Gretchen Carlson & Shandi Finnessey on FOX News, May 11, 2010

From May 11, 2010:
Fox News' Gretchen Carlson, Miss America 1989, interviews Shandi Finnessey, Miss USA 2004 about the photo shoot controversy surrounding the 2010 Miss USA contestants, as well as the differences between the two pageants.

**One note on a comment made by Finnessey -- she stated that the Miss America pageant was without a broadcast outlet for the first time in many years, which Carlson seemed to indicate was incorrect. As it turns out, Finnessey was right at the time... As of May 11th, during this segment, the Miss America program had been dropped earlier this year by the TLC cable network after a brief run. Thirteen days later, on May 24th, the ABC network announced a deal to broadcast Miss America, the first time it has aired on network TV in several years.

Either Carlson was being overly defensive about her former pageant, or she
possibly had some inside knowledge of the upcoming TV deal.

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