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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Country Comes to Cable | 3/21/1983 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 14, 1983 | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Too Few Takers | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Too Few Takers | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Mary C. Warner, | Title: Barnard Adds Requirements Resembling Core Curriculum | 3/2/1983 | See Source »

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