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...Most say they made their decision independently of Wildmon's organized campaign. Executives of WHAS in Louisville, Kentucky, decided not to run the show after screening it at an ABC affiliates' meeting in June. Says station manager George Hulcher: "The kind of product they showed us was not for broadcast television. It's for cable." Jan McDaniel, general manager of Wichita's KAKE, rejected the show after a torrent of anti-NYPD Blue letters and phone calls that followed local newspaper coverage of the controversy. Says McDaniel: "I received so many thoughtful expressions of frustration, I felt...
...video-game industry is being propelled forward by a technological imperative that is reshaping most forms of entertainment. America's telemedia giants -- from AT&T and Time Warner to Tele-Communications Inc. and the proposed Paramount-Viacom combo -- are spending billions to turn today's passive television broadcast system into a two-way, interactive information highway capable of delivering not just movies, sitcoms and news on demand, but the world's greatest video games as well...
...example, Paramount chairman Martin Davis said last week that the new company might develop a music business to record and market compact discs under the MTV label. And since Viacom and Paramount together own a total of 12 TV stations, the two companies could combine them into a fifth broadcast network. "If it presents an opportunity, we will clearly seize it," Davis says...
...best display of this occurred this spring, when the Sox jumped out to an 11-3 start and opened a 3-game lead over Toronto and New York, Just 14 games into the season, every major publication, broadcast center and sports authority east of the Hudson River anointed Boston the division champs and settled back to see who would win the AL West...
...only is the system changing for the worse, but American fans will not be able to watch most of the playoff games under the new system. The majority of the playoff games will not be broadcast on the major networks as in the past. Instead, they'll be aired on cable--or even worse, on pay-per-view...