Word: seene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...invest what eventually became $460 million last year in a so-far futile search for oil in the Baltimore Canyon area of the Atlantic. Though preliminary seismic studies were not encouraging, the company went ahead anyway. The decision was made partly on the grounds that it could not be seen as declining to explore in an area so close to the petroleum-hungry Northeast...
...someone in each of those homes would pick up the phone and order a hookup. Though most viewers ordering cable do so to see late movies or sports events, or simply to get clearer pictures, programmers are putting together ever more innovative packages of shows that cannot be seen on regular...
Just about all the elements seem to be in place for a further growth of cable TV dwarfing anything yet seen. Technology is improving: the cost of an earth station to receive satellite signals is down from $100,000 in 1975 to as little as $12,000 today. Programming is becoming more diverse and imaginative. Indeed, the stage is set for a classic scrap for top industry positions, as befits a business in which technology, creative talent and entrepreneurial leadership open a new market...
What does all this mean to the viewer? Generally, programming of greater diversity and sophistication than can be seen on network TV. What exactly the viewer sees, however, varies with the type of cable service offered in a new subscriber's neighborhood, and also with his or her choice. Essentially, there are two kinds of hookups...
...events and reruns of once popular network shows. But Ted Turner, the flamboyant yachtsman and owner of WTCG, promised last week to introduce some more appealing programs: original children's shows, reruns of highly rated public-broadcasting programs (e.g., The Ascent of Man) that may not have been seen in some areas that cable now reaches. Superstations, however, are running into furious opposition from conventional broadcasters and their allies in the sports and entertainment worlds. MCA-Universal and Paramount are balking at selling any of their TV shows to Turner's Atlanta station, and the Los Angeles Dodgers...