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...Tele-TV. Wireless carriers AT&T, Sprint and Alltel are now offering MobiTV, a service that lets you watch 35 channels of network and cable shows live or on demand on your cell phone, for $9.99 per month. MobiTV just partnered with ABC, so now you can catch up on Grey's Anatomy and Lost while you're waiting for your connecting flight...
BUSINESS Betting on the 21st Century In a merger with potentially historic implications for the communications and entertainment industries, Bell Atlantic Corp. announced it would acquire Tele- Communications Inc., the nation's largest cable-TV operator, and its cable- programming affiliate, Liberty Media. The resulting company could dominate the ''information superhighway'' of the future. The complicated stock transaction is valued at $21.4 billion...
...largest communications deal in American history might never have come to pass last week if Bell Atlantic chairman Raymond Smith and Tele-Communications Inc. president and chief executive officer John Malone had not got stuck on a boat off the coast of Maine. The merger talks were going nowhere that August afternoon when the two men decided to head back to shore, only to find that the anchor of Malone's 70-ft. sailboat had snagged an underwater power line. While divers spent two hours cutting the boat free, Smith and Malone had little choice but to continue trying...
...just when I thought I'd passed on every vintage Christmas tele-tale to my progeny, I rediscovered another gem this year. It came to mind because my daughter recently turned 10, and it occurred to me that she shares the big-hearted pluck of another 10-year-old girl who made a lasting impression on my 1972 Christmas, when I myself was 10. Her name was Addie Mills, the heroine of a spare but moving TV drama called The House Without a Christmas Tree - which by happy coincidence was just released on DVD. Yule-o-philes will want...
...sentiments exactly. Please. Both sides in this dopey doggy dispute need to get a little perspective, and so do the rest of us. Since DeGeneres's tele-meltdown, the story has become cable news fodder and the adoption agency owners say they've received death threats. But they're standing firm, despite the fact that they've broken the heart of the family's daughter, who looks like the kind of kid any pooch would love to greet every day at the school bus stop. It's not as if DeGeneres gave the dog to Michael Vick...