Word: channelers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into the culture as an increasingly dominant force on cable TV. The cartoonishly staged wrestling programs airing on USA, TNT and TBS continue to draw millions of young male viewers, occupying a majority of the top spots on lists of cable's most watched shows. Next month the FX channel will launch The Toughman Championship Series, a program that will pit real-life paunchy men against each other in purportedly unscripted boxing matches. Since January, TNN has offered RollerJam, a venue for voluptuous women in Lycra to go at one another on Rollerblades. Dancing women without Rollerblades--or much clothing...
...Show, which was snapped up by Comedy Central after ABC passed on it, is sure to generate the most chatter, given its time slot following the channel's successful animated comedy South Park. Instead of words of wisdom from exotic dancers, here we get household hints from adult-film stars, girls jumping on trampolines, and hosts Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Carolla (the show's creators) drinking beer as they make fun of marriage, Oprah and movies starring Bette Midler--subjects lots of awful sitcoms already skewer, and for free...
...gloomy poetry read under the blankets and angry rock songs rehearsed in the garage, can now mean a quick ticket to the doctor's office. And it doesn't take a lot of acting up for a restless teenager to attract professional attention. On a website sponsored by Channel One, a television network for school-age youth, a recent posting written with the help of the National Association for Mental Illness classified the following behaviors as possible symptoms of manic depression in teens: "increased talking--the adolescent talks too much," "distractibility," "unrealistic highs in self-esteem--for example, a teenager...
...this was good news for the rapidly fattening bottom line of Direct Response Marketing, a tiny pharmaceutical firm in the British Channel Islands that trades in trendy pills at the website lifestyledrugs.com To his inventory of Viagra (for impotence), Propecia (for balding) and Zyban (to quit smoking), owner Tom O'Brien last week added the much hyped Xenical. Result: a tidal wave of U.S. Web surfers that overwhelmed his staff of four. "We're averaging about 60 to 70 orders an hour," O'Brien reports. "It's wiped...
...sort of hard, honestly, to have it both ways," Rudenstine said. "Once [the discussion] channel is open, its a little odd to see other channels be opened in ways that can actually be disruptive...