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Jane Pauley's talk show canceled

By Times Staff
Published March 15, 2005

NEW YORK - Jane Pauley's highly anticipated daytime talk show won't make it to a second season.

NBC Universal Television announced it was canceling The Jane Pauley Show shortly after getting ratings for the February sweeps.

The former Today and Dateline NBC host seemed like a sure thing after 148 of the nation's top 150 markets agreed to air her show before it even started, an unusual vote of confidence.

Ratings started low and improved slowly.

Pauley noted that her audience has grown steadily since November, "but it came far too late for too many (stations) to stick with us."

DAVIE - Danny Joe Brown, the lead singer of the Southern rock band Molly Hatchet, died of complications from diabetes, his family confirmed Monday. He was 53.

Brown died Thursday at his home in Davie, his siste r Lyndia Brown said.

The Jacksonville native joined Molly Hatchet in 1975 and was frontman for its self-titled album in 1978, which went platinum. In 1979 the next album, Flirtin' With Disaster , sold more than 2-million copies.

Brown left the band in the early 1980s because of his diabetes.

After creating his own group, the Danny Joe Brown Band, he rejoined Molly Hatchet in 1982 to participate in the album No Guts ... No Glory . The group eventually disbanded but reunited and toured in 1996 for release of the album Devil's Canyon .

Brown retired after a stroke in 1998, according to reports. He is survived by his wife, Crystle, five children and a stepson. The funeral was set for today at Cooper City.

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