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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.
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.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Long-distance technologies invented during the 20th and 21st centuries generally use ... Cable TV: 12.1%: $18.02 billion ...
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 ...
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 is a timeline of cable television in the United Kingdom.. The first part of the timeline covers the development of cable across the country, including details of the cable-exclusive channels which launched in the 1990s as part of cable television's attempt to compete with BSkyB's satellite television.
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 ...
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 .