Television has proven to be one of the most powerful media of all time. Newspapers, magazines, radio, and the Internet have made substantial contributions to the sharing of ideas and providing entertainment, but none was so immediately pervasive and...

Considering the fact that in the late 1990s many experts view existing television cables as the technological groundwork for what may be the most important and far reaching media innovations since the printing press, the origins of cable television are...

One of the more challenging tasks faced by cable operators is selecting programming services that meet the particular needs of their cable systems. It is an ongoing concern, one that affects nearly every aspect of a cable system's business...

In its concept, the technology of cable television is relatively simple. It is a system of wires and amplifiers used to gather television and radio signals from a variety of sources and deliver them to the homes in a given geographic area. It is...

Cable television has its roots in community antenna television (CATV), which was developed to bring television to communities that did not have their own channels in the early days of television broadcasting. Just as television was starting to grow in...

The cable television industry provides multichannel video services to approximately two-thirds of all television households in the United States. In addition to offering different tiers of programming, many cable systems offer ancillary services, such...

The National Cable Television Association reported in 1999 that there was a 500 percent increase in the cable industry workforce between 1975 and 1998—from 25,000 full-time employees to more than 125,000 (Lacey et al., 1999). This major trade...

Unlike broadcast television, cable television's origins were unportentous: known as CATV (Community Antenna Television), cable was first used to deliver a clear signal to rural communities. At the time, a CATV system generally consisted of a single...

Since the early 1990s, when cable television networks were first introduced to China, they have become one of the principle modes of television reception in China’s major cities. The significance of cable television is enhanced by the fact that...

System that distributes television signals by means of coaxial or fibre-optic cables. Cable television systems originated in the U.S. in the late 1940s to improve reception in remote and hilly areas, where broadcast signals were weak. In the 1960s they...

Local television system delivered by cable, ie narrow casting, rather than...

Cable television is a system of providing television to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through fixed optical fibers or coaxial cables as opposed to the over-the-air method used in traditional television broadcasting...