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Finders keepers, says the Columbus-America Discovery Group, which won exclusive salvage rights in federal court last year through the arcane principle of "tele-possession" because its unmanned robot, equipped with cameras and mechanical arms, can operate in waters too deep for divers. But ten British and American insurance companies insist that the loot is theirs since their predecessor companies paid off the loss more than a century ago. Even the Ivy League has joined the fray. Columbia University, whose researchers provided sonar maps of the ocean bottom, is also angling for a share...
Other media giants are exploring similar new satellite-dish technologies. Last month a consortium led by General Electric, Time Warner and Tele- Communications said it planned to offer U.S. viewers a ten-channel satellite service by early fall. The companies said the system would deliver basic cable shows to noncable households and additional programming to cable subscribers...
...postponed TV Marti's 90-day test run three times, and the service is now scheduled to begin sometime in March. Even then, however, Cuban couch potatoes may be stymied by their government. Castro has promised not only to jam transmissions but also to retaliate against this "imperialist ideological tele-aggression," probably by flooding American AM radio frequencies with Cuban programs...
...part, such wrangling reflects industry uneasiness over the proposed merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications Inc., which will create a strengthened No. 2 cable-systems operator, behind Denver-based Tele- Communications. "The burning issue right now is how much access the Time- Warner group will give to its competition," says an executive of a rival cable company. According to a study by Michael Salinger, a professor of public policy at the Columbia University business school, system operators may indeed show bias toward their own networks over channels owned by other companies. Says he: "I found that ATC systems tend...
...industry-wide ferment is certain to continue, however, as hundreds of small cable operators merge into regional units or sell out to the giants. Ultimately, the number of systems could dwindle to a handful. "The same thing happened in the movie industry 50 years ago," says Robert Thomson, Tele- Communications' vice president for government relations. "They once had many more studios." With that prospect in mind, the major cable companies are scrambling today to make sure they do not wind up on the cutting-room floor tomorrow...