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...Viacom's $8.2 billion bid and try to make off with Paramount? The announcement was treated in Hollywood and on Wall Street like that moment when the minister says, Speak now or forever hold your peace. The first to clear his throat was Ted Turner, the freewheeling founder of CNN, who just last month struck a deal to buy two much smaller movie companies. On Friday he was given the go-ahead by his board -- which includes representatives from his big investors, TCI and Time Warner -- to explore a rival offer. Barry Diller, chairman of the QVC shopping network...
...abroad. Viacom and AT&T are building an interactive cable-TV system in Castro Valley, California, that has similarities to one that Time Warner has under construction in Orlando, Florida. At the same time, MTV competes overseas with Rupert Murdoch's British Sky Broadcasting and Ted Turner's CNN. But industry watchers say such clashes of the titans don't have to be fatal. Says Christopher Dixon, an industry analyst for Paine, Webber: "There's room on the planet for all these guys...
...fight to get the new cable-compensation law passed, is still scrambling for its place in the new order. According to sources familiar with the network's negotiations, what had seemed two weeks ago a done deal -- CBS wouldlaunch a cable public affairs channel, a highly unnecessary crossbreed of CNN and C-SPAN -- seemed indanger of falling apart as TCI, the country's biggest cable operator, was playing even harder ball than usual...
...used to be that whenever Ted Turner announced he was launching or buying some new enterprise, the expert consensus was reflexively dubious -- Turner was profligate, driven by vanity, maybe reckless. But now that every one of his cable-TV channels -- TBS, CNN, TNT, the Cartoon Network -- has turned out to have been brilliant, the pack instinct among journalists and Wall Street touts has pretty much reversed itself. Now Ted Turner is infallible. When it was announced last week that his company would buy Castle Rock Entertainment, an A-list movie-production company, and New Line Cinema, a scrappy little quasi...
...Turner also gingerly avoided mentioning the violence on CNN--after all, seeing real people blown to pieces in Sarajevo is far more disturbing than seeing Tom get clobbered by Jerry. Though Turner could take the point that children--the group which both he and the committee deemed most affected--do not ordinarily watch CNN, his inconsistency betrays the basic conceit of TV-bashing...