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T..Eawj Begins Re Iift I 3 0628 0010218897 N t..eaWJ begins re iIfti CBS Se 'Your Fringe On Fire_ Real people bring real cases before Judge Judy Sheindlin, a no- nonsense jurist with 15 years experience in America's toughest court system. Admired for her compassion and feared for her outspoken, in- your -face style, she's earned the well- deserved reputation of running a "HOT BENCH" -a fiery, cut -through- the -crap approach to settling legal disputes quickly, but equitably. Watch this proactive judge determine the winners and losers in true life human dramas. AVAILABLE FALL 1996 fl SHOW WITH MORE BENCH STRENGTH THRN THE DTLRNTO DROVES. Must Reading from BROADCASTING & CABLE Rot Tack December 4,1995 TOP OF THE WEEK CABLE: WESTERN SHOW '95 Up to (high) speed in Anaheim Cable modems took center stage this year at the Western Cable Show in Anaheim, Calif. MSOs have shifted their focus from interactive TV to the Internet and plan to work toward a standard for PC -cable modems. / 4 CBS's turnaround team Affiliates are encouraged that Peter Lund will remain president of the new CBS Inc. after its merger with Westinghouse. Meanwhile, Dan Mason, president of the newly merged Group W and CBS radio groups, will concentrate on improving ratings, revenue and profit. / 10..50 Under the lights ll -r): Ted Turner, Robert Redford, Bony Dill r/56 FCC gets ATV recommendation After eight Turner on Murdoch: `Squish years of work, an FCC advisory committee has him like a bug' Ted Turner recommended the Grand Alliance system as the next says he agreed to a merger with television broadcasting standard. An FCC rulemaking Time Warner partly to be able to will be launched in January to adopt the standard. / 26 compete with other media giants, including News Corp. and Viacom. BROADCASTING "I'm looking forward to squishing Rupert [Murdoch] `Camie' first to fall The like a bug," Turner said during the opening session of plug will be pulled on Carnie the Western Show `95 in Anaheim, Calif. / 56 despite its position as the top - Dealing with the telcos The Disney -led telco rated new talk show of the programing arm has cut distribution deals with E! and season. Its average 2.0 nation- TBS. More such deals are expected as telcos obtain al Nielsen household rating cable franchises and build wireless systems. 62 is partly to blame for the / show's fall. / USA builds Saturday block USA Network plans a Saturday evening block of original programing Diller snags HSN, Savoy next year to sharpen the channel's image. 68 Barry Diller's Silver King / Communications has gobbled Carnie' (above) will be can- celed, but Rosie O'Donnell up control of Home Shopping Is waiting in the wings. /44 TECHNOLOGY Network and Savoy Pictures. CBS narrows nonlinear field CBS News has The bold moves give Diller a programing platform for picked Avid and D- Vision as finalists for its nonlinear another national network. the /47 editing systems. The companies' two versions will be COVER STORY subject to intensive hard -news testing, with a decision expected next month. / 76 Dick Wiley: Delivering on digital TeIemtel As chairman of the FCC's Advi- sory Committee on Advanced Racing toward high-speed modems Cable oper- Television Service, Washington ators and equipment vendors agree that cable subscribers lawyer Richard E. Wiley is should be able to go online up to 1,000 times faster than responsible for the television sys- they do today via telephone lines. They expect to set a tem of the future: digital and preliminary cable -modem standard by April. 82 high- definition. Wiley talks / about the eight years of work it took to agree on a standard, and what it will mean. Changing Hands p. I tot sa 102 Cover and inside photos by John Trouha/Black Star / 32 Classified 84 Fates & Fortunes 98 Datebook Mt et sttgon Watch 30 Broadcasting & Cable December 41995 3 McINTYRE LIBRARY J Up to (high) speed in Anaheim At Western Show, cable sets its sights on the Internet with high -speed PC -cable modems By Rich Brown Motorola and not how wonderful the other companies online interface will be, qnother year, another would -be xhibiting at the but how to pay for it all. technological breakthrough being Western Show "Will the dog eat the trumpeted at the Western Cable want to supply dog food based on this modems that the Show in Anaheim, Calif. This year, will have con- first version of dog cable modems took center stage. sumers surfing food ?" asked Malone. Multiple system cable operators say the Internet Shawn Doherty, vice they are now shifting their focus from via cable. president of @Home interactive TV to the Internet and an- Network, says setting up nounced plans on Thursday to work a broadband online net- toward a standard for PC -cable work will cost at least modems (see story, page 82). $30 million ($10 million Three top MSOs- Tele -Com- the industry's history to build a network opera- munications Inc., Time Warner and of technological tions center; $12 million Comcast-have made delays. Digital com- for back -office billing three separate orders pression, for example, and subscriber manage- totaling 350,000 units has yet to become the ment, and $8 million for from Motorola (Com- widespread reality for customer support). Such cast also ordered cable systems that a stiff entry cost, he says, 150,000 units from Malone predicted at makes building an in- Hewlett- Packard). The the 1991 Western stalled base of users crit- largest MSO, ICI, Show. ical. The projected 2 %- plans to begin deployment at its Sunny- Malone said last 5% initial market pene- vale, Calif., system in February 1996. week that TCI's tration won't cut it as a "It's a real ace in the cable industry's approach to introduc- viable business model, deck of cards," says TCI President/ ing the cable -modem Doherty says. CEO John Malone. technology would be "Skimming early adap- But it is not clear how fast the mo- on an "incremental" tors will be easy; building dems will roll out at cable systems basis. He said the real a I5 % -20% market share around the country, particularly given issue for operators is will take five years,' Five more Record by Jones International Net- Space star Bill Mumy and Peter David; The works, the programing arm of Mystery Files of Shelby Woo, a play -along transponders for TVN attendance for MSO Jones Intercable. Exist- mystery show with Irene Ng ( "The Joy Near- video -on- demand service Western Cable ing network Country Music Luck Club ") and Pat Morita (Happy Days), TVN Entertainment will lease an Show '95 Television serves 31.4 million and Angry Beavers, a Nicktoon about two additional five transponders on subscribers. Another Jones beaver brothers. Hughes's Galaxy 9 satellite (set company, Jones Satellite Net- to launch in the spring) to carry 1995 works, operates the largest USA picks up film package out its plans for a new digital 23,200 country music radio network USA Network has acquired a 23 -title film delivery system for cable sys- in the U.S. package from Paramount that includes tem operators. TUN next year "Clear and Present Danger," "Indiana 1994 CC will deliver MPEG -2, digitally gets 'Dream On' Jones and the Last Crusade," "The Firm," compressed video streams to 21,700 Comedy Central has picked "Sliver," "Indecent Proposal" and "Addams cable headends, which will up the off -network rights to Family Values." The exclusive multiyear remodulate the signal for delivery via exist- HBO series Dream On. The series will package kicks off with three titles -"Cool ing coax lines. TVN President/CEO Stuart debut in January 1996 on the cable net- World," "The Ambulance" and "The Taking Levin says the system, which will deliver 40 work, which has a five -year window cover- of Beverly Hills " -available in 1996. In channels at the start, has just signed a deal ing 123 episodes. another development, USA co -owned net- with Cablevision Systems Corp.'s cable sys- work Sci -Fi Channel in 1996 will begin air- tems in Connecticut. New from Nick ing an original movie each month. Jones goes country Nickelodeon has created three series for 1996 debut: Space Cases, a comedy More Western Show coverage A new country music video network, Great adventure series about five kids in outer begins on page 56 American Country, will be launched Dec. 31 space, appropriately produced by Lost in December 4 1995 Broadcasting & Cable What Would You Get If All The Reality And Action Of These Shows Happened At The Beach? ALREADY SOLD IN OVER 25% OF THE COUNTRY DALLAS KXAS GREENSBORO WEJC SEATTLE KING ALBUQUERQUE KASA CLEVELAND WUAB LOUISVILLE WHAS ST. LOUIS KDNL FRESNO KMPH SACRAMENTO KPWB AUSTIN KXAN PORTLAND KGW HONOLULU KFVE INDIANAPOLIS WISH DES MOINES KDSM HARTFORD WTNH SPOKANE KREM CINCINNATI WXIX OMAHA KPTM COLUMBUS WSYX TUCSON KTTU GREENVILLE WFBC CHAMPAIGN WAND SAN ANTONIO KRRT FT. WAYNE WANE GRAND RAPIDS WOW RENO KREN NORFOLK WAVY BOISE KTVB W. PALM BEACH WFLX BAKERSFIELD KMPH _;'\IJ i 1 _JA `,312 JZ31J =J-1 J J JJ PARTNER STATIONS NEIWRRA CxSTQ|BUT0 k,-) ? %Li i3 L/L "5'9Lti. Doherty says. Cable operators will need The cable industry also could miss tive vice president, creative technolo- to funnel profits from current video ser- the online boat if it maintains a cautious, gy, Walt Disney Imagineering. He says vice subscribers to bridge the gap, he incremental approach to rolling out new cable might not be able to reach critical says. high -speed -modem technology. mass in the online world if it does too Cable operators say developing a "I would caution people not to be little, too late.
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