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...will now be regulated by Washington and local governments. While cable companies complained, consumer groups and local governments say the FCC did not go far enough. In a separate decision that left Hollywood studios fuming, the FCC allowed ABC, CBS and NBC to produce and own television programs and retain their lucrative rerun rights as well. In erasing industry barriers, the ruling could eventually lead to mergers between studios and TV networks...
...this stage, the traditional broadcast networks would probably be hurt, but not necessarily crippled. Though their audience will be nibbled at further by a fresh attack of narrowcasting barracudas, they would retain their special role as providers of national news, big sports events and broad-based entertainment fare. "I think it is conceivable that a 200- or 300-channel environment might work in a perverse way to the networks' advantage," says Herb Granath, president of Capital Cities/ABC Video Enterprises, "in that it will be more and more difficult for people to identify what they're watching. You keep flipping with...
...powerful countervailing force is corporate America. No matter how many narrowcasting options are made possible by the new technology, advertisers will still crave network television's unique ability to reach a critical mass of consumers at one swoop. For that reason, if no other, there will be pressure to retain some semblance of a network schedule and programming that appeals to a large cross-section of viewers. One possible scenario: a network show such as 60 Minutes or Roseanne will still "debut" each week at a set time. Many viewers will plant themselves in front of the set to watch...
...leaves on December 6-the date he was hired in 1983--Johnson will bequeath to his successor a department very much like the one Steiner wanted when he hired him. By nearly all accounts, Harvard police are more professional, have better facilities and hire and retain far better educated officers than they did a decade...
Roth's research has shown that brain-damaged patients often retain their implicit memory; she uses word tests to study patients' implicit memory...