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Your Weekend Viewing/Listening

Some highlights of business programming. (All times are Pacific time.)

Today

* 1 p.m.: “Business Hour with Bob McCormick.” (KNX-AM [1070])

* 2 p.m.: “Tech Hour.” (KNX-AM [1070])

* 3:30 p.m. ,8:30 p.m.: “Moneyline.” (CNN)

* 4 p.m.: “Market Week with Maria Bartiromo.” (CNBC)

* 5:30 p.m.: “Nightly Business Report.” Robert Robbins, chief investment strategist, Robinson-Humphrey. (KCET; also airs at 6:30 p.m. on KOCE)

* 8:30 p.m.: “Wall Street Week With Louis Rukeyser.” Jeffrey Applegate, chief market strategist at Lehman Bros. (KCET; also airs at 6 p.m. Saturday on KOCE)

Saturday

* 4 a.m., 11:30 p.m.: “Your Money.” (CNN)

* 9 a.m.: “The Motley Fool Radio Show.” Investing and the election; holiday retail season; Joel Kotkin, author of “The New Geography,” and Alan Murray, author of “The Wealth of Choices.” (KFI-AM [640])

* 10 a.m.: “Maverick Investing with Doug Fabian.” How to profit, protect and position yourself in a Nasdaq bear market. (KLSX-FM [97.1])

* Noon, 9:30 p.m.: “Moneyweek.” (CNN)

* 12:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m.: “Movers With Jan Hopkins.” (CNN; also airs at 11:30 p.m. Sunday)

* 1 p.m.: “CNet News.com.” (CNBC; also airs at 1 p.m. Sunday)

* 1 p.m.: “Money Talk” with Bob Brinker. (KABC-AM [790]; also airs at 1 p.m. Sunday)

* 2 p.m.: “The Motley Fool Radio Show.” See 9 a.m. Saturday for description. (KERN-AM [1410] Bakersfield)

Sunday

* 4 a.m., 5:30 p.m.: “Pinnacle.” (CNN)

* 9 a.m.: “CBS MarketWatch Weekend.” Henry Blodget on net stocks; voice recognition technology and Comdex. (KCBS)

* 10:30 a.m.: “Wall Street Journal Report.” Telecommuting backlash; buying diamonds online; holiday travel anxiety and the growing inflexibility of flexible spending accounts that’s causing more employees to turn them down. (KABC)

* 3:30 p.m.: “Business Unusual.” (CNN)