SMPTE Journal ( Volume: 87, Issue: 12, December 1978)
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The Planning and Implementation of the Public Television Satellite Interconnection System
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- Publisher
- SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
- Doc Type
- Journal Article
- Content Type
- Original Research
- Abbreviated Title
- J SMPTE
- Volume
- 87, No. 12, pp. 825–831
- Abstract
- The Public Television Satellite Interconnection System will be fully operational by late 1978. The system has taken five years to plan and implement. Channels leased on the Western Union Westar satellite system provide a nationwide TV program distribution service to 165 public television stations located on the mainland, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. Public broadcasting owns, operates, and maintains the ground segment of the system, which consists of 145 receive-only earth terminals, five regional receive-transmit earth terminals, a main origination terminal, and approximately 80 microwave and cable links. The total cost for planning and implementing the system was $40 million.
- Publication Date
- 1978-12-01
- DOI
10.5594/J10464- ISSN
- Print:
0036-1682 - Link
- https://doi.org/10.5594/J10464
- Author(s)
- John E. D. BallPublic Broadcasting Service, 475 L'Enfant Plaza, S.W., Washington, DiC 20024
- Copyright
- © 1978 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.
Bibliographic Reference(s)
- Television Distribution by the Canadian Domestic Satellite System [Active]
- Date: A Digital Audio System for Television [Active]
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- 3. Sanderson C. C. Elbert B. R. , “Communication System Design of the Indonesian Domestic Satellite System,” 1976 WESCON Professional Program, Los Angeles, Sept. 14–17, 1976 . EXTERNAL
- 4. Wells D. R. , “A Combined Educational and Television Network Satellite Distribution System,” SMPTE 10th Technical Conference, Montreal, Canada, Oct. 6, 1971 . EXTERNAL
- 5. Schlafly H. J. , “Final Report to FCC — Domestic Satellite Receive-Only Earth Station,” May 15, 1974 . EXTERNAL
- 6. Schmitt C. H. , “Report of Receive-Only Earth Stations Comparing Interference Predictions and Measurements,” Systems Studies Division, Communications Satellite Corporation , Apr. 1975 . EXTERNAL
- 7. Lee D. J. , “System Performance of America's First Domestic Communications Satellite—WESTAR,” 1974 IEEE Eascon Conference, Washington, D.C. EXTERNAL
- 9. Williams E. A. Marr G. P. Schmitt C. H. , “Earth Terminal Siting Considerations for the Public Broadcasting Satellite Interconnection System,” International Conference on Communications, Chicago. June 12–15, 1977 . EXTERNAL
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