Word: channeler
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...Even though it occurred late at night on a holiday weekend, preliminary reports suggest that millions upon millions tuned in and logged on to follow the shocking tragedy as it unfolded. Page views of CNN's web site, for instance, quadrupled on Saturday night, while the network?s cable channel got an unusually high 7.6 rating at the midnight hour ? the moment news of Diana's death began to seep through. To put that in context, events such as the World Trade Center bombing or the Los Angeles quake barely registered a 3 rating. "My sense is it's just...
...Communications Commission, at the behest of Congress, handed out prized space on public airwaves to the nation's television broadcasters, space that would have fetched the public as much as $70 billion at auction. The broadcasters got better than a good deal on the new frequencies (effectively, a second channel for each of the nation's 1,500 TV stations). They got them for free. "The largest single grant of public property to a single industry in this generation," grumbles FCC chairman Reed Hundt, who favored an auction of the spectrum space...
...idea behind the giveaway was that the new channels would be used to provide high-definition television (HDTV), which features razor-sharp pictures and CD-quality sound, as well as a host of other digital services. Broadcasters argued that without getting the channels for free, they could never afford to develop HDTV. And, they emphasized, it was only a loan: by 2006, the rollout of digital TV would be complete, and they would give back their old analog channel space. Fair enough, perhaps, if seeing Dan Rather's pores clearly is worth $70 billion to the nation...
...becomes more egregious, which is unsurprising, given their lobbying clout with Congress--$7 million worth in the past two 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...
While bouncing supply ships off his space station, cosmonaut Vasily Tsibliyev found time to star in a commercial. The fruits of his labor premiere Friday when Israel's Channel Two runs an ad for Tnuva, an Israeli brand of long-life milk, featuring Tsibliyev drinking a floating blob of it on the Mir space station. Hope Tsibliyev is getting royalties ? Russia is still considering withholding his flight bonus for his orbital fender-bender...