THE PRESIDENT WANTS HIS SCI FI TV!
16/17 June 1996 / July 6, 1996
Source: Reuters/Variety
By Ray Richmond
HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - Forget CNN, C-SPAN and CNBC. What President Clinton
really wants is the Sci-Fi Channel.
That became clear Friday, when a White House official contacted Dick Ross, a VP
with USA Networks Inc., parent company of cable's Sci-Fi Channel. The official
wanted to know how the president could receive the cable network at the White
House, as well as his retreat at Camp David in Frederick, Md.
Ross told the unnamed official that it just so happened that District
Cablevision of Washington is set to add Sci-Fi Channel to its basic package
June 24.
Camp David, however, was another matter. The area surrounding the presidential
spread has yet to be wired for cable.
Ross got the OK to descramble the channel's signal to Camp David so it
can be received by the property's satellite dish as of Monday. ``We're
really pretty flattered,'' Sci-Fi spokeswoman Karen Reynolds said.
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