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History of Freeform, the Glossary

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

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ABC Family Worldwide

ABC Family Worldwide is a subsidiary of the Disney Entertainment division of The Walt Disney Company that operates American basic cable channel Freeform and manages the programming libraries of Disney's currently-inactive subsidiaries BVS Entertainment and Fox Kids/Jetix. History of Freeform and ABC Family Worldwide are Freeform (TV channel).

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ABC Signature

ABC Signature is an American television production studio and the flagship production arm of ABC, which is a subsidiary of Disney Television Studios, a sub-division of the Disney Entertainment business segment and division of The Walt Disney Company.

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ABC Spark

ABC Spark is a Canadian English-language discretionary specialty channel owned by Corus Entertainment. History of Freeform and ABC Spark are Freeform (TV channel).

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Abortion

Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus.

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Acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney

The acquisition of 21st Century Fox by The Walt Disney Company was announced on December 14, 2017, and was completed on March 20, 2019. History of Freeform and acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney are history of The Walt Disney Company.

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Addams Family Reunion

Addams Family Reunion is a 1998 American comedy horror 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 thriller and science fiction television series created by J. J. Abrams which was broadcast on ABC for five seasons from September 30, 2001, to May 22, 2006.

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Allen & Company

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

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American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company.

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Anime

is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from 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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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Atlanta

Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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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 (Freeform).

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Bachelor Father (American 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).

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Betches

Betches (originally Betches Love This) is a digital media company started by Aleen Dreksler, Jordana Abraham, and Samantha Sage.

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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 April 10, 1994.

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Black-ish

Black-ish (stylized as black·ish) is an American sitcom television series created by Kenya Barris.

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Block Communications

Block Communications Inc. (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 (also known as a strand in British broadcasting) is the arrangement of programs on radio or television so that those of a particular genre, theme, or target audience are united.

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Bonanza

Bonanza is an American Western television series that ran on NBC from September 12, 1959, to January 16, 1973.

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Bordertown (1989 TV series)

Bordertown is a western drama television series that aired 78 half-hour episodes from 1989 to 1991.

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Boyz/Girlz Channel

Boyz Channel and Girlz Channel (formatted as girlzChannel and boyzChannel) were two short-lived American pay cable television channels owned by Fox Family Worldwide, a then joint-venture between News Corporation and Saban Entertainment.

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Broadcasting & Cable

Broadcasting & Cable (B&C, or Broadcasting+Cable) is a monthly telecommunications industry trade magazine published by Future US.

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Burbank, California

Burbank is a city in the southeastern end of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Butterfly Island

Butterfly Island is an Australian children's drama television series.

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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 capital stock of the company is acquired.

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Cable television

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

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Capital Cities/ABC

Capital Cities/ABC Inc. was an American media company.

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Cartoon Network

Cartoon Network (often abbreviated as CN) is an American cable television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.

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Casper Meets Wendy

Casper Meets Wendy is a 1998 American fantasy 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 American direct-to-video fantasy 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 Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV.

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Centaur Media is a London-based business information, events and marketing provider to professional and commercial markets.

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Century City

Century City is a 176-acre (71.2 ha) neighborhood and business district in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Challenge (TV channel)

Challenge is a British free-to-air television channel owned by Sky Group's Sky UK subsidiary, themselves owned by American conglomerate Comcast. History of Freeform and Challenge (TV channel) are Freeform (TV channel).

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Chief executive officer

A chief executive officer (CEO) (chief executive (CE), or managing director (MD) in the UK) is the highest officer charged with the management of an organization especially a company or nonprofit institution.

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Christian Broadcasting Network

The Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) is an American Christian media production and distribution organization. History of Freeform and Christian Broadcasting Network are Freeform (TV channel).

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Christian media, alternatively referred to as inspirational, faith and family, or simply Christian, is a cross-media genre that features a Christian message or moral.

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Christmas

Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world.

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Cloak & Dagger (TV series)

Marvel's Cloak & Dagger, or simply Cloak & Dagger, is an American television series created by Joe Pokaski for Freeform, based on the Marvel Comics characters of the same name.

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Cloak and Dagger (characters)

Cloak (Tyrone "Ty" Johnson) and Dagger (Tandy Bowen) are a 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 telecommunication 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 is a global mass media company founded in 1909 by Condé Montrose Nast (1873–1942) and owned by Advance Publications.

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Convertible security

A convertible security is a financial instrument whose holder has the right to convert it into another security of the same issuer.

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Corus Entertainment

Corus Entertainment, Inc. (often simply known as Corus, stylized as corus. since 2016) is a Canadian mass media 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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DallasNews Corporation

DallasNews Corporation, formerly A. H. Belo Corporation, is a Dallas, Texas-based media holding company of The Dallas Morning News and Belo + Company.

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David Cassidy

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

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Deadline Hollywood

Deadline Hollywood, commonly known as Deadline and also referred to as Deadline.com, is an online news site founded as the news blog Deadline Hollywood Daily by Nikki Finke in 2006.

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Denver

Denver is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado.

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Diagnosis: Murder

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

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DIC Entertainment

DIC Entertainment Corporation (also known as DIC Audiovisuel, DIC Enterprises, DIC Animation City, DIC Entertainment, L.P., and DIC Productions, sometimes stylized as DiC), branded as the Incredible World of DIC, was an international film and television production company that was mostly associated as an animation studio.

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Dick Clark

Richard "Dick" Wagstaff Clark (November 30, 1929April 18, 2012) was an American television and radio personality and television producer who hosted American Bandstand from 1956 to 1989.

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Digimon

, short for "Digital Monsters" (Dejitaru Monsutā), is a Japanese media franchise, which encompasses 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 animated film adaptation produced by Saban Entertainment and distributed by 20th Century Fox as part of the Digimon franchise.

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Direct-to-video

Direct-to-video or straight-to-video refers to the release of a film, television series, short or special to the public immediately on home video formats rather than an initial theatrical release or television premiere.

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Discovery Life

Discovery Life is an American cable television network owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.

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Disney Channel

Disney Channel is an American pay television channel that serves as the flagship property of Disney Branded Television, a unit of the Disney Entertainment division of The Walt Disney Company.

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Disney General Entertainment Content

Disney General Entertainment Content (DGEC), formerly Capital Cities/ABC, ABC Group, Disney–ABC Television Group and the second incarnation of Walt Disney Television, is part of Disney Entertainment, a division of The Walt Disney Company that oversees its owned-and-operated television content, assets and sub-divisions.

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Disney–ABC Domestic Television

Disney–ABC Domestic Television (doing business as Disney–ABC Home Entertainment and Television Distribution, and formerly named Buena Vista Television) is the in-home sales and content distribution firm of Disney Platform Distribution, a subsidiary of Disney Entertainment, which is a division of The Walt Disney Company.

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DisneyWar

DisneyWar is a book that serves as 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 is the quarterfinal round of the Major League Baseball postseason.

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Don't Look Behind You

Don't Look Behind You is a 1989 young adult thriller novel by Lois Duncan.

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E. W. Scripps Company

The E. W. Scripps Company, also known as Scripps, is an American broadcasting company founded in 1878 as a chain of daily newspapers by Edward Willis "E. W." Scripps and his sister, Ellen Browning Scripps.

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Early Edition

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

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ESPN

ESPN (an abbreviation of its original name, the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by The Walt Disney Company (80% and operational control) and Hearst Communications (20%) through the joint venture ESPN Inc. The company was founded in 1979 by Bill Rasmussen, Scott Rasmussen and Ed Eagan.

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ESPN Films

ESPN Films, formerly known as ESPN Original Entertainment (EOE), is an American 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 production of media.

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Family Channel (Canadian TV channel)

Family Channel (commonly or simply known as Family) is a Canadian English-language specialty channel owned by WildBrain.

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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 socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes.

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Ford Thunderbird

The Ford Thunderbird (colloquially called the T-Bird) is a personal luxury car manufactured and marketed by Ford Motor Company from model years 1955 to 2005 (with a 1997–2002 hiatus), across 11 generations.

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Fox Kids

Fox Kids (originally known as Fox Children's Network and later as the Fox Kids Network; stylized as FOX KIDS) 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, stylized in all caps, is the sports programming division of the Fox Corporation that is responsible for sports broadcasts carried by the Fox broadcast network, Fox Sports 1 (FS1), Fox Sports 2 (FS2), and the Fox Sports Radio network.

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Fox Sports Networks

Fox Sports Networks (FSN), formerly known as Fox Sports Net, was the collective name for a group of regional sports channels in the United States.

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Fraternities and sororities

In North America, fraternities and sororities (fraternitas and sororitas|lit.

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Fraternity

A fraternity (whence, "brotherhood") or fraternal organization is an organization, society, club or fraternal order traditionally of men but also women 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 basic cable channel owned and operated by ABC Family Worldwide, a sub-division of the Disney Entertainment business segment and division of the Walt Disney Company.

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FX (TV channel)

FX (Fox eXtended) is an American pay television channel owned by FX Networks, LLC, a subsidiary of the Disney Entertainment business segment and division of The Walt Disney Company.

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FX Movie Channel

FX Movie Channel (FXM) is an American pay television channel owned by FX Networks, LLC, a subsidiary of the Disney Entertainment business segment and division of The Walt Disney Company.

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FX Networks

FX Networks, LLC (also shortened to FX Networks and sometimes to FX) is a company consisting of a network of the original American version of the channel, plus a production company and a subsidiary of the Disney Entertainment business division of The Walt Disney Company.

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Game show

A game show (or gameshow) is a genre of broadcast viewing entertainment where contestants compete in a game for rewards.

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Gannett

Gannett Co., Inc. is an American mass media holding company headquartered in New York City.

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Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia, officially the State of Georgia, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Geri Halliwell

Geraldine Estelle Halliwell-Horner (née Halliwell; born 6 August 1972) is an English singer, songwriter, television personality, author, and actress.

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Go.com

Go.com (also known as The Go Network) is a portal for Disney content that was created after The Walt Disney Company acquired the search engine Infoseek.

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Google News

Google News is a news aggregator service 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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Grown-ish

Grown-ish (stylized as ish) is an American teen comedy drama television series and a spin-off of the ABC series Black-ish.

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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 type of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, artistry and endurance.

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Haim Saban

Haim Saban (חיים סבן; born October 15, 1944) is an Israeli-American media proprietor, investor, musical composer and producer of records, film, and television.

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Halloween

Halloween or Hallowe'en (less commonly known as Allhalloween, All Hallows' Eve, or All Saints' Eve) is a celebration observed in many 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 film series based on the eponymous novels by British 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 created by Leonard Freeman (not to be confused with the remake Hawaii Five-0, with a numeral zero as the last character in the title).

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Hazel (TV series)

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

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Hearst Communications

Hearst Communications, Inc. (often referred to simply as Hearst and formerly known as Hearst Corporation) is an American multinational mass media and business information conglomerate based in Hearst Tower in Midtown Manhattan in New York City.

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Hilary Duff

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

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Holiday in Handcuffs

Holiday in Handcuffs is a 2007 American crime comedy television film directed by Ron Underwood, written by Sara Endsley, and starring Melissa Joan Hart, Mario Lopez, Tim Bottoms, Kyle Howard, Vanessa Evigan, Markie Post, and June Lockhart.

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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 plate safely in one play without any errors being committed by the defensive team.

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Homosexuality

Homosexuality is sexual attraction, romantic 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 and animated by Toei Animation.

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Hugo Chávez

Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (28 July 1954 – 5 March 2013) was a Venezuelan politician and military officer who served as the 47th president of Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013, except for a brief period of forty-seven hours in 2002.

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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) is an American stand-up comedian, actress and television host.

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Independent station

An independent station is a broadcast station, usually a television station, not affiliated with a larger broadcast network.

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Infomercial

An infomercial is a form of television commercial that resembles regular TV programming yet is intended to promote or sell a product, service or idea.

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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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James B. Stewart

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

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Jennifer Lopez

Jennifer Lynn Affleck (née Lopez; born July 24, 1969), also known by her nickname J.Lo, is an American actress, singer, dancer and businesswoman.

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Jetix

Jetix (stylized in all caps) was a children's entertainment brand owned by 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 Mignogna III (born April 20, 1976) is an American actor, musician, singer-songwriter, record producer, podcaster 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 (April 17, 1961 – November 21, 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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Judaism

Judaism (יַהֲדוּת|translit.

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Katts and Dog

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

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Kyle XY

Kyle XY is an American science fiction television series created by Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber and produced by ABC Studios.

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Labor Pains (film)

Labor Pains is a 2009 American romantic comedy film directed by Lara Shapiro and written by Stacy Kramer.

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Landmark Media Enterprises, LLC (a spinoff of Landmark Communications, Inc.) is a privately held technology company headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia.

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Late-night talk show

A late-night talk show is a genre of talk show, originating in the United States.

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Leo the Lion (TV series)

is a sequel to the Japanese anime television series Jungle Emperor, or Kimba the White Lion.

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Less than Perfect

Less than Perfect is an American television 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 (also known as LMAD) 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 Corporation (commonly referred to as Liberty Media or just Liberty) is an American mass media company founded by John C. Malone in 1991.

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Life with Bonnie

Life with Bonnie is an ABC television sitcom that originally aired from September 17, 2002 to April 9, 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 in the city of Los Angeles, California, 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) is an American actress and activist.

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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 Challenge still broadcasting.

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Lizzie McGuire

Lizzie McGuire is an American comedy television series created by Terri Minsky that premiered on Disney Channel on January 12, 2001.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.

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Los Angeles County, California

Los Angeles County, officially the County of Los Angeles (Condado de Los Ángeles), and sometimes abbreviated as L.A. County, is the most populous county in the United States, with 9,861,224 residents estimated in 2022.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league and the highest level of organized baseball in the United States and Canada.

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Make It or Break It

Make It or Break It (MIOBI) is an American teen/family drama television series that focused on the lives of teen gymnasts who strived to make it to the Olympic Games in 2012.

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Maniac Mansion (TV series)

Maniac Mansion is a sitcom 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 first baseman who played 16 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1986 to 2001 for the Oakland Athletics and the St. Louis Cardinals.

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Marketing Week

Marketing Week is a website focused on the marketing industry, based in London, that grew out of what was a weekly, and latterly monthly, print magazine.

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Marvel Cinematic Universe

The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is an American media franchise and shared universe centered on a series of superhero films produced by Marvel Studios.

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Marvel Television

Marvel Television was an American television production company responsible for live-action and animated television shows and direct-to-DVD series based on characters from Marvel Comics.

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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 such as newspapers and internet content.

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Melissa & Joey

Melissa & Joey is an American television sitcom 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.

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Michael Eisner

Michael Dammann Eisner (born March 7, 1942) is an American businessman and former chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of The Walt Disney Company from September 1984 to September 2005.

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Millennials

Millennials, also known as Generation Y or Gen Y, are the demographic cohort following Generation X and preceding Generation Z. Researchers and popular media use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years, with the generation typically being defined as people born from 1981 to 1996.

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MLB on TBS

MLB on TBS is an American presentation of regular season and postseason Major League Baseball (MLB) game telecasts that air on the American pay television network TBS and the streaming service Max.

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MTM Enterprises

MTM Enterprises (also known as MTM Productions) 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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Muslims

Muslims (God) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition.

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My Little Margie

My Little Margie is an American television sitcom 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 music game show.

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NASCAR

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

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NASCAR Cup Series

The NASCAR Cup Series is the top racing series of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR), the most prestigious stock car racing series in the United States.

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National Geographic (American TV channel)

National Geographic (formerly National Geographic Channel; abbreviated and trademarked as Nat Geo or Nat Geo TV) is an American pay television network and flagship channel owned by the National Geographic Global Networks unit of Disney Entertainment and National Geographic Partners, a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company (73%) and the National Geographic Society (27%), with the operational management handled by Disney Entertainment.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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News Corporation

The original incarnation of News Corporation (abbreviated News Corp. and also variously known as News Corporation Limited) was an American multinational mass media corporation controlled by media mogul Rupert Murdoch and headquartered at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in New York City.

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Nickelodeon

Nickelodeon (occasionally shortened to Nick) is an American pay television channel owned by Paramount Global through Paramount Media Networks' subdivision, Nickelodeon Group.

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Nielsen Media Research (NMR) is an American firm that measures media audiences, including television, radio, theatre, films (via the AMC Theatres MAP program), and newspapers.

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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.

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Pat Robertson

Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson (March 22, 1930 – June 8, 2023) was an American media mogul, religious broadcaster, political commentator, presidential candidate, and charismatic minister.

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Penske Media Corporation (PMC) is an American mass media, publishing, and information services company based in Los Angeles and New York City.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, also known simply as the PG, is the largest newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.

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Play (Swedish group)

Play were a Swedish pop girl group.

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Pop music

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

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Popular culture

Popular culture (also called mass culture or pop culture) is generally recognized by members of a society as a set of practices, beliefs, artistic output (also known as popular art or mass art) and objects that are dominant or prevalent in a society at a given point in time.

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Pretty Little Liars

Pretty Little Liars is an American mystery teen drama television series created by I. Marlene King, which aired on Freeform from June 8, 2010 to June 27, 2017, based on the novel series of the same name written by Sara Shepard, lasting 160 episodes over seven seasons.

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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

Prime-time, or peak-time, is the block of broadcast programming taking place during the middle of the evening for television shows.

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Production music

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

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Progressivism

Progressivism is a political philosophy and movement that seeks to advance the human condition through social reform – primarily based on purported advancements in social organization, science, and technology.

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

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Public company

A public company is a company whose ownership is organized via shares of stock which are intended to be freely traded on a stock exchange or in over-the-counter markets.

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Rankin/Bass Animated Entertainment

Rankin/Bass Animated Entertainment (founded and formerly known as Videocraft International, Ltd. and Rankin/Bass Productions, Inc.) was an American production company located in New York City, and known for its seasonal television specials, usually done in stop motion animation.

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Ravenswood (TV series)

Ravenswood is 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 purportedly unscripted real-life situations, often starring unfamiliar people rather than professional actors.

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Rebranding

Rebranding is a marketing strategy in which a new name, term, symbol, design, concept 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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Regional sports network

A regional sports network (RSN) in the United States and Canada is a television channel that presents sports programming to a local media market or geographical region.

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Religious broadcasting

Religious broadcasting, sometimes referred to as faith-based broadcasts, is the dissemination of television and/or radio content that intentionally has religious ideas, religious experience, or religious practice as its core focus.

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RELX

RELX plc (pronounced "Rel-ex") is a British multinational information and analytics company headquartered in London, England.

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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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Rich Cronin (executive)

Richard Cronin is an American 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 American Christmas comedy film based on the Harvey Comics cartoon character Richie Rich.

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Romantic comedy

Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a subgenre of comedy and romance fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how 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 business magnate, investor, and media proprietor.

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Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town

"Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" is a Christmas song featuring Santa Claus, written by J. Fred Coots and Haven Gillespie, and first recorded by Harry Reser and His Band.

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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 mystery adventure comedy film produced by Mosaic Media Group and based on the long-running animated franchise of the same name.

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Scott Stewart (director)

Scott Charles Stewart is an American film director, writer, producer and visual effects artist.

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Shadowhunters

Shadowhunters, also known as Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments, is an American supernatural drama television series developed by Ed Decter, based on the novel 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.

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Shaun Cassidy

Shaun Paul Cassidy (born September 27, 1958) is an American singer, actor, writer, and producer.

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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 is a game show that aired on the Family Channel (now Freeform) for two seasons from September 30, 1996, to December 26, 1997, with reruns airing until August 14, 1998.

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Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster LLC is an American publishing company owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.

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Small Talk (American 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.

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Soap opera

A soap opera, daytime drama, or soap for short, is typically a long-running radio or television serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality.

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Social conservatism is a political philosophy and a variety of conservatism which places emphasis on traditional social structures over social pluralism.

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Social media are interactive technologies that facilitate the creation, sharing and aggregation of content (such as ideas, interests, and other forms of expression) amongst virtual communities and networks.

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Spartanburg Herald-Journal

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

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Spice Girls

The Spice Girls were an English girl group formed in 1994, consisting of Mel B ("Scary Spice"); Melanie C ("Sporty Spice"); Emma Bunton ("Baby Spice"); Geri Halliwell ("Ginger Spice"); and Victoria Beckham ("Posh Spice").

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Split Second (game show)

Split Second is an American 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 Georgia (TV series)

State of Georgia is an American television sitcom.

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State of Grace (TV series)

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

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Step by Step (TV series)

Step by Step is an American television sitcom created by William Bickley and Michael Warren that ran on ABC as part of its TGIF Friday night lineup from September 20, 1991, to August 15, 1997, then moved to CBS, where it aired from September 19, 1997, to June 26, 1998, with a total of 160 half-hour episodes spanning 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 (also known as the South Florida Sun Sentinel, known until 2008 as the Sun-Sentinel, and stylized on its masthead as SunSentinel) is the main daily newspaper of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Broward County, and covers Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties and state-wide news, as well.

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Super Bowl

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

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Superbook (1981 TV series)

, also known as, is a Japanese Christian anime television series from the early 1980s, initially produced at Tatsunoko Production and TV Tokyo in Japan in conjunction with the Christian Broadcasting Network in the United States.

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Sweden

Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.

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Switched at Birth (TV series)

Switched at Birth is an American teen and family drama television series that premiered on ABC Family on June 6, 2011.

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Tatsunoko Production

and often shortened to, is a Japanese animation company.

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TBS (American TV channel)

TBS (originally an initialism of Turner Broadcasting System), stylized as tbs, is an American basic cable television network owned by the Networks division of Warner Bros. Discovery.

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Ted Musgrave

Theodore David Musgrave Sr. (born December 18, 1955) is an American former stock car racing 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 cause.

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Televangelism

Televangelism (from televangelist, a blend of television and ''evangelist'') and occasionally termed radio evangelism or teleministry, denotes the utilization of media platforms, notably radio and television, for the marketing of religious messages, particularly 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 for newspapers, magazines and web publications.

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Television film

A television film, alternatively known as a television movie, made-for-TV film/movie, telefilm, telemovie or TV film/movie, is a feature-length film that is produced and originally distributed by or to a television network, in contrast to theatrical films made for initial showing in movie theaters, and direct-to-video films made for initial release on home video formats.

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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 and audio content via radio waves directly from a transmitter on the earth's surface to any number of tuned receivers simultaneously.

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The 700 Club

The 700 Club is the flagship television program of the Christian Broadcasting Network, broadcast each weekday in syndication in 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 drama television series that starred Mickey Rooney and Richard Ian Cox, as a trainer and a teenaged horse racer and was loosely based on The Black Stallion 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 (American 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 that originally aired from September 15, 1965, to May 19, 1969 on ABC.

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The Bold Type

The Bold Type is an American comedy-drama television series created by Sarah Watson and produced by Universal Television for Freeform.

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The Campbells

The Campbells is a period drama television drama series produced by Scottish Television, an affiliate of British television network ITV, and Canadian television network CTV which ran from 1986 to 1990.

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The Carol Burnett Show

The Carol Burnett Show is an American variety/sketch comedy television show that originally ran on CBS from September 11, 1967, to March 29, 1978, for 279 episodes, and again with nine episodes in fall 1991.

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The Cincinnati Enquirer

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

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The Daily Show

The Daily Show (TDS is an American late-night talk and satirical news 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 print circulation in 2022 of 65,369.

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The Exorcist

The Exorcist is a 1973 American supernatural horror film directed by William Friedkin from a screenplay by William Peter Blatty, based on his 1971 novel.

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The Flying House (TV series)

The Flying House, known in Japan as, is a Christian anime television series produced by Tatsunoko Production 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 (American TV series)

The Fosters is an American family drama television series created by Peter Paige and Bradley Bredeweg.

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The High Chaparral

The High Chaparral is an American Western action-adventure drama television series that aired on NBC from 1967 to 1971, starring Leif Erickson and Cameron Mitchell.

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The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries.

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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 American composer 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. It premiered on ABC Family on August 15, 2011, and ended on March 12, 2013.

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The Mortal Instruments

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

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The New Addams Family

The New Addams Family is a sitcom that aired from October 1998 to August 1999 on YTV in Canada and Fox Family in the United States and CITV in the United Kingdom on weekends.

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The New Archies

The New Archies is an American sitcom produced by DIC Animation City, based upon the characters by Archie Comics.

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The New Republic

The New Republic is an American publisher focused on domestic politics, news, culture, and the arts, with ten magazines a year and a daily online platform.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The New Yorker

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

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The Rifleman

The Rifleman is an American Western television series 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 Simpsons

The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company.

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The Virginian (TV series)

The Virginian (later renamed The Men from Shiloh in its final year) is an American Western television series starring James Drury in the title role, along with Doug McClure, Lee J. Cobb, and others.

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The Virginian-Pilot

The Virginian-Pilot is the daily newspaper for Hampton Roads, Virginia.

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The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate that is headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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TheWrap

TheWrap is an American media company covering the business of entertainment and media.

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Times Union (Albany)

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

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Tom Ascheim

Tom Ascheim is an American television producer and executive.

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Toon Disney

Toon Disney was an American multinational pay television channel owned by Disney Branded Television, a subsidiary of Disney-ABC Television Group.

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Treehouse of Horror

Treehouse of Horror is a series of annual Halloween-themed anthology episodes of the animated sitcom The Simpsons.

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Tribune Publishing

Tribune Publishing Company (briefly Tronc, Inc.) is an American newspaper print and online media publishing company.

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Trivial Pursuit (American game show)

Trivial Pursuit is an American game show that ran on The Family Channel from June 7, 1993, to December 30, 1994.

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Turner Broadcasting System

Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. was an American television and media conglomerate founded by Ted Turner in 1965.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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United States dollar

The United States dollar (symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.

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Urban legend

Urban legends (sometimes modern legend, urban myth, or simply legend) is a genre of folklore concerning stories about an unusual (usually scary) or humorous event that many people believe to be true but largely are not.

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USA Today

USA Today (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is an American magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Venezuela

Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea.

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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 between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.

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Virginia Beach, Virginia

Virginia Beach, officially the City of Virginia Beach, is the most populous city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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Vulture (website)

Vulture is an American entertainment news website.

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Wagon Train

Wagon Train is an American Western television series that aired for eight seasons, first on the NBC television network (1957–1962) and then on ABC (1962–1965).

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Walt Disney Television

The first and original incarnation of Walt Disney Television was an American production company and the original/former television production division of the Walt Disney Company which was active from 1983 to 2003.

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Warner Bros. Discovery

Warner Bros.

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Western (genre)

The Western is a genre of fiction typically set in the American frontier (commonly referred to as the "Old West" or the "Wild West") between the California Gold Rush of 1849 and the closing of the frontier in 1890, and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada.

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Who's the Boss?

Who's the Boss? is an American sitcom television series created by Martin Cohan and Blake Hunter, that aired on ABC from September 20, 1984, to April 25, 1992, with a total of 196 half-hour episodes spanning eight seasons.

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Wildfire (2005 TV series)

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

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Wired (magazine)

Wired (stylized in all caps) 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 or word mark is a distinct text-only typographic treatment of the name of a product, service, company, organization, or institution which is used for purposes of identification and branding.

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WPCH-TV

WPCH-TV (channel 17), branded on-air as Peachtree TV, is a television station in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, affiliated with The CW.

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Young adult literature

Young adult literature (YA) is typically written for readers aged 12 to 18 and includes most of the themes found in adult fiction, such as friendship, substance abuse, alcoholism, and sexuality.

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Zorro (1990 TV series)

Zorro (also known as The New Zorro, New World Zorro, and Zorro 1990) is an American Western superhero television 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 film directed by Gil Junger in his film directorial debut 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 enter syndicated reruns.

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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 Houston Astros season

The 2001 Houston Astros season was the 40th season for the Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise in Houston, Texas.

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2001 Major League Baseball season

The 2001 Major League Baseball season finished with the Arizona Diamondbacks defeating the New York Yankees in seven games for the World Series championship.

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2001 San Francisco Giants season

The 2001 San Francisco Giants season was the Giants' 119th year in Major League Baseball, their 44th year in San Francisco since their move from New York following the 1957 season, and their second at Pacific Bell Park.

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2002 Major League Baseball season

The 2002 Major League Baseball season finished with two wild-card teams contesting the World Series; the Anaheim Angels defeated the San Francisco Giants in seven games for the 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 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 (83) in a fully-played season in major league history.

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20th Century Studios

20th Century Studios, Inc. is an American film studio owned by the Walt Disney Studios, a division of Disney Entertainment, in turn a division of The Walt Disney Company.

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20th Television

20th Television (formerly known as TCF Television Productions, 20th Century-Fox Television, and 20th Century Fox Television) is an American television production company which is a division of Disney Television Studios, part of the Disney Entertainment division of The Walt Disney Company.

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21st Century Fox

Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc., which did business as 21st Century Fox (21CF), was an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate based in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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25 Days of Christmas

Freeform's 25 Days of Christmas is an American annual seasonal event of Christmas programming broadcast during the month of December by the U.S. cable network Freeform. History of Freeform and 25 Days of Christmas are Freeform (TV channel).

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4Kids Entertainment

4Kids Entertainment, Inc. (formerly known as Leisure Concepts, Inc. and later known as 4Licensing Corporation; stylized as 4K!DS ENTERTAINMENT) was an American licensing company.

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4Kids TV

4Kids TV (often stylized as 4K!DSTV and formerly known as FoxBox from September 14, 2002 to January 15, 2005) was an American television programming block and Internet-based video on demand children's network operated by 4Kids Entertainment.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Freeform

Also known as CBN Cable Network, CBN Family Channel, CBN Satellite Service, Fox Family Channel, History of Freeform (TV channel), Television networks preceding ABC Family, Television networks preceding Freeform, The CBN Family Channel.

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