Word: networking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Much cable programming, to be sure, is still a morass of second-rate reruns, cheesy home-shopping shows and other filler fare. But original programming -- often more adventurous than that of the three networks -- is occupying a growing portion of the cable schedule. Pay services like HBO and Showtime have for years produced made-for-cable movies, comedy concerts and other original fare. Now basic cable services are getting into the act as well. The USA Network, once filled largely with creaky reruns, has increased the number of fresh shows dramatically. Lifetime, with a diet of talk and service shows...
...networks too are beginning to go after cable shows. When Cinemax's Max Headroom became a cult hit last season, ABC spirited the computer-created character away and repackaged him in a prime-time (if short-lived) series. The Fox network has picked up Showtime's critically acclaimed comedy series It's Garry Shandling's Show and has fashioned an adult version of Nickelodeon's children's game show Double Dare. NBC is carrying the cross-pollination one step further, with plans to produce a comedy series, Good Morning, Miss Bliss, for the Disney Channel. The show may also...
Meanwhile, cable networks are bidding aggressively against their broadcast rivals for programming. Syndicated reruns of such current network hits as Miami Vice, Cagney & Lacey and Murder, She Wrote have been sold to cable rather than broadcast stations, as would have been the case five or ten years ago. Cable has also been on the offensive in the sports arena. ESPN last year brought National Football League games to cable for the first time, buying a package of 39 contests over three years. ESPN's eight regular-season NFL telecasts last fall garnered the all-sports network its highest ratings ever...
...them was removed last week, when the Federal Communications Commission voted to reimpose the so-called syndicated exclusivity rules. Broadcasters have long argued that local stations that buy exclusive rights to syndicated programming are being hurt by cable channels airing the same shows (typically, reruns of old network series like Bewitched and M*A*S*H). Under the new regulations -- which will go into effect twelve months from now -- cable operators will be required to black out such duplicative cable shows or offer alternate programming...
...sense the clubs have become victims of their own success: by realizing their mission, they invite their demise. As access has opened up to government, the workplace and the courts, women's clubs are no longer the primary path to fulfillment or power. Where they once provided an invaluable network of contacts and company, they must now compete with single-issue organizations, professional groups and even men's clubs...