He grew up in nearby Lorain, in a single-wide mobile home on Lake Erie that had no reliable television but offered excellent fishing.
That version, at least, has a reliable narrative, which means that it can make for reliable television, the latest example of which is "The Profit," which begins on Tuesday night on CNBC.
Not only is the television news business anticipating a falloff in ads after the intense surge that has accompanied the presidential election this year, but the stumbling national economy, which has pounded many reliable television advertisers — auto companies, for example — is now expected to cut deeply into ad revenue all over television in the next year.
Since its inception in 1963, Comcast Corp. has evolved from a tiny outfit peddling reliable television signals to a giant corporation selling an array of communication services including wired phone lines, broadband Web access and even wireless service in some markets.
I have also not sought out more reliable video streams -- television, computer or tablet.
Why would he have thought there was anything more reliable than television news?
The New York State Democratic chairman wished to confirm the electoral count he had tabulated, because information then was not always reliable (any television network can confirm that it still is not).
In the near future, nanotech will help us produce cheaper solar cells, cheaper and more reliable flat-screen televisions, and an entirely new form of semiconductor.
That has always been a reliable formula for television ratings.
Then "House," one of the most reliable dramas on television, returned on Monday, and its ratings dropped by 22percentt from its average ratings last fall.
