It even searches the ads and shows you the ones you're interested in, if you ask it to. New Brunswick Tel is deeply committed to having such a news service on the air by December 1995, and it would be available province-wide. Working along with NB Tel is MediaLinx, a creature of BCE and the Stentor group of phone companies. MediaLinx is also committed to having infopike news available this year in city-wide test markets in Quebec and Ontario. London and Oakville are both under consideration for those tests.
Informed opinion puts nation-wide rollout just five years down the road.
In reality, though, broadband, interactive multimedia has more in common with the newspaper than with television. Newspapers have been around for a long time and will be with us for a long time to come, because they have a lot of virtues as news sources. They also have a lot of obvious handicaps. They can't transmit sound or show moving pictures. They can't present events live, as they're happening.