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Catch 22. The Congressmen were screening video tapes of Midnight Blue, an hour-long soft-core TV program that until last month was seen weekly on public-access channel J of Manhattan Cable Television, a subsidiary of Time Inc. Blue had been blacked out by Manhattan Cable, explained Vice President Charlotte Schiff Jones, because of a "catch 22" of conflicting regulatory requirements...
When public-access TV was launched in New York City five years ago, the franchise provided that because of the larger number of channels possible on cable TV, some should be made available to any individual or community group for a nominal fee on a first-come, first-served basis. On channel J the fee is $50 an hour, and the producers are allowed to sell commercial time to help pay production costs...
...Colonial meat-packing company proved over the weekend to be the only group of people who can play both sides of the Yankee-Red Sox blood feud. Effervescent kids on New York's channel 11, largely black and Hispanic, touted Yankee Franks as "the taste that takes you out to the ballgame," while a similar, but whiter, group of urchins acted out the same theme between innings for Fenway Franks...
Tuning into Italian television's Channel 1 one night last week, viewers throughout Italy were treated to a bizarre sight. The time was 9 p.m., Europe's favorite TV hour; on the channel Economist Siro Lombardini was just settling down to discuss the nation's troubled economy. Suddenly chairs, set and people began to tremble. "// terremoto! II terremoto! [Earthquake! Earthquake!]" shouted a frightened cameraman. While thousands looked on in amazement, economist and TV crew made a live, unceremonious departure...
Your Show of Shows. Saturday at 11:30 on Channel 7. If television is a cool medium, it's only since Sid Caesar left it. An immense, bear-like monster who generated more energy than any three TVA projects, Caesar did the best comedy on television, ever. With a company of electrocharged writers and actors, including Howard Morris, Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks and the woman to whom flowers should be sent and odes written daily, Imogene Coca, Your Show of Shows took over the airwaves live, for ninety minutes a week. Twenty-five years later, their old kinescopes re-shown...