Word: kagan
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...machines, exotic and expensive toys just ten years ago, have found their way into 60% of American homes, according to Nielsen. A study by Paul Kagan Associates, a California-based research firm, found that the typical VCR household rents 4 1/2 movies a month, and such viewing has almost certainly cuts into network ratings. More insidiously, the VCR -- and its high-tech sidekick, the remote-control unit -- has encouraged a new, more active method of TV viewing known as "grazing." A survey published last month by Channels magazine found that 75% of all TV homes have remote-control buttons...
...Sermonette just yet. Despite audience erosion, network TV is still the most pervasive mass medium in the country and a powerful tool for advertisers. "I think we've got a long way to go before the house of cards collapses," says Larry Gerbrandt of Paul Kagan Associates. "On any given night, with any given show, they have the ability to attract a predominant share of the TV audience." Alan Gottesman, media analyst at Paine Webber, asserts, "The next thing you will hear will be the turning of the worm. There is an operating cycle of about two years in this...
...decades, film exhibition was, as Industry Analyst Paul Kagan notes, "essentially a Rip Van Winkle business." Exhibitors let their urban theaters decay into rancid zoos, with crummy projection and that mysterious glop that makes your shoes stick to the flypaper floor. Or they sliced handsome old palaces into tiny tenement cinemas, where SRO could mean not standing room only but single-room occupancy. In the suburbs the exhibitors moved into malls, where their "plexes" had all the charm of welfare clinics. The malls may have saved movies, bringing picture houses into bustling new neighborhoods, but the salvage job was short...
...then out of the north rode one who could. "Garth Drabinsky is both a showman and a visionary," Kagan says. "There were theater magnates before him, but none who radiated his charisma or generated such controversy." In 1979 the Toronto native co-founded Cineplex with 18 theaters. Today it is the largest chain in North America, with 1,643 "screens" (nobody calls them theaters any more) and 14,500 employees. Revenue has quintupled in five years; profits have doubled in a year. Drabinsky did it with street fighting and upscale smarts. In his first Los Angeles venture, for example...
...found, take more advanced high school courses and graduate with more credits than other American students. A higher percentage of these young people complete high school and finish college than do white American students. Trying to explain why so many Asian-American students are superachievers, Harvard Psychology Professor Jerome Kagan comes up with this simple answer: "To put it plainly, they work harder...