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...Boston Red Sox traded Rick Burleson and third baseman Clell "Butch" Hobson to the California Angels last night in exchange for infielder Carney Lansford, outfielder Rick Miller and relief pitcher Mark Clear...
...Lansford, a slick-fielding third baseman, hit .264 in 86 games with California during 1980. A three-year veteran, he is 23-years old and hit for averages of .294 and .287 his first two seasons with the Angels...
...acquisition of Miller and Lansford paves the way for more trades by the Red Sox. Boston has offered center fielder Fred Lynn to a number of clubs, including the New York Mets and Los Angeles Dodgers...
...tube-just as newspapers and weekly TV magazines are now starting to list cable offerings. Also, though there is much dispute when cable started, 1949 may have been the year of its birth. One version is that Robert J. Tarlton, owner of a radio and TV repair shop in Lansford, Pa., could sell few TV sets because a mountain outside town blocked signals coming in from Philadelphia, 65 miles away...
...setback in California (see SHOW BUSINESS). Networks have mixed feelings about CATV, but TV stations resent its frequent disruption of local markets with outside channels. Cumberland, Md.'s Potomac Valley TV Co. provides five Washington channels for its 18,000 subscribers, and Panther Valley TV in Lansford, Pa., a 1950 industry pioneer, picks up New York and Philadelphia as well as Scranton; TelePrompTer plans a Farmington, N. Mex., system that will use twelve microwave relays to bring in Los Angeles, 800 miles away. Cable TV's profitability also upsets the telephone companies, which rent the poles for CATV...