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...experience with two-way communications, has led some experts to predict that cable firms will have to merge or form joint ventures with the Bells, or with a giant like AT&T, to survive in the interactive era. Cable leaders who have tried this include John Malone, chairman of Tele-Communications Inc., the No. 1 U.S. cable company, whose proposed merger with Bell Atlantic fizzled last February...
...merger with QVC. But government regulations would probably block Turner from purchasing the "Tiffany network," according to TIME's New York correspondent Massimo Calabresi. Federal laws prohibit one company from controlling both television stations and cable systems in the same market. Turner's cable connections? Time Warner Inc. and Tele-Communications, Inc. -- both of which own stock in his company...
...would have to count a lot higher before you got to QVC. It is one of cable's quieter moneymakers: lots of cash, little cachet. In Diller's first year at QVC, its revenues rose 14%. John Malone, the zillionaire head of Tele- Communications, Inc., had lured Diller to the home-shopping network at the end of 1992, shortly after he left Fox. Perhaps there had been a dispute with Murdoch, his boss, over a Diller request for equity in the company; perhaps he was just tired, as he said, of working for other people...
...will be made only to receive the who-cares / reception that greeted The Gong Show Movie, The Nude Bomb (from Get Smart), Boris and Natasha (from Rocky and his Friends), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me and this year's Car 54, Where Are You? But enough of these tele-visions will emulate the smash status of last year's The Fugitive or at least achieve the same modest earnings as The Beverly Hillbillies to give Hollywood what it wants most: a solid, safe return on its investment. Ask producer Alan Ladd Jr. about his low-budget (about $12 million...
This is hardly the smooth navigating you've been led to expect on the so- called information superhighway. Neither Stargazer's shortcomings, however, nor the collapse of Bell Atlantic's proposed merger with Tele-Communications Inc. in March seems to have dampened the enthusiasm of the company -- or the rest of the telecommunications industry -- for the superhighway venture. Stargazer, which expects to serve up to 1,000 customers by early next year, is just one of four Bell Atlantic pilot projects, and it joins several dozen similar tests being patched together across...