A new batch of shows including NBC The Baby Borrowers, The N's Student Body and A&E's Psychic Kids: Children of the Paranormal are once again raising the issue of exploitation.

The FCC formally approved the merger of the nation's only two satellite radio operators Friday, ending a 16-month-long drama closely watched by Washington and Wall Street.

The stalemate continued Friday afternoon over the XM Satellite Radio-Sirius Satellite Radio merger, which was turning into a game of who blinks first. According to a source close to the chairman's side of the negotiations, Commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate had not yet signaled her willingness to sign off on the merger.

Wall Street ended a volatile week with a moderate gain Friday after better-than-expected economic data placated a market pummeled a day earlier by concerns about housing and the financial sector.

General Electric Co. said Friday it will reorganize its operations by folding its six business segments into four, in a bid to improve future growth and prop up a slumping share price. NBC Universal Group remains unchanged.

Allbritton Communications' ABC affil WJLA Washington, D.C., is replacing its Local Point TV multicast channel with programming from Retro Television Network, which supplies way-off-network programming to more than 70 stations