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Michael Strahan, ABC's Good Morning America co-anchor and host of The $100,000 Pyramid, will host Highwire Live in Times Square with Nik Wallenda, along with co-host Erin Andrews. The duo will be live from New York's Times Square as Nik Wallenda and his sister, Lijana, seventh-generation members of the Wallenda…

Nik Wallenda and his sister, Lijana, seventh-generation members of the Wallenda family highwire act, will attempt a walk of approximately 1,300 feet long and 25 stories above street level across New York City's iconic Times Square. The daredevil stunt will take place on Sunday, June 23 and be televised live by ABC as H…

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel this morning declared today Nik Wallenda Day in the city because Wallenda did not plunge to his death last night as he tightrope-walked from skyscraper to skyscraper. Wallenda’s ratings, however, weren’t so lucky. This morning, Discovery Channel sliced and diced the numbers to come up with…

“Listen to that roar!…I love Chicago, and Chicago definitely loves me!” Nik Wallenda boasted as he walked about two city blocks worth of wire suspended between two 500-foot-plus-tall Chicago skyscrapers for Discovery Channel, and about 50,000 people below screamed approval tonight. For the second leg of his walk…

Nik Wallenda will be blindfolded when he performs his tightrope walk between the two 587-foot, 65-story Marina City towers in Chicago, for Discovery Channel, on Sunday, November 2. “Why?” deadpanned Today show’s co-host Matt Lauer, speaking for us all, when Wallenda broke the news this morning on the NBC morning…

Discovery has set November 2 for Nik Wallenda’s Chicago skyscraper tightrope walk. Using dozens of cameras positioned across the city and on helicopters, Discovery will follow Wallenda’s attempted two-part walk, without net or harness, at night, in one of the windiest sections of Chicago. For the first part of the…

Discovery Channel, looking to top Nik Wallenda‘s made-for-TV tightrope walk across the Grand Canyon, has signed Joby Ogwyn to attempt the first wing suit flight off the summit of Mount Everest, live on Discovery Channel in May. The jump — a descent of more than 10,000 vertical feet at speeds of over 150 mph —  will be…

EXCLUSIVE: Discovery Channel, which snared 13 million viewers in June when it telecast Nick Wallenda slowly walking a wire across the Colorado River Gorge while conducting a running dialogue with God and Jesus, will premiere a docu on the controversial life of motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel on October 14. True Evel…

Because aerialist Nik Wallenda did not get a chance to talk to Today B teamers Willie Geist and Natalie Morales while he was walking across the Little Colorado River Gorge for Discovery Channel last Sunday, he will “talk the walk” this Sunday instead, the basic cable network said today. Wallenda had been so busy…

Presumably Discovery Channel would like to continue to do business with Nik Wallenda, after his live Sunday high-wire walk garnered good numbers for the network — weekly ratings came out this morning and Wallenda’s actual walk, which Discovery reported clocked 13 million viewers, would be the week’s…

An average of 13 million people watched Nick Wallenda slowly walk a wire across the Colorado River Gorge while conducting a running dialogue with God and Jesus last night on Discovery Channel. "Oh, I praise you, Jesus. Lord, help this cable to calm down — command it," the 34-year-old aerialist suggested a few yards…

Too bad social media wasn’t around in Evel Knievel’s day. Tightrope walker Nik Wallenda and his 1,400 foot “Skywire” scoot 1,500 feet over the Grand Canyon sans safety harness drew a flurry of online action for Discovery Channel Sunday night. During a post-walk Wallenda interview with the Today Show‘s Willie Geist and…