C4's prime marketing concept is the appeal to a 16-34 audience. This has some strange consequences-a series explaining Islam, for example, is entrusted to Peaches Geldof. There's an obsession with adolescent transgression and sex. Gordon Ramsay is hired to make a series called The F Word; Designer Vaginas is followed by The World's Biggest Penis. Earlier this autumn, unless I dreamed it, we were subject to a 'wank week.'

For some of us it now embodies a mildly prurient voyeurism, but those who stay tuned claim it offers real insights into people's lives.

My guess is that mainstream channels will play a leading role for another decade, and probably far longer. Some content may be fragmented into itsy-bitsy bites…

There's a leveling homogeneity in America today created by television. Each day it passes over the vast land mass, over the states nudging each other like the …

For tens of millions of people television has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading.

Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales…