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Problem is, NBC still has to operate in the old system. That system depends on affiliates, the infrastructure of broadcast TV since Uncle Miltie's day. (Right now, those affiliates have great, if temporary, leverage, because NBC needs them to play nice while it's being sold to cable operator Comcast.) And it depends on pleasing an audience used to ER and Law & Order at 10, not Jaywalking. (See TIME's photo-essay "Behind the Scenes with Jay Leno...
Having been burned by the Leno experiment, NBC now says it's going "back to basics." If only it could. I hope the end of Leno at 10 will open room for great new shows on NBC, but the basics of TV aren't going to revert back to the flush 20th century days. Instead, NBC will focus not on inventing TV's next business plan but on trying to be one of the networks left standing when the old plan finally craps out. Simple tooth-and-claw survival: it's the oldest business model...
...nation's largest financial firms on Wednesday, spoken to a commission set up by an act of Congress to investigate the causes of last year's credit crunch. But more than a year after poor lending standards, unregulated products and bonus bonanzas helped spark the worst recession since the Great Depression, many say that reining in Wall Street is the only way to prevent another financial crisis. (Read "Hearings to Begin on Causes of Financial Crisis...
...good performances from several of our freshmen,” Saretsky said. “Some of them were great, getting out there for the first time...
...Sean Gil winning the meet was a great performance,” Saretsky said...