High-tech industries are credited with fueling a period of unprecedented economic growth, with a staggering array of new media innovations. We face an explosion in available channels, new forms of transmission, a highly-touted convergence with the computer. Yet most TV programs remain filler for the space between commercials. Programming decisions are driven by a shrinking number of corporate executives, far removed from the audiences they supposedly serve.
Television remains the world's most powerful and pervasive communications medium.