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Microsoft and NBC Link Internet and Television to Challenge CNN.(Originated from The Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, July, 1996 by Patton, Charlie
Jul. 16--In 22 million American homes last night, viewers could watch NBC's Tom Brokaw interviewing President Clinton live, asking some of the 52,000 proposed questions Brokaw had received via the Internet.
Brokaw got a new program on a new cable channel, MSNBC, launched with great fanfare yesterday.
A joint venture of NBC and software giant Microsoft, MSNBC is intended both as a challenge to the 16-year-old Cable News Network as a 24-hour news channel and as a way for Microsoft and NBC to prepare for a future in which the distinction between the personal computer and the television begins to disappear.
Among those who didn't have a chance to watch the new cable channel yesterday were subscribers to Continental Cablevision in Jacksonville....
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