Fox and all of its affiliated stations may soon disappear from Time Warner's cable offerings thanks to a fee dispute between the two companies.

The cable offering, in particular, will depend on market conditions and the outcome of a possible war with Iraq.

Still, critics charge that the telephone companies are intentionally crippling the Internet capabilities of their services to appear much like traditional closed cable offerings.

"Ouch," the remote continued as Linda impatiently flicked across the five hundred different cable offerings.

The network had a target launch date of summer 2010, and became available through on-demand cable offerings, online and mobile phones.

The digitally transmitted picture is said to surpass laser disk images; the movie programming will stay ahead of cable offerings.

But analysts said they did not expect sexually explicit cable offerings to increase significantly in any case.

It would not be subject to regulation, since it is not part of the basic cable offering.

The show is No. 1 among basic cable offerings in its time slot among viewers 12 to 34 years old.

Music Choice's biggest innovation, though, may be in the way it combines advertising with music videos on the video-on-demand cable offering.