Technology Broadcast and Computer-based
Instruction television fixed service (ITFS)
ITFS is a low-cost narrowcasting system used by many U.S. college and school systems for teleteaching over small areas (covering a radius of about 25 miles from a microwave transmitter). ITFS studios are relatively small and simple to use compared with professional TV broadcasting studios. So it is fairly easy for a teacher or instructor to put together TV lessons using some live material and some prerecorded material and even to have a telephone feedback link allowing students in the remote classroom viewing centers to ask questions. Some ITFS systems feed into cable networks so that lessons can be redistributed to home-based viewers.
 

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