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...Smith and John Malone were sitting in their respective offices last Tuesday, both watching the same show: a C-SPAN broadcast of the Federal Communications Commission hearing on cable-TV rates. Smith, the chairman of Bell Atlantic, was in his Arlington, Virginia, office; Malone, the boss of cable giant Tele-Communications Inc., was at TCI headquarters in Denver. Both executives were appalled as they watched the FCC announce a 7% reduction in cable rates, on top of a 10% rollback ordered last year. Malone immediately telephoned Smith. "Ray," Malone said in an emotionless voice, "this is a bigger hit than...
...agents probably tapped into Ames' computer with a variation on old- fashioned bugging. One way would have been to enter his home and plant a device in the computer that would broadcast every keystroke. A more efficient method would have been to plant a bug enabling them to turn on the computer from another location, call up the internally stored files and transmit them by either radio or telephone modem to the FBI's waiting machines; the computer and modem would have been turned off by a remote signal. While in his house, the FBI might also have copied...
...making TV history. For the first 11 days of the Games, prime-time viewership was up 37% over '92. Then, for the women's short program on Wednesday night, ratings soared to an astonishing 48.5, meaning 48.5% of all U.S. homes with TV sets were tuned in, making that broadcast the sixth highest rated TV show of all time. Friday night's figure-skating finale garnered a smaller but still huge...
Michael tells Leleina that "some of our best guys" have been working on the video to make it suitable for broadcast, and she has high hopes. However, almost immediately after the video begins playing, Leleina realizes that her serious work has been transformed into an MTV-style mish-mash of jumpy editing, silly graphics, and meaningless buzz words topped off with a soundtrack of hip tunes. Disillusioned, she tells Michael that their relationship is over and she storms out of the building...
Connie Hoar, also of Salem, said she enjoyedthe live broadcast as well...