Word: channelized
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...three hours before a Dallas Mavericks home basketball game, and team owner Mark Cuban is sitting with his bare feet on the coffee table, surfing satellite-TV offerings on five huge screens in his courtside suite at the American Airlines Center. Clicking on Channel 199, he pauses to watch a bikini-clad woman conducting a tour of an Egyptian temple. The picture is startling not because of the bikini but because everything seems so real--as if the woman and the temple were somehow just outside the window. "It's like being there, isn't it?" asks Cuban, with something...
...then, he is the owner of the channel onscreen. Having made his first million dollars on computer networks in the '80s and his first billion on the Internet in the '90s, Cuban is now betting on high-definition television, which uses digital technology to produce a picture four times as sharp as that of its nearest competitor. Last September, eager to broadcast Mavericks games in the high-definition format and frustrated by the industry's slow conversion to digital, Cuban launched HDNet --the first national TV network to offer all its programming in high def. On the air 16 hours...
...executives--even MTV's--about The Osbournes, and they will tell you the channel got lucky in a way you can't duplicate. (MTV will have to drop the show after one season unless the family consents to another; the network may stretch the 10 planned episodes to 13.) This is true in the literal sense: when Ozzy was created, he bit the head off the mold. NBC Entertainment president Jeff Zucker says, "I don't think you can just do The Lees now, as in Tommy...
November: I purchase a toy F-14 at the Discovery Channel Store for $2.50. It now protects the papers on my desk...
...Bush administration is wisely attempting to restore a non-violent channel for pursuing Palestinian national aspirations - to create hope, because suicide terrorism thrives on despair. McVeigh's acolytes were few because even those who share his grievances have other channels of expression in a democratic society. Right now, most Palestinians see violence as the only way to pursue independence and an end to the occupation...