COMMUNITY
Portland gets free line on info
By Lisa Kneefel
Emerald Assoc ale Editor
(iallers in the Portland metro
politan area will lx- able to in
( ess more than 1.500 categories
of news and information 24
hours a dav thanks to a new
hotline offered bv The Ortrtfom
an.
The hotline, c alled Oregoni
an Inside Line, will lie available
free of c barge Through an
Audiotex system, callers can
dial a main menu line and ac
cess specific news lines via a
sequence ol touch-tone phone
c ominands The news c atego
ries range from breaking news
stories to weather information,
sports updates and stew k mar
ket figures
Jeff Wohler, editor of Orego
nian Sports Information Sys
tems, said Inside Line is an ex
tension of the newspaper s at
tempt to pros ide Oregonians
with the latest in news and in
formation.
"In addition to presenting
(news) to our readers in ink on
paper on their doorstep eac h
‘With the Audiotex
system, people can
detennine what
they want (to
know.)1
Jett Wohler.
Oregon Sports Information
Systems
morning-" Wohler said, "were
making it available to them .M
hours -i da\ . seven dnvs .1
week "
Similar news lines are of
fered hv about > other news
papers ini.hiding The S,i< r.i
mento BeeaiulThe Seattle
Tinted Wohler said The Seattle
Times receives tiOO.OOO to
700.000 calls per month
Wohler said people are horn
horded dailx with scores of
messages in forms ranging from
outdoor advertisements to ra
dio commen nils and new spa
per articles He said the
Audiotex system is a means of
,h i essmg information selet live
h. so people i an avoul ini i'v,
messages of no list* to them
"What were really talking
about is information and boss
people control the amount of
i n f o r m a 11 o n t h e v want.''
W o h I« r said With t h e
Audiotex system, people i an
determine what they want (to
know)
Inside'Line is not set at i essi
hie through an MOO numtier so
Ihiiversitv students interested
in using it will have to pay
long distant e i harges Wohler
said adding an moo numher
might bo a possibility in the
near tulme
1 his Sunday's edition of the
newspaper will include a spe
i ial insert explaining the phone
system and Os use It will also
list all I lirrent 4 digit ai i ess
i odes tor respet live news ( ate
gories Wohler said eat li of /Vie
Oregonian's printed sections
will (login listing related news
line ai i ess codes on a daily ha
sis
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Record companies
inflate music prices
By David C Zartman
! meca J ; o« r
People shopping for i ontp.ii t disi s or cassettes oyer the
holidays prohahly noticed their wallets took a pretty good
heating
Mush prices have gone steedilv up, and the trend is 'un
likely to reverse itself
l lie average pru e mi reuse is SI. with tapes now Suing for
about Sill eai ti and ( I)s toi S Hi N el it only i osts the latiels
about SI to make and pai kugr a i oinpm t disi
Huge i orpurations suc h as U irner Hros are i aiising the in
i reuses, said Mike Mi Adams owner ol the K>-< ord l-arden
"The latiels say that they have1 to rei oup promotional i osts
or recover from business losses within the company Mi
Adams -.aid It s also probably sheer greed
Superstar artists mu h as Madonna and Garth Itrooks have
■ eel) p’r.' I mi leases !>ei a use the . oinpanu". know the,! poj - u
laritv will ensure large sales regardless of tost u< cording to
Rolling Stout• magazine
Kec.ord companies also raise pru es to cover huge mega
deals they have signed with artists Michael |.n kson (Sony)
Inis a deal worth a reported $1 billion and I’nnre (Warner
Hros ) has inked a deal somewhere in the Sion million range
Wliilt' i»-t.»11 priii's nl established stars arc going up. t usls
lor newer arlisls arc going (lown
When llif labels art' trying to break in a new artist, they
don't waul In st are off consumers, so the\ drop the prices.”
Mt Adams said
Other fat tors could contribute to possible pru e reductions
m the near future
I’he c ardboard longbox that t I K are pat kagrd m is due to
lie discontinued this year, hut the reduition in pru e to the
consumer will In- minimal
Several new forms of music media will bring competition
to the popular t 1) and i «usc a further drop ill pru e
One is the digital audio tape with digital sound to rival
l [> as well is home ret ording 1 npability
At the moment, however It Vi's do not pose a threat to the
( I) market Cost is high (Slid, and onh about tot) titles are
us a liable. 1 out pared to more than Vii.ulltl on ( 1)
A new mini digital disi is mm ii smaller than a 1 (invention
al Cl), hut holds the line amount of music. MDIJ-. ar- not
widely known tiei ause of poor quality of sound ami limited
availability
Kven the venerable vinyl r<H ord is not immune to prit:e
hikes
A lot of rei ords ire only available as an import aid Kv
der (.reene, oyy net o| (.na-n Noise Rei unis
It is still possible to get a good (leal on viny l
"A lot of the independent labels sin It as Disc liord put out
quality procim ts for around > ' an album (-reene said
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