The fastest and surest way to grab more viewers, he says, is to add more reality television.
This shows success also helps Viacom adjust its focus to include more reality content that has done well recently.
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That means shooting schedules on scripted shows like General Electric-owned NBC's Las Vegas are getting pushed up, and more reality fare is on order.
But most experts don't see that strategy as the best alternative in a high-tech world that has more reality-TV-loving consumers demanding an interactive process.
That means shooting schedules on scripted shows like General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people )-owned NBC's Las Vegas are getting pushed up, and more reality fare is on order.
In addition to ordering up more reality fare (reality shows are not covered by the current contracts) and preparing news and sports programming, that means stockpiling scripts of current shows and scurrying to order straight-to-series scripts for others.
Senator DURBIN: Well I do, and I hope it's a vocabulary that moves more toward reality.
Investor confidence in Apple has sagged to address the more sober reality for smartphones.
It feels more like reality TV or a cop show than a romantic comedy.
Belief in this invisible but more powerful reality, sometimes called the world of the gods, is a basic theme of mythology.
Mathematics is just another language used to describe a deeper, more complex reality.
In short, the National Cancer Act faced a far more complicated reality than anyone could have imagined in 1971.
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Nothing hurts more than reality swooping in and erasing the drawing board of plans you envisioned for yourself the last four years.
However, at Strata this year, we will be looking for the conversations that make Big Data a more tangible reality for everyone.
The high price point for both PCs and wired Internet access makes access to the web via mobile phone a much more attainable reality.
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All of this contradicting data, and much more, is instead consistent with the more grim reality that the economy is sliding back into renewed, double dip, recession.
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Whether inflation rises that much or comes closer to the Federal Reserve-mandated rate of 2 percent is a discussion in and of itself, though current policy and action would seem to make the higher rate the more likely reality.
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While achieving celebrity is no longer the out-of-reach goal one can only dream about, care of reality TV and the Internet, the stars on our list offer far more than a reality show crown or a must-see YouTube clip.
His accomplishments are more serious than those of the reality stars and more tangible than those the tech giants.
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They may be more satisfied with their own reality and find it more intriguing and stimulating than vicarious experiences of others.
Augmented reality is the younger, more successful brother to virtual reality.
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Google is about fluidity and search and making virtual things seem more real than reality, itself.
Construction is slated to being in September 2012, making it more of a reality than any others.
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Time, however, made Reich's grasp on reality more tenuous, particularly after he fled to America in 1939.
Glass, precisely because it is so cool, is helping us to see this reality more vividly than ever before.
He may very well shoot Episode III in digital format, but that won't make digital cinema any more of a reality.
For science-minded kids, the fictional worlds of Asimov, Heinlein, and Clarke seemed more real than reality, and destined to replace it.
Together with a graduate student named Adam Brandt, Farrell decided to try to come up with projections that more accurately reflected reality.
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