TV & VIDEO - May 9, 1989

Cable News Network will begin direct broadcasts in Moscow by the end of the summer via an agreement with the Soviet television authority, Gosteleradio. “The service is designed primarily for hotels, businesses, governmental agencies, international apartment buildings. But it also will be available to Soviet citizens who want to pay for it,” said Robert Wussler, executive vice president of Turner Broadcasting System, CNN’s parent company. The signal will be scrambled, not to deny access to Soviet citizens but to make sure that those receiving CNN paid for it.