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...hammered out with the Senate--and bigger looks better than ever. With whiz-bang technologies--interactive video on demand, whoopee!--receding back into the future, the familiar and iconic television networks look almost sexy. "In a cluttered landscape," says Howard Stringer, former president of the CBS Broadcast Group, brand names "are going to be more important than ever before...
...years pundits had been proclaiming the demise of the Big Three, and they will no doubt do so again. While it is true that cable has eroded broadcast viewership--ABC, NBC and CBS together command a market share of only 57% as compared with 61% just last year and 91% in the late 1970s--the networks still reach 98% of American homes. Even in the face of declining audiences, the broadcast networks are looking at their best year ever in terms of advertising, with an expected $5 billion in revenues for the 1995-96 season. For a movie studio looking...
EWTN's top draw is Mother Angelica, whose twice-weekly shows (with numerous taped repeats) are broadcast from a studio near the Irondale monastery. Mother Angelica gives new meaning to the phrase "winging it." On Tuesday's Mother Angelica Live, scriptless and sometimes armed only with a theme--youthful piety, for example--she rambles for 30 minutes or so about whatever enters her wimpled head. On Wednesday's installment, she chats with guests, usually priests or laymen who share her conservative views; both segments include calls from viewers. In video terms, it's totally retro, but it works. Says Jesuit...
...exist. When a tree falls in the woods, it hits the ground and vibrates the air and ground. That vibration of the air molecules is, by definition, sound. There is sound present, just no receptors to hear it. If I cannot hear my favorite radio station's broadcast, it doesn't mean that its radio waves don't exist; it just means that my radio is off. GREG SERRANO Lansing, Michigan Via E-Mail...
...Federal Communications Commission killed a 25-year-old rule that limited what network affiliates could broadcast during one early evening hour. It had helped turn independent syndicators of shows like Jeopardy! into gold mines. The decision, which takes effect next summer, will let networks fill the hour with their own programming...