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...millions of admirers probably wish she hadn't. Until she unmasked herself publicly in 1989, they could imagine Roe as noble and steadfast, embattled yet triumphant. They didn't envision a former drug addict and dealer; someone so spiritually needy that she ran through religions as if channel surfing; someone testy enough to (in the presence of a Texas Monthly reporter) invite a critic who accused her of killing babies to "bring yours over here and we'll do them...
...Corporation for Public Broadcasting (PBS), too, has several options at its disposal, including licensing the revenue generated by many of its popular programs. After all, the Discovery Channel, Mind Extension University, the Learning Channel and the Arts & Entertainment Network, as well as C-SPAN, all survive and compete with PBS without tax subsidy. Alice Marquis reminds us that in 1973 the NEA issued a $5,000 grant to author Erica Jong to help her finish writing the novel Fear of Flying. How much could the endowment have received if it had requested a percentage of the royalties for putting...
...best argument against fears of this oligopolistic future is that today's giants seem to be chasing an ever expanding market, never quite sure which technologies will come out ahead. The 500-channel world may not be imminent, but as new distribution systems like digital broadcast satellites and digital cable come into use, programming outlets will multiply. TCI's John Malone, who heads up what has long been the nation's largest cable company, is choosing to highlight the red-hot Internet, investing in his own Internet company as well as the Microsoft Network. "There is a growing distrust...
...suburb of Birmingham. More famously, this self-taught telenun is board chairman (she deplores all-inclusive language) of Eternal Word Television Network, which reaches 36.8 million cable-equipped American homes via 1,204 affiliate systems. The largest of America's three all-religion cable networks, Mother Angelica's channel is going international. On Aug. 15, EWTN will begin 24-hour daily broadcasts, in English and Spanish, to cable systems in Europe, Africa and South America...
Well before channel surfing was a glint in an engineer's eye, Zenith was a power to be reckoned with. The U.S. brand whose name suggests the summit of aspiration was born on a Chicago kitchen table in 1918, when two wireless-radio buffs turned out equipment for other amateurs. In the 1940s, Zenith went into making TV sets in a big way, and in 1956 it introduced the parents -- or grandparents -- of today's couch potatoes to the idea of remote control with its Space Command device...