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When the Public Broadcasting stations in New York (WNET), Washington (WETA), Chicago (WTTW) and Los Angeles (KCET) launched the monthly television guide Dial (circ. 690,000) last September, praise from charter subscribers was all but overwhelmed by protests from other publishers. Reason: Dial, which is sent to supporters of sponsoring stations (now including WTVS Detroit) who contribute at least $25 a year, would compete for advertising with commercial magazines while enjoying Public Broadcasting's nonprofit advantages. Among those breaks: generous tax exemptions, lower postal rates, tax-deductible subscription fees and free promotion on PBS stations.* Publisher Philip Merrill, whose...
...Dial has won a decisive round in the battle: the Internal Revenue Service rejected a challenge from Merrill two weeks ago, ruling that Public Broadcasting Communications, Inc., which publishes Dial for the sponsoring stations, is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization. Merrill had already lost a round with the Federal Communications Commission, which last month refused to prohibit PBS stations from promoting Dial...
Still pending is Dial's appeal for second-class, not-for-profit mailing rates, which could save it $380,000 annually...
...movies, it is usually the couple two rows back who turn out to be practitioners of voice-over chic, tenderly broadcasting all the half-baked thoughts they ever half-understood about Fellini. Dial a phone number and the absent owner's talking machine coughs a set piece of cuteness before granting a moment for you to interject a brief message. As for bridge players, the typical foursome hardly finishes the play of a hand before the air burbles with a redundant rehashing...
During all the years of his exile after the Bolshevik revolution, Vladimir Nabokov obsessively sought to recapture "a Russian something that I could inhale/ but could not see." There are glimpses of that Russian something in Photographs for the Tsar (Dial; 214 pages; $35), the best of the color shots that the chemist and photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii began taking in 1909 at the behest of Tsar Nicholas II. Having fascinated the Romanovs with a color slide show at the court at Tsarskoe Selo, Prokudin-Gorskii gained an imperial commission to record the art and people of the Russian...