Word: channelled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hold on to your hats, folks. Turner is back, once again doing what he enjoys most: pushing a big and bold new cable venture. Dubbed, with typical Turner flourish, TNT (Turner Network Television), the new channel will debut on Oct. 3 with a telecast of Turner's favorite movie, Gone With the Wind. After that, it will offer an array of, in Turner's modest description, the "finest programming on this planet," ranging from Charlton Heston in A Man for All Seasons to (Turner hopes) major sports events like the Rose Bowl and the Masters golf tournament. Industry observers...
...years ago, the cable landscape was littered with expensive flops (CBS Cable; the Satellite News Channel). Today cable networks whose survival once seemed dubious -- from the tony Arts & Entertainment Network to the drony Weather Channel -- have become permanent fixtures. New program services, meanwhile, keep springing up. Among the coming attractions: Show Business Today, a channel of around-the-clock entertainment news, slated to start in January; and a revamped version of Tempo Television, which NBC is planning to buy and reprogram with financial news during the day and sports at night and on weekends...
...reruns, has increased the number of fresh shows dramatically. Lifetime, with a diet of talk and service shows aimed mostly at women, will turn out 2,000 hours of original programming this year, in contrast to 200 hours in 1983. Among the most innovative is the Nickelodeon children's channel, which will produce eight new series this year, twice as many as last year, including a children's talk show and a courtroom sitcom...
...critically acclaimed comedy series It's Garry Shandling's Show and has fashioned an adult version of Nickelodeon's children's game show Double Dare. NBC is carrying the cross-pollination one step further, with plans to produce a comedy series, Good Morning, Miss Bliss, for the Disney Channel. The show may also air on NBC, but only after a first run on cable...
...With the elimination of the "must carry" rule (struck down as unconstitutional by a federal appeals court), cable operators are not even required to carry all the broadcast stations in their local area. As a result, some small stations have been dropped; others have been shifted from desirable low-channel positions near the networks to the less watched numbers at the high end of the dial -- "cable Siberia," as some call it. Viewers have little recourse against such moves because in most communities there is only one cable company to choose from. "There is only one funnel...