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NBC and Discovery Communications Inc. are expected to seal a deal Wednesday for Saturday mornings.
Sources said the two companies are finalizing an agreement in which Discovery will lease three hours of Saturday-morning time from NBC to produce Discovery-branded kids' programming starting next fall.
Sources said Discovery will pay NBC close to $6 million per year over three years and also handle ad sales for the kids' block. NBC and Discovery executives had no comment.
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The programming is said to be a mixture of Federal Communications Commission-friendly science and nonscience series for kids.
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