The detective series stayed on NBC from 1971 to 1978, took a respite, and returned occasionally on ABC from 1989 to 2003.

The show returned on ABC in the form of a less frequent series of TV-movies, still starring Falk, from 1989 until 2003.

Wife Swap which began in 2003 on Channel 4 and has aired for four seasons on ABC is a notable example.

By end of the 2003 – 2004 television season, ABC slumped to fourth place, becoming the first of the original " Big Three " networks to fall to such a ranking.

ABC finally found reality television prosperity first with Extreme Makeover: Home Edition in 2003 and then with Dancing with the Stars in 2005.

In fall 2003, Game Show Network picked up the rights to the ABC Who Wants to Be a Millionaire with Regis Philbin, and in December, began airing GSN Video Games, the first program to air on the network that had nothing to do with traditional game shows.

* Brandi Milloy, Finalist on the ABC reality show Oprah's Big Give, Two time Miss Sierra Vista 2003 & 2005

He filed a $ 100 million lawsuit in March 2003 against ABC and the producers of Are You Hot ?, claiming the series was based on his radio segment called " The Evaluators ".

After Jack Webb's death, two Dragnet revivals were attempted ; one was for weekly syndication in 1989 and the other was for ABC in 2003.

The Palace Theatre in Oakley has been featured in People magazine and ABC World News after the establishment reopened in 2003 after being forced to close indefinitely two years prior.

* All in the Mind, ABC, Australia ( 2003 )

The Super Bowl was the first of three major professional sports championship series ABC broadcast in 2003, as they would also broadcast the Stanley Cup Finals and the NBA Finals.

In its January 2003 debut on ABC, the first season featured Trista Rehn, the runner-up date from the first season of The Bachelor, offering the opportunity for Rehn to choose a husband among 25 bachelors.

A report released on 20 March 2003, one day before the American led invasion of Iraq, by ABC news detailed several allegations against Uday:

The show began on January 26, 2003, replacing Politically Incorrect ; ABC had originally intended to give Jon Stewart his own late-night program following Nightline, but Kimmel was chosen instead.

On May 24, 2003, the Sun hosted the first regular-season game of its inaugural season, which was shown on ABC, the league's new broadcast partner.

The first Psy-Geo-Conflux event was held in May 2003 at ABC No Rio in New York.

Kerr has also been involved in documentaries, providing the narration for No Survivor-The Mysterious Loss of HMAS Sydney Nine Network Australia ( 1995 ), Malice or Mutiny for the ABC Australia 2003 and Animal X Natural Mystery Unit series for Discovery in the US, TV2 Norway and many others.

David McClure Brinkley ( July 10, 1920 – June 11, 2003 ) was an American newscaster for NBC and ABC in a career lasting from 1943 to 1997.

The show, created by Chuck Ranberg and Anne Flett-Giordano, premiered on ABC on October 1, 2003 and aired to solid ratings until it was cancelled, with two episodes unaired, on April 6, 2004.

One of his most famous works was " Self-Portrait with Spots and Veins " ( 2003 ) He was also featured on the ABC TV profile show Talking Heads.

After its cancellation by NBC in 1978 Columbo was revived on ABC between 1989 and 2003 in several new seasons and a few made-for-TV movie " specials ".

In 2003, due to sagging ratings, ABC cut Kelley's budget in half for the eighth and final season.

In 2003, ABC announced that Janet Jackson would star as Horne in a television biopic.

Jonathan Southworth " John " Ritter ( September 17, 1948 – September 11, 2003 ) was an American actor, voice over artist and comedian perhaps best known for having played Jack Tripper and Paul Hennessy in the ABC sitcoms Three's Company and 8 Simple Rules, respectively.

In 2003, U. S. News and World Report ranked FYRE as the 23rd best first year program in the nation.

In 2003, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) rejected a Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association ( CCTA ) application to bring Fox News to Canada because Fox News U. S. and Global Television were planning to create Fox News Canada ( a combination of U. S. and Canadian news ).

In 2003 it moved to SKY Italia, with U. S. commercials replaced by Fox News Extra segments.

Between 2003 and 2006, in Sweden and the other Scandinavian countries FNC was broadcast 16 hours a day on TV8 ( with Fox News Extra segments replacing U. S. advertising ).

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: The Truth About Bias and the News by Eric Alterman ( 2003 )

A very similar phenomenon by the name " Noodie News " appears in Canadian Margaret Atwood's 2003 novel Oryx and Crake.

* If it looks like a sphere ..., by E. Klarreich, Science News Online, June 14, 2003, Vol 163, No. 24, p 376.

With war still looming on 24 February 2003, Saddam Hussein took part in an interview with CBS News reporter Dan Rather.

* Oryx and Crake ( 2003 ), a speculative fiction novel by Margaret Atwood, occasionally makes mentions of the protagonist and his friend entertaining themselves by watching reality TV shows of live executions, Noodie News, frog squashing, graphic surgery, and child pornography.

In early May 2003, after receiving numerous complaints about newswire stories that referred to the Israel Defence Forces as " Zionazi forces " or to Israelis as " Zionazis ", Google temporarily stopped including some IMCs in Google News searches, justifying the removal by describing the term as a " degrading, hateful slur " and refused to index the Bay Area IMC because it had appeared there ; SF Bay Area Indymedia agreed that it " could be considered hate speech ".

* Brian Mcnair ; News and Journalism in the UK 2003

* Strom Thurmond Dead at 100, By James Di Liberto Jr., Fox News, June 26, 2003

* 2003: Photographic staff of the Rocky Mountain News, " for its powerful, imaginative coverage of Colorado's raging forest fires.

US News & World Report America's Best Colleges 2003 ranked Kalamazoo College's study-abroad program number one in the country.

Jonathan Duffy, BBC News Online, 5 August 2003

* County Jewish organizations protest evangelical attempt by Steven Reiskind ( Boca Raton News ) November 5, 2003

* Sam Waksal: I Was Arrogant, CBS News, October 2, 2003

In a series of transactions consummated in 2003, Hughes Electronics was spun out of GM and the News Corporation purchased a controlling interest in the new company, which was renamed The DIRECTV Group.

In a 2003 editorial, CNET News. com's chief political correspondent, Declan McCullagh, speculated that, soon, every object that is purchased, and perhaps ID cards, will have RFID devices in them, which would respond with information about people as they walk past scanners ( what type of phone they have, what type of shoes they have on, which books they are carrying, what credit cards or membership cards they have, etc .).

News, Summer 2003

A weekly all-local paper, The Livingston Community News, was launched in May 2003 with offices in downtown Brighton and was closed in July 2009 when " The Ann Arbor News, the newspaper's parent company, ceased publication.