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...this year, Southwestern Bell acquired two cable systems in the metro Washington area -- far outside its operating region. Similarly, Pacific Telesis took an option to buy a cable system in Chicago, although it will need special permission to send cable programming to the system by satellite. Cox Enterprises and Tele-Communications Inc. (TCI), the world's largest cable-TV operator, joined forces last year to buy Teleport, a company that provides a telephone service not covered by the Cable Act: private branch exchanges to business customers...
...video services will be available, at a price, to millions of Americans in all 50 states. Next spring Hughes Communications will introduce DirecTv, a satellite system that delivers 150 channels of television through a $700 rooftop dish the size of a large pizza pie. At about the same time, Tele- Communications, Inc. (TCI), the world's biggest cable-TV operator, will begin marketing a new cable decoder that can deliver as many as 540 channels; next week it will announce plans to provide this service to 100 cities within the first year. Time Warner (the parent company of this magazine...
...industry gurus, it made sense: Diller, with his programming expertise, joining forces with some of cable's leading techies, most notably John Malone, head of Tele-Communications, Inc., the country's largest cable operator. In one swoop, television's fuzzy dreams of an interactive future had acquired both immediacy and show-biz cachet. "I'm only surprised at how stupid the rest of us were not to see it," says Jeffrey Katzenberg, chairman of Walt Disney Studios. Jokes CBS president Howard Stringer: "Already he's scared the Sears catalog out of business...
That same night, Pennypacker students weretaken to the police department for questioningafter an underage stripper from Tele-Tease wasfound in their room. In Massachusetts, it isillegal to hire a stripper who is a minor
...representative of Tele-Tease said the firm does not hire minors and has never experienced any problems concerning the age of their dancers...