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So you love FOX's news and sports programming, but watching it on your tiny television screen just kind of leaves you unfulfilled, doesn't it? Well, this is the time to rejoice, FOXheads, because News Corp has taken over the gigantic Panasonic Astrovision screen in New York's Times Square and will be airing three hours of live programming every day, including full hours of Fox and Friends, FOX Report with Shepard Smith and FOX5's Good Day New York. Sports fans will be treated to live broadcasts of Major League Baseball's League Championship and World Series, the Daytona 500, and football coverage from the NFL and the College Bowl series. News Corp took over access of the screen from NBC on October 1. Someday I hope to have enough money to put my own content on that screen. I'm thinking 24 hours a day of myself having dental work performed.

The digital television movement continues. Today, iTunes started offering episodes of shows from FOX and various networks all owned by News Corp. (like FX) as well as series episodes from the 20th Century Fox library. Right now, 16 shows are available, including The Shield, Prison Break, and 24. Shows are available for the standard iTunes video price of $1.99. So if you missed, say 24, and have an iPod, you're in luck. So when are those reruns of M*A*S*H going up? I mean, I haven't seen one of those in, oh, five minutes or so.