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Article: Bowl Games Skew 'World News' Start; ABC News Omits Two Nights' Ratings.(World News Tonight, television news program)
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- TelevisionWeek
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- January 9, 2006
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Byline: Michele Greppi
ABC News went to a lot of expense and trouble to add, among other things, an extra live broadcast of "World News Tonight'' every night in the Pacific time zone.
Then the news division asked ABC-owned KABC-TV in Los Angeles and KGO-TV in San Francisco not to carry the revamped "WNT,'' now officially anchored by Elizabeth Vargas and Bob Woodruff, on its first two nights last week.
Why? Because college football bowl games being broadcast on the network would push "WNT'' out of its usual 6:30 time slot in the Pacific time zone and into earlier time slots where it was sure to get lower-than-usual ratings.
By not ...