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Many analysts speculate that the man who built Fox-TV will use such a + network to combine shopping and entertainment. They envision the channel, dubbed Best TV by company executives, running, say, an hour of country-music videos featuring C.-and-W. stars like Clint Black and Garth Brooks, followed by a segment devoted to selling cowboy boots and other Western-style apparel. But Diller is not yet totally convinced that such synergy exists. "You won't see dancing and singing toasters...
...prospect of a QVC-HSN merger appeals to many suppliers. Greg Renker, president of Guthy-Renker Corp., which sells some 20 products through home- shopping channels, says the deal "will double our window of opportunity." Before, Renker could sell items ranging from vitamins to sunglasses through either QVC or HSN, but not both. However, Kurt Barnard, publisher of Barnard's Retail Marketing Report, says, "This merger will reduce competition. Instead of two channels, there will be only one, and suppliers will no longer be able to play one channel against the other to negotiate a better price...
...MISsissippi, 46 ft. above normal (and 3 ft. above the highest ever recorded before), was scheduled to pass St. Louis, Missouri, on Monday. It should roll by Cairo, Illinois, about 180 miles to the south, by Friday. There, the Ohio joins the Mississippi, which moves into a broader, deeper channel that should be able to carry all the water pouring in from upstream without overflowing the levees, dikes and dams south of Cairo. The people, businesses and farms lining the Father of Waters for the roughly 600 miles south to New Orleans should be safe. Upstream, houses, roads and fields...
Okay, I haven't been blitzed by the media in the way that President Clinton's newly-found half-brother has been. But since February, the pickings haven't been that slim, either. I've been quoted in USA Today, on Channel 5 TV in Boston and on BBC radio. I've been interviewed for The Economist. I've talked to two reporters from The Boston Globe (neither of whom quoted me.) And I've fielded calls from a slew of news organizations who simply call up The Crimson looking for help from whomever answers the phone...
...sings like a wuss") are nothing if not cartoonish. "There are moments of self-parody on MTV," says MTV creative director Judy McGrath, "but most of them are unintentional." This may be the bravest show ever run on national television: it lampoons not just the performers who are the channel's raison d'etre, but mercilessly depicts MTV's dopey, antisocial, suburban-boy audience. And what do the living, breathing Beavises and Butt-heads of America think of the caricature? It is MTV's most popular show by far, with ratings at least twice as high as those of plain...