More Channels Are Coming. Will Anyone Be Watching?

When broadcast television stations first transmitted their signals digitally at the end of the 1990s, consumers received a benefit besides clearer pictures: a multitude of new channels made possible by digital compression technology. The effort, in large part, was a roaring failure. Virtually no one watched them because getting the channels required an external digital receiver. Some early programmers soon went bust. But a new crop of digital channels from traditional broadcasters are making their way into homes, and industry executives say that this time, they have figured out how to do it right.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/09/business/media/09channels.html?ref=tod...
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