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	Cable's Bold Move

Lacey Rose

3-4-2008 12:18 PM

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Lacey Rose says:

Cable is increasingly offering daring (and often highly entertaining) content and viewers have taken notice. Now the Turner network group is hoping advertisers will too.

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