Word: network
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Interactive video tutorials teach non-geeks how to set up HDTV, install a wireless home network or stream digital music from a PC to another room in the house. The Convince Me pages are geared toward the skeptical spouse. Visitors are invited to vote on which projects CNET's experts should tackle next...
...programs is to reach as many TV screens as possible. C.O.M.B., a Minneapolis discount merchandiser, has banded together with several dominant cable-TV companies (one of them, American Television and Communications, is 80% owned by Time Inc.) to assemble an audience of 15 million households for its Cable Value Network. Last month a powerful trio of companies formed a joint venture to put a program called ValueTelevision directly on broadcast airwaves. The participants: a chain of independent stations (Fox Television), a Hollywood production company (Lorimar-Telepictures) and a direct-mail giant (Horn & Hardart, owner of Hanover House). To meet...
...estimate that the disparate Identity groups count from 2,000 to 5,000 members plus several times that many sympathizers and seem to have particular appeal for bankrupt farmers and the unemployed. A handful of Identity churches, like Butler's, hold services in traditional places of worship. But the network includes little-noticed groups that meet in private homes and individuals who regularly receive audiocassettes and publications in the mail. The word is also spread through contacts in prisons, computer bulletin boards and shows on public access channels on TV cable systems, which are required by law to air material...
...first thorough analysis of Christian Identity doctrine and history will appear next month in a report by Leonard Zeskind of Kansas City, research director with the Center for Democratic Renewal (formerly the National Anti-Klan Network). Zeskind says the Identity system "provides religious unity for differing racist political groups and brings religious people into contact with the racist movement...
Some people, especially young people nurtured on color TV, like the idea. In a poll by Ted Turner's Cable News Network the day the colorized Yankee Doodle Dandy premiered on Turner's SuperStation WTBS last month, 61% of call-in respondents preferred to see old films in color. Good thing: the Turner Broadcasting System has ordered the coloring of 100 black-and-whites from the MGM and Warner Bros libraries. "We're not trying to make bad films great," says Jack Petrik, executive vice president of WTBS. "We're trying to make great films better." Charles Powell, executive vice...