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Remember "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" (and putts keep failing to drop)? Weather, not golf, dominated the talk here at the Yale Invitational on Saturday. Steady rains were broken up only by dense fog, turning an already-tough Yale University Golf Course into a monster...
...friends in at least one (if not more than one) of same categories. It is not racism to suggest that, while a diverse campus is a wonderful real, most of us pick our friends based on common interests. If that happens to be ethnicity rather than a love of golf, then...
...there will also be a fresh batch of original channels aimed at special tastes. Already being planned, or at least promised, are channels devoted to game shows, talk shows, crime shows and soap operas. Also the Golf Channel, the Military Channel, the Television Food Network, Ovation (for fine-arts programming) and the Wellness Channel (for recovering addicts). A major stumbling block to such niche services in the past was the limited channel capacity of most cable systems. Soon these fledgling networks will have all the room they want...
...PROSPECT: CABLE SYSTEMS could switch to an a la carte system of billing, in which subscribers build customized cable menus channel by channel, rather than paying a lump sum for an entire "tier." Such a system would probably be ; a boon for narrow-gauge networks (golf enthusiasts would presumably be willing to fork over a buck or two a month for a channel aimed at them). But many general-interest services, from the Weather Channel to USA Network, would surely see their circulation -- and thus their ad revenue -- drop if viewers were forced to choose and pay for them individually...
...Golf at Yale Invitational...