Word: networked
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...network asks callers to identify themselves by entering their birth dates and the last four digits of their Social Security numbers, and allows them to call only once...
Regardless, the first step in the anti-Berezovsky campaign will probably be to undermine his hold on the country's biggest TV network, ORT. Insiders predict that Putin will either cancel ORT's license, which is up for renewal in May, or give its airwaves to the government-controlled RTR network. This will be a blow, and Berezovsky is unlikely to go without a fight. Last year, when then Prime Minister Yevgeni Primakov tried to bring Berezovsky up on corruption charges, Yeltsin fired Primakov. Putin, however, will have an advantage that Primakov lacked: he will be President...
Then there is TV, where baseball is dying. NBC paid $400 million for baseball-broadcast rights through 2000. Yet in 1997, the World Series was such a ratings bust that the network's Don Ohlmeyer publicly prayed for a four-game sweep. He wanted baseball--the World Series!--off the air so he could get his viewers back...
...changed environment: it's a hybrid of a traditional record label and a freewheeling, indie-friendly MP3 site. While the music of artists officially signed by the Farm Club will be promoted and marketed by Interscope or another Universal imprint (and given face time on the label's USA Network television show), the website will allow undiscovered bands to upload their songs...
...where an audience can easily communicate in chat rooms, personalities emerge from the clutter. "If someone is truly engaging, word tends to get out," says Chris O'Hanlon, founder of SpikeRadio, a network in L.A. It sure worked for Schulz and Wirkus. "The lesson is, if you work hard and are a total wiseass, you can become a star on the Internet," says Wirkus. A visit from a rich bachelor helps...