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World Cancer Day, February 4, 2012, is officially here. And as a global advocacy day, people and organizations are getting involved all over the world -- including celebrities.

Dr. Irving Fradkin has spent the last 50-plus years forging friendships with people who, like him, want to make higher education affordable for all students.

She led the Today show to great success, but her five-year stint as CBS Evening News anchor was a ratings bust.

Katie Couric has spoken about her upcoming talkshow Katie . Last year, Couric signed a deal with ABC to host and produce a daytime talkshow.

Why daytime? "I wanted to get back to a place where I could really interact with people, really hear their stories, be spontaneous, fly by the seat of my pants in a live format, and just explore issues in a more natural environment," says Couric.

The major networks are busily canceling soap operas, replacing them with panel-style clones of ABC's The View at about one-third the cost.

The one-hour, live daily show from the award-winning journalist, best-selling author and popular television personality will premiere on Citytv in .

Katie Couric 's talk show for ABC/Disney is the most talked about, most anticipated, best positioned and by all accounts the most expensive of the bumper crop of syndicated talkers hitting the airwaves this September seeking to fill the "Oprah void" in afternoon television.

"America Now" Distributor: Bellum Entertainment Producer: Raycom, ITV Studios America Notebook: Two half-hours back-to-back, hosted by Leeza Gibbons and Bill Rancic.

Katie Couric's new talk show is the highest-profile entry in next year's crowded talkshow field.

Today, on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, let's revisit the ways restaurants were pretty much at the center of the Civil Rights Movement.

Sixty years ago, on January 14, 1952, the "Today" show, the first morning TV program of its kind, made its debut on NBC in New York City.

Agnes Nixon , days of our lives , General Hospital , Katie Couric , Laurence Fishburne , Marcia Cross , One Life To Live , The Bold and the Beautiful , The Revolution , The Young and the Restless , Tommy Lee Jones Agnes Nixon is losing two of her creations in the matter of 4 months as ABC ends One Life to Live after a 43-year run on daytime ... (more)

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