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...Dial also features articles by first-class writers: Wilfrid Sheed on sports, Auberon Waugh on Alec Guinness, Stanley Kauffmann on acting. But the magazine was unexpectedly panned by the House of Representatives, then by the U.S. Postal Service. Reason: the Dial- which will be sent to 650,000 PBS-TV supporters in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., as part of their $25-minimum contribution-is bursting with ads, $580,000 worth in the first issue alone...
...next casualty of the strike may be the fall television schedule. If the work stoppage continues beyond mid-August, all three commercial networks-PBS is not affected-will probably have to push the season's premiere from mid-September into October. Some series, such as ABC'S The Love Boat and CBS's Lou Grant, completed several episodes before the strike began; many others, like CBS's Dallas, have none in condition...
...that is changing. In March PBS, NBC and ABC began captioning some of their programs, sending out signals that can be converted into subtitles on specially adapted sets. PBS's Masterpiece Theater is captioned, and so are such shows as ABC's Vega$ and NBC's Real People. Some advertisers, who realize what a vast market they have been missing, are even captioning their commercials...
...Search for Solutions, PBS, starts June 10,9p.m. E.D.T...
...walk the tedious trail that might eventually lead to a career in the laboratory. The loss is society's, and the answer to the horrors of a Three Mile Island or a Love Canal is not clamping down on science, but training more and better scientists. This remarkable PBS series is a welcome attempt to answer that need. Science, it says, is not only the world's biggest game; it is also the most exciting...