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...media-research firm Paul Kagan Associates, subscriptions for the largest pay-cable services were flat or down. But the Disney Channel announced last week that it grew 11% in 1991, adding 633,000 households. That brings its base of 6.25 million into a virtual tie with No. 3, Cinemax...
...Pennsylvania Law School and practiced briefly before joining Time Inc. in 1972. His notion of bouncing movies off satellites and into living rooms from Boston to Berkeley helped transform Home Box Office from a struggling service into the biggest pay channel in the U.S.; combined with its sister Cinemax service, it now has nearly 24 million subscribers...
...mock-heroic ballet to the theme of the NBC Nightly News. But versatility has not brought happiness: "PEOPLE magazine accuses me of being too hip and arty." On the other hand, recalling her 1987 special on cable TV, she says, "The Village Voice condemns me for selling out to Cinemax, as if Cinemax were run by Jesse Helms...
...control, to the one envisioned in the Time- Warner deal. Time's magazine and book publishing operations, which include TIME, PEOPLE, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and TIME-LIFE Books, might dovetail effectively with Paramount's book division. Time's cable television programming units, including Home Box Office and Cinemax, could mesh with Paramount's film-studio and television ventures. Time's cable-television systems would provide distribution vehicles for that product. Warner, meanwhile, has film, cable-TV and publishing units and differs from Paramount in owning the largest domestic record company. "Time would make a good fit with either Warner or Paramount...
...rival cable company. According to a study by Michael Salinger, a professor of public policy at the Columbia University business school, system operators may indeed show bias toward their own networks over channels owned by other companies. Says he: "I found that ATC systems tend to favor HBO and Cinemax," an affiliated pay service. "Similarly, Viacom ((which also owns cable systems)) tends to favor Showtime...