But from a borrower's point of view, cable was junk and network TV was blue chip.
The effort grows out of a profound dissatisfaction among advertisers with conventional media, particularly network TV.
"The landscape has changed significantly, and network TV won't move the dial, " Greenburg says.
As young people fill the Internet with personal content, they may find network TV altogether less appealing.
Dyle is now on-the-air in more than 35 markets, delivering popular network TV shows and local news.
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That the loss of ad dollars to the Internet spells the death of network TV and newspapers.
Finally, Madonna is on NBC, appearing for the first time on network TV.
"Network TV is certainly not where it was back in the years of the 'Milton Berle Show, '" he said.
Obviously, this applies to network TV and a myriad other things as well.
All at once it was possible for a significant slice of the American public to watch network TV programs live.
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Meantime, the club, like many others, is likely stuck with a depressed valuation, even as it shares in network TV riches.
Leslie Feist's own group, bearing her last name, has had a year packed with touring, network TV appearances and magazine shoots.
Seven years later launched television network TV Azteca, now nation's number 2 network and second-largest producer of Spanish-language television in the world.
It also provides a huge amount of material for BBC network TV and radio outlets, the BBC News website and regional TV and local radio.
Network TV lost vast amounts of money in its early years.
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When it comes to mediums, Spanish language network TV and cable television registered the biggest gains, up 24% and 13%, respectively, for the first half of the year.
As many PR pros have come to understand, this colorful, antithetical newspaper piece prompted interest from some salacious segment producers at a couple of network TV magazine shows.
And that network TV would mistakenly award that state to one candidate, then equally mistakenly award it to the other and then finally declare it a toss-up subject to a recount?
There are only a couple of hundred McCain delegates and alternates, but you can bet they will get a lot of face time on network TV when McCain starts to speak.
In the upcoming months, Netflix will debut several more pieces of original programming, including the fourth season of the critically acclaimed "Arrested Development, " which ended its run on network TV in 2006.
Helping viewers discover new content is a field suddenly filled with competition, from the social networking based to Dish Network's Hopper that records everything on primetime network TV and even filters out commercials.
Advertisers agreed to retain the existing system for network TV - which rewards actors each time their ad is shown - but insisted on an increased flat-rate pay structure for cable and the internet.
Those tremors of change can also be seen in the awards show that celebrates the efforts of daytime TV as the 39th annual Daytime Emmys gets ready to air Saturday on cable rather than network TV.
Guido Gelli, director of science at the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, told the Brazilian network TV Globo that today it could already be considered as a fact that the Amazon was the longest river in the world.
Wealthy self-made women opening sparkly network premiere TV shows as business owners in respected leadership roles.
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The network enabled TV's have not been completed yet, but a few that will work is from Yahoo and Flickr.
The network began TV broadcasts in 1939 and produced TV's first star in 1948 when Berle became a beloved figure.
Now its creators have launched a new Web video network for TV shows and movies zapped at a few bucks apiece--all of it entirely legal.
Those profits were plowed into Murdoch's growing Fox network of TV and film interests in the United States, helping to create the corporate behemoth that is News Corp.
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