Word: networked
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...what would NBC do about this fad, trend, tad, friend, whatever? Perhaps pick up Chains of Love from Endemol Entertainment, the company that originated Big Brother. How would the network's quality DNA react to Chains of Love? "It's a relationship show," Ancier said. The critics burst into laughter, and Ancier added, "That wasn't supposed to be funny...
...quality really mattered in network TV, of course, NBC would be garnering Nobel Prize nominations for refusing to sully its schedule with the likes of the hokey Survivor and the intelligence-challenged Millionaire and the relentlessly odious Big Brother. Instead, Sassa and NBC entertainment president Garth Ancier have been hearing ominous rumors that their bosses are unhappy that the entertainment division has failed to clamber aboard the careering reality express...
...could NBC have missed this train? Didn't the runaway success of Millionaire alert everyone in the U.S. over the age of three that network TV was about to crash through yet another barrier of diminishing taste and expectations? Sassa explained this lapse of attention: "We were obsessed"--he might have said afflicted--"with having the highest quality shows and the highest quality audiences, and because of that we weren't as aggressive on [reality TV] as we could have been." In English: Frasier, Friends and Will & Grace were attracting the well-to-do young viewers advertisers cherish, and reality...
...market," says analyst Holger Grawe at German bank WestLB, adding that the supply of U.S. companies is limited. DT reportedly hired a Washington law firm last week to lobby Congress. Sommer may be interested in making another pass at Qwest because he still needs a data network...
...electronic democracy. And because its revenue stream depends on attracting Americans' support - unlike politicians, whose funding is more dependent on delivering donor-friendly legislation - it's even more responsive to the popular will than either the GOP or the Democrats. Therein lies the reason why this week's network prime-time programming schedule gives no hint, before Thursday (and George W.'s Big Speech), that the party currently tipped to win the presidential election will nominate its candidate this week. It's been bumped not just by such obvious candidates as "Survivor" and "Big Brother," but even by football...