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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.
The United States Congress and the National Cable Television Association have recognized Walson as having invented cable television in the spring of 1948. [7] A CATV system was developed in the late 1940s by James F. Reynolds in his town of Maple Dale, Pennsylvania, which grew to include Sandy Lake, Stoneboro, Polk, Cochranton, and Meadville.
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.
Philo Taylor Farnsworth (August 19, 1906 – March 11, 1971) was an American inventor and television pioneer. [2] [3] He made the critical contributions to electronic television that made possible modern electronic video. [4]
A television set, also called a television receiver, television, TV set, TV, or telly, is a device that combines a tuner, display, and speakers for the purpose of viewing television. Introduced in the late 1920s in mechanical form, television sets became a popular consumer product after World War II in electronic form, using cathode ray tubes .
Gerry was born to a Jewish family [2] in Liberty, New York, [3] the son of immigrants from Russia. [1] His father was a frozen food distributor. [4] After high school, he joined the U.S. Marine Corps where he was placed in the electronics program [1] and afterward he studied television repair on the G.I. Bill.
Kahn was a visionary who had optimistically predicted in the 1960s that cable would provide 85 percent of all television reception by the end of the 1970s. [1] He was convicted in 1971 and federally imprisoned for 20 months for trying to bribe members of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania city council to award his company a local cable franchise. He ...
Schlafly with a model of the portable earth station he designed for the first satellite transmission of a cable television signal Schlafly using a teleprompter at Cable Hall of Fame induction. Hubert Joseph Schlafly Jr. (August 14, 1919 – April 20, 2011) was an American electrical engineer who co-invented the teleprompter.