Word: tv
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...style of explosive comedy arose from humanity under pressure-a kind of pressure that affluence has released, perhaps forever. The Marx Brothers, for example, remain as inseparable from the '30s and '40s as F.D.R. More than any other stars, they bridge vaudeville, the silents, the talkies and TV itself. But Fields, who always blew his cool, exerts an appeal rivaled only by Bogart, who never blew his. Both men nurse a surly integrity and loathing for any Establishment except the neighborhood bar-attitudes that delight today's young cynical idealists...
Perhaps the foremost collector of film trivia is Harry Purvis, a Canadian writer whose catalogue which appears irregularly in TV Guide, includes the following...
Among executives in the entertainment industry, the worst four-letter word in television is CATV, otherwise known as Community Antenna Television, or Cable TV. Companies in the CATV field sell two services: extra channels that are not otherwise available, and interference-free TV pictures in poor reception areas. The CATV operators pick up the signals from TV stations with a high master antenna, and then feed the programs straight to subscribers' television sets through relay cables or microwave connections...
Future Fees. The verdict startled not only the losers but also the victors. The CATV industry was so convinced that it would ultimately have to accept some sort of copyright royalty arrangement that a representative five-man committee was already in the process of negotiating a payment formula with TV and film companies...
Wire Machines. So far, CATV services about 6% of U.S. set owners-10 million or so Americans in 2,400 communities. But industry experts calculate that half of the U.S. TV homes will be wired in by 1972 and 90% by 1980. One reason for the growth-apart from the ghost-free studio-quality reception of what may eventually total 30 VHP and UHF channels-is that CATV in some markets offers its own programming on unused channels. Typical example: a cable firm might display a clock for an instant time check on one channel, and carry running weather forecasts...