Article: INSIDE TV & RADIO Fox picks 'So You Think You Can Dance' over Obama news conference

Fox's decision not to carry the presidential news conference Wednesday night at 7 has nothing to do with politics.

It's all business, as the broadcast network had already scheduled a new two-hour edition of "So You Think You Can Dance," one of the most successful summer "reality" shows.

In fact, the originally scheduled airtime for the news conference, 8 p.m., would have meant NBC was going to stick with its new edition of "America's Got Talent." That installment of the top- rated summer "reality" show will feature a Meredith Vieira interview with Susan Boyle, the biggest attempt so far to tie the show to the Boyle phenomenon that got global attention for "Britain's Got Talent."

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