it encourages all the things that paul klein thought were a threat to his marketshare back in 1980. and the final thing that i'll add to that mix is the effect that the internet has had on these shows. if you go to the online kind of fan sites and discussion forms for any of these hypercomplex shows, if you see "sopranos" fan site or the "24" fan seist or "lost" the show now that's such a rage, you'll find thousands and thousand of virtual pages of people with every little moment of these show and complaining -- explaining why this character did this. and basically because that realm of commentary is available now, the shows can get more complicated. because they know that if their audience gets lost, they cannot only see it again, but they can also go back and look online and figure out that's why that guy killed that guy in scene two. i didn't understand what that was. now it makes sense to me. so there's a whole support network for the new complexity of the media because the internet has created these forms. all of those things create a kind of a positive feedback where suddenly

paul, thanks very much. >> mar gentleman? >> the snow is really starting to pick up in new england. nbc's janel kleinhattage. over to you, janel. >> reporter: very wet, heavy snow here. in fact, the governor of connecticut has already declared a state of emergenc statewide blizzard warning in connecticut as well, and we do expect, as paul goodloe was just saying, that this storm will get a lot worse. this storm has gotten much more intense over the last couple of hours. snow coming down, as you can see, and the wind is starting to pick up. the governor is asking anyone who doesn't need to be on the roads to please stay home as we've seen major accidents on most of the state's high ways and freeways. travel has also been very difficult in the air. all of the flights out of bradley international airport here in hartford have been cancelled. bus and train service will be shut down in the next couple of hours and people at home having a difficult time with this as well. power outages a huge concern. wet heavy snow and wind gusts that could reach 50 to 60 miles per hour. we do expect a lot of power outage