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<br />PPV Title Bout
<br />Chalks Un Record
<br />Sales on long Island I
<br />KO'Wrestlemania IV'
<br />By 0. ya gnrste"
<br />NEW YORK —'rho psiy-por-
<br />view knot rates for last week's
<br />heavyweight championship
<br />sight were a impn7ive as
<br />Atenpion Mike Tywm, Gnt-
<br />mund kmrcknut of rhollager
<br />Mirhed Spinse. aamnling to
<br />various rabic operate ,
<br />('-0blavixi.0 Systems Corp.
<br />repmed its lung I Intel. NY.
<br />system, wick 75,001) ad-
<br />drenable subscribers. had a 34
<br />aline 041",o tic Pett.n
<br />Letters
<br />perrcnI buy rase — more I
<br />double for previous high Set by
<br />Wrr.tl,mnnis !V in Mash.
<br />C,blerision also said era-
<br />tem. Ihat fouthnsel the fight
<br />from Ike company — Staten
<br />Island Cable. Anh,rirnn
<br />CnMetision of Queens,
<br />Brookhaven Cable slid HQ
<br />Cable —go a,und a 251wrcen
<br />overall bat rate, will. earn i.!
<br />term selling the fight for W.
<br />545.
<br />BQ Cable. which serves
<br />61.000 addotmahlr subscribers
<br />in arras of Rrnnkhn and
<br />Qsxns, fruit a true rat, or
<br />about 21 cement, aid man-
<br />ager Richard Anrrlin. "Thin is
<br />the highest single+vent buy
<br />rate ever at nor ev.trm." he
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<br />Editor:
<br />Regarding your record editorial Concerning the Ku
<br />Klux Klan situation In Kansas City. I, too, feel that The
<br />city has made a mistake in trying 10 prevent the Klan
<br />Imm using the public access channels. However, the
<br />solution you presented, that of the cable company
<br />anuming control over the access channels, misses
<br />the point in other other direction.
<br />As you know. community access channels were
<br />Originally mandated by the Federal Communcialions
<br />Commission and are pan of the Cable Acl. Today, it
<br />Is generally understood by the cities and the industry
<br />that one of the trade offs for receiving a franchise to
<br />operate In a city Is providing Community "COss
<br />channels sno some resources to support the Chan.
<br />nels.
<br />Many cities he" found the middle ground between
<br />Ind oily and the operator coniolling access. More and
<br />more, Independent, non-profit corporations have
<br />been established to Operate access channels. Nor.
<br />profits have proven to manage more successful ac-
<br />Cne centers than either the city or the operator. Non.
<br />pmgle, which are seen as a Community resource, are
<br />also genet; fly teller able to handle eonumerslal
<br />programming, which, frankly. gels both the city and
<br />operator out of the frying pan.
<br />Imagine the cable operator with editorial Control
<br />deciding whether to Our, a program critical of the
<br />mayor, or t.1y other type of Controversial program-
<br />ming.
<br />To campare cable to newspapers Is as valid a
<br />comparison a$ that of cable to the telephone. There
<br />is much talk about First Amendment rights of cable
<br />operators What about the First Amendment rights of
<br />subscribers and citizens to Communicate?
<br />Irwin Hipsman, Eneculive 0imetor
<br />Cambridge Community Television
<br />ra-nbridge, MA
<br />Buy Rates j
<br />Its.
<br />Tyson
<br />I Continued Imm page OrM
<br />sold
<br />Warner (:able Cnmmunlaa-
<br />lines Inn..,tonged between K
<br />and I5 percent buy rate,, Inn its
<br />22 systems slmwing the light' aid programming ..tat.
<br />Jim Blinn.
<br />Mr. Itraun aid the .,,a.
<br />party'. Bakersridd, CA system
<br />drew a 16 prevent buy rate
<br />with a am erx of 22.IKK) arba.
<br />whin it. Baronet. CA. System
<br />garnered a 17 percent buy rate
<br />.lit of 3,2011 addmssable
<br />Mnres.
<br />Cession. Vnllry Cable TV.
<br />a 23.000-rnb,,rribrr .ywmi in
<br />Hickory. NC, rrya,nel . 17.3
<br />perrcnt buy rate.
<br />Unite.l Cahlr 'I'drviniou
<br />Gwp, said it eta. very happy
<br />with is. PPV malts. "it eta
<br />will .ru a do.ht n
<br />aid Done Stewart. Cabirviann
<br />marketing director fee the
<br />fig11
<br />Mr. Steven" aid [lint all the
<br />unmhen wercn'[ in yet. hot
<br />United'. Smrtlwrn California
<br />systems reported a 14 percent
<br />buy rate. Other area, did not
<br />fore as oath with [lie Rrwky
<br />Mmmtain "gist garnering
<br />buy maim of 9.11 percent and
<br />Tmxa. ever sing A pereent.
<br />Mr. Stewart atrihnted the Insv
<br />marks in Texas, however. Is
<br />the larger -then -nee t-al
<br />number of ckrsed-cL nit
<br />outlaw in the state.
<br />Ale. Anrrlin and Mr.
<br />Stewart added he ditto'[ or-
<br />trive any mmph int. from sab-
<br />scriliers aMst the right's 91-
<br />Seerml length "1 we. afraid
<br />imb oilier. osuld be upxt be-
<br />enux Ito light finished an
<br />gnirkly. but ...prisingdy Alen,
<br />weer no mmplsinm * Iv said.
<br />Mr Aurelio eeid: "The
<br />light is mom like an event.
<br />You Lave the pot -fight hoops.,
<br />the drrsAmt-room interview,.
<br />the prent-fight interview., .s
<br />well a. the preliminary fight,.
<br />Sot it'. Our Items of Ili, event,
<br />net the duration that make. it
<br />meriting,"
<br />Sltrllrl Finkel, right PPV
<br />and closed rirehit prnmoter.
<br />Said Ihr overall buy rates were
<br />"phea.nurind " Mr. Finkel
<br />nla ait] first PPV. r.tl,,r Irun
<br />el, rw i-eirenit, may he If,, to
<br />Inrr for the wlerma of nrujne
<br />championship fight..
<br />"I think Into I1eq•Ir Cohn
<br />knew wilco Ihev're doing [sill
<br />an 1. PPV." will Mr. Finkel.
<br />Iloom Box Ilflite. wh'ah
<br />Rost rahirrn.t a tales of if,.
<br />light lint weekend, nnnounred
<br />further showings sf the been:
<br />an Monday. July 4, at II
<br />p.m. Iha'1: wednewlay. Jody
<br />b. at 1.30 p. m.: ems Sunday.
<br />July 10. at 5:30 p.m.
<br />73m nromme. whirl, Con.
<br />originally Scheduled hit tat
<br />Miami' was
<br />rehired to an
<br />hour Manx of the heard, of
<br />the fight. said an lint,
<br />spokesperson. ❑
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