CSL-TV was the callsign of a television station operated by the American Forces Network in the Lajes Field in the Azores . The station was the first regular television station under the aegis of the AFRTS, being founded in 1954. It last operated in 2011, by then acting as a relayer of AFN Prime Atlantic .
18-539: CSL as an abbreviation may stand for: Places [ edit ] Coordinated Science Laboratory , at the University of Illinois Liège Space Center (Centre spatial de Liège), at the University of Liege in Belgium Central Science Laboratory , a former UK DEFRA laboratory services agency Languages [ edit ] Croatian Sign Language ,
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54-650: A food additive used as an emulsifier Continuous spontaneous localization, a dynamical reduction theory in quantum mechanics Hartmann's solution , compound sodium lactate, used in intravenous transfusions Military [ edit ] Cooperative Security Location , a US military facility CSL, the designation code for Royal Australian Navy Wattle-class crane stores lighters Computing [ edit ] Citation Style Language , an open XML-based standard to format citations and bibliographies Current-steering logic, an alternative name for emitter-coupled logic in electronics Context-sensitive language ,
72-849: A furniture chain in the United Kingdom Cochin Shipyard Limited , a shipbuilding company in Kerala, India Sports [ edit ] CAL Spora Luxembourg , amateur athletics club in Luxembourg Canadian Soccer League , a soccer league in Canada since 2006 Canadian Soccer League (1987–1992) , a soccer league in Canada Chinese Super League , the premier league of association football in China Cosmopolitan Soccer League ,
90-434: A language generated from a context-sensitive grammar Companies [ edit ] CSL Group Ltd , a British machine to machine communications company CSL Mobile , subsidiary of Hong Kong Telecom CSL Limited , an Australian biotechnology company, formerly Commonwealth Serum Laboratories CSL Behring , a subsidiary company of CSL Limited Canada Steamship Lines , a Canadian shipping company CSL Sofas ,
108-580: A live evening newscast with pictures sourced from newspapers and magazines rather than film. At the time, it was one of the seven stations in the USAFE tri-continental network. Programming was received in tapes from the United States until the entrance of the station to the AFRTS SATNET system. The station had two newscasts, a half-hour bulletin at 6pm with news coming from the United States, as well as sports and
126-658: A local weather forecast; but news about the Azores and Portugal were few to none. One of the few cases where CSL-TV did cover a local event was during an earthquake that almost destroyed the island in 1980. CSL-TV joined the SATNET system in November 1983, enabling live coverage. The station used to have a tremendous influence on the local Portuguese population in Praia da Vitória , alongside other imported goods that were available there first before
144-413: A series of stations catering overseas bases. Lajes was selected as a "proving ground" for television broadcasts due to its relative isolation. The government dictated that television sets were limited to U.S. and Portuguese military personnel, as there was no Portuguese TV available locally in the area. Television receivers were heavily controlled and were registered like firearms. Equipment was provided by
162-612: A sign language for the deaf in Croatia Chinese Sign Language , a sign language for the deaf in China, Malaysia, and Taiwan Clay Sanskrit Library , a series of books in Sanskrit with English translations Context-sensitive language , a class of formal languages in computational linguistics Sciences [ edit ] Crosshole sonic logging , method for testing a constructed material Calcium stearoyl-2-lactylate ,
180-621: A soccer league in United States Politics [ edit ] Canadian Socialist League , a political party active from 1898 to 1904 Czechoslovak People's Party ( Československá strana lidová , ČSL), a political party Others [ edit ] CSL-TV , an American Forces Network television station in Lajes Field, Azores, Portugal Centers for Spiritual Living , a religious denomination Certain models of BMW car, designated BMW CSL Charter seat license, name used by
198-613: Is conducted by more than 100 faculty members spanning 11 departments in the university. The lab also employs more than 500 graduate and undergraduate students. CSL is funded by many federal, state and private programs. It receives the majority of its operating and research budget from DARPA , the National Science Foundation , NASA , and from private corporations. Corporate funders have included AT&T , Cisco , Hewlett-Packard , Intel , Lucent , Microsoft , NVIDIA , and Sun Microsystems . CSL-TV Up until 1954,
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#1732837810280216-469: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Coordinated Science Laboratory The Coordinated Science Laboratory ( CSL ) is a major scientific research laboratory at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign . With deep roots in information technology, CSL has invented and deployed many landmark innovations, such as the electric vacuum gyroscope,
234-510: The DAGE company on the cheap, which was inadequate for broadcasting. The station broadcast on VHF channel 8 using a low-power transmitter and an ERP of 30 watts (50 watts in some sources). Following the Limestone Air Base 20-watt experiment, it was determined that all AFRTS television stations would operate on low-powered transmitters. CSL's transmitter signal covered a radius of 3.5 miles from
252-603: The US Armed Forces exclusively provided radio broadcasts. Plans to introduce a television station were proposed to Gen. Curtis E. LeMay to boost morale for servicemen in US Air Force bases. To this end, AFRS was renamed AFRTS on April 21, 1954. CSL-TV became the first television station set up by them, and started broadcasting on October 17, 1954, after receiving a permit from the Portuguese Government. The station
270-577: The first computer-assisted instructional program and the plasma TV. Today, research thrusts include computer vision, economics and energy systems, information trust, neuroengineering, parallel computing , robotics and more. Established in 1951 as a classified defense laboratory, the Coordinated Science Laboratory (or CSL) was originally designed to be a center for research in remote sensing and space sciences , signal, image and speech processing and thin film electronics . Research at CSL
288-401: The rest of the country. Over-the-air broadcasts ended in 2011 due to its old age and inconvenient location; the building was torn down in November. 2015 was marked by the reduction of the contingent of American military staff working at the base. Currently the base is served by an internal closed-circuit cable system limited to personnel, carrying the eight AFN channels, a radio station and
306-507: The transmitter to the shore line. The station broadcast seven hours a day on average. CSL-TV moved to new facilities in mid-1958 on a hilltop overlooking the Atlantic Ocean and the base. The station also started using kinescopes while other stations in the AFRTS circuit were starting to air videotaped content. As of 1964, the station was operating daily from 6pm to midnight. It also produced
324-508: Was the first television station of any kind in Portugal (two and a half years before RTP started regular broadcasts) and the Azores (nearly 21 years before the start of RTP Açores ). Until its launch, Portuguese people had never seen television before. In theory, it was the second AFN station overall (after the first experiment at Loring Air Base in December 1953), in practice, it was the first in
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