Business Wire is one of the life-bloods of computer industry publications like Computergram, enabling us to get important press releases quickly in electronic form, and the next step to applying new technology to news gatherers has been announced by Redgate Communications Inc, Vero Beach, Florida: Microbytes reports that Redgate has developed a closed circuit, all-digital television network that will enable hard-pressed journalists to assist at press conferences without leaving their desks computer companies will pay $25,000 for hour-long time slots on the new Industry News Network which will broadcast to the offices of more than 125 journalists, analysts, and industry consultants via a dedicated satellite system that will be free to the user; Redgate will install the 1.2 metre Very Small Aperture Terminal receiving dish, television, VCR, dedicated facsimile machine, and voice bridge at their offices; among the companies planning to use the service when it starts this summer are likely to be Digital Equipment Corp and Lotus Development Corp, the latter saying it will be much cheaper than setting up its own ad-hoc video conference.
