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...many writers going to kids' books these days, the Harry pot of gold may be reason enough to go. But children's literature, with its freedom from the constraints of reality, was a natural place for Chabon to turn. Tom Wolfe may think that the 19th century social novel is the only true model for fiction these days, but Chabon has other ideas. For one thing, he wants literary fiction to enjoy the liberties of fantasy genres like science fiction or horror. His next novel will be about a detective in an alternative present day in which the Jewish state...
Dalias' first clever move was to enlist a champion with a gold-plated international Rolodex: Michael Feinstein, a senior principal at Atlas Venture in Boston. Before becoming a venture capitalist, Feinstein had been vice president of marketing in charge of global sales at New Oak Communications, a maker of Internet security devices that is now part of Nortel Networks. Through his contacts, Feinstein was able to entice the business-development director of NetOne to visit WaveSmith at its Acton, Mass., headquarters for a demonstration of its new multiservice switch. The product, which transmits data, voice and video in a carrier...
...rival, Comcast's Outdoor Life Network (which has a licensing agreement with a unit of AOL Time Warner, TIME magazine's parent company), reaches three times as many viewers but focuses much more on sports like cycling and kayaking. Another difference: TOC runs regular shows on country music and gold prospecting. Its eclectic mix is carried on cable systems from San Diego to Miami, plus the satellite Dish Network...
Like so many other entrepreneurial tales, the story of the Outdoor Channel starts in a garage--this one at the Post Falls, Idaho, home of George and Wilma Massie. Avid weekend gold panners, the Massies launched a for-profit gold-prospecting club in 1968. They moved their business in 1976 to California, where George won a little fame four years later when he found a million-dollar pocket of nuggets in the Mother Lode area. In the late 1980s their son Tom, now 37, began filming George's gold-hunting expeditions and lectures--footage that the Massies turned into...
George died in 1993, the year his gold-prospecting club spawned the Outdoor Channel. Within two years, the channel was dominated by hunting and fishing shows and was being distributed by a few carriers in the Southeast. By the end of 1998 it had 5 million subscribers; last year it reached 15 million. Despite the industry's advertising slump, ad revenue grew 18% last year, to $8.6 million. Says Daryl Daigre, vice president of marketing for Mossy Oak, a camouflage-and-hunting-accessories chain: "They deliver our ultimate consumer to us." While larger networks are queasy about showing the actual...