An audio adaptation of " The Lonely ", featuring Mike Starr as Corry, was produced for radio in the mid-2000s ; it was released on CD by CBS Consumer Products in 2007 as part of The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas Vol.

Ownership rules were relaxed in the mid-2000s which saw several companies buying up local and national commercial stations including Scottish Radio Holding who sold their stations to Emap, who eventually sold on those stations to Denis O ' Brien's Communicorp.

The network was expanded in the mid-2000s with GMG's acquisition of the Saga Radio Group and all stations were given the Smooth insignia.

One of the leading artists who have been pioneering this freestyle-rap culture since the mid-2000s is Sool J.

The mumblecore film genre, which began in the mid-2000s, and uses video cameras and relies heavily on improvisation and non-professional actors, has been described as influenced in part by what one critic called " the spring-break psychodrama of MTV's The Real World ".

During the mid-2000s, Beckley began correspondence with Adam Schlesinger of the independent rock music group Fountains of Wayne.

In the mid-2000s, growth of its non-gaming ( lodging, food, retail ) revenue began to outpace gaming receipts and demand for high-rise condominiums was surging, with median property prices in Las Vegas twice the national average.

In order to tap into social networking sites, which began to play larger roles in ad campaigns in the mid-2000s, Gil was to maintain a blog, promote an online petition to save his job.

In the mid-2000s he began sitting on the board of directors of the comic industry charity A Commitment To Our Roots ( ACTOR ), renamed in 2006 the Hero Initiative.

In the mid-2000s, discussion began of upgrading or totally replacing the terminal as it has structural and safety problems and leaves little to no room for expansion.

The development, a public-private partnership between developer Federal Realty Investment Trust of Rockville, Maryland ( the operator of several other regional town-center-like developments such as Bethesda Row, Pentagon Row, and Rockville Town Center ) and the county, began in the mid-2000s.

The " real oldies " format mostly faded in popularity in the mid-2000s ( decade ) as less expensive formats, including satellite-fed progressive talk radio, became more attractive to station operators who began reducing their investments into AM radio stations.

Part of a large group of documentaries that began appearing in the mid-2000s as technology improved, the film was narrated by Ron Silver.

* In the mid-2000s, " coopetition " began to be used by Darrell Waltrip to describe the phenomenon of drivers cooperating at various phases of a race at " high speed " tracks such as Daytona and Telledaga where cooperative aerodynamic drafting is critical to a driver's ability to advance through the field.

Elektra Records thus began re-issuing several LIVE PHISH Volumes 1 through 20 in clamshell CD cases in the mid-2000s.

The station began to broadcast a few off-network sitcoms such as Seinfeld, King of the Hill, 3rd Rock From the Sun, and Malcolm in the Middle by the late 1990s and mid-2000s ( and also as of the 2008-2009 season, no off-network sitcoms were on its schedule — a rarity for a Fox station ).

In the mid-2000s, a Spokane, Washington-based broadcaster, the Mutual Broadcasting System ( not related to the former network ), began using the Mutual and Liberty names on its two stations, KTRW AM 970 Spokane ; and KTAC FM 93. 9 Ephrata, Washington.

In the mid-2000s, renovations began on the stadium, including the replacement of all the stadium's box seats.

Many consider the Arena Football League to have been a de facto minor league, since several NFL owners had teams in it in the mid-2000s, prior to its bankruptcy and restructuring.

Annalist consider Medvedchuk one of the most important Ukrainian politicians from the mid-1990s till the mid-2000s ; although he mainly operated outside the public view.

The company also purchased evangelist Jim Bakker's bankrupt Heritage USA Christian resort and theme park in Fort Mill, South Carolina in 1991 and operated it for a number of years under its subsidiary, Regent Carolina Corporation, before selling the property in the mid-2000s.

In the mid-2000s Bud Light made a commercial of the called shot, showing that the reason Ruth pointed towards center field was because he had spotted a vender selling Bud Light there.

During the mid-2000s, Fallston was the location of an Exxon-Mobil station that was forced to close as a result of a heavily reported MTBE leak, and was one of several filling stations in the county being suspected of such leaks.

During the mid-2000s, the addition of hours on sister stations became popular.

During the mid-2000s, emerging artists such as Heather Headley, Anthony David, J Davey, Eric Roberson, and Ledisi signed to independent soul labels and received exposure through independent retailers, neo soul-oriented web sites, college and public radio stations, city club venues, cable networks such as Music Choice and BET J, and publishing deals as writers and producers for major label-recording artists.

A new genre of locally produced television rose in the mid-2000s as local television stations ( especially those affiliated with the NBC and Fox networks, where NBC gave up the most programming time ; Fox has no daytime programming per se ) saw network time on weekday mornings after 9am returned to local control and saw new national talk shows either fail or not attract the right demographic to a timeslot.

Later past competition in the mid-2000s came from Cox-owned WBTS ( now WSBB ) and WFOX ( now WSRV ), which were respectively rhythmic and experimental urban stations.

Hollywood's chute formerly allowed one mile ( 1, 609 m ) races, but when its finish line was moved forward in the late 1980s one mile ( 1, 609 m ) races could no longer be accommodated, and became the longest distance that could be run out of its chute ( an unintended consequence of this was that by the mid-2000s 7½-furlong m dirt races had gained considerable popularity in the United States when such races had rarely if ever been run before at most tracks, even those where the track's configuration made it possible to do so ).

In the mid-2000s, a rise in popularity of hard rock music combining classic rock elements with psychedelia, heavy metal and modern hard rock came to prominence among the Millennial Generation and others, with such bands as Wolfmother, The Sword, Jet and Buckcherry becoming very successful using methods of past bands such as Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Beatles and Pink Floyd.

However, by the mid-2000s, Revelation Records had seemingly fallen by the wayside, with very few releases between 2004 and 2006.

During the mid-2000s, several NFL owners at least partially owned arena football teams, such as Jerry Jones ( Dallas ), Arthur Blank ( Atlanta ), Bud Adams ( Tennessee ), Tom Benson ( New Orleans ), and Pat Bowlen ( Denver ), but very rarely did they ever promote or demote any players between the AFL and NFL, due in part to significant differences in the playing schedules and the style of play between outdoor and indoor football.

A child actor, she made her debut, she said in a mid-2000s radio interview, " when I was about five ," with a small role in a Shirley Temple movie.

In the mid-2000s, Madrid businessman Enrique Martínez updated the video arcade for the new generation by creating a " hybrid movie theater with ... fog, black light, flashing green lasers, high-definition digital projectors, vibrating seats, game pads and dozens of 17-inch screens attached to individual chairs.

A typical CT store with the look used from the mid-2000s to 2007, when the black background took place of the red background.

More recently, the mid-2000s Guinness Brewmasters advertising campaign features the " little black book " as an invention of one of the brewmasters.

There are 17 black players in the NHL as of the mid-2000s, the most prominent being Canadian Jarome Iginla ( who is currently on the Calgary Flames ).

The area is overall quite ethnically and economically diverse, although the compositions of its 12 census tracts vary widely ; for example, the population in the mid-2000s of the easternmost tract was about half white and one-third Asian, while that of the northwesternmost tract was almost entirely black.

Due to these advantages, by the mid-2000s, DVDs were the dominant form of prerecorded video movies in both the rental film and new movie markets.

Softcore erotica programming typically does not air within the block and adult films have been absent from the main Showtime channel since the mid-2000s ( though a limited amount of original erotica series have resurfaced on the main channel in 2010 such as Beach Heat: Miami, after having been absent for most of the previous decade ), although the network's multiplex channels Showtime 2 and Showcase do occasionally feature adult films on their overnight schedules.

While many technology stocks were eventually destroyed in the dot-com crash in the early 2000s, the stock prices of the video game publishers recovered as a group ; several of the larger publishers such as EA and Take2 achieved historical highs in the mid-2000s.

Since the mid-2000s, online video-sharing sites such as YouTube have also provided a venue for stand-up comedy, and many comedians ' performances can be viewed online.

In the mid-2000s, hip-hop became a more mainstream genre, and many young people started to question what real hip-hop was while new and unconventional groups such as Side Brok emerged.

Unlike the analog Nagras, the Nagra V digital recorders have not been adopted as readily for the motion picture and TV industries, which mostly use competing digital multi-track machines such as the Aaton Cantar, the Fostex PD-6, the Sound Devices 744T and the Zaxcom Deva ( as of the mid-2000s ).

The rise in popularity of fixed-gear bicycles in the mid-2000s, complete with affectations such as spoke cards ( gathered from " alleycats " typically ), is attributed to bicycle messengers.

Legal names have since only been used for legal documents, such as contracts, and have not been used publicly ; however, since the mid-2000s, the popular name has also been used for legal documents related to contract procurements where the legal name was used heretofore.

He was able to resume his life as an outdoorsman in the mid-2000s through inventions such as the TrailRider, which allows quadriplegics to travel over rough terrain.

Once Nikon introduced affordable consumer-level DSLRs such as the Nikon D70 in the mid-2000s, sales of its consumer and professional film cameras fell rapidly, following the general trend in the industry.

In the mid-2000s, London clubs such as How Does it Feel to be Loved?

By the mid-2000s winklepickers were worn with 1960s mod blazers, Western shirts, vintage T shirts, and skinny jeans by many indie pop bands, such as the members of Kings of Leon, Kaiser Chiefs, The Kills, Mod Fun, Neils Children, Klaxons The Horrors and Daniel Johns.

Severin retired sometime afterward, but continued into the mid-2000s to make occasional contributions, such as recoloring many of the comics stories reprinted in the EC-era retrospective books B. Krigstein and B. Krigstein Comics.

Plans mooted in the mid-2000s to close Beltring station, or at least replace the existing services with a token service ( such as one train a week in each direction ) have been withdrawn.