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Viewers in Charlotte, N.C., who turn the dial this week looking for Tom Brokaw and Roger Mudd at 6:30 p.m. may not believe their eyes: in place of the NBC network's Nightly News, affiliate station WPCQ-TV will start airing Family Feud. And instead of the local evening-news lead-in, the station will offer Real People. Insists Lawrence Fraiberg, president of WPCQ's parent, Westinghouse Group W TV, the nation's biggest non-network station group: "This has nothing to do with our attitude toward news...
...Moscow Olympic Games produced an unexpected benefit for human rights activists: international direct-dial telephone lines that vastly increased the flow of unauthorized information in and out of the Soviet Union. Installed for the benefit of the thousands of journalists, athletes and spectators who flocked to Moscow in July 1980, the sophisticated French-built electronic switchboard enabled Soviet citizens to keep in closer touch with friends and family members in Western Europe...
...longer. After reducing the number of direct-dial lines available for outgoing calls and then eliminating them, the Kremlin has now made it impossible for anyone to call from outside the country without going through an operator. The move has produced delays of 24 hours or more, and made it much easier for the authorities to monitor all communications...
...Soviet telephone system is definitely overloaded and in need of extensive repairs. Since the Soviets own far fewer computerized switching machines than do most Western telephone systems, they have virtually no back-up equipment when a breakdown occurs. The Soviets claim that their modern direct-dial equipment has been transferred only temporarily from international service, where telephone usage is relatively light, to the domestic network. Said an official of the Ministry of Communications last week: "We will increase the number of lines and reintroduce direct dialing within two years...
...long ago, picking what shows to watch on TV was an easy flick of the dial. There were three networks and scattered independent stations to choose from. Today, especially in the nation's 31 million cable-TV households, up to dozens of alternative channels can be available. To help the viewer keep track, numerous directories have been put out by cable-system owners, specialized pay-cable channels and independent entrepreneurs. In addition, many newspapers now carry cable channels in daily listings and Sunday TV supplements, as do some regional editions of TV Guide...