Rival methods to compete
Experts see TV struggle
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1940s between radio and infant
television.
TV won that battle.
The coming struggle will be
among the existing television
networks, the cable television
systems in which billions are
being invested and the K-band
direct transmission of programs
into homes via space satellite.
The K-band has been used
only experimentally in Canada
and Japan up to now. But in the
last few months several large
American firms have formed
new corporations to exploit the
K-band by leasing transponder
channels on Canada’s Anik-C
satellite, which is to be launched
later this year.
The latest company to do so is
Oak Industries Inc., of San
Diego, which is leasing four
channels and says it will offer the
same programs directly that it
now is delivering to 600,000
cable subscribers.
The programs will be deli
vered in scrambled form to keep
non-subscribers from tapping
them via small, portable dish-
shaped antennas mounted on
rooftops. The home viewer will
have an unscrambling device.
Estimates of the cost of this
equipment range from $300 to
$700.
The great advantage of the
K-band, thus, is that programs
can be delivered without expen
sive earth stations from which
they must be rebroadcast or deli
vered to homes by cable. The
K-band operates on a much
higher frequency than the C-
band used in conventional satel
lite communications.
Bob Klein of Los Angeles, a
widely known on-air promotion
expert, said he believes dish
antennas for K-band reception
soon will be sprouting on roof
tops all over America.
“We have
past decade
assumed for the
that the United
States will become a nation total
ly wired for cable TV,” he said.
“Now, suddenly, stringing wires
begins to look old-fashioned, an
unnecessary expenditure of bil
lions of dollars.”
Klein did say cable still has
one big advantage: two-way in
teraction.
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CORPUS CHRIS I I — The
dispute over the Falkland Is
lands could result in Argentina
— one of the world leaders in
grain sorghum exports — losing
some of the market and a larger
share going to Texas and other
U.S. farmers, agricultural ex-
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land and Argentina uasiodr led seven pr
out for some time, othercoi Wednesday, autl
tries might not want theirsli) I A police depa
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said. hour.
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all the countries that might ately released,
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in Corpus Christi, said the wTf The blaze was
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of New York said the Argentitfl jT el S^ lt floors at
grain sorghum harvest Ijejiff maze, Rakowski;
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