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Monday, September 15, 2008

HDTV Switch Limits New Shows

The more things change, the more they stay the same - particularly in broadcasting this season.

Viewers will see the most radical change in the 60-year history of TV - the switch to digital broadcasting Feb. 17 - during a TV season with the fewest new fall shows (17) in two decades.

The major TV networks, still recovering from the crippling writers' strike last winter, trimmed their new series offerings to give another chance to promising shows cut short last season.

http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080914/ENT/809140343/1175

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