Word: viewers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BELIEVE THAT PAY-AS-YOU-SEE WILL BECOME A PART-TIME SERVICE ON ALL CHANNELS, WITH STANDARD TV STATIONS DEVOTING A PORTION OF THEIR BROADCAST TIME TO SUBSCRIPTION PROGRAMS FOR WHICH THE VIEWER WILL PAY A DIRECT FEE, AND THE REMAINDER OF THEIR BROADCAST SCHEDULE TO PROGRAMS SPONSORED BY ADVERTISERS. THIS TYPE OF OPERATION WOULD GIVE STATIONS A DUAL SOURCE OF INCOME ... IT WOULD ALSO PERMIT PROFITABLE OPERATION OF TV STATIONS IN MARKETS TOO SMALL FOR USE BY NATIONAL ADVERTISERS...
...Miami beach with the Atlantic rollers surging behind him, while his cast shivered in Manhattan. Using the split-screen technique, Godfrey chatted with each member of his team and listened approvingly while they told him how wonderful he was. Arthur operates on the disarming assumption that every viewer is at least as absorbed in Godfrey as he is, and he spends much of his 90-minute show in discussing such items as his own weight, what he ate for dinner, what he did before the broadcast, what he expects to do after...
Samuel Green is head of Wesleyan University's art department, considers himself an amateur. His thoughtful realism, at the opposite pole from Motherwell's work, creates an effect of mere niggling or near magic, depending on the viewer...
...reach with a wave of the hand, and cabinet doors pop open by light pressure on the front panel. A new appliance provides a choice of cold water, ice cubes or crushed ice. For easy reading, recipes are flashed onto a screen when they are placed in a photographic viewer. The sink provides water at any temperature from a single faucet. An electronic oven rises at the press of a button, bakes potatoes in five minutes or roasts a turkey in 45. Even the flour-sifter is motor-driven...
...experiment was the official inauguration of Telemeter, a coin-box subscription TV. system that is partly owned by Paramount. Like its rivals, Ski-atron and Phonevision (TIME. Jan. 8, 1951), Telemeter is designed to eliminate the commercial message from TV and to move the box office right into the viewer's living room. For a fee inserted into the Telemeter gadget attached to each TV set (Palm Springs Telemetered viewers paid $1.35 to see Forever Female; $1 to watch the telecast of the Notre Dame-U.S.C. football game), set owners can watch new movies, sports events and show...