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- BUSINESS, Page 48Business NotesMEDIATelevision Retreat
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- The contemplative world of Christian Science hardly seems the
- appropriate setting for a bitter corporate battle. But growing
- turmoil over the financial future of the venerable Boston-based
- church has assumed on the attributes of a Wall Street takeover.
- An announcement last week that the church plans to cease
- operation of its ailing Monitor Channel cable network marked a
- grim defeat for forces within the church organization who have
- staunchly supported large-scale media expansion. Harvey W. Wood,
- chairman of the church and chief proponent of the $250 million
- TV enterprise, resigned last week as the church disclosed that
- it had borrowed $41.5 million from pension funds to shore up the
- 24-hour news and public affairs channel as well as the troubled
- daily, Christian Science Monitor. The church says the Monitor
- Channel -- which costs $4 million a month to run -- will shut
- down by June 15 unless a buyer is found, an outcome analysts
- consider unlikely.
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