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- <text id=90TT3387>
- <title>
- Dec. 17, 1990: Business Notes:Satellites
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Dec. 17, 1990 The Sleep Gap
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 71
- Business Notes
- SATELLITES
- Let a Dish Be Your Umbrella
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> TV viewers in Palm Springs, Calif., had a little problem.
- Though satellite dishes were the best way to bring in
- additional channels, several homeowner associations banned the
- contraptions on the grounds that they are ugly. To the rescue
- came Under Cover Satellite Systems. The Indio, Calif., firm
- created dishes in disguise: satellite antennas that resemble
- patio umbrellas. For $3,000 to $5,000--about the price of an
- ordinary dish--the company will have a dealer install one in
- any of six colors, complete with table and four matching chairs.
- The umbrella covers are made of a specially woven acrylic
- fabric that allows signals to pass through without
- interference; wires are concealed in the post. Under Cover is
- capitalizing on the expanding dish market (U.S. sales: 30,000
- a month). In its first six months the firm has sold about 500
- dishes.
- </p>
- </body>
- </article>
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