Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site decvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!goutal From: goutal@decvax.UUCP (Kenneth G. "Kenn" Goutal) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: Satellite News System - (nf) Message-ID: <103@decvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 27-May-83 15:01:44 EDT Article-I.D.: decvax.103 Posted: Fri May 27 15:01:44 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 28-May-83 15:04:02 EDT References: <2199@csu-cs.UUCP> Organization: Bell Labs, Columbus Lines: 12 My recollection is rather foggy now, but a couple of months ago I read an article somewhere that said that NPR (or was it PBS?) was going to be getting into the video text biz, by allocating some of their transponder(s?) to the activity and setting up a franchise arrangement whereby entrepreneurs could get the receiving and and fan it out from there. Perhaps whoever is masterminding this effort should hear the suggestion that initiated this particular discussion. Can anybody expand on or at least confirm what I read? -- Kenn (decvax!goutal)