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...exit polling data. At Likud headquarters, workers were subdued, but had not given up hope. Netanyahu's supporters are counting on the momentum he gained in the final week of campaigning, rising by as much as seven percentage points in some polls. Exit polling also led Israeli television station Channel 1 to predict significant losses for both the Likud and Labor in Israel's parliament, the 120-seat Knesset. The station estimated that Labor would hold 37 of its 44 seats, while it predicted that Likud would retain 31 of its present 40 seats, with other factions picking...
...featured grabby footage of tornadoes, earthquakes and other natural disasters. pbs's Savage Skies spent four hours last week chronicling nature's bad temper. More than two dozen severe-weather videos are on the market--available by mail order, in stores and online--including several from the Weather Channel (Target Tornado) and National Geographic (Nature's Fury!) as well as smaller outfits like Goodtimes Home Video (Twister: Fury on the Plains). Tornado!, a Fox TV movie that aired last week, was the network's second-highest-rated TV film ever, behind The O.J. Simpson Story...
...fewer stations than its network rivals). And it looks awfully lonely on Fox, considering that the network has no plans to start an evening newscast or any other national news show in the immediate future. But with Fox chief Rupert Murdoch vowing to launch a 24-hour cable news channel in the fall--and with a growing roster of network-level talent signing up to help him, led by former CNBC chief Roger Ailes--the concept of Fox News may no longer be an oxymoron...
Starting last fall, however, Murdoch's interest in news suddenly revived. In November he announced plans to start a 24-hour news channel; shortly thereafter two network rivals, ABC and NBC, did the same. Fox seemed especially ill equipped to pull off such an ambitious venture, given that unlike its competitors, it has no news infrastructure to build on. Fox also faces daunting problems getting space on the crowded cable dial. (NBC will put its new network, which debuts in July, on a channel it already owns, America's Talking; ABC hopes to package its service, promised for late this...
...Real Life" airs at 10 a.m. in the Boston area on Channel...