Word: channelling
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Music aficionados, don't touch that dial: 100.3 Jack FM is in random-shuffle mode, and a finicky channel changer might miss the next segment of generation-spanning sounds, which at noon includes Prince, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana and Men at Work. Jack FM is an example of terrestrial radio's answer to the satellite challenge, a hodgepodge of sound and attitude that marries prolonged music streams--sans DJ interruptions and caller requests--with limited commercials and shorter ad blocks. And when there are commercial breaks, a Jack announcer all but apologizes. "Time to pay the bills," he says...
...sports-talk radio. But I want to hear music throughout the workday." Kathy Reinisch, 43, of Fort Worth, loves that she and her 17-year-old son can enjoy the same radio station. "When I used to rock out in the car, he'd complain until I turned the channel. Now songs he likes play right after mine...
...review), they left their own pseudonyms: our assailants were “esqu1n4”, “_TGm_”, “Stealh”, and the mysterious “S.” They also left the address of an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channel. IRC is the online analog to a seedy downtown bar scene—an enormous world-wide free-for-all of public chat rooms where people conduct all sorts of business from arguments about obscure topics in system administration to cruising for dates or trading copyrighted music and movies...
French pay-to-view channel Canal Plus enjoys a reputation as the nation's premier source of TV entertainment, but it has also produced a real-life spy tale worthy of a B movie. Last week former military intelligence agent Pierre Martinet claimed that while working for Canal Plus' internal security unit, he'd been assigned to a secret project designed to smear Bruno Gaccio, lead writer of the channel's popular news parody, Les Guignols de l'Info. Martinet's new book recounts how he shadowed Gaccio for six months in 2002 in what he says was an effort...
MacFarlane hopes that all the buzz from DVDs and merchandise will translate into increased ratings. And selling out? How will it feel going back to a network channel after the devotion engendered by its stint on Adult Swim...