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...when Warner Communications with great fanfare launched Qube, a "two-way television" system, Gustave Hauser, then chairman of the firm's cable operations, hailed the Columbus venture as "a supermarket of electronic services...
Warner curtails Qube...
This problem will not go away and, in fact, will only get worse as polling becomes more accurate and quicker projections can be made. On the horizon is the instant-response Qube cable system which would allow immediate living room surveys of constituents via their TV sets...
...Qube, Warner-Amex's two-way cable service, is just shaking down in Dallas, but there is some apprehension that it may be too good to resist. Customers pay a monthly $9.95 for access to 80 channels and the Qube system, then an additional fee for each of the five subscription channels. There will soon be hundreds of pay-per-view attractions each month that could turn a video freak into an unintentional deadbeat. In conjunction with the Dallas city council, Warner-Amex has discussed setting a debt ceiling for customers. In Columbus, Warner-Amex officials already have...
...features for the future, including longer interviews, perhaps even with some political types. However the format is modified, Playboy and Escapade have a strong start on what is expected to be a thriving part of the cable business. Warner Amex already has an adult service as part of its Qube system in Columbus. Penthouse, promising "more provocative, more controversial and much more stimulating material," may be starting up its cable operation this year, and by 1983 Escapade will be re-christened the Playboy Channel. A lot of folks like to watch late-night TV, but Playboy and its competitors...