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Author : Patrick Parsons
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1592137067
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blue Skies written by Patrick Parsons and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-05 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Martin H. Seiden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cable television U.S.A. written by Martin H. Seiden and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. National Telecommunications and Information Administration
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Video Program Distribution and Cable Television written by United States. National Telecommunications and Information Administration and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Communications
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Commercial Time on Children's Cable TV written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Communications and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Martin H. Seiden
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cable Television U.S.A. written by Martin H. Seiden and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1972 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309174147
Total Pages : 631 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unpredictable Certainty written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1998-02-05 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a key component of the NII 2000 project of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, a set of white papers that contributed to and complements the project's final report, The Unpredictable Certainty: Information Infrastructure Through 2000, which was published in the spring of 1996. That report was disseminated widely and was well received by its sponsors and a variety of audiences in government, industry, and academia. Constraints on staff time and availability delayed the publication of these white papers, which offer details on a number of issues and positions relating to the deployment of information infrastructure.

Author : Lawrence Harte
Publisher : Discovernet
ISBN 13 : 9781932813180
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Cable TV (CATV) written by Lawrence Harte and published by Discovernet. This book was released on 2017-03-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains the functions and operation of cable television (CATV) systems, TV technologies including MPEG, DOCSIS cable modems, and distribution systems. It covers CATV services including advertising, tCommerce, home networking with DLNA, and how it is combining with Internet TV using HbbTV.

Author : Megan Mullen
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292778694
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Cable Programming in the United States written by Megan Mullen and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-06-23 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, McGannon Communications Research Award, 2004 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 : Amanda D. Lotz
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262345552
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We Now Disrupt This Broadcast written by Amanda D. Lotz and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-04-13 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collision of new technologies, changing business strategies, and innovative storytelling that produced a new golden age of TV. Cable television channels were once the backwater of American television, programming recent and not-so-recent movies and reruns of network shows. Then came La Femme Nikita, OZ, The Sopranos, Mad Men, Game of Thrones, and The Walking Dead. And then, just as “prestige cable” became a category, came House of Cards and Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Video, and other Internet distributors of television content. What happened? In We Now Disrupt This Broadcast, Amanda Lotz chronicles the collision of new technologies, changing business strategies, and innovative storytelling that produced an era termed “peak TV.” Lotz explains that changes in the business of television expanded the creative possibilities of television. She describes the costly infrastructure rebuilding undertaken by cable service providers in the late 1990s and the struggles of cable channels to produce (and pay for) original, scripted programming in order to stand out from the competition. These new programs defied television conventions and made viewers adjust their expectations of what television could be. Le Femme Nikita offered cable's first antihero, Mad Men cost more than advertisers paid, The Walking Dead became the first mass cable hit, and Game of Thrones was the first global television blockbuster. Internet streaming didn't kill cable, Lotz tells us. Rather, it revolutionized how we watch television. Cable and network television quickly established their own streaming portals. Meanwhile, cable service providers had quietly transformed themselves into Internet providers, able to profit from both prestige cable and streaming services. Far from being dead, television continues to transform.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cable Television Industry written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: