I don't believe that broadband is better than narrowband. I don't really believe that television is better than radio. They all have unique communicative qualities. It's really a matter of figuring out which stories to tell in which medium to maximum effect. I think that television has to learn some new tricks.
Television has to begin to speak to the experience of giving viewers new choices.
I'm in the process of developing a number of prototypes that we'll be launching later in 2000 in the New York market. The broadband connection will allow local, highly granular information to be collected and assembled in a cost-effective manner. Cablevision has made an investment in gathering and disseminating very local news. About 18 months ago Cablevision launched a three-pack of television channels distributed throughout the region, called MetroChannels, that are an amalgam of content that focuses on the particular geographic area in which the viewer lives. Broadband is the platform-agnostic delivery of core intellectual property.