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By Staff -- Broadcasting & Cable, 8/15/2004 8:00:00 PM
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Borderline Reality Kilborn To Leave Late, Late Show NBC Extends KNTV Reach |
Borderline Reality
Los Angeles—A number of immigrant-advocacy groups are publicly condemning Gana la Verde, a reality show in which illegal immigrants face off in Fear Factor-like contests to win a year of legal assistance toward getting their green cards.
The show airs on Liberman Broadcasting's KRCA Los Angeles and on the company's other Hispanic stations in San Diego, Houston and Dallas.
The American Immigration Lawyers Association and other legal and local advocacy groups say the show puts participants in danger of being exposed to immigration authorities and deported.
Three members of Congress, Reps. Xavier Becerra (D-Los Angeles), Hilda Solis (D-El Monte) and Linda Sanchez (D-Lakewood), also are concerned.
The show launched on July 1 to little fanfare. Since then, it has attracted average audiences of a million viewers, and the show's host, George X, is being hit up by fans who want to come on the show.
Kilborn To Leave Late, Late Show
Los Angeles—Craig Kilborn, host of CBS's Late, Late Show With Craig Kilborn, has decided not to reup after five years on the air. Kilborn airs at 12:35 a.m. ET, facing NBC's Late Night With Conan O'Brien and the second half-hour of ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live. While Kilborn routinely comes in second to O'Brien, his audience has grown 34% since its 1999 premiere. He had been talking to CBS about signing a multi-year deal but decided he'd like to try his hand at writing and producing.
NBC Extends KNTV Reach
San Francisco—NBC won its battle to regain the San Francisco viewers lost two years ago when it dropped longtime affiliate KRON and moved its programming to San Jose O&O KNTV. The FCC Friday approved NBC's request to move KNTV's transmitter from southwest of San Jose to an antenna farm 40 miles to the north. The move allows KNTV to bring NBC programming to roughly 400,000 viewers in the San Francisco area who have been without it since 2002, the FCC said. Although more than a million people in the Monterey/Salinas markets will lose KNTV service in the move, all but 21,000 will get NBC programming from other affiliates.
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