SLOT-MACHINE TELEVISION SERVICE.—Pay-TV, Ltd., which Is to launch Britain’s first 2s-in-the-slot television service, believes that each feature film shown will cost the viewer 6s. British Relay's London control centre for Pay-TV is shown in this photograph. The fourth monitor screen from the left is the one used for pay-television transmissions. In the middle are calculating machines which record the revenue from subscribers’ meters during the programme. On the right is equipment which sets and transmits the programme price pulses which operate subscribers’ meters and measures the number of viewers.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30936, 17 December 1965, Page 14
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89SLOT-MACHINE TELEVISION SERVICE.—Pay-TV, Ltd., which Is to launch Britain’s first 2s-in-the-slot television service, believes that each feature film shown will cost the viewer 6s. British Relay's London control centre for Pay-TV is shown in this photograph. The fourth monitor screen from the left is the one used for pay-television transmissions. In the middle are calculating machines which record the revenue from subscribers’ meters during the programme. On the right is equipment which sets and transmits the programme price pulses which operate subscribers’ meters and measures the number of viewers. Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30936, 17 December 1965, Page 14
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