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According to the first student, the people in the room had no knowledge that the dancer was a minor, because they were assured that the dancer would be in her early 20s by Tele-Tease, the company they called...
...CABLE COMPANIES THAT FILL OUR HOMES WITH more TV channels than we know what to do with have been threatening for years to adopt technology that could compound the problem tenfold. Now one of them is poised to actually do it. Tele-Communications Inc., which provides cable TV to 9 million U.S. households, announced plans to install equipment that could, in theory, deliver more than 500 channels by early 1994. TCI's announcement represents the first major consumer application of compressed-digital TV, which can squeeze 10 channels in the space currently occupied by only one. Not to be outdone...
Last night's vote brought to a climax the political drama of the Thomas nomination. Many students said they spent part of the long weekend watching the tele-vised hearings that followed Anita Hill's allegations of sexual harassment...
...three of the numerous religious networks can survive the next few years. Eternal Word (independent Roman Catholic, 14 million households) and ACTS (Southern Baptist-owned, 9.5 million) are pinning their salvation on locally based denominational loyalty. An interfaith and ecumenical entry known as VISN (7.4 million) just got Tele-Communications, Inc. and other cable owners to pledge as much as $12 million and give it two years to succeed. But VISN's programming is nonconfrontational, and hot gospel shows are all the rage...
...Atlanta this week for their annual convention. Though the severity of Washington's legislation is still an open question, the tide may be turning for one of the hot businesses of the late 1980s. Cable companies are already suffering from investor wariness. The largest U.S. cable operator, Denver- based Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI), which draws 78% of its revenues from cable, has seen its stock price fall 29% since early October, to 14 3/4. Time Warner, which derives 25% of its revenues from cable programming and operations, has endured a share-price decline of 32%, to 95 1/2, during...