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330 McCoy AND WARNER October
balanced telephone wires over distances from one or two miles. If studio-transmitter radio links are deemed desirable, their cost would be approximately $15,000 per installation. If coaxial cable or television wires are used, the telephone company will provide the service at regular* rates, and capital costs to the theater television system will be nominal.
3. Remote Pickups — The two remote pickup units contemplated for City A would cost approximately $50,000 per unit. This includes two portable camera units, audio equipment, a small truck, and the video-link equipment. The audio link is a telephone circuit. The video relay may be used over distances of from 10 to 15 miles, but only over line-of-sight in the high frequencies used. This equipment may be owned and operated, or may be leased from the telephone company, or, perhaps, from local television broadcast stations.
4. Intercity Relays — The one-way intercity relay circuit from City A to City B, contemplated in Fig. 1, is estimated to cost from $25,000 to $50,000. This figure includes both the transmitting and receiving units. As described above, the relay transmitter in City A and the relay receiver in City B would be connected with the central distributing point in each city by studio-transmitter links, costing approximately $15,000 each. However, given an appropriate location of the relay units, coaxial-cable connections might be provided by the telephone company.
On the above basis, a rough estimate of the capital investment required by the co-operative theater group in City A would total approximately $445,000, consisting of (1) multiple-addressee system and associated equipment including studio equipment, $275,000, (2) three studio-transmitter links, $45,000, (3) two remote pickup units, $100,000, and (4) 50 per cent of the cost of the intercity relay installation, $25,000.
The capital investment required in City B would be substantially less. The cost of the multiple-addressee system, eliminating $100,000 as the cost of items of studio equipment and studios that full-scale program production would require, would come to $175,000 or less. If an intermediate-film recording unit were not used in City B, this cost would be reduced by another $25,000. The studio-transmitter link and intercity relay receiver installations would add approximately $40,000. Thus, the total investment at City B would approximate from $190,000 to $215,000.