Word: dish
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...television viewers, home satellite dishes have been too costly and cumbersome to win much popularity except in rural areas that lack cable TV. But last week four communications companies disclosed plans for a $1 billion satellite service that could transform American viewing habits when it becomes available in 1993. The four partners -- NBC, Cablevision Systems, Hughes Communications and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. -- said their Sky Cable service will beam 108 channels to homes equipped with a 12-in. by 18-in. rectangular dish that will cost about $300. Users of the new system, which could carry high-definition...
Other media giants are exploring similar new satellite-dish technologies. Last month a consortium led by General Electric, Time Warner and Tele- Communications said it planned to offer U.S. viewers a ten-channel satellite service by early fall. The companies said the system would deliver basic cable shows to noncable households and additional programming to cable subscribers...
Harvard was pushed and shoved all night by the un-Quakerly Penn bruisers, but the Crimson (9-9 overall, 4-3 Ivy) was able to dish out a bit of its own punishment en route to a 92-63 romp over the Quakers (7-12, 4-4). Harvard shot an outstanding 62 percent from the field and outrebounded Pennsylvania, 43-36, to come away with the victory...
Currently, the largest such telescope is a 150-wide-foot dish in Japan, Goldsmith said...
...telescope would have a dish antenna approximately 200 feet wide, under preliminary design plans...