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...repeating half-hour program on what to buy, do and see in New York; this week and next, Telad will open shop on Channel 6 (normally a blank on the dial) in two other New York hotels. A rival outfit, Teleguide, will start broadcasting via its own coaxial cable to some 12,000 rooms at a dozen Manhattan hostelries this week. Its basic one-hour program will include entertainment, shopping and sightseeing news-plus weather and transportation reports, rundowns on special events, gallery openings, and availability of tickets for Broadway shows and ball games...
Telemeter set up its own broadcasting station on Toronto's Bloor Street, installed color and video tape transmitting equipment able to serve 100,000 receivers, leased 100 miles of coaxial cable to carry the transmissions. Overall cost: $1,500,000. Unlike the Bartlesville system, which cost a flat $9.50 per month for two channels, the company charged an initial $5 for installing a three-channel Telemeter box that fits any receiver, does not affect other reception. Consumers pay only for what they watch, can store up to $2.50 in the Telemeter...
...anyone," says NBC Board Chairman Robert Sarnoff. But it seems plain that the special TV environment, with its relentless pressure for higher ratings and higher profits, was at least in part to blame. Newly aroused by the Washington hearings, critics of television began looking for other kinds of coaxial fraud...
...could do most to knit the Commonwealth together-was a proposal by Canada's Finance Minister Donald Fleming for a globe-girdling communication system linking virtually every Commonwealth land. Stretching from Britain across the Atlantic to Canada and on to New Zealand, Australia, India, Pakistan and Africa, the coaxial cable will join all nations by telephone for the first time. Cost: $246 million. Target date...
...insatiable appetite of Western Europeans for television has made one major contribution to a united Europe. Electronics, respecting no borders, has spawned a loose-knit TV network that links-through a system of coaxial cables and microwave relays-all the non-Communist countries of Europe except Spain, Portugal, Norway and Finland...