<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:tahoma,new york,times,serif;font-size:14pt">Hi Ed,<br><br>Has the history of Telemation been discussed in this area, prior to 1971? <br><br>That product wheel was moderately successful in the early days of "local origination" for early cable systems in the late 60's.<br><br>Does anyone remember Lyle Keyes and Robert Bacon?<br><br>Has the name Chuck Pieffer been brought up by anyone?<br><br>I think I know who did the original design of this facility.<br><br>I believe I wrote part of the spec's for the start of this place in a bar one in night in the Chicago Area. <br><br>Bye for now, Bill Carpenter<br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> "COURYHOUSE@aol.com" <COURYHOUSE@aol.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wed, December 8, 2010 9:48:10 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [QuadList] can anyone add info on telemation productions<br></font><br> <font id="role_document" color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2"> <div>Phoenix office..... any more info folks? who did they buy?</div> <div> </div> <div> <p><font xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Telemation</font> Productions was started as a marketing tool by <font xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Telemation</font> Inc. in the early 1970s. It started as a single office located in <font xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Glenview</font> Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. In 1978 a second office was opened in Denver
Colorado. Also in 1978, the television equipment manufacturing operation was sold to Bell & Howell. At that time, <font xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Telemation</font> Inc. owned only the two production facilities and the manufacturing building in Salt Lake City which was leased to Bell & Howell. In 1979 <font xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Telemation</font> acquired a production facility in Seattle and re-named it <font xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Telemation</font> Productions. In the early 1980s <font xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">telemation</font> acquired a facility in Phoenix, AZ also re-naming it <font xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Telemation</font> Productions. Also in the early 1980s <font xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Telemation</font> Productions added a Distribution Division located in Chicago which provided duplication and shipping services to advertising agencies and a mobile
division equipped with a television remote truck. <font xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Telemation</font> Productions ownership changed in 1987 and again in 1990 with the Home Shopping Network buying the company. The Phoenix office and distribution division were sold in 1989 prior to the <font xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">acquision</font> by the Home Shopping Network. The remote truck was sold in 1990. The Seattle office was closed in 1991, the Chicago office was closed in 1993, and the Denver office the following year.</p></div> <div><font size="2">Thanks,<br><br>Ed Sharpe, Archivist for SMECC <br><br>See the Museum's Web Site at <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.smecc.org/">www.smecc.org</a> </font></div></font></div></div> </div><br>
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