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ABC televising tightrope walk over Niagara Falls

Friday, May 11, 2012
FILE- In this Aug. 3, 2011, file photo, tightrope walker Nik Wallenda poses for a photo after a news conference in Niagara Falls, N.Y. Wallenda will try to cross the Niagara Gorge on a tightrope June 15. The seventh-generation member of the Flying Wallendas spent months getting the necessary permissions from Canada and the United States for the cross-border stunt. (AP Photo/David Duprey, File)

FILE- In this Aug. 3, 2011, file photo, tightrope walker Nik Wallenda poses for a photo after a news conference in Niagara Falls, N.Y. Wallenda will try to cross the Niagara Gorge on a tightrope June 15. The seventh-generation member of the Flying Wallendas spent months getting the necessary permissions from Canada and the United States for the cross-border stunt. (AP Photo/David Duprey, File)

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  Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) - May 11, 2012 (WPVI) -- ABC is turning Nik Wallenda's attempted tightrope walk over Niagara Falls into a prime-time television event next month.

The network said Friday it will devote its entire prime-time schedule to a three-hour special on June 15 with the daredevil's attempt. Part of the show will be an examination of the greatest stunts of all time.

Wallenda is a member of the famous daredevil family. His great-grandfather, Karl, fell to his death in a tightrope walk in Puerto Rico at age 78.

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Daredevils routinely used to make tightrope walks over the Niagara River gorge, downstream of the falls, until the practice was banned. Nik Wallenda's stunt will be the first attempted walk over the falls themselves.

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