However, in other parts of the world that used the PAL or SECAM analog standards, standard-definition television is now usually shown with a 16: 9 aspect ratio, with the transition occurring between the mid-1990s and mid-2000s.

By the mid-2000s, MTV and many of its sister channels had largely abandoned showing music videos in favor of reality television shows, which were more popular with its audiences, and which MTV had itself helped to pioneer with the show The Real World, which premiered in 1992.

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.

From the mid-2000s new ads featuring television personality Kerry Katona saw a return to a slogan more traditionally associated with Iceland-So that's why mums go to Iceland !.

The weekday program ( which also has an hour-long weekend edition ) features stories and gossip about celebrities, and the film, music and television industry, and has been broadcast under various formats since its launch, even being aired live for a time in the mid-2000s.

H2 offers over 200 hours of original programming ; the network's current program schedule consists of reruns of documentary programming previously seen on sister channel History primarily from the mid-2000s onward, but not including the channel's reality television series.

He collaborated sporadically on individual songs with select Quebec artists like Garou and Wilfred LeBouthillier in the mid-2000s, and performed with others including Meggie Lagacé on Quebec television.

Cole power plant was demolished after sitting unused for nearly a decade, followed in the mid-2000s by the demolition of the Gathercole ( once Riverview Collegiate ) building, which had formerly housed the Saskatoon Board of Education offices, and was last used as a hospital set in the filming of a short-lived television show.

The sticks are called Ty-phoons ( a second, " dipped " version of which was released in the mid-2000s ).

In mid-2000s, Ðurić starred in and directed TV series Brat bratu, the Slovenian version of Only Fools and Horses.

In the mid-2000s the pellet version was renamed as Freedent Total.

A study in the mid-2000s showed Whitebark Pine had declined by 41 percent in the Western Cascades, due to two threats: White Pine Blister Rust and Mountain Pine Beetles.

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.

In the mid-2000s, Adam Mumford's Revolution British Wrestling promotion ( run as an adjunct of his wrestling tape trading business in much the same manner as the American Ring Of Honor promotion in its infancy ) picked up where TWA left off with promoting the British Welterweight and British Middleweight titles.

Footballer Ryan Giggs caused controversy in the mid-2000s when he bought a Victorian mansion on the outskirts of the village for £ 1. 9 million and demolished it to build a new house which cost up to £ 4 million.

His next band, The Hidden Hand, followed a similar path before breaking up in the mid-2000s.

The move hurt the Timberwolves in the long run, as while the team still found success, the lack of draft picks set the team up for their eventual failure in the mid-2000s.

In the mid-2000s, a case where a 14-year-old student was prohibited of entering a school in Fortaleza ever again, according to him and his family because of his fauxhawk haircut, sparked nationwide polemics in Brazil.

The economy regained again by the mid-2000s ( decade ).

In the mid-2000s, RKK Energia, the manufacturer of the ROS components, again added the UM to the future configuration of the ISS.

First, in the mid-1990s and again in the mid-2000s there were concerns about inappropriate industrial disability retirement for public safety personnel, including:

CalPERS attracted national attention again in the mid-2000s, this time for health maintenance organization rate increases of 25 % in 2004 and 18 % in 2005.

Big Drill Car was a pop punk / melodic hardcore group from Huntington Beach, California, who were active from the late 1980s to mid-1990s and briefly again in the mid-2000s.

Farmer Jack is remembered in metro Detroit for their " It's Always Savings Time " jingle, which was used in the 1990s and again in the mid-2000s.

Mud racing evolved into sand drags, and again was dropped from a full class in the mid-2000s, although occasional competitions are still held.

Despite these concerns, DVDs for reality shows have sold briskly ; Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, The Amazing Race, Project Runway, and America's Next Top Model have all ranked in the top DVDs sold on Amazon. com, and in the mid-2000s, DVDs of The Simple Life outranked scripted shows like The O. C.

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 ".

British singer Jacko Buddin augmented the group on vocals during most of their European tours, with Lytle taking over on vocals for US / Canadian tours beginning in 2000 and full-time in Europe in the mid-2000s.

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.

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.

In the mid-2000s, Pell City experienced a period of rapid residential and commercial growth ( estimated population around 16, 000, excluding the unincorporated residential areas just south of the city along the lakefront ) spurred, partly, by the opening of the Honda Plant in nearby Lincoln, Alabama, a new industrial park on its northeastern border and by a new retail area on the north side of I-20 anchored by a Wal-Mart, Home Depot, several fast food and casual dining restaurants.

By the mid-2000s ( decade ), the gates on the east side of Concourse D were closed in order to make room for new gates being constructed as part of the North Terminal Development project.

The mid-2000s saw new construction on 56th Avenue, and in 2006 the city created a plan to revitalize downtown and encourage economic activity.

A T-shirt with a protest art message on it in the mid-2000s.

By the mid-2000s, the classic films from the 1960s and earlier that had been broadcast on Cinemax from its launch were relegated to some of its multiplex channels, and have become prominent on its multiplex service, 5StarMax.

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

Despite some popularity in the late 1990s, the Nagra D and DII are a rarity on U. S. films as of the mid-2000s.

During the mid-2000s, plans were unveiled for the construction of a new mosque on the site of a derelict factory near the Dudley Southern By-Pass.

The process rapidly caught on in the mid-2000s.

Castle has used this costume on occasion in mid-2000s stories before The Punisher War Journal vol.

Since the mid-2000s, HLN has been available internationally on cable and satellite to viewers in parts of Asia, the Caribbean and South America.

He briefly served as a Football analyst for NBC in the late 1970s, and was featured as a contestant on Family Feud in the mid-2000s.

Since the mid-2000s, Jesus Jones have continued performing live off and on.