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| | The New York Times > Business > Media & Advertising > No Happy New Year for a Cable Channel Cut by DirecTV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Trio, the fringe channel that won acclaim for resurrecting television's flops and losers for a new audience, was cut from the DirecTV satellite lineup on Jan. 1. |
 | | Trio now reaches about eight million homes through cable distributors, including Time Warner, Cox and Adelphia, but industry executives and analysts say the channel, which is owned by NBC Universal, may not survive much longer with its shrunken audience. |
 | | Trio's travails also raise doubts about the promise of the 500-channel universe, where every taste, no matter how particular, would be represented by a network. |
| www.nytimes.com /2005/01/10/business/media/10trio.html?ex=1263099600&en=d0d070b1698f67d7&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt (858 words) |
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