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Heavy metal, make way for the family hour. From high atop a Houston skyscraper, Hit Video USA is beaming 10 hours of G-rated music videos daily to 57 TV stations. The 4 1/2-year-old venture, which screens out obscenity and lewdness, is establishing its niche in a booming business.
Operating out of a steel-and-glass Houston skyscraper once owned by a failed thrift, Pankau, 44, directs his own agency, Intertect. (Its fee: $60 to $100 an hour.) Pankau's 30 investigators assemble financial profiles of S&L scoundrels who have bled their institutions dry through bad loans and...
SKYSCRAPER (PBS, debuting May 7, 8 p.m. on most stations). The building of Manhattan's 47-story Worldwide Plaza is chronicled in five weekly episodes.
Ever since Chicago declared a ten-story building the world's first "skyscraper" in the 1880s, local developers have competed to see how high they could go. Since 1974, the Sears Tower (on the left in the model) has * ranked as the world's tallest building at 1,454 ft...
Except for a couple of the oldest machines, all the games in the show can be played by visitors (the $5 admission charge -- $2.50 for kids -- gets you a packet of five tokens). Most of the greats and near greats are here: Space Invaders, the 1978 hit that popularized the...