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Still, parents may be pleasantly surprised at some of the new, albeit mandated offerings on the networks this fall. Science Court on abc and The New Ghostwriter Mysteries on cbs look particularly promising. nbc took a somewhat lower and less imaginative road by filling up two hours with Saved by the Bell: The New Class, Saved by the Bell: The New Class (adventure series), Hang Time and Hang Time (adventure series...
Well, television is not the evil destroyer of all that is right in this world. In fact, and we say this with all the disdain we can muster for the elitists who purport otherwise--TV is good. --from an ABC ad for the new season...
...years. A clause buried in this summer's balanced-budget act, pushed by House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senator Trent Lott, allows stations to keep both their old and new channel space beyond 2006 as long as 15% of households in their markets are still using analog sets. And ABC president Preston Padden has disclosed that his network will probably forgo broadcasting HDTV altogether and instead cram a combination of several standard-definition channels and even some pay-TV programs into the digital pipe. Infuriated public watchdogs see this as sleight of hand. "They get all this spectrum for free...
...ABC's backtrack on HDTV came as little surprise to many industry watchers. "The great myth here is that this was all about HDTV," says Hundt. "HDTV has been a fraud by the broadcasters all these years." Indeed, broadcasters claim that in the frequency consumed by a single HDTV transmission, they can "multicast" several channels of lower-grade digital pictures, which, to the average couch potato, are indistinguishable from the real thing. "The technology is getting so good that we can contemplate multiple channels without any difference in picture quality that the consumer is going to see," Padden told TIME...
...often been hard to cry for Princess Diana. When the marriage of the century turned cold, there was the wronged Princess, insistent, inescapable. There were the oh-so-shocking revelations of "Diana, Her True Story." There was the ABC interview in November: the barely uncried tears. Wherever the cameras looked, the martyr Diana was there, comforting lepers, selling her gowns, squabbling over that (deservedly) monstrous divorce settlement...