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...used to be that hit shows aired once or twice on a TV network, then had an afterlife in seemingly endless reruns on local stations or down-the-dial cable outfits. Today, however, series such as Lost, Battlestar Galactica and The Office are treated to multiformat distribution: they are sold as downloads or video-on- demand, cut and clipped for cell phones and marketed via online video blogs or audio podcasts, sometimes hours after they air on television. Or sometimes before. Late last month, NBC debuted another new Wolf drama, Conviction, on Apple's iTunes weeks before its network premiere...
Like television, radio is dealing with its own segmentation issues that are giving static to broadcasters. CBS Radio CEO JOEL HOLLANDER, who recently lost his big moneymaker, Howard Stern, to satellite radio, spoke to TIME's Daren Fonda about reviving his business and keeping listeners on the terrestrial dial...
...teachers. Kathy Kelly, 58, plans to cross over. In her 36 years with IBM, she has stuck with the company through 18 different job titles and assignments in China and Chicago. As the single mother of two school-age children, Kelly isn't ready to retire but needs to dial back the 24/7 demands of her job as a global-strategies director. Teaching middle-school math will better match her schedule to her children's, she says, while "fulfilling an old dream and giving me new challenges...
...Every time the coming-of-age story rips off “The Lion King.” Then, drunk-dial the Disney animation team and ask why they can’t stick to destroying one move at a time...
...Keep a Secret? By Sophie Kinsella Dial Press Trade Paperback...