10 POLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SKIATRON»
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Mover and Shaker: Walter O'Malley, the Dodgers, and Baseball's ...
O'Malley also became enamored of a pay-television company called Skiatron, founded by Matty Fox, a whirlwind of a salesman from Racine, Wis- consin, who parlayed his skills into the ownership of the rko movie library and Skiatron.
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Calling the Game: Baseball Broadcasting from 1920 to the Present
Telemeter pulled out early in 1958 because it felt that Angelenos were not willing to embrace pay TV, and thus would be wasting money by developing the expensive networks. Skiatron soon asked the City of Los Angeles to withdraw its 1957 ...
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Home Team: The Turbulent History of the San Francisco Giants
Christopher spoke publicly about the importance of Skiatron's plan for the pay-per-view deal, saying it was crucial in landing the Giants.52 Back in New York, Stoneham, reluctant to reveal financial specifics publicly, was singing another tune, ...
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The Dodgers Move West - Strona 144
The attraction for O'Malley of the pay television system is obvious, but since both Skiatron and the Chavez Ravine contract faced uncertain electoral outcomes, each venture had to be handled with great care. An important distinction was that ...
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Hearings - Tom 6 - Strona 2659
It appears that Skiatron has but one issued patent on TV subscription service. Telemeter has 10 pending patent applications on its proposed system but holds no issued patents thereon. "(d) Skiatron states that it expects to make arrangements ...
United States. Congress. House,
1958
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Radar at Sea: The Royal Navy in World War 2 - Strona 172
The Navy in particular carried out extensive trials with the Skiatron and adopted it for general use as intercept plots. Many who had experience with it preferred the Skiatron, while others, and particularly those who had worked in RAF GCI ...
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Bottom of the Ninth: Branch Rickey, Casey Stengel, and the Daring ...
that the soon-to-be-transplanted Giants had already reached an agreement with Skiatron to carry their games exclusively for paying customers. Skiatron, he told the committee, had guaranteed “quite some more” income than the team was now ...
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Organized Professional Team Sports: Hearings Before the Antitrust ...
Very truly yours, SKIATRON TV, INC., By MATTHEw Fox, President. Mr. MALETz. I should like to ask you some questions in order that the committee may have information regarding developments in connection with the televising of baseball ...
United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary,
1957
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Amazin': The Miraculous History of New York's Most Beloved Baseball Team
At that time there was a guy named Marty Fox, who owned a cable TV company called Skiatron. Fox supposedly had the whole West Coast hooked up, or was going to get it hooked up, and O'Malley saw in his future not only the attendance in ...
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The Rise of Cable Programming in the United States: Revolution Or ...
STV was the heir (through a complicated series of stock transfers) to Skiatron Corporation's Subscriber-Vision, tested in the early 1950s.71 Skiatron had continued to promote an over-the-air system throughout the 1950s, but in 1963 it ...
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SKIATRON»
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The Dodgers on pay-TV-only is the culmination of Walter O'Malley's …
He and O'Malley hatched a plan in which Fox's company, called Skiatron, would put Dodgers games on pay TV at a cost of one dollar a game for viewers. «NBCSports.com, Mar 14»
Baseball ProGUESTus The Story Behind Baseball's Most Successful …
He even roped several players into investing in Skiatron, a proto-cable startup. Basically, subscribers would get a box that would function like a cross between a ... «Baseball Prospectus, Apr 13»
The Dodgers' Big TV-Revenue Bust Before Its Huge New TV …
By 1957, Skiatron claimed that it had the technology in place to televise Dodger and Giant games to the home-television sets of fee-paying customers. «The Atlantic, Jan 13»
Carl Machover, Computer Graphics Pioneer, Dies at 84
He then moved to Skiatron Electronics & Television Corporation where he helped form a subcontractor RMS Associates to build and market CRT character ... «PR Web, Mar 12»