Word: channelized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...deep commitment that the band seems unwilling or unable to make. The gospel-tinged Get Right with Me cuts off before it culminates, just as the music and singing are reaching a climax. In other songs, the scanning of religious symbols becomes a numbing succession, like a bored teenager channel-surfing cable networks. Judas the betrayer. Zap. MTV. Zap. The heavenly host. It's religiosity chic and not the thing itself. Something essential is missing -- true faith perhaps. Zap. The trigger finger of Depeche Mode (French for fast fashion) flips the channel changer to the next emotion, the next trend...
Everybody knows what to do with the television. You turn it on, choose a channel and let advertising, news and entertainment flow into your home...
...have to wait long to find out. By this time next year, vast new video services will be available, at a price, to millions of Americans in all 50 states. Next spring Hughes Communications will introduce DirecTv, a satellite system that delivers 150 channels of television through a $700 rooftop dish the size of a large pizza pie. At about the same time, Tele- Communications, Inc. (TCI), the world's biggest cable-TV operator, will begin marketing a new cable decoder that can deliver as many as 540 channels; next week it will announce plans to provide this service...
What shape the highway takes will depend to some extent on who ends up building it. The cable companies tend to think in terms of entertaining mass audiences. Their emphasis is on expanded channels, video on demand and video- shopping networks. They admit the possibility of more special-interest programming - such as MTV, the Discovery Channel and Black Entertainment Television - but only if they can be convinced that the demographics are sufficiently attractive...
Earlier this academic year, the department experienced severe problems with its radio and telephone systems. In December, the department lost one of its radio channels, forcing the escort service, parking office and security office to use the same channel, according to department employees. Several security guards interviewed in January said the radio logjam might hurt their ability to respond in an emergency...