Word: tagliaferro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Satcom III-R carries so many big programs that practically every cable operator in the country has a dish to pick up its signals. As a result, says John Tagliaferro, president of Hughes Televison Network, "if you get access to one of those transponders, you have reached 90% of the cable homes in the country." Tagliaferro's company, a subsidiary of Gulf & Western, is not on Satcom III-R, but he wishes it were. The company rents four transponders on several Western Union Westar satellites and sells time on them to customers seeking temporary services, primarily for sporting events...
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