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...predicted numbers, leaving half-empty high-cost hotels. The Strip's bread-and-butter visitor isn't likely to trade up to $150-a-night rooms from $49 ones, even if there's a mint on the pillow. Hilton chief Bollenbach (who is also on the board at Time Warner, the parent company of TIME) is predicting 18 months of bruising battles, with older, smaller properties taking a hit from big outfits like...
...shopped his idea to various parties and was soon in business with Warner Bros. (which, like TIME, is owned by Time Warner). Recent changes in FCC regulations had allowed networks to own the programs they broadcast, and studios like Warner Bros., which supply shows to the networks, were worried that the broadcasters would begin to favor shows produced internally. By starting a network, Warner Bros. could guarantee an outlet for its programming. Time Warner shares ownership of the network with Tribune Broadcasting, Kellner and other officers...
...start-up network, UPN. Traditionally, networks pay affiliates to carry their programming, but the WB offered no payments and went even further, asking the stations to remit a portion of their profits once they reached a certain level. Kellner's selling points were his team and the involvement of Warner Bros. and Tribune, but he was able to persuade only 54 stations to sign up. UPN, offering the traditional terms, started with nearly twice that many. Since then, though, the number of WB affiliates has grown...
...down before he could write his own assessment of his life. Now, 30 years after the murder, his family is attempting to fill the gap with the assistance of Clayborne Carson Jr., a Stanford University professor who edited King's papers. Sadly, The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Warner Books, 400 pages, $25) does not deliver the sort of revealing self-examination that characterizes such powerful memoirs as the Life and Times of Frederick Douglass or The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Instead it reads exactly like what it is: a cut-and-paste job, assembled by Carson mainly from...
...Warner Bros. Pictures...