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CBS Remains the Class Act of Upfront Week; Turner Networks are Also on Top
Published: May 20, 2010 at 10:59 AM GMT
Last Updated: July 19, 2010 at 10:59 AM GMT
Leave it to CBS to make the biggest news of Upfront week. That would be its double-barreled decision, announced yesterday, to next season slide its long-running Thursday staple Survivor to Wednesday and, even more shocking, relocate its hottest show, The Big Bang Theory, from Monday to Thursday to lead off that night. Nobody saw those moves coming. In fact, nobody even guessed they would happen. Earlier in the day, Turner Broadcasting wowed the audience of advertiser and agency executives at Hammerstein Ballroom with an impressive production that every year feels more at home amid the broadcast networks' Upfront events. Read more on both events.
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