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TeleMation Inc was a company specializing in products for the television industry, post production and film industry, located in Salt Lake City, Utah. TeleMation started with a line of Black-and-white video equipment and later manufactured Color Video Products. Lyle Keys was the founder and President of TeleMation, Inc started in the late 1960s. Early equipment was for the B&W broadcast, cable television, and CCTV market. ==History== In 1954, Lyle Oscar Keys was an itinerant equipment salesman from Wibaux, Montana. Shortly after Keys was married, John F. Fitzpatrick was president of ''The Salt Lake Tribune'' at the time. Fitzpatrick's assistant John W. Gallivan hired Keys as an engineer for KUTV Channel 2 which the ''Tribune'' was part owner. In a time when the electronics industry was burgeoning, Keys knew how to get much needed essential parts fast in a time when these parts were unavailable or slow to get. By 1962, the ''Tribune's'' owner, Kearns-Tribune Corporation and their partners in KUTV organized Electronic Sales Corporation (ELCO)to help meet these needs. Keys was installed as president with an office in the Kearns Building in Salt Lake City. Within eight years the company, which had been incorporated as Telemation, had 420 employees, producing and marketing 156 products for the television industry with annual sales of $10 million. It became the nation's largest supplier of closed circuit TV systems and developed scores of proprietary items for cable television, industrial, educational and commercial TV. Keys personally "dreamed up" many of the firm's products, helped engineer them, produced million's of dollars in sales and even wrote Telemation's news releases and advertising copy. Keys also laid out the blueprint for the company's development of of space in southwest Salt Lake County's technological park. The Kearns-Tribune Corporation interest in this publicly owned enterprise as of early 1971 was twenty-four and one-half percent.〔O. N. Malmquist, The First 100 Years: A History of the Salt Lake Tribune, Utah State Historical Society, 1971, pp 393-394〕 *In 1977 TeleMation inc. became a Division of Bell and Howell. *In October 1979 Bell and Howell entered a joint venture with Robert Bosch GmbH, Bosch’s Fernseh Division. The new joint venture was call Fernseh Inc., Bosch Fernseh Division was located in Darmstadt, Germany and for many years manufactured a full line of Video and Film equipment, professional video camera, VTR and Telecine, under Robert Bosch Fernsehanlagen GmbH. *In April 1982 Bosch fully acquired Fernseh Inc. renaming the company "Robert Bosch Corporation, Fernseh Division". *In 1986 Bosch enter into a new joint venture with Philips Broadcast in Breda, Netherlands. This new Company was called Broadcast Television Systems Inc. or BTS inc. Philips had been in the Broadcast market of many years with a line of Norelco professional video cameras and other products. *In 1995 Philips Electronics North America Corp. fully acquired BTS Inc., renaming it Philips Broadcast - Philips Digital Video Systems. *In March 2001 this division was sold to Thomson SA, the current owner; the Division was called Thomson Multimedia. *In 2002, the French electronics giant Thomson SA also acquired the Grass Valley Group from Tektronix in Beaverton, Oregon, USA. Grass Valley. *Grass Valley was sold to Belden on February 6, 2014, Belden also owns Miranda. 〔(grassvalley.com belden )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「TeleMation Inc.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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