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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 1/3/24)
BET: Tyler Perry’s Sistas (Premiere) at 9pm
CRUNCHYROLL: Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki (Premiere)
CRUNCHYROLL: Classroom of the Elite (Premiere)
FOX: I Can See Your Voice (Premiere) at 8pm
FOX: We Are Family (Premiere) at 9pm
HULU: Ishura (Premiere)
NBC: Magnum P.I. (Finale) at 10pm

It’s almost too late to score advertising for the College Football Playoffs on ESPN – with multi-year viewership highs for college football, Disney reports ad inventory is almost sold out. Michigan faces off with Washington on January 8 for the championship.
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Apple TV+ has ordered season five of “Slow Horses.” Season three of the spy drama, starring Gary Oldman as the head of an office of MI5 rejects, premiered in November; season four is expected to be released by the end of 2024.
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ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars” landed five nominations for the Make-Up Artists & Hairstylists Guild’s MUAHS Awards, followed by three for Prime Video’s “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” Winners will be announced at a ceremony on February 18.
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“Carta de Despedida” (“Farewell Letter”), a Turkish series, will have its US premiere on Tuesday, January 9 on Kanal D Drama. “The Hispanic audience, which loves Turkish stories, will be thrilled by ‘Carta de Despedida,’ a romantic series featuring a talented cast of well-known Turkish actors and an exciting storyline,” said Francheska Leon de la Barra, VP of Marketing and Communications for Thema America. 
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The NHL, National Hockey League Players’ Association and SAP are again recognizing the value of teachers with the Future Goals Most Valuable Teacher program presented by SAP. In its fifth year and in strategic partnership with EVERFI from Blackbaud, the program will recognize 60 teachers across North America, who have used the Future Goals Hockey Scholar program. 
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ESPN apologized for airing a brief video of a woman flashing her breast during the Sugar Bowl. “We regret that this happened and apologize that the video aired in the telecast,” said ESPN’s Senior Director, Communications, Bill Hofheimer.
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ABC’s “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest” was indeed rockin’. The first primetime segment of was up by 35% in Total Viewers (7.0 million vs. 5.2 million) and by 33% among A18-49 (1.81 rating vs. 1.36 rating) to score 3-year highs, a feat also achieved by Part 2, which jumped 30% over the prior year in Total Viewers (10.4 million vs. 8.0 million) and by 32% among A18-49 (2.93 rating vs. 2.22 rating).
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ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” delivered 25.7 million viewers,according to Nielsen fast nationals, becoming one of the three most-watched “MNF” games since 1997. 
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Univision co-founder Gustavo Sisneros died December 29. He was 78. The media magnate, who launched DirecTV in Latin America, was chairman of Grupo Cisneros at the time of his death.
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