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Burnett's show is called Gold Rush, and that's pretty much what's going on here. NBC Universal Television Group CEO Jeff Zucker says digital ad opportunities were "all advertisers wanted to talk about" before this spring's "upfronts," where the networks announce their fall schedules to Madison Avenue. Who can blame them? According to technology-analysis firm Forrester Research, 28% of U.S. households had broadband access in 2005--and that's not counting access at work, which is prime time for online TV. (When CBS streamed NCAA basketball this spring, it included a "boss button" that fans could...
...your HD video wall, telepathy phone or iPod contact lens. Or, at least, online and TV could well be separate but more equal. To advertisers, who still pay for most of TV, a picture is a picture. "We're not really calling it TV anymore--it's video," says Jeff Minsky, director of emerging media platforms at advertising agency OMD Digital. Call it what you want, the future of TV is coming soon to your screen. And your other one, and your other one, and your other...
...Senate bill's backers call Hastert's hearings a stalling tactic. "It's hard to conclude that this is anything but an effort to kill it for the year," says Arizona Republican Jeff Flake. But they can take the game on the road too. Senate Judiciary chairman Arlen Specter said last week he'd hold hearings--to boost the legislation...
...hired an M.C. who every mother-in-law would love." But in the reality-TV era, talk and game shows allow, if not require, more edge. We've gone from Bill Cullen's genial cheerleading to Gordon Ramsay's four-letter culinary arias on Hell's Kitchen and Jeff Probst's tribal-council interrogations on Survivor. Once Rosie O'Donnell was a Broadway-belting ball of sunshine; now she's a pugilistic, out-lesbian activist--which probably made her a perfect choice to join the morning free-for-all on The View...
...Franklin is thought to have written, "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." I am not willing to give up the constitutional freedoms that Americans have died to protect just because I have nothing to hide. Jeff Morris Saugerties, New York, U.S. Even if the NSA and the president never abuse the power to invade the privacy of Americans, who can say that a future Administration will not abuse the power obtained through the precedent? History teaches that the dearly bought rights of individuals may be more easily lost...