The optical network division alone had sales growth in excess of 50 percent for the six months ended Sept. 30.

Telemundo is the network division of the Telemundo Group, which is owned by the Reliance Group.

"The turnaround time has been reduced and the lines are being installed correctly," said Gerard Wood, a supervisor in Alticor's network division.

The new environment has also forced ABC to end the turf wars inside the network divisions.

In 1995, Telkom reorganized the twelve Witels into seven regional divisions and one network division.

At the same time, merging the studios back into the network division would create a unified advertising sales operation.

Until now, the network division and each of the units within studios had separate advertising sales staffs competing with each other.

This raised demands that the network division be demerged from Telenor and made a separate company.

Mr. Werner said later that their idea was to run a network programming division more like a movie studio.

Direction remains the most pressing issue for all the network divisions.