The wire service Teletype machine, so familiar a fixture in the newsroom, may soon invade the American home. Bulletins, weather reports, stock quotations, feature storiesall the 24-hours-a-day stream of news is being made available for community antenna television systems by Telemation, Inc., a small Salt Lake City electronics firm.
Copy will come in to Telemation's machine at the usual A.P. rate of 60 words per minute. It can also be rolled past the TV camera at a faster reading speed of 180 words per minute. With or without background music, the new news channel, its promoters contend, is ideally...
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