The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 169

TV-radio THE MIAMI HERALD Wednesday July 16 1980 9D piTRADE-IN TIME Old TV or Stereo Now! Firms Offer Films on Closed Circuit TV TilD'S MAGflAVOX tlSOUTH MIAMI 667-3538 7328 RED ROAD trrr-d? ipMimy- I mum pip AS LOW AS LIABILITY AS LOW AS 193 38 FANTASTIC MULTI CAR DISCOUNTS INSTANT AUTO TAG BINDER LOW DOWN PAYMENT CALL US! WE QUOTE BT PHONE 493 1 67th St 1 4229 Dime Hwy 1 Miami 6S1-6166 251-5624 By JACK ANDERSON Herald TV-Redle editor While cable-TV entrepreneurs are pushing the webbing of Dade County with transmission lines two closed-circuit non-cable companies are out there huckstering a private program service of their own The message is that homeowners need not wait until a cable-TV firm wires their street to get those first-run movies big sports events and the rest of the extra special programs been hearing about The two companies Private Channel Club and ON TV are offering for a monthly fee this closed circuit programming now And over the air Not via transmission cable Private Channel Club has been in business hereabouts for almost five years ON TV has been a nighttime service of WKID (Ch 51) since last February What is new about both operations is that they have now expanded service into individual homes Until recently and particularly in Private Channel case the service was limited to multiple-unit dwellings apartment houses and hotels PRIVATE Channel Club which transmits its service by microwave from 1 Biscayne Tower in downtown Miami is now able to reach individual homes by installing on a lease basis a special antenna at the home of a would-be subscriber Ch ON TV service also calls for a special antenna adjusted in each case to the distance 1400 10th Ave Miami land Cthfr HouM 545-8800 Mu only A LIMITED NUMBER AT THESE PRICES! JU White Westinghouse airs on Private Channel Club to Be Shown on ON TV Office program service Time-Life is a minority stockholder of American Television Communications Corp of Phoenix Arlz which owns Private Channel Club here Through this connection Private Channel Club has access to Home Box Office which is one of the prime cross-country suppliers of cable-TV THE fee to homeowners Is $15 a month Its antenna and decoder installation charge is $50 with a $30 deposit For this a subscriber can view as many as 21 new movies a month aired at staggered times for the convenience of the subscriber's own viewing schedule The package also includes music and comedy concerts not available to regular networks and stations The movies which become available for closed TV use about nine months after they finish their theater bookings Include this month such features as Jaws 2 The Onion Field and Butch and Sundance: The Early Days Ch ON TV service comes to a subscriber for a $1995 monthly fee The installation charge is $3995 with a $30 deposit It books its own films and special programs Its movie offerings this month include The Champ The In-Laws Hot Stuff and The Great Train Robbery PRIVATE Channel signal can reach as far south as 200th Street in Dade and as far north as South Broward Ch ON TV service goes as far south as the upper Keys and north almost to West Palm Beach It also extends to the Bahamas on the east There is some limitation on this closed circuit service for home-owners in Private Channel Club's case Its microwave system of transmission can be blocked by tall and heavy foliage The company has to make a feasibility survey of the home and location of each would-be customer The Club is going into the private home business buttressed by a brisk business servicing multiple-unit dwellings in which it claims it has more than 50000 subscribers Ch ON TV claims to have a subscriber list of more than 15000 and expects shortly to add 3000 more subscribers the home Is located from Ch transmitter in Hallandale in South Broward The station licensed to Oak Communications Inc of San Diego is a typical UHF broadcaster and airs programming in the normal fashion during the day But come nightfall it switches to its closed circuit service ON TV Both companies install a decoder device at each home to receive the programming which comes over the air as a scrambled signal Without the decoder the signal turns up on the home screen as unviewable Private Channel Club and Ch 51 are able to steal the march on cable-TV at least for the time Model AC064B7A 6000 BTU Cool 2 Speed Thermostat EER 70 programs being Cable-TV requires transmission over cable strung along telephone poles or underground and then into subscriber homes And this can take months FIVE COMPANIES are franchised to string Dade with cable So far only two Americable in Homestead and Dynamic Cabievision in Hialeah are in operation Undeniably cable-TV will eventually become the dominant closed circuit system here because once installed it offers a multiple and diverse programming service It has a 33-channel capacity It can relay enhanced signals of ail the area's UHF and VHF TV stations plus those of such distant cities as Chicago and Atlanta It can offer the same special programs that Private Channel Club and ON TV do But in the meantime the latter two companies are expanding their closed circuit programming with the rapidity of a grass fire Private Channel Club gets its movies and other special programs via Time-Life Television which operates the country-wide Home Box OWPBT-PBS OWTVJ-CBS 0WPTV-NBC WCIX-TV WCKT-NBC (D WPLG-ABC (D WPEC-ABC (D WLRN-TV ETV G) WLTV Q) WCIX UHF CD WHFT GO WKID WITH HEAT ADD 30 best bets 8000 BTU Heat Cool EER 68 465 On Television Complete television listings Including morning programming are published each Sunday In TV The television magazine EXPORT PRICES AVAILABLE "rO Down the Congo Humphrey Bogart won an Oscar for his role as a scruffy sea captain in The African Queen a drama about a plan to destroy a German gunboat on the Congo during World War I But Katharine performance as the spinster who accompanies Bogie is just as good The 1951 classic was filmed on location in Africa The film starts at 8 pm on Chs 6 and 33 Dancing Fever Divine Madness is a documentary on the Perry-Mansfield Dance Camp Tie dance program is headquartered in Steamboat Springs Colo Julie Harris is the narrator for the program which airs at 10:30 pm on Ch 2 19 95 pliit lax SEARS ROEBUCK AND CO Great movies every night recently released movies shows concerts sports Movies are uncut complete with no commercial interruptions Sears installs the reception system as an agent of Oak Industries Inc (ON TV) per month plua Inatallation and refundable deposit On Radio CALL Sears NOW Dade Broward 591-3130 563-1300 Complete sports broadcast Information appears daily on Page 3 of The Sports section AL RANTEL SHOW Id am WKAT (AM 1360) Ben and Paul Perry from the Credit Counselors Corporation 2 hrs HORIZONS 630 pmt WLRN (FM 913) Topic: sterilization of the mentally retarded FREILACH TIME 8 pm WDNA (FM 8S 9) Martv Levitt is host for Hebrew and Yiddish music history and humor 1 hr BASEBALL 830 pm WIOO (AM 610) Minnesota at New York Yankees ALBUM FEATURE 1 am WWWL (Love 94 93 9 FM) Melissa Manchester 3 hrs BILL ASHTON Also available at ON Subscription TV (D Ben '80 Ben Wattenberg takes a look at atomic-power industry 1 hr 9:30 CD Fanlaetlco CD Today With Lasttr Sumrall 10:00 OCD Local Nawa CD Human Face of China CD Una Mujar Marcada 10:30 Divine Madness (Sea Best Bets) CD Conversational Spanish 69 24 Horaa CD Praise Tha Lord 11:00 MacNeilLehrer Report Local New OCD Maud (D The Lawmekert 11:30 The Two Ronnies TV Movie Strange Possession of Mrs Oliver" 1977: Karen Black George Hamilton When a housewife poses as a sexy blonde she finds her self in supernatural trouble Fair 09 Movie "Castle of the Living Dead" 1963: Christopher Lee Some performera visit a castle belonging to Count Drago Tonight Show REPEAT Guests: Andy Williams Buck Henry Lee Bailey 90 mins CD SIN da Noche a Nocha 12:00 Captioned ABC News Local New 12:30 Nightly Business Report ABC Network New CD NewsReach Out 12:50 (D TV Movie "No Place to Run" 1972: Stephanie Powers Larry Hag-man Neville Brand When a young child's parents are killed and the authorities refuse to grant his grandfather custody they flea to Canada 2 hrs Fair 1:00 QStar Huetlar Astronomy Tomorrow REPEAT Pianist and entertainer Liberace 1 hr 1:10 ED Movie "Special Agent" 1935 Bette Davis George Brant A secret agent goes alter big-time crooks Good 1:20 On Your Mind? 2:00 Movie 1955 Jon Whiteley George Sanders Some folks are looking for a gem Fair THE SUMMER FREE FOR ALL ljjsa Jack program has really caught on in South Florida! already expanding to Pompano Beach Join noui in North Miami Beach and get all the days up to September 30 added to your regular membership FACE! 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COIL 651-4054 Separate facilities for men and women daily North Miami Beach Health Fitness Center fy morning highlights 7:00 Today Tom Brokaw Former President Gerald Ford 2 hrs Good Morning America 9:00 (5)(D Phil Donahue Actress Shelley Winters 1 hr 10:00 a John Davidson Show Cohost Robert Hays Greg Evigan Karen Grassle George Miller Joyce Sumlla 90 mins QQ) Mike Douglas Show Cohosts Glen Campbell and Rita Coolidge Phil Donahue 90 mins afternoon 12:00 EricaTheome Local News OQD Movie Sea 1953: Burt Lancaster Virginia Mayo Marine sergeant tails for island woman and is tried lor desertion and other crimes 2 hrs Fair Joker's Wild CD Family Feud 69 Angel Rebelde CD Religious News Fjl Stock Market 12:05 (S New Zoo Review 12:30 Search for Tomorrow (5) Password Pius OCD Local News (12) Ryan's Hope 69 Reporter 23Miaml Ahora 12:35 CD Cartoons 1:00 Young snd the Restless Days of Our Lives All My Children 89 Mundo Latino Q) Stock Market 1:30 CD Popeys and Pals Q) Real Estate 2:00 Firing Line REPEAT The American Book Awards 1 hr As the World Turns I Love Lucy 0(5) The Doctors One Life to Live Q) JJ Juez CD Stock Market 2:30 OCD Partridge Family Another World G) La Seftora Joven CD Our Gang 3:00 When the Boat Comes In Guiding Light OCD Little Rascals General Hospital CD Dennis the Menace 3:30 OCDFlintstones Q1 Villa Alegre CD Cumbres Borrascosae CD Bullwinkle 3:55 CD Cartoons LIMITED OFFER! 16720 NE 6th Rvenue North Miami Beach 651-4054 New location: 301 Federal Highway) Pompano Beach 785-7855 franchises Available 6:15 CD Biscayne Greyhound Report 6:30 Dr Who Network News (D Sporta Unlimited 69 Mi Secretaria CD Dick Van Dyke CD Lat's Sea tha Races 7:00 Nightly Business Report Cross-Wits GO Mary Tyler Moor Ted has a great system for betting on football games Republican National Convention John Chancellor Jessica Sav-itch and Garrick Utley are among commentators All in tha Family Comedy (D Something on 17 Maripat Taccolml teacher at Jan Mann Youth Opportunity school talks about this alternative school for children with disciplinary problems 1 hr CD Los Ricoa Tambian Lloran CD Pop Goes the Country 7:30 Dick Cavett Author Barbara Goldsmith Q(D Republican National Convention Live coverage ot the convention from Joe Louis Arena In Detroit 4 hrs OCD Carol Burnett PM Magazine Segments Include a visit with singer Anna Murray a look at a car that runs on charcoal CD Adriana CD That Girl 8:00 National Geographic REPEAT A look at what it's like to live underwater 1 hr OCD Movie "The African Queen" (Sea Best Bets) 2 hrs Republican National Convention Live coverage of convention activities from Detroit (D Free To Choose CD Loster Sumrall Teaching 8:30 CD Ml Dulc Charytin CD Contact 9:00 Great Performance REPEAT A young maid provides comlort for an aging woman "Abide With Me 90 mins 4:00 Hugh Down' Over Easy REPEAT Topic: strokes Merv Griffin Guests: Pete Barbuttl John Toomey Dave Rowland and Sugar Leroy Neiman Linda Fratianne Kurt Thomas the Arthur Murray Dancers 90 mins John Davidson Show Cohost: Robert Hays Greg Evigan Karen Grassle George Miller 90 mins OQ9 Tom and Jarry Ironsidt CD Tha Brady Bunch Match Gama (Q Magic Method ol Oil Painting Stock Market 4:25 G3 The Archlaa 4:30 Electric Company 09 Woody Woodpecker (D I Dream of Jaannia Croaa-Wita CD Freeafyla CD Rojo Negro 6) Daily Market Clot 4:55 CD News 5:00 Sesame Slreaf OOP Emergency! 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