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Article: Summit sees bright future for info highway. (Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Superhighway Summit, telecommunications superhighway)
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- Broadcasting & Cable
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- January 17, 1994
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Access to the "information superhighway" dominated much of the talk among industry leaders at last week's Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Superhighway Summit.
"Content will be everything [on the superhighway], but it can only be everything with total access," said Rupert Murdoch, chairman, News Corp. Asked for an example of an access problem, Murdoch said, "I would have liked to start a news channel, but [Tele-Communications Inc. President John] Malone and [Time Warner Chairman] Gerald Levin would not give me the time of day." TCI and Time Warner have ownership interest in Turner Broadcasting's CNN.
Disney Chairman Michael Eisner said that he fears ...