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...last year, broadcasting insiders condescendingly predicted that the "Mouth of the South" had finally bitten off more than he could chew. They were convinced that American TV viewers, accustomed to half an hour of headline skimming on the networks each evening, would never tune in a 24-hour news channel in sufficient numbers to support Turner's expensive satellite system. Barely a year later, CNN has corralled a potential audience of 8 million, won applause for its live coverage of breaking news, and is on the verge of turning a profit...
...first channel, scheduled to go into operation next spring, will mimic the all-news format used by many radio stations, with roundups of the day's top stories aired at least twice every hour, and sports, weather and short features tucked in between. "Give us 18 minutes," Satellite NewsChannels boasts, "and we'll give you the world." Satellite NewsChannels will carry film footage from ABC News but will not enlist the network's on-camera correspondents. Using four of the Group W stations and a mini-network of other local stations around the country, the new channel...
...second channel, to be launched late in 1982, will offer in-depth reporting and extended coverage of breaking stories. ABC will produce these longer segments, most likely utilizing its own personnel as reporters and narrators. After breaking network news molds with its late-evening Night line 17 months ago, ABC is clearly trying to launch another pre-emptive strike against...
...most serious charges leveled against mergers is that they channel money away from productive capital investment. Instead of building new plants and providing new jobs by developing new or better products, so the theory goes, companies are now all too eager to buy the existing factories of other firms. Many corporate executives see the key to growth as acquisition rather than innovation. Complains Walter Adams, a professor of economics at Michigan State University: "Mergers don't create new factories or add new employment. Oil companies say they need profits to expand in gas and oil. That's persiflage...
...actual Channel crossing lasted only...