FINANCIAL TIMES SURVEYS BROADCAST AND COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA

     This morning's FINANCIAL TIMES carries an extensive survey
of new communications media that covers cable, business
television, pay television, UK cable, radio, satellites, and the
Internet.  Raymond Snoddy, survey editor:  "When it makes little
difference whether business news is obtained from a computer
screen or a TV screen, it is clear that the importance of the new
media goes far beyond extra channels of entertainment.  There are
frequent signs that the long-predicated covergance between
entertainment, computing and telecommunications is at last
happening, even though the electronic superhighway probably
excites politicians more than consumers at the moment.  Cable,
satellite, and video cassettes will have a growing number of
rivals to communicate words, pictures and ideas" (FINANCIAL
TIMES, 10/4).