As cable began its ascent, Trump clung tightly to network values: quality measured only by ad dollars and Nielsen ratings.
"Sir Henry Head, the neurologist," the special cable began, "has fallen victim to the mysterious, incurable disease on which he possibly is the greatest living authority -- the form of creeping paralysis known as Parkinson's disease".
"As Gordon Brown lurches from political disaster to disaster," the cable begins, "Westminster is abuzz with speculation about whether he will be replaced as Prime Minister and Labour Parxty [sic] leader, and, if so, by whom".
The company's steps into content are being taken gingerly, executives acknowledge, though the logic is clear: having exclusive content would help DirecTV differentiate itself from cable as cable begins to erode DirecTV's advantage in the number of channels offered, and it could also be a new source of profits.
As Donald Rumsfeld finished up an upbeat talk at the National Press Club here yesterday, brushing off hecklers and calling the global war on terror "well begun," cable began airing fresh Flintstones video of Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri encouraging the Iraqi and Islamic fighters to "bury" American troops and send them to their mothers in coffins.
This region has long been a capital of furniture and textile manufacturing, industries known for their unforgiving business cycles, but when the three largest manufacturers of fiber-optic cable began building factories in Hickory in the 1980's, the region's economic base seemed fully diversified.
The cable began to slip through the band.
That day at 10 a.m. the diagonal tie attached to the midspan band of one main cable loosened and the cable began to slip through the band.
It was only when public access and cable began to lower the barriers to entry that we saw real innovation in programming.
And a few hours later, in his keynote speech to the annual conference in Glasgow, Mr Cable began by making clear he supported his party's decision in 2010 to enter coalition with the Tories and to work "constructively and pragmatically" with them.
