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Daily News from New York, New York • 379

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Daily Newsi
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New York, New York
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379
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News Ground the Dials CO Pay-TV for Greater N.Y. By VAL ADAMS ALL AMERICA YOUTH BOWLING nunniamricuiac I A television station that plans to be the first in the New York area to offer pay-TV programs is now under I Sponsored by Colqate-Palmolive and National I construction in West Orange, N.J. The owners of WBTB- TV (Ch. 68), which is licensed "to Newark, hope to have the station operating by Oct 1. Initially the station will operate from 4:30 p.m.

to midnight Bowling Council. At stake: thousands of dollars in scholarship awards! Watch the action, then join the action at your nearby bowling center. iCL CBS SPORTS SUNDAY 3:30 PM V-J CH.2 Impeach Panel on TV? Live television and radio coverage of the House Judiciary Committee's debate next week on whether to recommend articles of impeachment witn programming iree oi charge. From the beginning, however, it will demonstrate in non- program nours tne scrambled sig against President Nixon took giant step forward yesterday nal that will be used when shows transmitted for a fee. WBTB-TV is owned by Blonder-Tongue Laboratories in Old Bridge, N.J., manufacturer of TV equipment, including antennas, rotators and cable systems.

Isaac S. Blonder; chairman, said yes- when the House Rules Committee voted 10 to 3 to permit the live broadcasts. The Rules Committee resolution will go to the full House for a vote on Monday. If live TV is approved by the House, the Judiciary Committee would have the option on whether to televise. wmi.

OUUUI, IIIIIUUII IiaU been invested in the planning and construction of the station. Blonder-Tongue has developed its own system and technical devices for transmitting a scram- lrwl 1 coder attached to a TV receiver be ered on Py-TV, i. Blonder wants to work out a per- me picture "iLemgiuie. i 0 tV, Tlfmripi sniri thp stfltinn wmiM i- and the station divide the income. c'large pay-program subscribers -about $15 for installation of the decoder and an antenna.

There also will He also recognizes that WBTB-TV needs some 25,000 to 50,000 subscribers before the pay-program operation will attain any commercial significance. How much the station will charge for tie a rental charge of about $-5 or $4 a month for the decoder. small box that houses the a movie or a sports event is still decoder also contains a printer to be determined. "that automatically prints a ticket each time the subscriber selects Howard Da Silva wiil portray Xikita Khrushchev, former Soviet premier, cn "The Missiles of October," a three-hour drama to be televised in Decemb'r by AEC. Xehemiah Pe-Foff will play Andrei Soviet foreign minister.

Merv Griffin, recently hospital a pay program. At the end of "The month, a subscriber tallies "the tickets and sends a check to station. The station does not yet know -what programs it will offer for pay. Blonder said, "I've talked is to sports people, movie people 'and Lincoln Center. All of them -nave said that when the station 'is operating and can do them some good, they'll be glad to talk." '-In acquiring programs or events ized by pneumonia, has now been released and is recuperating at his home in Los Angeles.

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