Word: channeling
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Yasser Arafat speaks passable English but hardly a syllable of French. So it was no slip of the tongue when the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization chose to use a French word during a live interview on France's TF1 television channel. At one point, Arafat declared as caduque -- a legal term meaning null and void -- the controversial 1964 P.L.O. charter, which calls for the destruction of Israel...
Initially, CNBC officials report, the channel will reach 13 million cable homes -- a respectable starting figure, though substantially lower than either FNN (32 million) or CNN (50 million). Costs are expected to top $60 million before the channel begins operating in the black. (Revenues will come from advertising and a basic charge to cable systems of 7 cents per subscriber.) Most cable analysts, however, give top-rated NBC and its well-heeled corporate parent, General Electric, a good shot at making the service a success...
...waters could be treacherous. The channel space on cable systems is limited, and in most areas CNBC would have to supplant another service to win a spot on the dial. (FNN officials say their channel has been dropped by only a few systems to make room for CNBC.) In addition, the channel's programming, aimed at both hard-core market watchers and ordinary consumers, could be an uneasy mix. Then too there is Ted Turner to deal with. The CNN founder has already fired one loud volley at the competition, denouncing NBC executives as "bozos" and claiming that they started...
VIDEO: NBC launches a business channel for cable...
...learned and low-key, Johnson is an ideal host for the series, which first appeared on Britain's innovative Channel 4. The author of a standard encyclopedia of wine, as well as an invaluable World Atlas of Wine, Johnson is Britain's foremost wine critic; he is admired by his peers as much for his prose as for his palate...