Word: hardart
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...million households for its Cable Value Network. Last month a powerful trio of companies formed a joint venture to put a program called ValueTelevision directly on broadcast airwaves. The participants: a chain of independent stations (Fox Television), a Hollywood production company (Lorimar-Telepictures) and a direct-mail giant (Horn & Hardart, owner of Hanover House). To meet the new challenges, HSN is in the process of branching out from cable to broadcasting by acquiring 14 UHF television stations...
Those were also the early days of live television, which I loved, especially Horn and Hardart's Children's Hour. I longed to be one of the show's talented kids who tap-danced and sang. Of course, that was so far from where I was then. Being paralyzed, I had to night-crawl on my bedroom floor just to change the channel; there was no such thing as remote control...