Cable Television Industry
Title | Cable Television Industry PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on SBA and SBIC Authority, Minority Enterprise, and General Small Business Problems |
Publisher | |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Cable television |
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Oversight of Cable TV
Title | Oversight of Cable TV PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Communications |
Publisher | |
Pages | 572 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Cable television |
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Cable Television
Title | Cable Television PDF eBook |
Author | Walter S. Baer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Cable television |
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Cable Television Regulation
Title | Cable Television Regulation PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation |
Publisher | |
Pages | 698 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Cable television |
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Social Services and Cable TV
Title | Social Services and Cable TV PDF eBook |
Author | Cable Television Information Center (Urban Institute) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Cable television |
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Blue Skies
Title | Blue Skies PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Parsons |
Publisher | Temple University Press |
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.
Cable Television Regulation Oversight
Title | Cable Television Regulation Oversight PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Communications |
Publisher | |
Pages | 648 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Cable television |
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