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 ====== MSI Television ======
-MSI Television was founded in 1971 and created character generators well used within the cable tv, airport, and hotel industries.
+Marketing Services, Inc., operating as MSI Television, was founded in early 1971 and created character generators well used within the cable TV, airport, and hotel industries.
-They were purchased by Texscan Corp. in 1980 to form [[texscan_msi:start|]]
+In July 1971, MSI Television acquired the Video Message Programmer product line from Newell Industries, Inc. The Video Message Programmer system was an automatic announcement and messaging system that consisted of cards which were sequentially flipped in front of a camera to display the desired messages. It was sold alongside MSI Television's Data Weather line of character generators as an accessory.[(https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1971/1971-07-05-BC.pdf#page=59)]
+On May 1, 1972, Com Tel, Inc. announced their acquisition of MSI Television.[(https://www.newspapers.com/article/deseret-news-possible-msi-tv-purchase/164739174/)] MSI Television was purchased by Texscan Corp. from Com Tel, Inc. in 1980 to form [[texscan_msi:start|]].[(https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-indianapolis-news-texscan-buys-msi-t/164739364/)]
 ===== Models =====