It would also escape the stigma typically attached to programs for the poor.
Most of the large television studios, meanwhile, said they had begun informing writers who have contracts to develop new series but who are not currently attached to programs that they would not be paid.
Elias Levy, chief technology officer at Security Focus, a computer security company, said the program is technically considered both a "virus," which is a type of program attached to other programs or documents and typically spread via e-mail, and a "worm," which attacks other computers directly.
It's notable that the network, if we are calling it that, will have some bigger names attached to its programming in 2013, including not only the SNL vets above, but also Josh Greenbaum (Emmy-winning filmmaker), James Corden Tonyy winner), and Eva Longoria ("Desperate Housewives"), to name a few.
"But attached to this program were certain Christmas tree items," said Mr. McGreevey, referring to a range of programs including a sports facility at Rowan University, a rowing center in Camden, a Disney World-like family entertainment complex in the Meadowlands and a Nascar track in South Jersey.
A sticker attached to his program noted that he is now accepting inspiration submissions.
They also say the change would remove the stigma attached to a program now used primarily by poor children.
"There's a little piece of paper attached to your program, but I have still been asked to say there will be a gunshot fired — a blank, of course," the composer John Corigliano announced from the Carnegie Hall stage on Saturday night.
The nips, tucks and revisions still result in a warm and thoughtful embrace of everything from the introductory 3-D flight of Santa to New York (special glasses are provided, attached to the program) to the truncated "Nutcracker" and a reimagined "New York at Christmas," which puts the Rockettes in snowy white (with touches of red and green) aboard a double-decker sightseeing bus.
Among the enhancements attached to the program, visitors to the PBS Web site, www.pbs.org, can experience a three-dimensional rendering of the Parthenon, an accompanying book by Paul Cartledge, a Cambridge professor of classics who is one of the on-camera academics.
