But cable companies, operating under different regulations, have always been able to limit which television programmers may use their wires.

Now every television programmer works in the shadow of the awareness that the audience is armed.

For years, television programmers targeted viewers under 20 years old.

That fact has surely not been missed by television programmers.

Her father is a media buyer and television programmer in New York.

He acknowledged that television programmers would now feverishly try to "figure out the next 50-share event."

Now, he makes the observation that "the very best television programmers, a lot of them, are not available to us."

He would set the television programmers' schedule on its head!

With such technology, television programmers would not have to send their viewers away.

Now the group is trying to persuade television programmers to broadcast them.