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NEW YORK — The scramble for
expensive cable television rights
going on across the country has
obscured the fact that, for 10 years
now, a cheaper alternative has been
available.
It is the multipoint distribution
service (MPS), a super-high frequen
cy, line-of-sight, microwave signal
authorized by the Federal Com
munications Commission a decade
ago but little used up to now.
In its present application through
local systems set up in about 50
cities, it delivers various types of pay
TV programs over the air instead of
by cable. But it is different from con
ventional over-the-air pay TV, which
uses the broadcast band.
Equipment for MDS is made by
several companies, including Elec
tronics, Missiles & Communica
tions, Inc.(EMC), of White Haven,
Pa.
President Frank Misso of EMC
says MDS is a less expensive way of
transmitting pay TV programs than
cable.
The local distributor of pay TV
programs by MDS makes a one-time
investment of $500,000 to $1 million
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the users, collecting fees for the use
and fees for the programs.
The microwave programs are dis
tributed locally at the relatively
modest transmission cost of micro-
wave compared with $14,000 to
$25,000 a mile for cable TV transmis
sion. This can run to $20 million or
more in many communities.
So far, MDS has not resulted in
any significant new programming,
according to Don Franco, head of
Microband Corp. of America, New
York, which has built up a series of
franchised MDS systems in 50 cities.
Franco said these systems are
common carriers providing sup
plemental and alternative delivery of
programs from such established pay
TV program production and distri
bution firms as Home Box Office,
Showtime and others.
The system uses satellite ground
stations and other facilities to take
the programs from the conventional
distribution channels for local trans
mission on the super microwave
band.
Franco said most of the system’s
customers are homeowners in areas
where there is no cable TV or where
cable service is not well develi
The home owner pays an instal
fee of $100 and a monthly
$13.50 to $15 for service. The
ram packages are the same as
delivered on the more comprel
sive cable systems.
MDS and Microband have
to develop new uses for the sysl
In addition to picking up convenfej
al pay TV programs, the local Ml
studio can originate special pn
by means of tapes or films or
from an electronic data pn
terminal in the case of businessii]
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WASHINGTON — The National
Aeronautics and Space Administra
tion’s highest priority in 1981 is to
launch the space shuttle Columbia
on its first test flight, but it also has 15
unmanned satellite launchings on
the year’s schedule. All but two will
use expendable rockets that the
shuttle is designed to replace.
Eleven of the satellites will be
fired into eastward orbits from Ken
nedy Space Center, Cape Canaver
al, Fla., and four will go into north-
south orbit from California’s Van-
denberg Air Force Base.
Only two of the unmanned mis
sions are NASA scientific projects.
The other 13 satellites are owned by
other government agencies and com
mercial enterprises. NASA will be
paid for launch costs.
The shuttle is undergoing prepa
rations at Canaveral for launch
March 17 on the first of four test
orbital flights before the reusable
rocket plane will be declared fully
ready.
NASA plans to begin phasing out
its one-use-only rockets in 1983.
The first 1981 Canaveral launch,
Feb. 19, is a commercial COMSTAR
communications satellite owned by
the Comsat General Corp., on an
Atlas-Centaur rocket.
Two others are set in March. An
Intelsat 5 International Telecom
munications Satellite Corp. com
munications satellite will be laun
ched on an Atlas-Centaur and a gov
ernment weather satellite will go up
on a smaller Delta.
ment will be on an Atlas-Cenl
one, owned by the RCA Corp.
be on a Delta, and another Intel
will be on an Atlas-Centaur.
NASA’s first scientific satellite
the year is set in July on a Delta
an Explorer class spacecraft
signed to investigate the interac
between Earth’s magnetic field
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be orbited in April from Vandenberg
on a Scout and a Delta will orbit a
Satellite Business Systems com
munications satellite the same
month from Florida.
Another National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration weath
er satellite is to be orbited in May, by
an Atlas from California.
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tional satellite from California.
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satellites missions are scheduled.
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