Word: channelized
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...Macy & Co., exploiting the current faddishness of anything interactive, unveiled plans to create what amounts to its own private home-shopping channel, "TV Macy's," by next year. In partnership with Cablevision Systems Corp., the department-store chain hopes, rather optimistically, to reach 20 million subscribers 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Another partner is Don Hewitt, the septuagenarian executive producer of 60 Minutes...
...recorded as customers asked for them -- a heretical idea that was instantly condemned by the music industry. Now Macy's (the 135-year-old department store) has announced its deal with Don Hewitt (the 70-year-old executive producer of 60 Minutes) to create a Macy's home-shopping channel -- an imitative idea that was instantly pooh-poohed by the TV and retailing establishments...
...level, the issue in all these cases is simple, even banal: How will the artifacts of leisure be distributed? But the outcomes of all the corporate scheming and sniping will powerfully shape the way we live our 21st century lives. The proposed Macy's channel isn't causing much of a ruckus since no one is seriously threatened by it, even though TV shopping is already a shockingly big business (about $2 billion in annual sales). But until TV is fully interactive and viewers can browse through any sort of merchandise they want at will, home shopping will remain...
...This year is a step in refining my ideas about what women need," Baliga says, although she has not decided what she will do after her year or two in California. She hopes her work will help her decide how to "channel [her] energies into serving women for the rest of [her] life...
Meanwhile, back on the Internet sex channel, the online orgy is winding down. Suzi and Norm have consummated their encounter, and the voyeurs who had gathered to watch have started to drift away. Hoping to rekindle some heat, one bystander tentatively approaches Annabeth and slips his hand under her sweater. But rejection in cyberspace can be uniquely swift and stinging: Annabeth types back that she is snapping off her suitor's sex organ and tossing it over her shoulder. So much for safe romance...