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...York, N.Y. 10020. Our fax number is (212) 522-0601. Our E-mail address is Timeletter@aol.com Correspondence should include the writer's full name, address and home telephone, and may be edited for purposes of clarity or space. Time is available both on America Online and on Time Warner's Internet home page, Pathfinder: http://pathfinder.com...
...very scope of the legislation has brought forth armies of lobbyists to advance the interests of clients ranging from the seven Baby Bell phone companies to cable- TV behemoths like Time Warner and Tele Communications Inc. (TCI). This onslaught of special interests has led consumer advocates and other experts to warn that what began as a laudable attempt to promote competition could wind up benefitting media giants far more than their customers. "The people screwed are the consumers," declares Gary Arlen, a telecommunications consultant in Bethesda, Maryland. "Cable rates will rise in the short term before there's rate relief...
...jockeying over reform has caused tempers to flare. Some Senators saw evidence of overly strenuous industry lobbying last month, when Senator Larry Pressler of South Dakota, chairman of the committee that drafted the Senate's version of the bill, read into the record a letter from a Time Warner senior vice president, Timothy Boggs. The letter involved a contentious pricing provision favored by small cable companies and opposed by entertainment providers Time Warner and Viacom. It indicated that Time Warner's HBO unit had agreed to provide programs to a group of small cable-TV companies, including one in Pressler...
...lack of congressional assistance would sharply slow the process. Laws permitting some competition in local phone service are already on the books in eight states, including New York, Illinois and Washington; 18 others are drafting measures to encourage more firms to enter the field. Under current provisions, Time Warner has begun to offer packages of cable-TV and local phone service in Rochester, New York; the company intends to provide similar plans to most of its 11.5 million U.S. cable subscribers over the next several years...
After graduation, Henson rose quickly in theentertainment world, serving as executive vicepresident of production for Warner BrothersStudios before becoming president of ColumbiaPictures...