WHDH snubs Leno

[A. Joseph Ross]

On 2 Apr 2009 at 23:04, Garrett Wollman wrote:

> In a lot of ways, Leno doesn't need to "work" for NBCU to be happy --
> he can be in fourth place at 10:00 and they're still making more money
> than they are with hour dramas in that slot.  The affils, of course,
> are another story.
 
Why can't the TV networks just feed programming to cable directly, 
like a cable network? 

Back in the 1950s, I got annoyed often with local stations' habit of 
moving network shows around or not carrying them at all.  Sometime in 
high school, after the first communications satellites went up, I got 
the idea that a TV network should try to get a license for a 
particular channel nationwide and, with satellites, beam a signal 
direct to homes.  Of course, I didn't know that it would require dish 
antennas to receive, but then again, I think that was pretty good for 
a teenager in the early 1960s.

I also thought up the idea of recording TV shows on magnetic disks.  
I didn't know why there might be any advantages over tape, but since 
there were already several media around, I thought up another one.

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