Word: tci
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...marriage made in heaven. The merged company, to be called Paramount Viacom, would unite Paramount's film and television studios with Viacom's cable systems and its networks such as MTV and Nickelodeon. Result: a global giant primed to compete with heavyweights like Time Warner, Tele-Communications Inc. (TCI) and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. in everything from making movies to building an interactive electronic highway into the home. "It's absolutely the best fit" of all the recent media mergers, says Frank Mancuso, former president of Paramount and now head...
...still scrambling for its place in the new order. According to sources familiar with the network's negotiations, what had seemed two weeks ago a done deal -- CBS wouldlaunch a cable public affairs channel, a highly unnecessary crossbreed of CNN and C-SPAN -- seemed indanger of falling apart as TCI, the country's biggest cable operator, was playing even harder ball than usual...
...lines, and it formed an alliance with Viacom, a cable-TV programmer, to launch a two-way video service that will let viewers receive movies on demand and shop from home. AT&T is also discussing a partnership with the nation's largest cable-TV operator, Tele-Communications Inc. (TCI). Says AT&T chairman and chief executive Robert Allen: "This ain't Ma Bell...
...that AT&T may try to bypass the Baby Bells is by joining forces with local cable operators, such as through the rumored deal with TCI. AT&T would provide cable systems with the valuable switching technology they need to offer interactive, or two-way, services such as home shopping and movies-on- demand. This type of combined strength was the rationale behind the deal between Time Warner (parent company of this magazine) and U S West, one of the Baby Bells...
These hate shows are generally protected by the First Amendment. In addition, the Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984 requires that public- access channels be uncensored (except for obscenity) and available to all. Even Ta-Har's antiwhite tirades were not, in the view of lawyers for TCI Cable of Westchester, inflammatory enough to outweigh his right to free speech. Some municipalities have fought back by banning non-locally produced shows on public-access channels or requiring that such shows have a local sponsor...