1998 Media Outlook: TV
Dean ValentineUPN
Once, in the not too distant past, the television landscape was a simpler place: there were only three national broadcast networks, and we all lived contentedly within that viewing universe, switching stations with one dial and turning the TV on and off with another. 'Surfing' meant water, 'cable' was something attached to your phone, 'satellites' were part of the space race against the Russians and 'the net' was what divided a tennis court.
That early model is now, of course, ancient history, and a funny thing happened on the way to the present:...