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...more serious challenge to cable may come from direct-broadcast satellites (DBS). A consortium of telecommunications companies that includes GM Hughes Electronics, RCA/Thomson and Hubbard Broadcasting has just completed a nationwide roll-out of its Digital Satellite System, which offers 150 channels to customers who buy and install a home dish only 18 in. in diameter. Though the hardware is still relatively expensive -- between $700 and $900, down from $2,000 to $3,000 for older big dishes -- the monthly cost of various channel packages is comparable to cable's. The chief competitor to DSS is Primestar, a four-year...
...Broadcast ad for Connecticut gubernatorial candidate William Curry, Democrat, on his Republican opponent John G. Rowland...
...none of this is really the film's subject. Its true topic is chaos. All the above and a lot more are crammed into a tight time frame -- the prime-time hours during which a new network is presenting an extravagant premiere broadcast featuring all its stars and programs. The movie wants to show us the frenzy of such an enterprise, bring everyone involved as close as possible to panic but not in itself succumb to breakdown. This is a feat that has always interested George Lucas, who wrote the original story and is the executive producer. As we know...
...cultural nuances of an era when virtually everyone who mattered paid homage to Winchell at his table at Manhattan's celebrity hangout, the Stork Club. Gabler captures everything except the essence of Winchell's breathless dot-dot-dot tabloid style. Never does the author parse an entire column or broadcast to make Winchell accessible to a generation that only dimly recalls him as the narrator of the 1960s TV series The Untouchables. A few days before the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, Winchell wrote that the "most fateful hour of the most fateful week of history is at hand." Only...
...real news to me, not worthy of more than a small item on the court docket column of the newspaper. Or a brief mention on only one of the major networks, without a picture and at the end of the broadcast. A 30-second news spot in a morning radio show: "O.J. Simpson, the Hall of Fame running back, was today arrested in connection with the murder of his ex-wife, Nicole...