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- <title>
- May 17, 1993: Filling Cable's Plate
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- May 17, 1993 Anguish over Bosnia
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 24
- SOCIETY
- Filling Cable's Plate
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- <body>
- <p>The TV Food Network makes eating a 24-hour viewing option
- </p>
- <p> Are we at 500 channels yet? The latest channel to vie for a
- spot on the increasingly crowded cable dial is the TV Food
- Network, which will serve up a 24-hour schedule of recipes,
- cooking tips and news of health and nutrition. Among the programs
- being planned: an interview show in which celebrities talk about
- food with host Robin Leach and a consumer series on feeding your
- family for $75 a week.
- </p>
- <p> Financed by the Providence Journal Co., TV Food plans to
- debut in November and hopes to attract a portion of the $40
- billion annual advertising budget of food and packaged-goods
- companies. Vice chairman Reese Schonfeld insists that
- programming will be a piece of cake. "There's almost nothing you
- can do on television that you can't do with a food angle," he
- says. A dozen years ago, Schonfeld cooked up a little channel
- called CNN, so he at least knows his way around the kitchen.
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- </body>
- </article>
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