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Wonkicide! Cable systems are dumping his C-SPAN...
Established cable services are suffering as well. Officials at C-SPAN, chronicler of Congress and government activity, say the channel has been booted off or cut back in systems representing 4.2 million homes. "The regulatory environment is making our life miserable," says C-SPAN president Brian Lamb...
...just named one of the fifty sexiest men on C-Span, "Gore said...
...White House's offerings this month have been every bit as attention- getting, beginning with a shocking one-two punch: the down-to-the-wire vote in the House on the assault-weapons ban that came on the very same day -- No way! shouted millions of electrified C-SPAN viewers -- that Paula Jones' lawyers were toying with the question of whether or not to file a sexual- harassment suit against the President. The latter story line was echoed in the recent two-hour season finale of Melrose Place, a currently hot nighttime soap that was floundering until old pro Heather...
...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...