"We're members of a very big campaigning group called the species survival network and we do believe we have a very wide consensus among groups on this particular issue, " he said.

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Also pulling down the cumulative total was the female-skewing, ratings-light CW, which failed to gain traction with newcomers Melrose Place and the season's first casualty, The Beautiful Life (TBL barely broke the 1 million mark with its second and final episode.) "The prognosis for that network's survival at this point is probably doubtful, " opines Creutz.

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LightSquared, the new kid on the block, is planning an IPO but has almost no chance of success going forward (there has never been a wireless services wholesaler that has made money), and the smaller network operators are struggling for survival.

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The foundation has ponied up millions over the years to groups that include the Center for Ecosystem Survival, the EarthAction Network and the UN Population Fund.

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But these letters, she says, are more than a family's chronicle of survival: They document a vast network of Nazi slave labor camps, about which very little has been written even today.

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We know that as a network executive, ABC's President of Advertising Sales Mike Shaw has a vested interest in the survival of the traditional 30-second commercial, but his recent assertion that consumers don't really care about the ad-skipping functionality of their DVRs strikes us as being way off the mark.

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