The Jewish Telegraphic Agency opened today its first directly operated radioprinter circuits from London to its headquarters in New York and to its affiliated Israeli News Agency in Tel Aviv.
The new system permits instantaneous office-to-office communication at the rate of 66 words per minute. It parallels the communications system established by JTA in New York for delivery of the JTA news service to distribution centers in London, Tel Aviv, Johannesburg, Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo and Lima, Peru. Operators based in the JTA headquarters in New York directly key the signal over landlines to powerful transmitters at Centereach, Long Island, leased from Press Wireless, Inc.
In London, operators working in the JTA’s Fleet Street office, similarly feed the signal over landlines to the transmitters some 50 miles from London, which JTA has leased from the British Post Office. The London signal to New York is intercepted by automated, pre-tuned Press Wireless receivers at Northville, Long Island, and automatically relayed over leased landlines to the JTA office. The London signal to Tel Aviv is received by an automated, pre-tuned receiving station maintained in Tel Aviv by JTA and INA.
The new transmission system in London replaces one employed for several years in which the British Post Office performed the actual operation for JTA. The new system will speed the delivery of news copy and will effect substantial savings in costs.
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