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Three weeks ago in Massachusetts, Channel Seven anchorman Tom Ellis began the six o'clock news, two hours before the polls closed, with the announcement that he knew who had won the race to be the Democratic candidate for governor but said he would not disclose the victor...
...post he held for 10 years. Malin had taken his "interest in soccer to rather extraordinary lengths," studying under German coaches in American and gaining a certification as a soccer coach after classes in Britian. It was while he was coaching soccer at Harvard in '66 that Channel 2 of Boston, which broadcasted college sports events, walked onto the playing field to ask him if he'd like...
...despite 7.5 million subscribers. It says only its modest production budget has kept losses "within handleable limits." BRAVO, which offers a mixed fare including cultural shows and foreign films, charges subscribers a fee rather than relying on advertising, but has signed up only 66,000 households. The Entertainment Channel, which imports much of its not-always-highbrow programming from the British Broadcasting Corp., has been distributed only since June. More failures may be in the offing. Commented Thomas Wheeler, N.C.T.A. president, after the CBS announcement: "Clearly we are in a shaking-out period...
...battled ineffectually to push its local and national evening-news ratings above a hopelessly unprofitable 1% to 2% of metropolitan Charlotte's 236,000 TV households. By comparison, CBS-affiliated WBTV and ABC-linked WSOC-TV each draw ten times as many news viewers, albeit on VHP channels that are easier to tune in than WPCQ's UHF signal, Channel 36. WPCQ's troubles are compounded by three nearby NBC affiliates whose signals reach into the Charlotte market. Still, the station will offer NBC's Today, a local newscast at noon and hourly bulletins at night...
...demagoguery to offer, in referendum form, one simple solution to the problem. To argue, as one supporter did, that a freeze "is easily verifiable, because you can always detect zero," reflects an ignorance or a confidence inappropriate for the matter. Such arguments take advantage of gut-level fears and channel them towards superficially appealing solutions...