Word: slot
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...Memphis, Tenn., which this fall launched a campaign to use a single frequent-gambler card to link the 10 million-plus people already in its databases with Harrah's 16 casinos across the country. The concept of the ATM-size card, which is inserted into the back of a slot machine to record the player's wins and losses, has been around since the early 1990s. Most casinos now offer one as part of membership in a "slot club." (By gambling, players accumulate points, like frequent-flyer miles, and can then redeem them for casino freebies such as rooms, meals...
Unfortunately, she represents that female so explicitly that the show seems hollow and calculated even by TV standards. Peter Roth, head of Fox Entertainment, says he asked Kelley to create a series with a strong female lead to fill the time slot after Melrose Place, which is popular among young women. In other words, the demographics came first, and the provenance shows. You feel as if Kelley gathered a list of themes from focus groups and then set about addressing them methodically and baldly. In one of the many declarations the show makes about its heroine--in case anyone missed...
...they want to watch. And each network has some bright spots to point to this fall. ABC's Dharma & Greg, the flower-child-marries-lawyer sitcom, has justified its favorable preseason press and is winning its time period. Veronica's Closet, starring Kirstie Alley, has a fail-safe time slot on NBC between Seinfeld and ER, and it has kept more of Seinfeld's audience than many other shows similarly blessed. Ally McBeal, Fox's Monday-night comedy-drama, looks like another success...
...shooting for a pilot slot," he says...
...saying goes, wired. Last month she premiered a six-day-a-week television show on CBS, Martha Stewart Living, replacing a syndicated program of the same name. Earlier this year she jumped from her twice-weekly guest spot on nbc's Today show to a weekly slot on rival CBS This Morning. Now, instead of earning appearance fees, she controls all advertising for her segment. The new daily show, which she owns outright, will follow cbs This Morning in most markets. "Sometimes you have to do things for an economic and brand sensibility," she says. "I have more fun with...