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...number two cable provider in the U.S. And Disney, with its children-oriented shows, would be an odd fit with CBS, which has an older viewership. "This is a period of conversation at every level among every company," said one analyst. "No one knows how this information superhighway stuff is going to work...
...venture with three Baby Bell phone companies that will eventually provide "movies on demand, interactive home shopping, educational programs, games, travel assistance and more" to 50 million customers in 19 states. The new venture, which reverses a well-publicized reluctance by Disney CEO Michael Eisner to enter the information superhighway, also includes plans for a "video navigator," heralded as the TV Guide of the 500-channel future...
Mountains have finally stopped hailing down on Jupiter, and the debris from their catastrophic impacts has started to settle. Here on Earth, the information superhighway is coming unclogged as Internet users relax their manic electronic search for comet-crash pictures. And except for an observing session next week and another in late August, the Hubble Space Telescope is moving on to view other heavenly objects...
...successfully ran Paramount's empire of movies. In the '80s, at Fox, he achieved the impossible: launching a fourth network and making it flower. In 1992 he became a partner in the home-shopping channel QVC, a roadside fruit stand on the new information superhighway. Instead of instantly upgrading the network's programming, Diller used QVC as a piggy bank for the hostile raid on Paramount. For once, he was vanquished, by Viacom Inc., and when the battle was over Diller issued this statement, as prophetic as it was sardonic: "They won. We lost. Next...
...information superhighway ready for prime time...