An Aside.....

Not local-media-related, but just to say--

"Friday Night Lights" is the best show I've seen on television in years, and that includes the much-praised HBO shows. Complex characters with surprising strengths and flaws, a great depiction of an American locale, and gosh! no lawyers, cops or doctors so far. Best of all, high school aged boys portrayed as a widely varied group of human beings, not just jocks or nerds. It's one of those you'll-never-figure-out-the-story-if-you-didn't-start-at-the-beginning types of shows, so if you want to pick it up at this point, you should go to nbc.com and watch all the previous episodes online from the start. And yes, it's about football in a sense; kind of the same way that "Trainspotting" is about trains.