The Rise of Cable Programming in the United States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rise of Cable Programming in the United States write by Megan Mullen. This book was released on 2009-06-23. The Rise of Cable Programming in the United States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Video Program Distribution and Cable Television
Video Program Distribution and Cable Television - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Video Program Distribution and Cable Television write by United States. National Telecommunications and Information Administration. This book was released on 1988. Video Program Distribution and Cable Television available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Cable television U.S.A.
Cable television U.S.A. - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cable television U.S.A. write by Martin H. Seiden. This book was released on 1972. Cable television U.S.A. available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Blue Skies
Blue Skies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blue Skies write by Patrick Parsons. This book was released on 2008-04-05. Blue Skies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Cable Television U.S.A.
Cable Television U.S.A. - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cable Television U.S.A. write by Martin H. Seiden. This book was released on 1972. Cable Television U.S.A. available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
