Word: network
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...British are also trying in another subtle way to increase U.S. usage of British programs. No more than 14% of all programs carried on the BBC and ITV can now originate outside the Commonwealth. U.S. network men in London and New York have been told privately that the quota will become even stiffer unless U.S. broadcasters buy more British programs. Just as the foreign market has long since become the profit margin for Hollywood movies, the British rerun is sometimes the difference between profit and loss for U.S. programs. For example, CBS is inching into the black on Sergeant Bilko...
...special reason of its own for wanting to sell its TV output abroad. BBC's license conies up for renewal in 1962, and a third British network, due to begin after 1964, is up for grabs. The BBC will have no trouble getting its own license extended, but it would also like to be awarded the new network franchise. Only if it can prove itself competitive against front-running ITV in revenue as well as quality will it have much of a chance...
...menacing Soviet offensive after World War II spurred the U.S. and its allies to one of the great military-diplomatic achievements of history. Within months the allied nations began to rim the Communist land masses with a network of forward airbases that put to best advantage the single deterrent that the West then had-the atomic bomber. The process was stepped up during the Korean war, until now U.S. planes and ships operate out of 80 U.S. bases in 25 lands and territories. Under terms of bilateral treaties and NATO and SEATO alliances, the U.S. also has the stand...
...Russian iron ore for their new $1.5 billion steel plant rising at Kosice, the Czechs have had to sign a contract to supply the Russians with mining machinery to help boost Soviet ore production. So prickly, in fact, are the hedges between COMECON partners that in the pipeline network now being laid to carry Volga oil to East German, Czech and Hungarian factories, each country builds and owns the part within its territory. "There is no charity among Communists," says a Czech official. "Business is business...
Tough Competition. Merger of the Nickel Plate and the Norfolk & Western would give the N. & W. access to the Great Lakes, and create a network stretching from St. Louis, Chicago, Cleveland and Buffalo to the Pocahontas coal region of the Virginias. The merged roads would rank among the nation's top ten, have a 4,964-mile network with assets of $1.4 billion. Under the terms of the merger agreement, one share of Nickel Plate common would be exchanged for .45 of a share of Norfolk & Western. Since the two lines do not now link, the merger is contingent...