PRIME VIEWING TODAY'S TV HIGHLIGHTS.Byline: Tom Hoffarth Figure skating figure skating Sport in which ice skaters, singly or in pairs, perform various jumps, spins, and footwork. The figure skate blade has a special serrated toe pick, or toe rake, at the front. Even if the Delaware Destroyer, Johnny Weir, came out dressed in a leopard skin leotard with a flowing pink feather boa and wore bowling shoes, it wouldn't be enough to distract Russia's Evgeni Plushenko from skating to a gold as the men's portion of this viewer-friendly event ends. On a night that NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. gives up it's time slot normally saved for ``My Name Is Earl My Name Is Earl is an Emmy Award-winning American sitcom created by Greg Garcia. It is produced by 20th Century Fox Television. It is currently in its third season and is broadcast on the NBC television network Thursdays at 8:00 PM Eastern time. ,'' Plushenko seems to have all the karma going for him. Weir would be just elated to be decked out in silver by night's end. Channel 4, 8 p.m.-midnight (delayed) Snowboarding The only sport where the Americans pan for gold with some regularity, we've got the debut of something called the ``cross.'' Seth Wescott marks the spot for the U.S. men. Channel 4, 8 p.m.-midnight (delayed) Hockey The U.S. men got tangled up in a 3-3 tie in their opener Wednesday against Latvia, but NBC analyst Ray Ferraro says ``the mistakes were of over-eagerness, not of being not good enough, so that's agood sign'' and should help the cause against Kazakhstan today. USA Network, noon-3 p.m. (live); Sweden vs. Russia and Canada vs. Germany during MSNBC's live coverage from 3 a.m.-1:30 p.m. `IDOL' MAKERS The pop-star wannabes Wannabes is an online interactive soap and game created for the BBC by Illumna Digital. Wannabes follows on from Jamie Kane, the BBC's previous foray into online interactive drama. The show/game consists of 14 10 minute episodes released twice a week. on Fox's ``American Idol'' attracted an average of 26.3 million viewers (13.5 rating/20 share) Tuesday night compared to 16 million for NBC's tape-delayed Winter Olympics (11.3 rating/18 share), according to early figures by Nielsen Media Research. Among viewers aged 18-49, ``Idol'' had almost double NBC's audience, 9.6 rating vs. 5.6. ```American Idol' is clearly a phenomenon, but we expected it and are tracking right where we planned to be at this point,'' said NBC Universal Television group NBC Universal Television Group is an American and global television production/distribution company and a subsidiary of NBC Universal. The company is comprised of four divisions: Universal Media Studios (formerly NBC Universal Television Studio), president Randy Falco. - Tom Hoffarth CAPTION(S): 2 boxes Box: (1) MEDAL DETECTOR (2) PRIDE OF AMERICA Pride of America is a cruise ship and a member of the Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) fleet. Inaugurated during the 2005-2006 cruise season, she is the first U.S. flagged cruise ship in close to 50 years [1]. |
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