Word: networks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some of the darker warnings about Murdoch's takeover have not been borne out. TV Guide is not giving special editorial treatment to the Fox network, which is part of Murdoch's media empire. The listings section is still unmatched for comprehensiveness and accuracy, and the magazine's personality pieces retain a healthy edge of skepticism. Moreover, some staffers believe the old TV Guide, with its rather stodgy format, may have been due for rejuvenation. Yet that sober, even-tempered tone of voice always provided an important bit of ballast for a business fraught with glitter and hype. The danger...
...measure comes amid quickening competition in the cable industry as firms battle harder than ever to expand their market share. Last week Home Box Office, a Time Inc. company that operates the largest pay movie network, said it will launch a 24-hour comedy channel this fall as its first basic cable service. Two days later, MTV Networks, a sister of Showtime, the second largest pay movie channel, announced plans for similar comedy programming early next year...
MIAMI VICE (NBC, May 21, 9 p.m. EDT). The high-style cop show that defined TV noir for the '80s ends its five-year war on drugs with a two-hour finale. The ending is hush-hush, but the network says Crockett and Tubbs (Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas) will make their "last stand together...
...Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich get it handed -- they inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network. That's shared bounty of class...
RADIO AND TELEVISION. Broadcast religion was once a mainline monopoly, but since the 1960s it has been dominated by evangelical aggressiveness. In the wake of the squalid televangelism scandals, mainliners last fall launched an interfaith cable network called VISN. It is potentially their most strategic project in many years, but so far programming has been dull and dated. Significantly, it was a secular cable company, not mainline agencies, that came up with the idea for VISN...