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Last week the nation's first full-scale experiment in pay TV got under way over station WHCT in Hartford, Conn. Fee-vee is potentially television at its best. In theory, the viewer pays a nominal sum for first-run movies, live Broadway plays, sports events, opera, ballet-all uninterrupted by commercials...
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...case Z--which is the relevant one--vat vould vee do in the sky's position? We might fall and we might not, depending on whether we wanted to or not. The solution to the problem, therefore, is to make the sky not want to fall. And this is done by a policy...
While Toronto's 13-month-old pay-TV experiment was thus moving from movies and sports to more ambitious programs, "fee-vee" was ready to pick up the coin elsewhere. The Federal Communications Commission has approved a three-year test of pay TV in Hartford, Conn., where subscribers will get 40 hours a week of first-run Hollywood films, Broadway plays, live opera and sports. Other tests are scheduled for Liberal, Kans., Little Rock, the New York area and Hawaii...
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