Star Wars TV orbit tests pay TV market strategy
Twentieth Century Fox plans to release Star Wars on home video and cinema reissues then pay per view, with Showtime, Movie Channel and CBS lined up, while HBO balks at high per subscriber fees. Fox seeks over 60 million from video and TV releases, challenging HBO’s dominance.
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David Crook
Los Angeles Times
Hollywood
Studio Strikes
Twentieth Century-Fox
Fox
RCA
Showtime
The
Movie Channel
CBS
HBO
Saturn
Steve Roberts
Fox Video
Universal
Columbia
Paramount
Premiere
Department of Justice
Luke Skywalker
Darth Vader
Stars On Long Play III medleys bring sound–alikes to the fore
The Stars On group returns with a third medley album featuring Rolling Stones and Stevie Wonder tunes performed by sound‑alikes. Side one blends 24 Stones songs with the Stars On Theme, while side two covers 16 Wonder tunes with near‑perfect vocal mimics. An edited single version is in radio rotation but true fans may prefer the originals.
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George Burns
Holland
Stones
Mick Jagger
Stevie Wonder
Barbara Mandrell
Mandrell
Lew Brown
Ray Henderson
Rolling Stone
Ron Eades
Gene Miller
Threlkeld switches networks to ABC News Status Reports
Richard Threlkeld, 45, moved from CBS to ABC five months ago to host Status Reports on the ABC Evening News. The Cedar Rapids native and former CBS Cover Story correspondent discusses his reasons, his approach to on air education, and his life as a traveling journalist.
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Richard Threlkeld
Threlkeld
Cedar Rapids
ABC Evening News
ABC
CBS
Richard Nixon
Nelson Rockefeller
Jimmy Carter
Lyndon Johnson
George Wallace
Patty Hearst
Robert Kennedy
Gary Gilmore
Middle East
Rhodesia
Zimbabwe
Lebanon
Southeast Asia
Phnom Penh
Saigon
New York City
Roone Arledge
ABC TV News and Sports
Barrington, Ill
Ripon
Wis
Medill School of Journalism
Northwestern University
Columbia University School of International Affairs
Wmt-Tv
Louisville
Argentina
NBC News
Betsy Aaron
Midwest
Illinois
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