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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (817 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

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:

Contents; Preface; 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); Appendices; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

9786612047404

9781282047402

128204740X

9781592137060

1592137067

OCLC:

316885257