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Another source of programming for basic cable is the superstations-independent broadcast-TV stations that also lease space on Satcom, whose signals bounce to the earth stations of cable systems all over the country. At present there are four: WTCG in Atlanta, WOR in New York, WON in Chicago and KTVU in the San Francisco-Oakland area. They and their cable customers should benefit especially from the FCC'S proposal last week that cable operators be permitted to pick up as many signals as they like from anywhere, and a companion proposal that cable companies be permitted...
...fans tend to be older than the Three's Company-Happy Days buffs; Showtime, HBO's biggest rival in pay-cable programming, aims many of its specials at an audience aged 40 to 45. A 1978 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...
...MSOs bid for franchises from local governments to service a city or town, and in support of their bids line up stations whose programming will be transmitted by cable. The MSO that promises the most interesting programming often gets the franchise...
...York Daily News (he is also a chairman of the editors' committee that commissioned the Yankelovich survey), accepts the recent shift to personal journalism. He has introduced "people" and "lifestyle" pages to his paper, and to his staff has added verbosely flamboyant reporter-columnists, 'ILo Jimmy Breslin, whose tough-guy sentimentality is often self-parodying. O'Neill just hopes it will be possible to provide more personal reporting without reviving that curse of the 1960s, opinionated advocacy journalism...
...pinch base hit to right loaded the bases and the former light-hitting Rick Pearce roped a double to right-center to score two runs. Dartmouth then yanked starter Jim Croteau (who had yielded only a single to Pearce through the first six) in favor of Matt Cairone, whose first pitch was squeeze-bunted by Burke St. John to score pinch runner Paul Scheper with the tying...