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Overstock.com, based in Utah, suspended its similar "Affiliates" program in New York after the state statute was enacted.

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Though NBC executives insist that the 10 p.m. program was still making money for the network, the affiliates were shedding significant viewership and threatening to pre-empt the series.

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