Word: channeling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...operate--that can't make sense for consumers. That's like saying you have a product called TIME magazine, but one distributor gets to rip out ads, and another one rips out some articles and puts in new ones. You'd get uptight. You can't have a distribution channel that is allowed to make your brand meaningless...
Turns out there are still some things you just can't get away with. Conservative cyberjournalist Matt Drudge found that out Thursday when Fox canceled his weekly political gossip show. The problems began when the channel's executives wouldn't allow him to show a photo of a fetus receiving surgery. Drudge says the graphic photo was meant to buttress his pro-life stance, but the channel heads felt it was being used out of context. When Drudge missed his show in protest, he was handed his walking papers...
...yesterday, Gingrich had moved on to New York City to appear on a Fox News Channel television show...
Weather gets a bad rap for a lot of reasons. For one thing, it's difficult to say anything novel on the subject, and it tends to run itself out pretty quickly. You hear about people who really like to watch the Weather Channel, but I bet these people are not actually into weather so much as natural disaster; note the tornado and flood videos being advertised for $19.99 (plus shipping and handling), and the comparative dearth of mail-order movies about, say, humidity...
That may be so, but what got them into the theaters was something different. The film's primary backer is Crouch's father Paul, CEO and star (with his bounteously bouffanted wife Jan) of the Trinity Broadcasting Network. TBN is actually not a "little Christian channel" but a giant in the sometimes overlooked field of televangelism. Showcasing preachers both black and white, it claims to reach 84 million homes and takes in some $80 million a year in contributions, primarily from 1.5 million "partners" who give annually...