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Executives at HBO party in Lufkin, Texas
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| Title | Executives at HBO party in Lufkin, Texas |
| Description | Original caption: "New York - Home Box Office, Cablecom of Lufkin and TV Cable Co. of Diboll Texas, co-hosted a party Sept. 28 at the Civic Center in Lufkin to inaugurate the pay service in both neighboring systems. From left are Lufkin system manager Wayne Neal; Cablecom-General Inc. Chairman and President Richard Forsling; HBO Chairman Gerald Levin; Temple-Eastex President and Time Inc. Vice President Arthur Temple of Diboll; Time Inc. Vice President Dick Munro; and CATVs Systems Inc. President Ben Campbell, owner of the Diboll system and newly elected president of CATA. After less than one month of marketing, the Lufkin system has achieved pay TV penetrations that exceed national averages for traditional cable markets by over 25 per cent. First week results in the neighboring Diboll system show a similar pattern of accelerated consumer acceptance of the HBO program package." |
| Date original | 1978 November 1 |
| Decade | 1970s
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| Subjects | Cable television--History--Photographs
Home Box Office (Firm)
Time, Inc.
Cable television--Texas
Cablecom of Luftin (TX)
TV Cable Company of Diboll (TX)
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| People | Campbell, Ben
Forsling, Richard
Levin, Gerald M. 'Jerry'
Munro, J. Richard
Neal, Wayne
Temple, Arthur
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| Collection | Searle Photograph Collection
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| Identifier | SR00861 |
| Format | image/jpeg |
| Date digital | 2012 |
| Physical description | 8 x 10 inch b&w photograph |
| Holding institution | Barco Library, The Cable Center |
| Copyright | This image is issued by The Cable Center. Use of the image requires written permission from the staff of The Cable Center's Barco Library. All responsibility for questions of copyright that may arise in the use made of reproduced material provided by the Barco Library must be assumed by the user. The Barco Library will provide any information it has available to the user. |
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