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...Crimson in a three-way tie--with Dartmouth and Penn--for the 1982 Ivy League championship. ABC was supposed to carry the Quakers' match-up with Cornell on its four o'clock broadcast, and a large portion of the Harvard faithful intended to tune in. But for some reason, Channel 5 showed the SMU-Arkansas game instead, and for many, the outcome of the contest in Ithaca remained a mystery until late in the evening...
...economic hard times, people don't know how to provide a channel that will affect others directly-in a more social change kind of way." Community Works President Fran Froelich said yesterday...
Last week, 46 years to the day after the BBC transmitted its first experimental television program, Britain got a fourth TV channel, joining BBC 1 and 2 and independent, commercial-sponsored ITV on the dials of the nation's 18.5 million licensed sets. Financially, Channel 4 is something of a hybrid. Roughly half of its annual budget of $181 million, which is about $6 million more than BBC 2's and about two-thirds the size of BBC 1's, is to be kicked in, by law, by the 15 producing companies that make...
...channel had more than its share of premier-week problems. One director resigned in a huff because a series was "full of language I would not use in front of my own children." There was a protest demonstration by members of the Deaf and Dumb Broadcasting Campaign because the channel has no plans for captioned programming. Meanwhile, the actors' union ordered its 30,000 thespians not to appear on any commercials destined for the new channel, which cannot afford the handsome residual rates paid...
...about the first week's programs, which ranged from a tedious game show to Walter, a stops-out original television film starring Ian McKellen as a retarded outcast assaulted during his first night in a mental hospital by a hunchbacked midget. All the shows will be developed for Channel 4 by independent producers; by subsidizing 20 full-length features for the Film on Four series, Chief Executive Jeremy Isaacs hopes that his channel can help rejuvenate the country's languishing movie industry. As Britain settles in with Channel 4's new programming, it can also look ahead...