Manuscripts

Videotex

Description: Approx. 30 items: memos, letters, reports clippings and booklets related to LAT Videotex operations. Major items: brown folder, "Experiments in Mass Electronic Publishing--an update" ; multi-page information packet in white folder, labeled "Times Mirror Videotex Services."
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1980 - 1983
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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Videotex

Manuscripts

Approx. 30 items: memos, letters, reports related to LAT Videotex operations. Major items: memo/report headed "Videotex Support" (1/20/1984) from Don Wright to Tom Johnson ; white folder titled simply "Times Mirror Videotex Services" ; 109-pp. spiral-bound booklet, "Newspapers and Videotex - Times Mirror Videotex Services" ; etc.

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San Diego Edition - Financial materials

Manuscripts

30+ items: financial reports, ad rates, revenue reports and other material related to operation of the San Diego Edition of LAT. Notable items: multi-part packet, cover dated 7/30/1982, "San Diego linage & revenue forecast..." ; multi-part packet, cover date 6/5/1985, "San Diego plans" ; approx. 15-pp. packet, "(LAT) San Diego Edition [weekly] operating statement" ; various other financial projections.

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Times Mirror Company media reports

Manuscripts

2 folders: "Times Mirror Cable Television" folder containing facts and figures sheets, "Dimension" Cable Services Guide March 1983, and Times Mirror Cable Television glossy ad booklet; "Times Mirror Videotex Services" folder containing news releases (including three 8 x 10" black and white photographs), glossy Gateway ad booklet, system configuration sheet, and "Gallery" quarterly update booklet.

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Promotion/Public Relations

Manuscripts

Approx. 20 items: memos, notes and reports related to LAT promotion and public relations. Items: 13-pp. booklet, "Los Angeles Times in Education [1987] ; material on the 1986 Times Mirror Annual Report ; multi-page packet on "Public Relations Information Desk" ; etc.

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Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Among Ourselves

Manuscripts

3 items: multi-page packet, "Summary of [answers to] questions on Among Ourselves." which analyses responses to an employee questionnaire (150 participants) on in-house newsletter, ca. 1929; article copy, Among Ourselves, 7/1940, "Picnic voted best ever -- [LAT] barbecue attendance, fun, food stupendous"; LAT article copy, 4/26/1950, "Prize awarded Times-Mirror employee paper."

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Cable television

Manuscripts

Approx. 25 items: memos, letters and reports related to investigations into cable television, videotext and other telecommunications innovations of the early 1980s. Notable items: approx. 25-pp. packet, "Home systems," 2/1981 ; approx. 20-pp. packet, "Experiments in mass electronic publishing--an update," 5/1981 ; 13-pp. packet, "1983 Survey of newspaper involvement in new telecommunications," 1983? ; 14-pp. packet, "CABLE TV SYSTEMS/PROGRAM GUIDES," 1/28/1985.

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