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...height of the Three Mile Island crisis, dozens of pregnant women and children were evacuated to Hershey, Pa., twelve miles away from the crippled reactor. The move was a precautionary one to protect them against any radioactive fallout. For a while state officials even considered evacuating Hershey...
...just as newspapers and weekly TV magazines are now starting to list cable offerings. Also, though there is much dispute when cable started, 1949 may have been the year of its birth. One version is that Robert J. Tarlton, owner of a radio and TV repair shop in Lansford, Pa., could sell few TV sets because a mountain outside town blocked signals coming in from Philadelphia, 65 miles away...
Teleprompter, the biggest MSO, with 1.2 million subscribers and revenues of $147 million last year, has had a yo-yo history. Founded in 1967 by Cable Visionary Irving Kahn, it expanded furiously by acquisition. Then, in 1971, Kahn went to prison, convicted of bribing officials in Johnstown, Pa., in order to get a franchise. Overexpansion and overborrowing from banks at high interest caught up with the company; in 1973 it lost $31 million. A new management team headed by Karp, a former treasurer of Columbia Pictures, has brought the company solidly back into the black. Last year it earned...