This article is about the pay television experiments. For the photograph record video recording experiments, see Phonovision.
Television channel
Phonevision
Country
United States
Broadcast area
Chicago, New York City and Hartford, Connecticut
Headquarters
Chicago, Illinois
Programming
Language(s)
English
Ownership
Owner
Zenith Radio Company
History
Launched
1951 (1951)
Closed
1969 (1969)
Phonevision was a project by Zenith Radio Company to create the world's first pay television system.[1] It was developed and first launched in Chicago, followed by further trials in New York City and Hartford, Connecticut.
Phonevision was a project by Zenith Radio Company to create the world's first pay television system. It was developed and first launched in Chicago, followed...
two years old, about 18 percent of Phonevision viewers had seen them at the movies, and 92 percent of Phonevision households reported that they would...
Instruments/Motorola. Zenith Electronics developed an encryption scheme for their Phonevision system of the 1950s and 1960s. Oak Orion was originally used for analog...
was the first TV station in the United States to be licensed to use Phonevision, a system developed by Zenith that scrambled the station's picture and...
Balaban & Katz 1944–2009, NTSC-M, now ATSC digital W9XZV Later KS2XBS (Phonevision experimental on Channel 2) VHF Channel 1 Chicago, Illinois, United States...
early as the 1969 grant, when Viking held the local franchise to use the Phonevision system. However, a new generation of STV interests emerged in the mid-1970s...
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