Word: channeler
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...news is big business. Last week another media behemoth entered the 24-hour news competition, as Rupert Murdoch launched the Fox News Channel, available initially in 17 million homes. It will vie for viewers with the granddaddy of 24-hour TV news, CNN (whose owner, Turner Broadcasting, last week became part of Time Warner, TIME's parent company), and with MSNBC, the ambitious TV-and-Internet news service launched in July by NBC and Microsoft...
Then there's the competition. AOL, for instance, with more than 6 million subscribers, is revamping its popular Games Channel, which already offers scores of multiplayer games, from strategy and combat games like Air Warriors to classics like chess and Trivial Pursuit, and recently purchased inn to add to its gaming roster. "We're focusing on games that are designed specifically for an online environment," says Lawrence Schick, AOL's general manager for games. "We're really developing a community...
...geeky sci-fi set since the heyday of Dungeons & Dragons in the 1970s. Computer networks make it easier for D&D enthusiasts to find one another and to create game sites that can support hundreds of players at once. The single most popular content area on the Games Channel, says Schick, is a role-playing game called Gemstone...
Think of the impact on some innocent channel surfer who, in looking around for a diverting sporting event a while back, was making his way past MTV at the moment Bill Clinton was discussing his preference in underwear...
Remember: the surfer may not have known that the President was going to appear on MTV to answer the questions of young people, and he may have heard only a clause or two of the President's remarks before going on to the next channel, and he may not have truly registered what he'd heard until halftime in the Australian football game from Melbourne he had finally settled...