Word: networking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...America's most entertaining businessman. In the go-go years of the 1970s and early '80s, Turner was the cable industry's chief cheerleader, creating the nation's first satellite-beamed superstation, WTBS, and confounding skeptics by successfully launching TV's first 24-hour news channel, the Cable News Network. In the mid-'80s, however, the cable industry hit a slump, and so did Turner. His 1984 attempt to start a music- video channel died after just a month on the air, his much publicized bid to take over CBS was an expensive fizzle, and his acquisition of MGM left...
...hold on to your hats, folks. Turner is back, once again doing what he enjoys most: pushing a big and bold new cable venture. Dubbed, with typical Turner flourish, TNT (Turner Network Television), the new channel will debut on Oct. 3 with a telecast of Turner's favorite movie, Gone With the Wind. After that, it will offer an array of, in Turner's modest description, the "finest programming on this planet," ranging from Charlton Heston in A Man for All Seasons to (Turner hopes) major sports events like the Rose Bowl and the Masters golf tournament. Industry observers...
...years ago, the cable landscape was littered with expensive flops (CBS Cable; the Satellite News Channel). Today cable networks whose survival once seemed dubious -- from the tony Arts & Entertainment Network to the drony Weather Channel -- have become permanent fixtures. New program services, meanwhile, keep springing up. Among the coming attractions: Show Business Today, a channel of around-the-clock entertainment news, slated to start in January; and a revamped version of Tempo Television, which NBC is planning to buy and reprogram with financial news during the day and sports at night and on weekends...
...think there are some people who actually don't want a national network. They think it would be necessary to have a centralized structure. I can't see it. There is not all that much power for a national network to handle," Hodos says...
...Maybe if the network formed a student lobby, they could become really powerful. But the emphasis has got to be on grass roots. It is important to be in contact with people in your own area," Ritter says...