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Already cable TV reaches about a fifth of the national television audience: 14.5 million out of roughly 73 million households that have one or more sets. The numbers are growing so rapidly that Young and Rubicam, the ad agency, predicts that almost one of three TV households will be on cable by 1981. Says Vice President William Donnelly: "Thirty percent is the magic number that made regular TV a mass medium and that later made color matter to advertisers." After reaching that point, cable would have a potential for further fast expansion. By industry count, TV cables (made of copper...
...regulatory climate is turning more favorable for cable operators too, after many years during which the Federal Communications Commission almost strangled the industry's growth by severely restricting the number of signals that cable operators could transmit. The FCC began to ease up in 1972, and last week it took a long further step: the agency's commissioners voted 6 to 1 in favor of a proposal to allow cable operators to pick up signals from as many distant broadcast-TV stations as they wish. Currently, there is in most cities a limit of two-so that...
...Center for the Performing Arts-is still an unfulfilled promise. John W. Mazzola, president of Lincoln Center, professes himself "totally confident that we will be on a pay-cable system in a couple of years," but indications are that Lincoln Center officials are waiting until cable hits the "magic number" of 30% of all TV households reached-which could be in 198 lor later...
Lapide's highly unorthodox view, presented last year in the German-language book Resurrection-A Jewish Faith Experience, seeks to bridge the gap created by nearly two millenniums of antagonism. His argument draws upon the views of a number of medieval rabbis who believed that the Christian church must somehow be part of God's plan. If the two religions both derive from the same God, says Lapide, Christianity could not be founded upon a lie. And since it "stands or falls" with the Easter story, Lapide concludes that the church was "born...
Since his arrival in Moscow 2½ years ago, U.S. News & World Report Correspondent Robin Knight has been regularly denounced by the official news agency Tass and a number of daily newspapers, especially for his articles on racism in the U.S.S.R. The weekly Soviet New Times called Knight "a boot-level journalist," and a Soviet journalism review included him in a "gallery of rogues...