Word: eras
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When ER goes off the air April 2, we will say goodbye to more than the medical staffers who have lived, loved and been tragically killed off for sweeps over the years. We will also say goodbye to the era of broadcast TV it represented: the era of big shows, big audiences and big money...
...cable and going online, the formerly mass networks are losing money and cultural clout. Next fall NBC will give Jay Leno five hours of prime time a week because he's cheaper than producing Medium. Programmers and cultural critics are warning of the end of the mass-media era, when shows from I Love Lucy to Seinfeld joined tens of millions of Americans in a common experience...
...most obvious reason the small-TV era has made television better is the rise of cable. Even as Fox finds new hours on the clock to air American Idol, brilliant comedies and (especially) dramas on cable are flourishing - Breaking Bad, United States of Tara, In Treatment, Rescue Me and The Colbert Report, just for starters...
...learn how to handle cars that have undergone fewer hours of wind-tunnel testing than last year's. But the new rules won't just show up on the track. For thousands of high-tech suppliers like Xtrac, many of them clustered around Oxford in southern England, recession-era racing and shrinking budgets are the next big challenge. The industry is typically "very resilient, and very resourceful," says Chris Aylett, head of Britain's Motorsport Industry Association. But for a few, "there will be genuine job losses. And some won't make it through." (See pictures of the history...
...mainly center-left opposition, but he has also had to cope with sniping from his own president, Vaclav Klaus. Klaus has been outspoken about his criticisms of every aspect of the E.U., even telling the European Parliament last month that it was an elitist project comparable to Soviet-era dictatorships...