All Quiet At Networks Ahead Of TV Upfront

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With some $500 million expected to be redistributed among the six major broadcast networks in this year’s upfront buying season—in light of NBC’s prime-time nosedive and ABC’s bump upward—the nets were scrambling late last week to finalize their 2005-06 programming schedules, under tighter security than in recent memory.

“Last year, ABC and Fox had already sent us tapes of some of the shows that would be on their schedules,” said one media-agency executive, speaking on condition of anonymity.

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