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...what doesn't will be critical if Microsoft is to succeed outside the personal computer industry. And the world won't have long to wait: Michael Kinsley's much anticipated Webzine, Slate, is scheduled to debut June 24, and msnbc Cable, the joint NBC-Microsoft all-news cable channel, is due this fall. If Stonesifer's track record is any gauge, both projects should draw a crowd...
...today's classrooms, corporate logos and learning often go hand in hand. A 1995 report by Consumers Union found that many of America's 43 million school-age children are being bombarded by a growing number of blatantly commercial messages. Channel One, with two minutes of advertising for every 10 minutes of news, plays in more than 12,000 schools, while more than 58,000 schools participated in Pizza Hut's BOOK IT! National Reading Incentive Program this year. Financially strapped and desperate to spice up their curriculums, teachers may find irresistible the slick materials from the likes of Tootsie...
Strangers cannot be found on the Playboy channel--you will find it instead on HBO, one of more than half a dozen or so "adult" anthology series offering soft-core sexual adventure that have been appearing late at night on the various paycable networks. Of course, the ability to show bare female nipples--and to get endless mileage out of low-budget R-rated movies--has been one of the prime attractions of pay cable ever since its birth in the 1970s. But it wasn't until just a few years ago that programmers began rolling out their own regularly...
...Boston Herald, The Today Show, Channel 7 and the Jewish Advocate are among those that have interviewed...
However, the two newer, smaller networks, the upstart United Paramount Network and the Warner Bros. channel, are embracing minority-themed programming as a way of differentiating themselves from the bigger, established players in the TV game. In a classic case of counterprogramming, the two mininetworks will between them air 11 ethnic-themed shows in the fall--nearly twice the big-network total. Some of them star familiar names like Sherman Hemsley, Malcolm-Jamal Warner and Robin Givens. One, UPN's Homeboys in Outer Space, is a must-see for the high-concept title alone. Some are refugees from...