Word: offs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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All this growth and change, reports TIME Correspondent Mary Cronin, is symptomatic of a major development in U.S. television: cable is at last taking off. After several false starts, it is poised for the rapid, nationwide expansion that regular television achieved three decades ago. As Russell Karp, president and chief...
CATV quickly caught on in other communities where reception was poor. Antenna builders soon noticed that if they made the towers tall enough, they could pull in signals from distant as well as nearby stations, thereby offering viewers greater variety as well as clearer pictures. But the road from Panther...
So far, relatively impartial studies indicate that all this poses little threat to the networks. Cable appeals to viewers uninterested or only mildly interested in the networks' sitcoms, cop shows and soap operas. Cable fans tend to be older than the Three's Company-Happy Days buffs; Showtime...
Among German Christians, even those who express doubts about Jesus' Resurrection, Lapide's ideas have been welcomed. Besides working on a third book, which is to deal with Jesus' Passion, Lapide has time to appear at religious conferences where he has been known to twit German liberal...
The British can brace themselves for the possibility of bitterness and conflict on a scale hitherto unknown if the Tories carry through on their campaign rhetoric. The United Kingdom's energy self-sufficiency--thanks to North Sea oil--and the Labour government's achievement in paying off Britain's international...