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NEW YORK - Television heads into its biggest week with the hangover from a 100-day writers strike persisting. Viewership is down, although it's hard to tell how much the strike is to blame. This week's "upfront" presentations by broadcasters outlining their fall schedules, which annually precedes a multibillion dollar ad buying binge, promises to be much different than before. "The strike had a number of impacts," said Alan Wurtzel, NBC Universal research chief, "but as with everything it's never very clear or direct or black and white." ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC had nearly 9 percent fewer viewers...
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