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...picking what shows to watch on TV was an easy flick of the dial. There were three networks and scattered independent stations to choose from. Today, especially in the nation's 31 million cable-TV households, up to dozens of alternative channels can be available. To help the viewer keep track, numerous directories have been put out by cable-system owners, specialized pay-cable channels and independent entrepreneurs. In addition, many newspapers now carry cable channels in daily listings and Sunday TV supplements, as do some regional editions of TV Guide...
...four-color, 96-page weekly magazine to be published by Time Inc. starting in the first quarter of 1983. Its key feature is that it will be "system specific," meaning that in each cable area where it is distributed, the magazine will list every significant program channel that the viewer can get and none that he cannot. Said Time Inc. Editor-in-Chief Henry Anatole Grunwald: "Some people have told us that they need four program guides just to tell what...
...from the right side of a frame to the left within what was originally one shot, were so dislocating that they induced brief spells of mal de mer. The current way to cope, called panning and scanning, is a great deal more sophisticated and rather less noticeable, but the viewer still comes up short...
...speech is ineffably corny, American transcendentalism filtered through the pop leftist rhetoric of a 1930s bestseller, brought to the screen in 1940. Yet four decades later this scene from The Grapes of Wrath still shines as one of American film's privileged moments. And the viewer's eyes still shine in response to it, no matter how many times he has seen...
Today it is back, playing in 34 of the 50 major markets around the country. When the show took a vacation this summer from WTBS in Atlanta, which reaches an audience of 21.2 million, the station received a greater volume of viewer response than it had for any other syndicated show. There are more than a hundred Beaver fan clubs across the nation, dubbed "The Loyal Order of the Beaver." Ex-Star Mathers today commands $4,000 for a lecture...