The 'Atomic Bomb' of Broadcasting:Westinghouse's 'Stratovision'Experiment 1944-1949

摘要

"Stratovision" was a system developed by Westinghouse in the mid-1940s that provided television via airborne transmitters. The company claimed it could provide service to 78% of the U.S. population using the system. At the time, there was not yet a national distribution system for television. Using Federal Communications Commission documents and Westinghouse records, the article argues that Stratovision had real potential but was ultimately doomed because it did not fit within the existing network-local station broadcasting structure.