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HBO was the first true premium cable (or "pay-cable") network as well as the first television network intended for cable distribution on a regional or national basis; however, there were notable precursors to premium cable in the pay-television industry that operated during the 1950s and 1960s (with a few systems lingering until 1980), as well ...
He founded Service Electric in 1948; the family-owned cable television provider services Pennsylvania and northwestern New Jersey. Walson is widely considered to have invented cable television in 1948. The popular account involves him solving problems receiving radio signals from Philadelphia television stations, which were blocked by mountaintops.
A cable channel (sometimes known as a cable network) is a television network available via cable television. Many of the same channels are distributed through satellite television . Alternative terms include non-broadcast channel or programming service , the latter being mainly used in legal contexts.
This list should not be interpreted to mean the whole of a country had television service by the specified date. For example, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and the former Soviet Union all had operational television stations and a limited number of viewers by 1939. Very few cities in each country had television service.
NCTA (National Cable & Telecommunications Association) History of Cable Television. Washington, DC 2001 Brief narrative history; Archived 2012-01-19 at the Wayback Machine United States: Cable Television The Museum of Broadcast Communications 2001 Extensive, well documented; Young, C. RFMD. CATV Hybrid Amplifier Modules: Past, Present, Future ...
January 22, 1848 map in New York Herald showing extent of existing and planned North American telegraph lines. At this time, the service area for the United States reached Petersburg, Virginia in the south, Portland, Maine in the northeast, Cleveland, Ohio in the northwest, and as far west as East St. Louis, Illinois.
United Cable of Denver purchases Croydon Cable and subsequently merges with United Artists Cable International. Swindon cable's TV channel is relaunched as Swindon's Local Channel. This sees the return to the service of local news, sport and one-off documentaries. 1989. 5 February – Satellite television service Sky Television launches.
Cablevision Systems Corporation was an American cable television company with systems serving areas surrounding New York City.It was the fifth-largest cable provider [2] and ninth-largest television provider in the United States. [3]