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...evening around the prime-time schedule, watching series at their appointed time or waiting for reruns or video. But suddenly, the cafeteria workers who run network TV are loosening their hairnets and offering viewers vending machines and takeout. In October, the Walt Disney Co., the parent company of the ABC network, cut a deal with iTunes to sell episodes of shows such as Lost and Desperate Housewives for $1.99 apiece. A few weeks later CBS and NBC Universal struck deals to sell shows, hours after their airing, via video on demand (VOD) for 99¢ a pop from cable company Comcast...
...would people pay to watch shows they can get for free? For the same reasons, networks hope, that they buy DVDs of shows: convenience, instant gratification and the ability to skip ads. (CBS's offerings have commercials, though viewers can skip them; NBC's and ABC's do not.) Considering what big business DVDs have become, this could mean a big shift in how TV is watched and paid for. "Over the next five years," says NBC Universal Television Group president Jeff Zucker, "the world is going to change. Broadcast television will remain an incredibly important vehicle in society...
...shoe designer finished fourth among 2001's Australia crew. A co-host of ABC's The View since 2003, she had a baby in April with NFL-quarterback spouse Tim Hasselbeck...
...mirror. But for that approach to work, she says, she'd have needed to practice it for six to 12 stress-free months on a secluded island. Instead, she went on the drugs and felt better in two weeks. Author of the recently reprinted handbook Depression Explained (ABC Books), Smith espouses the biological theory of depression, of which, in her view, serotonin deficiency is just a component. "The pathway into depression is via anxiety and the overproduction of cortisol," she says. Depression still descends on her intermittently. She can "feel the biology kicking in," she says; when that happens...
...Vice President in his opposition to 90 senators, Colin Powell, the advice of the 9/11 Commission Report, domestic law, and international law. It is such inconsistencies that have led more than half of Americans to doubt Bush’s integrity for the first time ever according to an ABC News and Washington Post poll. Rarely does a case divide itself on such clear moral lines. A moral president would not disagree...