HBO offers a streaming service, and Showtime is following suit, but consumers shouldn't expect a bargain. There's only one reason most pay-TV viewers in Southern California aren't watching Dodgers games: They're too expensive. Time Warner Cable, which has exclusive distribution rights for the games, wants other pay-TV companies to charge subscribers as much as $5 a month for its Dodgers channel. Providers such as DirecTV and AT&T, which would receive about a third of that amount, say $5 is too pricey for their customers.
Robby Novak. Robby Novak is an American personality best known for portraying Kid President online and on television. He is featured in a series of YouTube videos and in a television show, produced by actor Rainn Wilson's media company SoulPancake.
Carl Byker: The first 'imperial president': Jackson. [Carl Byker is the producer of the PBS documentary Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil and the Presidency, which debuts on public television stations nationwide tonight.] Secret prisons, warrantless wiretapping, sweeping claims of executive privilege. They have all been features of the Bush administration, and they are also hallmarks of what some call an imperial presidency. The debate over just what powers a president can legitimately use has become so heated recently that some of the leading Democrats running for president have signed a pledge that they will not claim the same powers as President Bush if they are elected to replace him.