that Sen. Barack Obama had chosen Sen. Joe Biden as his vice presidential running mate leaked out in the wee hours of Saturday morning on the East Coast -- hardly the time to garner much news coverage. On the West Coast, word of the choice did merit an interruption of the closing ceremonies of the Olympics on NBC. It also interrupted the conclusion of an ABC 20/20 special about infant mortality for more than three minutes as correspondents George Stephanopoulos (sounding as if he had just been roused out of a sound sleep) and Jake Tapper commented on the decision via a telephone hook-up. On the Internet, numerous tech-oriented sites observed that Biden has strongly supported media companies in their battle to prevent copying of copyrighted material -- even for an individual's own use -- and that he has proposed that the government monitor peer-to-peer websites for illegal downloading. The British tech site The Inquirer said in its lede: "Barack Obama has chosen one of the most rabid pro-music and film industry senators in the business to be his running mate in the forthcoming presidential elections." Wired magazine commented on its website: "Biden doesn't seem to have strayed from the rest of the judiciary committee Democrats' stance of being more of a friend to Hollywood than to Silicon Valley."

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26 June 2008 10:38 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

NBC has removed all reference to NBC Dateline's "To Catch a Predator" sting in Murphy, TX during which Louis Conradt Jr., an assistant county prosecutor, shot and killed himself after police arrived at his house, the Los Angeles Times reported today (Thursday). On Wednesday, the newspaper said that the network had reached a settlement in a $105-million lawsuit filed by Conradt's sister. Details of the settlement were not disclosed, but it was presumed that the removal of the "Predator" report from the NBC site was included in it. Other deleted material included a response to an investigation of the incident by ABC's 20/20 and a statement about the suicide written by Dateline correspondent Chris Hansen. The material remains available on other websites.

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5 articles from 2008