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blogs.tampabay.com - 4 days ago
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In the end, Donny Osmond's legions of fans
and game attitude beat out the dance skill of...
R&B singer Mya , as the toothy '70s pop star walked away with this cycle's mirror ball trophy tonight on ABC's Dancing with the Stars . To be fair, ...
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Donny Osmond wins the snooziest Dancing with the Stars ...
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In the end, Donny Osmond's legions of fans and game attitude beat out the dance skill of R&B singer Mya , as the toothy '70s pop star walked away with this cycle's mirror ball trophy tonight on ABC's Dancing with the Stars . To be fair, Osmond had two advantages; besides being much more ...
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Dancing With The Stars
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It's been weeks since news director Darren Richards left St. Petersburg CBS affiliate WTSP-Ch. 10 for a new career in public relations. But station officials today announced his replacement, Peter Roghaar , who comes to WTSP after nine years as news director at the NBC affiliate in West Palm ...
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Kanye West
NBC Universal
The Republican Party could learn a thing or two from Glenn Beck .
While GOP lawmakers were in Washington D.C. dealing with the start of debate over the revamp of the nation's health care system -- in other words, governing -- Beck outlined the early beginnings of a political action ...
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Glenn Beck
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For a public broadcasting nerd like myself, it's like getting asked to shag a few balls for A-Rod.
But the good folks at The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer have been very nice about inviting me onto their show today to talk about Oprah Winfrey's decision to leave her legendary talk show after 25 ...
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Oprah Winfrey
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For a public broadcasting nerd like myself, it's like getting asked to shag a few balls for A-Rod.
But the good folks at The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer have been very nice about inviting me onto their show today to talk about Oprah Winfrey's decision to leave her legendary talk show after 25 ...
News/Talk
Oprah Winfrey
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Now that Oprah Winfrey has confirmed rumors that she plans to end her mega-successful syndicated talk show when her contract expires in September 2011, the next question is simple: Who wins and who loses? Winfrey herself is expected to announce the move during her live show today, though she ...
News/Talk
Oprah Winfrey
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Most of conservative pundit Glenn Beck 's book signing events in Florida this weekend will be seriously brisk affairs; he's scheduled to hit seven different cities on Friday and Saturday, culminating with a noon stop in Tampa and a 3 p.m. rally/singing at The Villages retirement community.
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blogs.tampabay.com - 9 days ago
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Most of conservative pundit Glenn Beck 's book
signing events in Florida this weekend will be seriously...
brisk affairs; he's scheduled to hit seven different cities on Friday and Saturday, culminating with a noon stop in Tampa and a 3 p.m. rally/singing at The Villages retirement community. ...
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Glenn Beck says he's going to make a major announcement ...
The Sarah Palin book tour continues to be the gift that keeps on giving for media watchers.
First, Fox News had to apologize today for telling viewers Wednesday that video from a campaign appearance by Palin last year before adoring throngs was footage from a recent book tour stop. The flub, ...
Comedy
Sarah Palin
The Daily Show
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Jon Stewart
At a time when some critics insist that content in newspapers is unofficially for sale, Creative Loafing's Tampa edition is about to put that notion to the test.
To raise money for The Children's Home charity, Creative Loafing in Tampa has opened an online auction allowing the highest ...
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I've been waylaid for much of today by problems with a virus in my office computer, so apologies for the lack of posts today.
But Nielsen has begun reporting TV ratings reports again after a power outage in Oldsmar during the wee hours Wednesday morning disrupted data collection efforts. ...
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Katie Holmes
When I toured The Nielsen Company's $80-million, 475,000-square-foot data processing center in Oldsmar a few years ago, officials presented a facility poised to withstand just about anything the Tampa Bay area could dish out. A fortified data collection area was built to endure a hurricane. ...
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Katie Holmes
There have been rumblings for a while that former WFTS-Ch. 28 general manager Bill Carey might land a job as news director at New York CW affiliate WPIX. The station made it official today, announcing Carey as it's new news director, importing him to his New York hometown from a job as ...
Comedy
The cool kids may never admit they read his books. But I'm not ashamed to say I have been a Stephen King fan since his second book, 1975's Salem's Lot , led me to keep the lights on at night -- every night! -- while in junior high school. So joining a sold-out crowd of hundreds at the Van ...
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Larry King
Sold
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The cool kids may never admit they read his books. But I'm not ashamed to admit I have been a Stephen King fan since his second book, Salem's Lot , led me to keep the lights on at night while in high school. So joining a crowd of hundreds at the Van Wezel Hall in Sarasota Monday to genuflect ...
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As Sarah Palin kicks off a media blitz this week to hawk her new book, Going Rogue , you have to wonder how the national media got hornswoggled into this mess. Even as major interviews with infotainment figures such as Oprah Winfrey and Barbara Walters air in syndicated TV and on ABC, ...
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Sarah Palin
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Barbara Walters
ABC
Former St. Petersburg Times publisher Marty Petty has been named CEO of the Tampa-based chain of alternative weekly newspapers, Creative Loafing. Petty, who left a position as the Times ' publisher and executive vice president last month, takes the job once held by Ben Eason , whose family ...
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Ever try to get a word in edgewise when two siblings are fighting?
Then you know how I felt on Sunday morning, trying to get in-between Baltimore Sun TV critic David Zurawick and CNN staffer-turned-conservative talk radio guy Chris Plante on Howard Kurtz media show for CNN, Reliable Soruces. ...
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CNN
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A deputy in the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office is suing the owner of CBS affiliate WTSP-Ch. 10 and reporter Mike Deeson , saying the station aired a story unfairly edited to make it appear the officer was laughing at quadriplegic jail inmate Brian Sterner when he was dumped from a ...
