Business Week: BellSouth To Launch Satellite TV Service.Business/Technology Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 17, 2000 For two years, Atlanta-based BellSouth Corp. (BLS See Bureau of Labor Statistics. ) and four of its local phone company brethren have struggled to break into the television business. But hobbled by flawed radio-wave technology, their Americast consortium has snared only 350,000 subscribers. But BellSouth still sees a bright future in TV. Business Week has learned that on Mar. 22, it will sideline its languishing lan·guish intr.v. lan·guished, lan·guish·ing, lan·guish·es 1. To be or become weak or feeble; lose strength or vigor. 2. Americast service, in which it's invested at least $50 million. Making the boldest move yet among the Baby Bells The nickname given to the regional Bell operating companies after Divestiture in 1984. See Bell System and RBOC. into the entertainment business, it plans to begin offering satellite TV. At first, BellSouth plans to focus on signing up customers within its nine-state Southeast franchise, offering essentially the same programming as DirecTV. BellSouth eventually plans to market its new service from Texas to New England New England, name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought to have been so named by Capt. |
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