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...Leno Show was exactly the wrong solution for NBC's problems, those problems remain real, and they are not only NBC's. DVRs and online media are still killing ad money, and audiences are still shrinking. There may not be room for three big networks programming three hours a night anymore...
...change the TV business model, but it wasn't the only one. Fox recently got Time Warner Cable to agree to pay to retransmit Fox's free over-the-air signal, suggesting that broadcasters could someday operate more like cable channels (with cable subscribers paying for it). Reality shows and newsmagazines are, like the Leno show, devices to fill prime time on the cheap - and they'll fill some of the vacuum left by Leno...
That's the same bind that NBC, and media companies at large, are in. People aren't going to enjoy watching a lame prime-time talk show for the satisfaction of knowing they're helping the parent company save on payroll. People who expect something else - lavish scripted dramas or typo-free news from costly foreign bureaus - will get alienated and leave, only deepening the revenue spiral that led to the cuts in the first place...
...Caribbean. Another is scheduled between Miami and the Bahamas next December on Norwegian Cruise Lines, and a cruise for Australian cougars is planned as well. Women like Navarro note that being able to market cruises for one's particular crowd is a way in this day and age "to show that you're being brought into the mainstream a little more...
...Blankfein even seemed to show some support for a consumer financial-product regulator, saying he thought there should be more attention paid to how financial markets interact with the retail market. But when it comes to more restrictions on the way large Wall Street firms like Goldman do business, Blankfein said there were already too many constraints. He said that since his firm began to be regulated by the Federal Reserve and not the Securities and Exchange Commission - a switch that happened when Goldman became a bank-holding company in late 2008 - the oversight of his firm had increased...