21. By offering satellite customers local channels, News Corp. will give households the option of saying goodbye to their local cable monopolies. 22. Cable customers who have been denied access to Turner Classic Movies would do well to write their local cable company by using polite but emphatic language. 23. Call your local cable company for further information. 24. Call your local cable system and loudly complain. 25. CCTV will use three transponders on the satellite to launch a multi-channel pay TV service that can substitute for Star TV, which many local cable channels now air. 26. Cable channels usually receive money from both advertisers and local cable operators. 27. Check your local cable service for both channels. 28. Check your local cable listings for dates and times. 29. City officials are also negotiating with local cable providers about broadcasting up-to-the-minute traffic information to cable subscribers during the Games. 30. Classes also are downlinked from satellites and shown over local cable stations, as City College of San Francisco is doing. |