Milestones in Cable Television USA
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Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1990 |
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Author | : Priscilla Walker |
Publisher | : National Cable Television Center & |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : Cable television |
ISBN | : 9781891821004 |
Author | : Roy Eric Xavier |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Cable television |
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Author | : National Cable Television Association |
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Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Cable television |
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Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Cable television |
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Author | : Patrick Parsons |
Publisher | : Temple University Press |
Total Pages | : 816 |
Release | : 2008-04-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1592137067 |
Cable television is arguably the dominant mass media technology in the U.S. today. Blue Skies traces its history in detail, depicting the important events and people that shaped its development, from the precursors of cable TV in the 1920s and '30s to the first community antenna systems in the 1950s, and from the creation of the national satellite-distributed cable networks in the 1970s to the current incarnation of "info-structure" that dominates our lives. Author Patrick Parsons also considers the ways that economics, public perception, public policy, entrepreneurial personalities, the social construction of the possibilities of cable, and simple chance all influenced the development of cable TV. Since the 1960s, one of the pervasive visions of "cable" has been of a ubiquitous, flexible, interactive communications system capable of providing news, information, entertainment, diverse local programming, and even social services. That set of utopian hopes became known as the "Blue Sky" vision of cable television, from which the book takes its title. Thoroughly documented and carefully researched, yet lively, occasionally humorous, and consistently insightful, Blue Skies is the genealogy of our media society.
Author | : Ralph Negrine |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 2013-06-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1135038821 |
Originally published in 1985, this book surveys developments in cable television in the major industrialised countries with chapters specifically authored on each area. It looks at the technology, its potential, and how far it had been implemented, considering the reaction of governments, existing broadcasting corporations and licensing authorities. Going on to assess future trends, a discussion of the likely effects of cable on communications, society and economy is an enlightening read now.
Author | : Martin H. Seiden |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
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Author | : Megan Mullen |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2003-06-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0292752733 |
In 1971, the Sloan Commission on Cable Communications likened the ongoing developments in cable television to the first uses of movable type and the invention of the telephone. Cable’s proponents in the late 1960s and early 1970s hoped it would eventually remedy all the perceived ills of broadcast television, including lowest-common-denominator programming, inability to serve the needs of local audiences, and failure to recognize the needs of cultural minorities. Yet a quarter century after the "blue sky" era, cable television programming closely resembled, and indeed depended upon, broadcast television programming. Whatever happened to the Sloan Commission’s "revolution now in sight"? In this book, Megan Mullen examines the first half-century of cable television to understand why cable never achieved its promise as a radically different means of communication. Using textual analysis and oral, archival, and regulatory history, she chronicles and analyzes cable programming developments in the United States during three critical stages of the medium’s history: the early community antenna (CATV) years (1948–1967), the optimistic "blue sky" years (1968–1975), and the early satellite years (1976–1995). This history clearly reveals how cable’s roots as a retransmitter of broadcast signals, the regulatory constraints that stymied innovation, and the economic success of cable as an outlet for broadcast or broadcast-type programs all combined to defeat most utopian visions for cable programming.
Author | : Walter S. Ciciora |
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Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Cable television |
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