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...video-game industry is being propelled forward by a technological imperative that is reshaping most forms of entertainment. America's telemedia giants -- from AT&T and Time Warner to Tele-Communications Inc. and the proposed Paramount-Viacom combo -- are spending billions to turn today's passive television broadcast system into a two-way, interactive information highway capable of delivering not just movies, sitcoms and news on demand, but the world's greatest video games as well...
...Star Wars trilogy and Home Alone. The satellite system would also help Murdoch, whose Fox Network is planning to launch a hip cable channel called FX next year, muscle his way into what he sees as the entrenched world of American cable TV, dominated by operators like Denver-based Tele-Communications Inc. and Time Warner, whose magazine and book division publishes TIME. He could offer such firms slots on star tv or BSkyB, for example, in exchange for carrying his new cable channel. "That's how this world lives," Murdoch says. "The big people who have access...
...union of two channels heralds a new tele-retailing...
...most talked-about prospect for the QVC-HSN merger is the creation of a fifth network on a par with ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox. A portion of the transaction gives QVC -- which is partly owned by cable-TV visionary John Malone of Tele-Communications Inc. -- the option to buy a controlling interest in HSN's TV spin-off, Silver King Communications, which owns 12 UHF stations, enough to form the core of a network...
...phone 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...