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...more serious challenge to cable may come from direct-broadcast satellites (DBS). A consortium of telecommunications companies that includes GM Hughes Electronics, RCA/Thomson and Hubbard Broadcasting has just completed a nationwide roll-out of its Digital Satellite System, which offers 150 channels to customers who buy and install a home dish only 18 in. in diameter. Though the hardware is still relatively expensive -- between $700 and $900, down from $2,000 to $3,000 for older big dishes -- the monthly cost of various channel packages is comparable to cable's. The chief competitor to DSS is Primestar, a four-year...
Where to start? Channel 44 seems like the safer of the two mediums for comparison, so to WGBX...
When it came to 1987, I picked the underdog-slash-Mets vanquisher--and though I was too nervous to watch Kirk Gibson (and hence missed his titanic blow during a fidgety channel-change), the memory lingers with all the resonance of having been in Dodger Stadium myself...
Well, somebody's got to get people's attention. Entertainment news on TV is hopping as never before. There's an entire cable channel devoted to it, at least four daily "newscasts" cover it, and a host of more traditional outlets -- from the network morning shows to the prime-time TV newsmagazines -- are paying increasing attention to it. And there's a war going on: between Entertainment Tonight, the bubbly, 13-year-old show distributed by Paramount TV to 167 stations, and Extra -- The Entertainment Magazine, a newcomer from Warner Bros. television, which started early this month on 125 outlets...
...brisk, not too smarmy recap of the day's entertainment news, the E! cable channel's little noticed E! News Daily gives the most bang for the buck. The show last Tuesday, for example, covered everything important that its rivals did (the death of songwriter Jule Styne, Katie Couric's interview with O.J. Simpson's grown children). But it had several other newsy tidbits too, from Elizabeth Montgomery's suit for $5 million in residuals from Bewitched to a piece on the pollution problems caused by Woodstock. E! of course has plenty of publicity fluff elsewhere; it devotes whole shows...