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'larch 17^ Page 5 Monday • March 1 7, 1997 Adults mistakingly . lelieve air bags -Stlelp save children OSTON (AP) —While passenger-side air ]shave killed at least 38 children, a major- of Americans believe the safety devices Ipmore children than they hurt, a new sur- shows. early 60 percent of adults polled by the ter for Risk Analysis at the Harvard lool of Public Health mistakenly believe bags are saving more children’s lives than ,the researchers say. There are no docu- nted cases of a child being saved by an air said John Graham, director of the center the study’s leading author, though survey participants recognized it air bags can save lives, they were unclear iut the range of injuries air bags can cause. The public has a perhaps excessively opti- itic and favorable view of what air bags are ing for them,” Graham said. [Ofthe 38 children killed to date by air bags, were sitting in the front passenger seat and istwere decapitated, Graham said. Nine of those were infants. Of the 29 older Idren, 25 were not wearing seat belts and were wearing lap belts without shoulder Its, said Brian O’Neill, president of the In- ance Institute for Highway Safety in Ar- ,gton,Va. Airbags, which deploy at up to 200 mph, are ited with saving more than 1,600 lives. However, Graham said he had not found any cumented cases of children’s lives being red by the inflatable safety devices. Industry tresentatives could not be reached for cem ent Sunday. And at least 20 adults, most of them smaller men, have been killed by air bags. Cable industry faces competition from direct broadcast satellites NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Space: The final frontier? Whether or not Rupert Murdoch is a Star Trek fan, his plan to beam hundreds of TV channels — including local stations — directly into peo ple’s homes via satellite leaves cable television ex ecutives, gathered for a convention here this week, wishing somebody would beam him up. Already, Murdoch’s latest venture — a $ 1 bil lion stake in a Denver-based direct broadcast satellite company — is being referred to as the “Death Star.” Even Wall Street thinks the combination of EchoStar Communications with ASkyB, the nascent satellite television business of Murdoch’s News Corp., makes a po tentially formidable com petitor to the $25 billion cable industry. Cable stocks plunged 8 to 10 per cent after Murdoch’s Feb. 24 announcement. Kenneth Goldman, a money manager who watches media companies for Entermedia Growth Partners of Denver, said consumers can expect more viewing choices than ever. Telephone companies have scaled back plans to compete head-to-head with local cable sys tems. And microwave-delivered “wireless cable” has yet to evolve into the competitor policy mak ers had hoped. But direct broadcast satellite TV is cable’s biggest nightmare. “Cable is worried because Rupert Murdoch has shown a willingness to lose gobs of money to build new businesses. He takes big risks,” Goldman said. “The Murdoch deal restores a cloud of competition that seemed to be waning over the cable industry.” Murdoch Decker Anstrom, president of the Nation al Cable Television Association, said a mes sage of this week’s cable convention is “we’re going to meet that competition with a grow ing sense of confidence.” But in a sign of tension, the conference scut tled a session on how cable and direct broad cast satellite companies — called DBS in the industry — can work together. Of the 100 million U.S. homes with television, about 65 million have cable. Just 4.5 million households have direct-broadcast satellite TV, but the industry could grow to 21 million cus tomers by 2001, according to some projections. The cable industry is about as entrenched as the Big Three networks were before Murdoch’s Fox television, home to The Simpsons, Married with Children and NFL football, shook them up. DBS is a real threat because it is digital and can offer customers better sound and picture qual ity and more channels than the average cable system, which provides 54. Plus, unlike other DBS providers, Murdoch says his new venture, to be called Sky, also will offer local TV programming in some markets. DBS users today generally need to either plug “rabbit-ears” or basic cable into their satellite receivers to get local stations on their sets. If Murdoch pulls this off investors worry it would cost cable companies subscribers. Ana lysts expect cable companies will focus more on creating new local programming choices to combat that fear. Cox Cable Communications’ system San Diego, for instance, bought exclusive rights to 125 Padres’ professional baseball games, which it will air this spring on a local programming channel it created: Channel 4. 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