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- <text id=90TT3498>
- <title>
- Dec. 31, 1990: Business Notes:Cable TV
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Dec. 31, 1990 The Best Of '90
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 39
- Business Notes
- CABLE TV
- More Yuks for Their Bucks
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Have you heard the one about the two comedy networks that
- decided to merge? It goes like this: for nine months now, two
- competing cable channels have been offering rival menus of
- round-the-clock comedy. On one side of the TV dial is the Comedy
- Channel, run by Time Warner subsidiary HBO. On the other side
- is HA! the TV Comedy Network, owned by Viacom International,
- which also operates MTV. The problem: both channels are losing
- money. Hoping that two can laugh as cheaply as one, the jousting
- jokesters disclosed last week that they would merge to form
- Comedy TV. The new channel, which will draw on programming from
- both of its parents, should be up and chuckling by early next
- year.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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