CHICAGO, March 9 (UPI) -- Newton Minnow once famously called television a "vast wasteland." Referring to the mix of action-adventure programming, situation comedies, variety shows, quiz shows and cheap movies, Minnow, who at the time was chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, also told TV executives he was not convinced that viewers' "taste is as low as some of you assume."One rightly wonders what Minnow, who was speaking of the nascent TV business in 1961, would think of the fare being offered by today's Internet protocol television, also known as IPTV. A flurry of deals in the past two months...