"Siegfried & Roy's Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat is proud to celebrate the 1st birthday of Sgt. Pepper! The birthday boy was born at the Dolphin Habitat on Friday, June 8, 2007. Come celebrate and join us in wishing him a happy birthday. He can be seen daily playing and splashing with our trainers as he grows."

Is this what television has been reduced to? Flipping through hundreds of channels only to find poor quality, mind numbing tv shows and endless advertisements. Throughout our lifetime, we have all experienced the birth of television's earliest years. We graduated to a new world of cable television. We expanded our tv viewing world further with satellite television, only to discover on demand tv shows we've all seen before. It's become an endless loop of tv channels, strung along a video wasteland full of mind numbing, poor quality programs. So what's next? More of the same?
A few months ago my wife and I made that big step. We cut the "umbilical" cord - cancelled our cable television service and ventured into a whole new world of Internet interactive television. We quickly learned that we can find all the interesting information and entertainment we want via digital broadcasting. Even television networks have succumbed to the power of the Internet.
There is a segment of die-hard boob tube watchers who are still passively watching sitcom after sitcom with canned laugh tracks. Even the young viewers are steadily diminishing as they venture into the www. I hate to typecast certain generations, but it seems that it's the older viewers who are keeping the traditional cable television as we know it, alive.A few Internet tv links:
http://discoverychannel.ca/_home/index.shtml
http://www.cbc.ca/national/#features
http://tvunetworks.com/
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/live_tv.html
http://www.nbc.com/The_Tonight_Show_with_Jay_Leno/