Word: tunes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...booing the hated Yankees, playing a different team in a different city, on Channel 11. In New York suburbs, minority audiences or the merely curious can sample Spanish-language interview shows or a Korean variety hour or instruction in yoga. In Castro Valley, Calif., older viewers can tune in a weekly program of panel discussions and entertainment produced by and for senior citizens, sometimes featuring performers in their 80s. And all over the country, movie buffs can see at home such recent films as High Anxiety and Invasion of the Body Snatchers, presented on the tube uncut and uninterrupted...
...basic-cable viewer can also tune in a clutch of UHF channels featuring the offerings of stations whose signals are too weak to be picked up ordinarily by antenna. These programs make up a bewildering smorgasbord: sports events (Madison Square Garden, for example, offers to basic cable many basketball and hockey games and boxing matches not shown on broadcast TV), educational, and religious shows. All channels viewable on basic cable can carry advertising...
...survey by Young & Rubicam and A.C. Nielsen Co. found that people whose sets are hooked to cable have highly "fragmented" viewing habits. They switch a lot from channel to channel rather than keeping their eyes glued to one for hours. But the survey concluded that viewers do not tune out network shows to tune in cable. Rather they watch cable at times that they otherwise would have the set turned off. Ratings for network shows tended to be quite as high in cities where they faced cable competition as in areas that cable has not yet reached. Nor is cable...
...movies for HBO customers. Results of the first few films that have been produced with HBO's help have been mixed: Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? was a moderate success; Magic and The Bell Jar were panned by many critics, including those writing for Tune Inc. magazines...
...Crimson will play its next game at home on Tuesday afternoon when Yale comes to visit. This contest and the team's last home game, Wednesday against Dartmouth, should provide a tune-up for the New England Championships, scheduled for next weekend...