Blue skies : a history of cable television / Patrick R. Parsons.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parsons, Patrick R., 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cable television--United States--History.

Cable television.

History.

United States.

Physical Description:

ix, 804 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2008.

Summary:

Blue Skies is the first complete history of cable television, the most influential technology affecting the lives of almost every American.& Author Patrick Parsons writes about the early days of cable -- they go back farther than most people know -- and the pioneers in the last half of the twentieth century whose business skills, entrepreneurial instinct, and luck all played out to give rise to the most ubiquitous technology in the country-- still outpacing computers and the internet -- cable TV.

Contents:

1 The Evolution of a Revolution (Origins-1930s) 1

2 Pioneering Efforts (1930s-1952) 37

3 Mom 'n' Pop Business (1951-1958) 77

4 Abel Cable Goes to Washington (1950-1960) 122

5 Cable's New Frontier (1960-1966) 170

6 The Wired Nation (1966-1972) 232

7 The Cable Fable (1972-1975) 297

8 The Phoenix (1975-1980) 341

9 Cablemania (1980-1984) 403

10 The Cable Boom (1985-1992) 480

11 The Cable Cosa Nostra (1986-1992) 543

12 500 Channels (1992-1996) 581

13 "What's Gonna Be Next?" (1997-2005) 636.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [705]-766) and index.

ISBN:

9781592132874

1592132871

OCLC:

133465609

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