Pay TV boosts cable systems amid new satellite rollout
Pay TV revenue helps CATV operators emerge from debt as satellite delivery and microwave networks cut install costs. Home Box Office packages programs for $5 to $10 monthly, with growth projections pushing penetration from 400,000 homes toward millions. Nassau County leads early adoption with Cablevision in 50,000 homes.
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Oscar Peterson and Clark Terry Jazz Duo Review
William D. Laffler profiles a Pablo recording session by pianist Oscar Peterson and trumpeter Clark Terry. Terry’s NBC ties and campus demand are noted while Peterson shines as soloist. The piece highlights Terry’s shading and Peterson’s virtuosic keyboard work across their formidable collaboration.
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Kong Kong remake spectacle axes through Hollywood
Paramount announces a high profile remake of King Kong with Dino De Laurentiis producing an American cast led by Jessica Lange Jeff Bridges and Charles Grodin. Guillermin directs a modern romantic adventure featuring a 45 foot electronic gorilla with filming on Kauai and Manhattan at a total cost around 17 million.
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TV Highlights and Shifts in Prime Time Lineup
TV highlights for 8 to 10 p.m. across networks note fires at the Waltons home forcing family relocation to a barn and friends’ houses. ABC features Welcome Back Kotter Barney Miller and a rifle suspect. PBS airs The Way It Was Subway World Series 1936. NBC has The Cop and the Kid Grady. CBS airs The Waltons latest crisis with the rectory shooting and Bishop Basehart on The Streets of San Francisco.
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Best sellers in fiction and nonfiction from UPI list
A condensed read of top selling titles across fiction and nonfiction per UPI Publishers Weekly. Includes Agatha Christie Ragtime by E L Doctorow The Choirboys Joseph Wambaugh The Greek Treasure Irving Stone The Eagle Has Landed Jack Higgins Looking for Mister Goodbar Judith Rossner In the Beginning Chaim Potok Humboldt's Gift Saul Bellow Shogun James Clavell Nightwork Irwin Shaw nonfic by Sylvia Porter Bring On The Empty Horses David Niven Angels Billy Graham The Relaxation Response Herbert Benson Winning Through Intimidation Robert Ringer Power Michael Korda The Ascent of Man Jacob Bronowski The Age of Napoleon Will Durant Ariel Durant My Life Golda Meir and The New Yorker Album of Drawings 1925 1975.
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Angels
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A Woman's Place at College Barn musical reading
Advance tickets on sale at Park-McCullough House North Bennington for the production A Woman's Place to be staged Friday and Saturday nights January 23 and 24 at 8 p m in the Bennington College Barn Studio. Readings from Henry James and early feminists plus letters between Gov J G McCullough and Eliza with 19th century songs performed by Nancy Hirsche and David Aldrich. Tickets two dollars general one dollar students and seniors.
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