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...Cable News Network Reporter James Allen Miklaszewski who photographed the American military advisers in El Salvador, as your article indicates [Aug. 9]. Freelance Cameraman Howard Dorf shot the videotape while working as an independent contractor for CNN in El Salvador...
...years the West Coast had to be content with stale news from tapes that were hours old. Now CNN delivers news with old-fashioned objective reporting. It makes no attempt to preform viewers' opinions, as the networks do. It permits us to form our own. This may be the greatest contribution that could be made to the electronic news industry...
...real threat to CNN, however, is financial, not editorial. While Turner charges cable systems at least 150 a subscriber each month for CNN, SNC is offered free. In fact, cable operators who had signed on by the debut date were granted a start-up bonus of 500 a household. The financial incentives helped: SNC has already signed up systems with 3 million subscribers, including 620,000 from Westinghouse Group W's own cable systems. Only about a dozen cable systems, though, have dropped CNN to take...
...substitute SNC for CNN may be risky. Admits George Livergood, who until the end of May was regional vice president of Group W systems in the Southwest: "Once you give something to a subscriber, you never take it away." When Livergood operated Theta Cable in West Los Angeles (now Group W Cable), an engineering snafu deprived 9,000 customers of CNN during coverage of the first space shuttle flight. Says
Turner is said to be congenitally unable to keep a secret. At Las Vegas he was supposed to announce at a press conference that he had signed a deal to distribute CNN in Japan. But a day before, he was blurting out the details to anyone close enough to listen. As a businessman he shows little suspicion and less patience. He sometimes makes deals to distribute CNN on the basis of 30 seconds of chat and a handshake, even with strangers...