I think the first place I saw this technique used was in EmuDX, which had swapped-out graphics for Pac-Man, Ms. Pac Man, Galaxian, Frogger, and Donkey Kong. This was around 1999 or 2000. Its site no longer exists, but here's a mirror: http://www.arcadeathome.com/emudx.phtml.
I was always sad it never really caught on, I think it's a great way to revitalize old games while preserving gameplay.
Well a calorie is the amount of energy to raise a gram of water by one degree Celsius, so if you're drinking 2 litres of water a day and it's 0 degrees vs 20 degrees, you'll burn around 20,000 calories a day from the difference.
Note though that that's calories, and not kilocalories, which is what we generally talk about for dietary purposes. So ~20kcal a day, which would represent about a 1% change for the average person. Not a huge gain.
The issue is that they'd need an agreement with these stations. They don't need one with, say, NBC, because NBC is broadcasting their content over the air, and Aereo's arrays of tiny antennas are all receiving them. To do a similar thing for a cable station you'd need one cable subscription per user, which is pretty likely to wreck their business model. Third-tier stations looking for more viewers are more likely to license their stuff cheaply.
Basically, the problem is you are creating a conflict of interest by appending the affiliate bit. It's hard to take your advice as being unbiased when you stand to profit from it.
Nauru is (or was) trying to do this. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/253/t... is where I heard about it, but this story aired almost a decade ago so I don't know what's happened since. I assume it didn't pan out. Nauru is kind of hard to get information on, because of its obscurity and isolation.
