Network

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It is exactly 7:00
here in Los Angeles...

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and right now over a million homes
using television in this city...

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are turning their dials
to channel three...

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and that's our channel!

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Howard Beale!

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Stop it! Stop it!

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Listen to me,
and listen carefully...

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because this is your goddamn life
I'm talking about today.

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In this country, when one company wants
to take over another company...

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they simply buy up a controlling share
of the stock...

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but first they have to file notice
with the government.

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That's how CCA took over the company
that owns this network.

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But now somebody's buying up CCA.

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Somebody called
the Western World Funding Corporation.

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They filed the notice this morning.

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Who in the hell is
the Western World Funding Corporation?

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It is a consortium of banks
and insurance companies...

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who are not buying CCA for themselves
but as agents for somebody else.

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And who is this somebody else?
They won't tell you.

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They won't tell you.
They won't tell the Senate.

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They won't tell the SEC, the FCC,
the Justice Department.

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This is Mr. Hackett.
Do you have a New York call for me?

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Do you want to
turn that down, please?

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I will tell you who
they're buying CCA for.

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They're buying it for the
Saudi Arabian Investment Corporation.

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They're buying it for the Arabs!

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Clarence? Frank Hackett here.
How's everything back in New York?

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How's the good lady?

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Take it easy.
I don't know what you're talking about.

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When? Tonight's show?

1:21:44

Clarence, take it easy.

1:21:48

The "Howard Beale Show" is just going on
out here. You get it 3 hours earlier.

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Take it easy! How the hell could
I see it? It's just going on now!