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...debut, following the demise of the Entertainment Channel and CBS Cable, comes at a moment when cable industry analysts are circumspect about the immediate future. But the folks at WSM and Group W are bullish about the prospects for the Nashville Network. WSM has bet $50 million that America's growing army of country music fans will make the network profitable within three years...
...effort to create a high-brow image that might set it apart from the usual Saturday-morning kiddie fare, the Disney cable-TV channel cast around for a reasonable facsimile of Masterpiece Theater Host Alistair Cooke, 74, to front Mousterpiece Theater, a series of 20 half-hour animated shorts. They found that quintessentially nasal nabob, George Plimpton, 55, already familiar to many a younger viewer not as a writer (Paper Lion) but as the Intellivision pitchman. Beginning next month, Plimpton will settle into a comfy padded chair to lecture his preliterate charges on the finer points of animation in such...
...second tombstone was added to the cable graveyard last week. Right next to the headstone of CBS Cable (October 1981-November 1982), it marks the passing of The Entertainment Channel, a 24-hour pay cable service offering exclusive programming, much of it cultural. After nine months in business, analysts estimate, TEC lost close to $50 million for its joint owners, RCA Corp. and Rockefeller Center Inc. (RCI). Amid sundry explanations of its demise, the principal reason was clear: TEC could not entice enough subscribers to pay $8 to $12 a month to watch it. The service is transmitted...
...postmortem, TEC was caught in the crossfire between HBO, owned by Time Inc., with its 11 million subscribers, and Viacom International Inc.'s Showtime, with 4 million. Taylor predicted a rebirth for TEC in another form, however. He is planning to launch a scaled-down, advertiser-supported channel under the same name late this spring. It will seek a broader audience with fare including Hollywood classics and short-lived TV series from seasons past. RCA and RCI have not decided whether to back the new venture. It would be a gamble. Of the 29 advertiser-supported channels now operating...
...program also has its detractors. Gillian Kaye `85 said that the new requirements represented a loss of distributional elective and was indicative of the college attempts to channel students towards business and science...