Word: payes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the tribe's 88-member council voted to place him on indefinite leave with pay, MacDonald got himself reinstated by appealing to a Navajo tribal judge, who happens to be his brother-in-law. But last week the tribe's supreme court challenged the reinstatement. A new judge will hear MacDonald's latest appeal. Says Navajo Peterson Zah, a MacDonald rival and former tribal chief: "MacDonald has let the Navajo people down...
...Ultimate Event! Still, when Frank Sinatra, Liza Minnelli and Sammy Davis Jr. commanded the stage two weeks ago for a 90-minute TV concert, they were doing more than just a routine network special. The concert was the latest offering in a busy new realm of video mega-events: pay-per-view television...
...Pay-per-view is hardly the ultimate in TV technology, but it may be an idea whose time has finally come. Conventional pay-cable channels, like HBO and Showtime, offer viewers a smorgasbord of programming for one monthly fee. Pay- per-view instead gives viewers a chance to select from a menu, paying only for the programs they want to see. Prices typically range from $4 or $5 for recent movies to $15 or $20 for concerts and sport events. Pay-per-view is still a pint-size player in the TV marketplace: only 11 million TV homes...
...than 4 million), each offer customers a monthly program slate filled largely with movies. But the business's new boomlet has been propelled mainly by special events. Last June's heavyweight title fight between Mike Tyson and Michael Spinks was sold to nearly 600,000 TV homes on a pay-per-view basis at an average $35 a crack. Wrestling matches have proved an even bigger draw. Wrestlemania IV had a reported 900,000 takers last March (the largest audience yet claimed for a PPV event), and well-hyped ring battles like last week's Chi-Town Rumble...
...Pay-per-view has had its share of duds. A Dirty Dancing concert last November drew fewer than 80,000 subscribers. Viewership for the Sinatra- Minnelli-Davis concert is still being tabulated, but will probably fall well short of 100,000. Still, the concert's packager, Showtime Event Television, is pursuing other big stars for PPV events, and industry executives are bullish. "We're building an electronic arena," says Jeffrey Reiss, chairman of Request Television. "The day will come when Bruce Springsteen will be playing pay-per-view at the end of his tour. We're betting on the future...