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us now. great to see you as always. this is a serious escalation. how do you see it? >> this is an escalation that china had been worning about in the weeks prior to this trip that pelosi was taking p the question is was it worth it, was anything substantive made during these meetings that she had on the ground there, symbolically this was a huge move, showing once again the united states stands in support of taiwan. and their autonomy there. that having been said, given the tensions, ...

The nfl preseason kicking off today with the jaguars taking on the raiders, and joining us now with a preview is harry enten. all right, this is a big day. >> this is it. >> huge day. how many people will be tuning in to the preseason openers. >> you say preseason, who gives a hoot about the preseason. but the fact of the matter is that 7.3 million people tuned into the first preseason game last year. it was the second highest rated thursday night primetime show from july to august, only the oly...

Thousand and six freezing temperatures not necessary as the ice is kept cool by machines. on wednesday a new central library is opening in the finnish capital how thinking it will be named the library is a present from the finns to themselves on one hundred thousand of us three of their independence from russia is rings out a year of celebration libraries in helsinki are the second highest rated public service after drinking water and we have around six point five million visits to our libraries...

I was completely surprised when abc decided to cancel the show because even though the ratings fell from its debut, it finished the season as one of the highest rated shows of the tv season, depending on what metric you look at, it was either the highest rated or the second highest rated show right behind "the big bang theory." so even though ratings had dropped, this was a show that was right at top of the ratings, and that they were centering their fall strategy on. so to have them cancel it a...

Are you going to cancel "the apprentice"? whats going to happen? and multiply that by all the people who are at the network. i do think that for abc, we had a couple of things in play here. we had the fact that abcs owned by disney, and disney has a very definite family-friendly, inclusive brand that bob iger has defended quite often. and there was a sense that this kind of statement violated that. and certainly they may have felt some pressure to deal with that. there was also a sense that boyc...

>> this was also an incredibly profitable show for abc. clearly there was an appetite in the country for a show like the show she was doing. it was one of the highest rated, if not the highest rated program and for them to make this statement seems quite remarkable. >> yes. depending on what measures you look at, it was either the highest rated or second most -- second highest rated show on television through its reboot season. this was a show that abc seemed to have put, centered its fall strat...

Controversial changes. "last man standing" was canceled despite it being the second highest rated comedy. could they change it despite the success because maybe network executives dont feel the show is going the way they want it to? well have to wait and see. i predicts there will be some politics next season. >> heather: last man standing picked up by fox. >> bill: so what is kim jong-un up to now? questions about that summit going forward in singapore despite threats from the north to cancel. ...

We are a few hours away from the grammys, typically the second highest rated award show of the year after the oscars. and were a week away from the boigest tv event of them all, the super bowl. millions of viewers will be texting and tweeting and face booking the whole time. the media business is focused on trying how to better connect all those online conversations to actual television viewership. sites like twitter become more valuable when people use them to talk about tv. cable channels like...

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