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Start Free Trial NowTitle: CableSystem adds Ch. 4, 3 pay-per-view services
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P-2 -THE Around Toledo television CableSystem adds Ch. 4, 3 pay-per-view services Buckeye Cablevision is starting the new year off by adding another commercial station and three new entertainment “impulse” channels. Detroit’s WDIV-TV, Channel 4, will become part of the CableSys tem on Jan. 9. According to Buck eye’s Ellen Jackson, VVDIV was add ed as a result of customer, request, particularly regarding football. Although Channel 4 and Toledo’s WTVG-TV, Channel 13, are both NBC affiliates, they often would televise different NFL games on Sunday, and viewers wanted to have the choice, Jackson said. Since WUPW-TV, Channel 36, re cently signed a contract to carry the Detroit Tiger games on the Tiger Network, which is also Channel 4, the same games will be seen simul taneously on both channels. The impulse channels, to be added Jan. 9, are “pay for view” television stations, which, as its name implies, means the viewer pays only for those programs seen. Movies for the impulse channels are supplied by Request TV, and it works basically the same as the movies provided for televisions in hotel rooms. Two of the channels will be locat ed on 21-A and 22-A, each will be in operation approximately 20 hours a day, and both will broadcast 10 movies a day. The third channel, 21- B, will be reserved for special events — sports, concerts, and other entertainment. The nice thing about the impulse channels is that you pay only for * what you watch. There is no charge for installing the special “impulser" that must be attached to the set. Also there is no monthly fee for the channels. Here’s how it works. If a viewer wants to watch a particular movie, he or she punches certain buttons .on the special dialer and the film ap pears on the set. The charge for the iilm is automatically put on the monthly bill. Cost for each movie is $3.95 and, according to Jackson, the films will be available on Impulse about the same time they appear in the video stores. The cost for the special events channel will vary, depending ■upon the event and how much the supplier charges. Television SOME CHANGES are coming up next week at WNWO-TV, Channel 24, the most important being that the station is switching its local evening news broadcast from 5:30 to 6 p.m. in line with the other Toledo stations. (Although Channel 13 re cently began a 5 p.m. newscast.) Switching newscast time is only part of the daytime schedule shake- up that will begin Tuesday. Here’s how the new programming shapes up. At 10 a.m., “Sally Jessy Raphael” will replace “Geraldo.” “Little House On The Prairie” has been canceled at 4 p.m. and will be re placed by the game show “Win, Lose, Or Draw" at 4 and the tabloid “Current Affair” at 4:30. On Jan. 23, a new TV trivia game show, “Couch Potato,” will replace "Current Af fair.” “Geraldo" will move into the 5 p.m. slot formerly occupied by “Win, Lose, Or Draw” and the news. The local news will go on at 6, with ABC news at 6:30. “Current Affair” will continue in the 7 p.m. time slot, and “Family Feud” will remain at 7:30. There is also a change in the late- night lineup at Channel 24 starting Tuesday. At midnight, the new syn dicated talk show “Arsenio Hall” will have its debut. It will run five nights a week. 'Last Temptation' banned in Colombia BOGOTA (Reuter) — Colombia’s film censorship board has banned public showing of the controversial film “The Last Temptation of Christ” by American director Mar tin Scorsese, judging it contrary to Catholic concepts and traditions. readers gifts. season, South’s points, five-card his WISHING HERE message spell the is the numbers, under xxxxxxxxxxxx x
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- Toledo, Ohio
- Dec, 31 1988 - Page 26