As they sat in their cushy Avery Fisher Hall seats listening to ABC brass carry on with its digital opportunities and its self-adulating remarks, they weren't wrong to think the impossible was happening: that ABC would go the way of General Electric 's NBC, which presented its fall slate glitz-free on Monday, and scale back on the pageantry.
As they sat in their cushy Avery Fisher Hall seats listening to ABC brass carry on with its digital opportunities and its self-adulating remarks, they weren't wrong to think the impossible was happening: that ABC would go the way of General Electric 's (nyse: GE - news - people ) NBC, which presented its fall slate glitz-free on Monday, and scale back on the pageantry.