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For more than two decades, Oprah Winfrey has been the inspirational, change-your-life champion who reigned over daytime television much like Johnny Carson once ruled late night. Now she's ready to say goodbye, leaving a huge void for broadcast TV even as she raises the possibility of more Oprah than ever when she starts her own cable network.

The Detroit Lions' home game against the Cleveland Browns will be blacked out on local TV. Lions spokesman Bill Keenist confirmed Thursday the team did not sell 7,000-plus tickets that were available the previous day. The game featuring two 1-8 teams will be not be shown on TV in the Detroit, Lansing, Saginaw-Flint and Toledo, Ohio, markets.

The University of Memphis does not have a basketball program that feels comfortable emerging from a loss and feeling like a winner. But the Tigers undoubtedly came out of Tuesday's 57-55 loss to No. In a span of a little more than 24 hours, however, Pastner not only secured the nation's No. "If I were a Memphis fan, I would be really pleased," Kansas coach Bill Self said.

15. Listings include the week's ranking, with viewership for the week and season-to-date rankings in parentheses. 1. "NBC Sunday Night Football: New England at Indianapolis," NBC, 22.39 million viewers. 2. "NCIS," CBS, 20.96 million viewers. 3. "Dancing With the Stars," ABC, 17.62 million viewers. 4. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 17.38 million viewers. 5.

Country music helped ABC to its best ratings week in more than a year.

Somewhere in the universe of TV viewers, there's got to be a person who actually likes those pop-up, on-screen promotions. Someone who thinks, "Thank you, network people, for those useful, informative announcements that block what I'm watching to tell me what I'm watching, or tell me what I could be watching next, which will then be blocked by reminders of what I could be watching after that."

CBS Corporation today announced that its Board of Directors has approved a quarterly dividend on the Company's common stock of $.05 per share. About CBS Corporation CBS Corporation is a mass media company with constituent parts that reach back to the beginnings of the broadcast industry, as well as newer businesses that operate on the leading edge of the media industry. SOURCE CBS Corporation.

A British scientist says she is Belle de Jour, the anonymous blogger whose accounts of life as a call girl were turned into books and a TV series. Brooke Magnanti was quoted by the Sunday Times as saying she decided to reveal her secret because she was afraid an ex-boyfriend would expose her. Magnanti, 34, is a child health researcher at the University of Bristol in western England.