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...network TV anymore; when they do, most people have already seen them on pay cable or videocassette. Gone With the Wind is no longer available to the networks at all; rights to it are owned by Atlanta TV mogul Ted Turner, who used it to launch his new cable channel, TNT, last week. And the days when TV movies could attract 40% of the viewing audience, almost without trying, are as dead as Elvis...
...sports network. Cable may also bid for the rights to part of the 1992 Olympics. Canceled network shows like Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd have been picked up by cable, which is developing its own movies and series as well. Although each channel takes only a sliver of the viewing pie, collectively they hurt. Says NBC Entertainment president Brandon Tartikoff: "We're being nibbled to death by these piranhas known as CNN, Lifetime and Sunday Night Football...
Bill Spadea, a senior at Boston University, told the crowd, "Start chanting, 'Willie Horton.' It'll look good--Channel Four is there." Another organizer said, "We have to wait a few minutes to get an American flag--we'll look stupid without...
...homes are in rural areas not wired for cable TV. Programming includes crop and livestock reports, country-music videos, a polka-music show and a smattering of old western movies. Patrick Gottsch, a former satellite-dish salesman who raised $4 million from investors to start RFD-TV, thinks the channel can attract enough advertising to turn a profit in its first year. Says investor Jim Harker of Omaha: "Nobody else is hitting the agricultural market. We're stepping into a vacuum...
Some of the more intriguing experiments are going on in local TV studios. Good Evening, Moscow!, a daily news and commentary show on the Moscow channel, sends out a young journalist with an "express camera" to film slice-of-life vignettes on city streets. The show also cajoles officials to take the hot seat for questions called in by viewers. The Leningrad channel broadcasts the provocative cultural digest Fifth Wheel, focusing on "superfluous people" in the arts and letters, as well as the offbeat 600 Seconds news show, in which commentator Alexander Nevzorov races against a flashing digital clock...