NEW YORK (AP) — NBC won't be missing any opportunity this week to promote the opening of NFL football's new season.
The "Today" show, the Weather Channel, Telemundo and E! Entertainment all are reporting live this week from Green Bay, where NBC is televising Thursday's opening game between the Packers and New Orleans Saints.
Jay Leno is promoting the start of NBC's football …
The Associated Press-GfK Poll on President Obama, the direction of the country and health care was conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Media from March 3-8. It is based on landline and cell phone telephone interviews with a nationally representative random sample of 1,002 adults. Interviews were conducted with 702 respondents on landline telephones and 300 on cellular phones.
Digits in the phone numbers dialed were generated randomly to reach households with unlisted and listed landline and cell phone numbers.
Interviews were conducted in both English and Spanish.
As is done routinely in surveys, results were weighted, or adjusted, to …
LOS ANGELES VH1 is getting behind the music-and replacing a lot ofit with comedies and dramas.
The cable network announced it plans to debut a slate of originalprogramming over the next year that includes scripted series, realityshows and feature-length films.
"We tried really hard to make sure that all our new shows arefundamentally about music," said Lauren Zalaznick, head of originalprogramming at VH1.
Among the new …
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Venus Williams needed three sets to win her opening match at the Italian Open on Monday, beating Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic 6-2, 4-6, 6-2.
"I was OK with the match being a little longer," Williams said. "I just I want to hit balls. In a way it's not too bad to go three sets. "
She appeared to take control of the clay-court match in the first set, firing eight aces and as many winners in 28 minutes.
However, the American's service levels dropped and Safarova started playing her powerful groundstrokes deeper in the second set. Williams was broken in the third game and was unable to break back with Safarova serving out to …
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DILI, East Timor - Nobel Peace Prize winner Jose Ramos-Horta was sworn in as East Timor's second president on Sunday, vowing to unite the desperately poor nation just over a year after violence brought down its first government.
Ramos-Horta was sworn in by Francisco "Lu-Olo" Guterres, the head of parliament whom he beat convincingly in elections earlier this month.
"I swear in the name of God and the people ... to consolidate freedom and national unity with all the energy that I have," Ramos-Horta said.
Campaigning in the tiny nation bordering Indonesia was largely peaceful and Ramos-Horta's decisive victory has led to hopes of an era of peace and stability …
