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Blue skies : a history of cable television
- Title
- Blue skies : a history of cable television / Patrick R. Parsons.
- Author
- Parsons, Patrick R., 1952-
- Publication
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, c2008.
- Supplementary Content
- Contributor biographical information
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- Description
- ix, 804 p. : ill.; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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 1930s to the first community antenna systems in the 1950s, 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."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [705]-766) and index.
- Contents
- 1. The evolution of a revolution (origins-1930s) -- 2. Pioneering efforts (1930s-1952) -- 3. Mom 'n' pop business (1951-1958) -- 4. Abel cable goes to Washington (1950-1960) -- 5. Cable's new frontier (1960-1966) -- 6. The wired nation (1966-1972) -- 7. The cable fable (1972-1975) -- 8. The Phoenix (1975-1980) -- 9. Cablemania (1980-1984) -- 10. The cable boom (1985-1992) -- 11. The cable Cosa Nostra (1986-1992) -- 12. 500 channels (1992-1996) -- 13. "What's gonna be next?" (1997-2005).
- Call Number
- JBE 14-710
- ISBN
- 9781592132874
- 1592132871 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007021328
- OCLC
- 133465609
- Author
- Parsons, Patrick R., 1952-
- Title
- Blue skies : a history of cable television / Patrick R. Parsons.
- Imprint
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, c2008.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [705]-766) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JBE 14-710