Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year it expects to sell 1,000. Cable-TV gear accounted for 75% of the company's 1978 sales of $94 million. Jerrold Electronics in January booked three tunes as many orders for decoder boxes and other cable equipment BRIAN R. WOLFF as ft did in the whole fourth quarter last year. Its sales of cable gear have multiplied 4½ times since...
...growth. General Electric Cable, a subsidiary of GE, is about to acquire Cox Broadcasting for roughly $560 million if shareholders and the FCC approve. The merge would create the third biggest MSO, with 745,000 subscribers. Tele-Communications, Inc. (700,000 subscribers) would be pushed down to fourth, and Warner (620,000 subscribers) to fifth. Times-Mirror Corp., the publisher of the Los Angeles Times, has just bought Communications Properties Inc. for $128 million. Consequently, Times-Mirror has jumped from 26th to sixth biggest MSO (415,000 subscribers...
...year. Its programs now reach 2.4 million subscribers, vs. 1 million at the end of 1977. HBO's sports programming leans largely to documentaries of a sort; for example, an April baseball preview in which American League managers and players discussed the Yankees' chances of whining a fourth straight league pennant. HBO will also spend $13 million on original programming this year. Sample: National Lampoon Presents Disco Beaver from Outer Space, a satirical revue that was shown in February and included skits racier than any seen on regular TV. One was The Breast Game, starring Lynn Redgrave...
...count jam in the seventh, gave way to reliever Ron Stewart in the eighth. Steward likewise Houdinied from a sacks-filled situation in the ninth by tagging out shortstop Gary Masse on a not-so-passed passed ball, but not until after he had yielded Dartmouth's fourth run on a sacrifice...
Rick Pearce--back in the line-up at third base--and hot hitters Burke St. John and Bobby Kelley bunched singles for another run in the fourth. Pearce and St. John ganged up on Eagle starter Bob Meara again in the sixth, tying up the game when Pearce rapped a two-run double and St. John followed by powdering a full-count fastball for a home run to left-center...