Word: channelized
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...they go out and feed somebody," says University of Massachusetts Public Service Professor Ralph Whitehead Jr. "Baby Boomers are highly skeptical of institutional tools. They believe in J.F.D.I.--just frigging do it." And even if charity concerts have not proved to be the most efficient or speedy way to channel money to the poor and helpless, for many Baby Boomers joining hands and swaying to the music of a megarally evokes the good old days, when it was possible to have a social conscience and fun at the same time...
...plucking from the sky are one by one turning into a jumble. In January, HBO and Cinemax (both owned by Time Inc.) became the first two cable services to scramble their signals, thus preventing dish owners from watching them without paying a monthly subscription fee. Showtime and the Movie Channel will begin similar scrambling on May 27, and most other satellite-beamed cable channels, including ESPN, MTV, the Disney Channel, Cable News Network and Superstation WTBS, will follow suit before the end of the year. Their actions have set off a heated battle over just who has the right...
...action. In a sneak attack made just after midnight on Sunday of last week, the self- appointed video avenger broke into an HBO presentation of the movie The Falcon and the Snowman with a cryptic message: GOODEVENING HBO FROM CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT. $12.95 A MONTH? NO WAY! (SHOWTIME/ THE MOVIE CHANNEL BEWARE...
Such fears are exaggerated; not all satellite-beamed signals are being scrambled, and the $395 decoder will bring in most of the ones that are. Pay- cable executives defend their right to charge dish owners for picking up their channels. Subscription fees are what defray the cost of programming, they argue, and it is only fair that dish owners ante up too. "In order for this product to exist, it has to be paid for by those who use it," says Duncan Murray, a vice president of the Disney Channel...
...after the higher court reversed that opinion Friday, the forum made a last-ditch effort Monday morning to hold the debate in the studios of WCVB-TV, Channel 5, in Boston. Terzi would speak via satellite from the television station's New York City affiliate...