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...placed the army under civilian authority and is reducing the size of the armed forces. He has also abandoned the American tactic of supporting secret wars to overthrow existing Latin American governments, and has promised to peacefully resolve a potentially fractious conflict with Chile over the Beagle Channel...
Cable television has been a money-consuming swamp for the companies that own the three major networks. CBS folded its cultural channel in 1982 after losing an estimated $30 million. RCA, the parent company of NBC, dropped $17 million on the Entertainment Channel before closing it last year. ABC and its partner, Westinghouse, gave up on their Satellite News venture last October, selling out to Turner Broadcasting System for $25 million. Despite all that, ABC last week plunged into the coaxial morass again with its biggest cable venture ever. The company paid $202 million for the U.S.'s most...
...Connecticut-based ESPN ranks among the cable channels most likely to succeed. The network offers round-the-clock sports, ranging from college basketball to Australian football. On weekday mornings, ESPN supplies two hours of financial news on its popular Business Times program. Despite an unanticipated loss of more than $80 million since its start five years ago, the channel is expected to break even by the first quarter of 1985. Last year advertising sales, the bulk of ESPN's revenue, jumped 60%, to $40 million...
...action begins at 6 p.m., when CompuServe's rates drop from $12 an hour to $6, and is limited to the so-called CB channels, the computer version of Citizens Band radio. Each week thousands tune in to CB to chat with other users, and many of them end up on Channel 1, the channel designated for adults. Sometimes 40 people will be on-line at once, their pseudonymous messages scrolling by on the screen faster than the eye can read. "I'm nibbling your earlobe," begins a typical come-on. Reply: "Not so hard!" Men, sporting such...
While conceding that the Disney Channel has positive educational shows, Coalition Chairman Thomas Radecki, a University of Illinois psychiatrist, claims its violence can be harmful to children. Disney Channel President James Jimirro replies that the channel has received widespread praise from parents and teachers and only six complaints about violence out of 30,000 letters. Or, as Donald might...