Accession Number:
AD0650390
Title:
THE IMPACT OF COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITES ON THE TELEVISION INDUSTRY,
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Corporate Author:
RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CALIF
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Report Date:
1967-04-01
Pagination or Media Count:
19.0
Abstract:
The paper considers separately three classes of technology and their implications for the television industry First, a distribution satellite which could be available by 1970 to distribute television programming to relatively large ground receiving stations tied into existing local broadcasting and community cable systems. Second, a more advanced technology involving quasi-broadcast satellites that could transmit many channels directly to homes -- but at a cost that would make this attractive only in non-urban areas. Third, a yet more advanced technology involving full-broadcast satellites that at very low cost could transmit directly to homes throughout the United States. Author
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Subject Categories:
- Economics and Cost Analysis
- Unmanned Spacecraft
- Non-Radio Communications