Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 74, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 28, 1979 Page: 24 of 60
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sells TV
to city
Bill Russell is director
of marketing for Golden
Triangle Communic-
ations. He came to
Denton from San Diego
where he worked for
Mission Cable, a sub-
sidiary of Cox Cable.
The cable system in
San Diego is the largest
in the United States.
Russell's job in San
Diego was selling Home
Box Office pay-TV
movie service to hotels
as an in-room service.
He was later promoted
to selling the HBO
service to hotels on a
national basis for Cox.
Cox Cable now has
more than 5,000 hotel
rooms on the HBO
service.
Russell has lived in
the Dallas area since
1967 and has attended
both SMU and NTSU.
He is continuing his
studies at NT.’
Bill Russell, Marketing Director
9010040
(LVs FOES)
Showtime Plus average of 21 shows a
Sports, which features month. This gives each
- new movies, top name member of the
entertainment specials household a chance to
and exclusive Southwest select each week the one
Conference sports, on or two shows he or she
Channel 21 is included in ‘ wishes to enjoy. The
SALUTING
GOLDIN TRIANGLE.
* COMMUNICATIONS
ON ITS
FORMAL OPENING!
Chai
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Ken top
engineer
on cable
Chief engineer for
Golden Triangle
Communications is Ken
Lamberson.
He has been over-
seeing the building of
the cable television
system for Denton.
Lamberson has been
an employee of Cox
Cable Communications
Inc. for the last 10 years.
He started in the cable
TV industry as an in-
staller of cable in the
Lubbock system in 1968.
He served as a
technician and chief
technician in Lubbock
before his move to
Denton in April.A
graduate of the electric
technology school at
Lubbock Christian
College, he served in the
infantry while in the
Army in Korea from
August 1966 to July 1968
Ken Lamberson, Chief Engineer
Smith
office
head
Lynn Smith, a native
of Elmira, N.Y., is of-
fice manager for Golden
Triangle Communic-
ations.
She was graduated
from the Kathrine Gibbs
Secretarial School in
New York in June of
1962. After that, she -
worked as a legal
secretary in Rochester,
N.Y.
For many years she
raised and trained
Great Danes and
Arabian horses.
From April, 1978, to
June of this year, she
worked for the Denton
Record-Chronicle as a
secretary.
Her hobbies include
swimming, scuba
diving, knitting and.
crocheting, horseback
riding, and canoeing.
She also has veen active
in the Denton Com-
munity Theater.
Lynn Smith, Office Manager
Building recycled
The building in which
Golden Triangle
Communications has set
up offices is a historical
landmark in Denton.
regulated public utility.
The years prior to 1929
saw great fluctuations
in ice prices. During this
time, about 6,000 pounds
of ice were produced
daily.
Built as the Crystal
Ice Plant in 1926, it did
not officially open its.
ame the fashion in the
doors until 1929. It was
1930s, replacing ice
this same year that the boxes around the
City of Denton won its country, but the Crystal
case in the Texas *
Ice Company logo can
Supreme Court making still be seen at the
Regrigerators bec-
ice- companies a Golden Tringle Com-
munications building,
where it is etched in
stone.
Some city folklore is
connected with the
street on which the
building stands. Prior to
the 1940s, Industrial
Street was called Bois
d'Arc Street. Legend
has it, in the 1890s, a
night watchman named
Peter O’Reily was
making his rounds and
came across a dead
horse on Bois d’Arc —
right where Wolff’s
Food Store stands
today. O'Reily had to
hail a passing wagon to
pull the dead horse
around the corner to
East Oak — for in his
the basic Cabelvision
package from Golden
Triangle Communic-
etions.
Showtime, provides
about 18 .to 20 at-
tractions a month, in-
cluding about 15 feature
films, three or four
entertainment specials
and award-winning
short subjects plus
Southwest Conference
football (delayed for
cablecast the night of
the game, usually about
11 p.m. and repeated on
Sunday mornings at 10)
and Southwest Con-
ference basketball live.
All programs are
aired commercial free
and uncut. Films are
rated G, PG and R; no
X-rated films are shown
on Showtime.
Subscribers receive a
16-page, full-color
program guide with
listings, reviews,
ratings and the reasons
behind the ratings each
month.
November shows will
include “Love At First
Bite,” “Movie Movie,”
“The China Syndrome,”
“Paradise Alley,” “An
Unmarried Woman,”
and "Tooth and Claw,”
a wildlife documentary,
among others.
Entertainment sp-
ecials will include
James Taylor In Con-
cert and On Tour With
Crystal Gayle and Ray
Stevens.
In January and
February, 15 Southwest
Conference basketball
games will be telecast
live.
Showtime is a
national satellite payTV
network carried via
RCA Americom ‘s
SATCOM I satellite to -
400 cable TV systems in
46 states. Its programs
are seen by mroe than
750,000 subscribers,
making it the second
largest pay TV com-
pany in the nation.
Showtime is owned by
Viacom International |
and Teleprompter. It |
was officially |
inaugurated in July of |
1976 in northern |
California. |
Last July, Showtime |
acquired Fanfare, a |
company which |
provided programming |
in the Southwest. This |
added some 60 affiliates
to the Showtime net-
work, ________
Supplementing the
films, Showtime is
producing in 1979 about
40 entertainment
-. specials. In order to
maintain appeal for
viewers of all tastes and
ages, these specials
include a variety of
programming formats
ranging from country
music to comedy and
magic to the glittering
nightclub performances
of Las Vegas, Lake
Tahoe and New York to
Broadway and off-
Broadway productions.
Some of those who
have been on Showtime
this year include Debbie
Reynolds, Roy Clark,
Lola Falana, Willie
Nelson, Ben Vereen,
Charo and John
Davidson.
Showtime comes on
during the week about
4:30 or 5 with the last
movies starting at 10 or
11. On weekends the
service starts about 2 or
2:30 with movies
starting as late as
midnight.
Other November
movies include
lineup changes each
month.
Movies and specials
are shown an average of
seven times a month on
different days at dif-
ferent times so you can
fit the Showtime
schedule to yours.
We Are Proud To Serve
As Hosts For All
Out-Of-Town Guests
Of This
New Organization.
RAMADA INN i
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srgg
Denton
387-0591
excitement, in writing “California Suite,'
his report, he could not
remember how to spell
Bois d’Arc.
In 1939, the building
housed Penry Bros. and
for almost 30 years,
beginning in the early
1950s, housed H.L.
Peterson Co., farm
machinery.
"Lion in Winter,”
"Hardcore,” "Blazing
Saddles,” “Invasion of
the Body Snatchers,”
"Let It Be,” “Blood-
brothers,” "Pardon
Mon Affaire” and
“Silver Bears.”
Showtime Plus Sports
premieres five or six
new shows a week, an
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(WE ARE VER Y 1
PROUD TO HAVE
PLAYED A PART IN
THE CONSTR UC TION .
OF THE GOLDEN
TRIANGLE
COMMUNICA TIONS
FACILITIES.
WE CONGRATULATE
THEM ON THEIR
GRAND OPENING
OCT. 31st
FOR ALL YOUR
PA INTING NEEDS
CALL
WILLIARD BOUNDS
458-3344
SANGER, TX.
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