The Media Equation: With Shows Like These, Forget Reruns
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Some bad news for striking Hollywood writers: Election 2008 is a breakaway hit.
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Prime-time TV seems more and more like a carnival. It's not so much a schedule of shows as, well, a sideshow hawking reality fare.
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You can forget about  "Fahgeddaboutit!" as far as television catch phrases are  concerned.
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No network can get a multihour pregame show right, and Fox didnât, thanks to turning it into an âAmerican Idolâ promotion. But Fox did the football game very well.
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Company rolls the dice on a broadcasting venture. Is it a smart move, or a hasty jump into a fad?
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The videocassette in film: an unsettling innovation, a romanticized artifact, an LP in an MP3 world.
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The Anchor Behaving Badly show seems to be in reruns.
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By LYNN ELBER, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  Toss a water-cooler barb at a TV show, and the remark disappears as fast as a weekly paycheck. Post it on the Internet, and it might end up influencing what other viewers see.
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Sometimes media metrics and audiences have very different views of what works.
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If the current offerings on television leave you cold (hello "Age of Love"), put down that remote and grab your mouse _ the Web is the place to watch extensions of your favorite shows and to discover new ones.
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On the news, the war plays as tragedy. Can television producers repackage it as situation comedy?
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I have good news, bad news, and worse news.  The good news is that I managed to get MythTV working well enough that it now plays standard definition channels better than the cable box alone, even though it's getting its signal from the cable output of the cable box.  I get this benefit because MythTV allows me to tweak various parameters that you can't change on the cable box.   The bad news is that high definition channels still look worse through MythTV than they do if I watch then directly from the cable box.  I don't expect to solve this problem. The cable box may be able to handle HDTV itself, but it outputs a digital signal in 480p, which is basically standard definition. The fact that I have two HDTV-capable tuner cards does me little good.  Here's the worse news. I had to learn way too much to get this far.
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A new web site allows viewers to vote once a week to predict which of the 24 new broadcast network shows are most likely to be canceled.
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TV and radio serve up content in a linear broadcast format. It&#39;s dished out in time slices according to schedules that make sense to broadcasters and the marketers who buy their ad space.
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By LYNN ELBER, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  Sometimes a TV series needs a tuneup. Tweak the plots, juice the promotion, and it may end up a challenger in the ratings race.
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This month, TV networks are pulling out all the stops to attract audiences. The larger the audiences, the more they can charge advertisers. So, it may be harder than usual to keep up with your favorite shows. Unless you go to the networks' Web sites.
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About this time last year, I wrote a column following up on some pieces I'd written earlier to see what if anything new had happened to those topics. The reaction I heard afterwards convinced me that revisiting old news was a worthwhile exercise -- in general, it's too easy for tech reporters to lose sight of how a product works over time in the real world, as opposed to a brief trial in a reviewer's hands.