Noreen Lace-Forché founds InterLace TelEntertainment — pro-active dissemination replaces broadcast

pivotal · B.S. into early Subsidized

• When: B.S. into the early Subsidized era — the founding rides the broadcast collapse (event 4) and the "recent history" reaches YDAU
• What: Noreen Lace-Forché — the USC-educated mogulette who built Phoenix's Intermission Video rental chain, called by Microsoft's Gates "The Killer-App Queen" — had incorporated a front company, InterLace TelEntertainment, the moment she foresaw broadcast apocalypse in the Nunhagen fallout. She consolidated the skeletal Big Four's production and capital behind it and had ad-maestro P. Tom Veals orchestrate a "profound national dissatisfaction" with even cable's passivity, pitching a model in which the viewer becomes "her/his own programming director": choose-and-rent over PC, modem, and fiber-optic line, delivered in convenient fiber pulses or on palm-sized 4.8-mb diskettes marketed as "cartridges." Vertical integration followed — purchase of the Networks' production talent and facilities, of RCA's D.S.S. orbiters, of the HDTV patents, of the InterNet fiber-optic transmission-grid "bought for .17 on the dollar from GTE after Sprint went belly-up trying to launch a primitively naked early mask- and Tableauxless form of videophony" — yielding cheap R.I.S.C.-grade High-Def machines that Veals's people rebranded "Teleputers" or "TPs." Because no ads could survive a cartridge's post-receipt Review Function, the entire advertising industry collapsed with broadcast (Veals himself, nearly the industry's last man standing, ends the scene taking on PR for a fringe crooner-candidate — See the O.N.A.N. thread). This is the thread's hinge: the media order the whole novel inhabits, and the one the founder-filmmaker's own catalogue rode — the era's venue shift ran "from public art cinemas, to VCR-capable magnetic recordings, to InterLace TelEntertainment laser dissemination and reviewable storage disk laser cartridges" (n024), though InterLace bought only a couple of JOI's accessible documentaries in his lifetime (a "PBS-ish" one on lay DT-annulation; a few higherbrow options for its "Howls from the Margin" line), and "the bulk of his stuff didn't make any ILT menus until after his untimely death" (n167). n165 flags that the restructuring also forestalled Sherman-Act antitrust claims; n164 rates Lace-Forché and Veals right-place-and-time geniuses of American freedom-ideology. See the Filmography & Entertainment thread (the films themselves).