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Phonevision
Phonevision was a project by Zenith Radio Company to create the world's first pay television system. Phonevision concept The concept behind Phonevision involved making feature films available to home viewers at $1 per movie ( adjusted for inflation). wikipedia.org
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Phonevision
Phonevision (ˈfəʊnvɪʒən) [f. phone v. + vision n.] The proprietary name of a pay-as-you-view television system (see quot. 1951).1950 N.Y. Times 10 Feb. 42/3 The Zenith plan involves the use of so-called ‘phonevision’. By this method, special programs are televised in scrambled form so they cannot be... Oxford English Dictionary
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KVEA
Before signing on, it took an option on the Phonevision subscription television system developed by Zenith Electronics and licensed by Teco, gaining the The Phonevision agreement expired in 1970, and the FCC gave approval the next year for Kaiser to begin using studios at 5746 Sunset Boulevard—Metromedia wikipedia.org
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WPSG
Vue-Metrics specified the use of the Phonevision system by Zenith Electronics, while RBC intended to use equipment made by Blonder-Tongue. Instead of Phonevision, the subscription operation proposed for channel 57 would be a franchisee of ON TV, whose first service in Los Angeles had launched wikipedia.org
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phone
▪ I. phone, n.1 Phonetics. (fəʊn) [ad. Gr. ϕωνή voice.] 1. An elementary sound of spoken language; a simple vowel or consonant sound. Also = allophone. In quot. 1892 used for one of the sounds uttered by monkeys, supposed by the writer to express certain ideas (corresponding to words in human speech... Oxford English Dictionary
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Channel 1 (North American TV)
Reassigned post-war to Channel 2, it broadcast an early form of monochrome pay-TV in 1951 as K2XBS Phonevision and conducted early color television experiments wikipedia.org
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WUVN
A decade before the 1972 launch of pay cable network HBO, WHCT's programming was an experiment between RKO and Zenith, who provided the "Phonevision" descrambler wikipedia.org
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June 1962
RKO Phonevision, a pay TV service operated by Zenith Radio Company, began a pay-per-view service in Hartford, Connecticut, sending scrambled signals in On the first night, subscribers with Phonevision decoders (and one dollar) were able to watch the recent (1960) film Sunrise at Campobello with no commercial wikipedia.org
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Television encryption
Older television encryption systems Zenith Phonevision Zenith Electronics developed an encryption scheme for their Phonevision system of the 1950s and wikipedia.org
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RKO General
January 31, 1969, the station aired movies, sports events, concerts, and other live performances at night without commercial interruption through the Phonevision wikipedia.org
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Kaiser Broadcasting
Later renamed KBSC-TV, this station proved to a weak point in the chain after failing to attain a local Phonevision franchise and became uncompetitive wikipedia.org
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Ancillary market
Premium television The first premium rate television services were Phonevision, Telemeter, and SubscriberVision, among others. wikipedia.org
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Pay-per-view
United States The Zenith Phonevision system became the first home pay-per-view system to be tested in the United States. The field tests conducted for Phonevision lasted for 90 days and were tested in Chicago, Illinois. wikipedia.org
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KWHY-TV
Coast reached a deal to sell KWHY-TV to Zenith Electronics in 1971; channel 22 would have served as the Los Angeles-area outlet for its Phonevision pay wikipedia.org
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Home Box Office, Inc.
Attempts to launch pay television services had been done on an experimental basis in the United States dating to 1951 (among them, Phonevision in New York wikipedia.org
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