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CNN has tapped former NBC Universal chief Jeff Zucker to engineer a ratings revival. Help Jeff out, and come up with the name of a provocative new nightly program to compete with Fox and MSNBC and catapult CNN to the top of the cable-news head
Welcome to The Week's "What Next?" contest, an invitation to test your powers of imagination with challenges inspired by current events.
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Last week's question: CNN has tapped former NBC Universal chief Jeff Zucker to engineer a ratings revival. Help Jeff out, and come up with the name of a provocative new nightly program to compete with Fox and MSNBC and catapult CNN to the top of the cable-news head.
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RESULTS:
THE WINNER: Psychic News Hour: Tomorrow's Headlines Today
Raymond Smith, Lynn, MA
SECOND PLACE: The Bill O'Reilly-Chris Matthews Death Match
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Kitty Howard, Blythewood, SC
THIRD PLACE: All Lindsay All the Time
Mort Oakes, Dover, PA
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The Real Ex-Housewives of Larry King
Angela James, Westminster, MD
Anderson Boo Boo 180
Rebecca Behenna, Cohasset, MA
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