Word: viewers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...networks are battling this viewer erosion by trying to expand their news offerings--into new time periods, like prime time, as well as into cable and the new technologies. NBC has been the most aggressive in this regard, with two cable-news networks, an Internet news service in conjunction with Microsoft, and NBC Superchannel, a programming service in Europe. "We've always been in the news-gathering business 24 hours a day," says NBC News president Andrew Lack. "Now we can provide our viewers--whether on the PC or on television--this information 24 hours...
...VIEWER DEBATE PREP...
...Republicans may have outsmarted themselves. By trying so hard to tailor their convention for TV, they drained it of most of the qualities--the old-fashioned theatrics, the contentious egos--that attracted viewers and journalists in the first place. Clinton aides are worried that they may suffer from the backlash. "It's just our luck that they went first," said a White House official who fears that "the networks will avenge themselves on the Democrats." To juice up their TV show, the Democrats are planning "more substantive presentations," a Clinton aide says. Will the last viewer turn out the lights...
...benefits of this ruckus are supposed to be grand, according to the official pronouncements. San Diego will earn a place in the national spotlight (likely prodding every home viewer who salivates over the 75-degree, humidity-free weather to move here). San Diego's mayor could gain enough name recognition to bid for higher office in 1998 (the Associated Press is even including a profile of her in its media advance kit--Chicago's Richard Daly is not as lucky). And San Diego businesses will reap untold profits...
...first of the five installations, "Hall of Whispers," is a pitch-black narrow room lined with video monitors showing black and white images of people struggling to speak through bound mouths. Muffled groans surround the viewer in the darkness. The "message" here, at least the one stated by curator Marilyn A. Zeitlin as "the frustration and vanity of communication," seems simplistically overt. But the images of the faces themselves are so interesting, so cragged with subtle shades of dark and light, depth and surface, that their collective, somewhat pat "meaning" does a disservice to their visual complexity. There is also...