Pat Weaver, once the president of NBC, is now the emperor of Subscription Television. His empire is scarcely two weeks old and so far has only 2,400 viewers in a small swatch of West Los Angeles. But the clamor it has raised is at the fightin'-words level all over California.
Weaver's STV gets into people's homes on telephone lines. It gets into their ordinary TV sets through an adapter, which puts STV programs onto Channel 6 a deadhead channel in Los Angeles. By twisting a knob on a Program Selector Box that...
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