Add your input Ronald Mandell and George Brownstein demonstrate dual heterodyne, set-top converters. This converter breaks the 12 channel barrier for ordinary home television sets. It also solves interference problems caused by direct pickup of off-air broadcast signals being received at the TV set a split second before the same channel arrives via coaxial cable. Add your input 1967 Gill Cable in San Jose, Calif., constructs what is believed to the first dual channel cable system to get around the channel capacity limitations of cable and customer equipment. Add your input Operator and Business 1960s Telephone companies enter the CATV business in both construction and operations, posing a new competitive threat.
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The NCTA creates a National Award in memory of Larry Boggs, a pioneer cable operator. Boggs started the Vumore Company in Ardmore, Okla. in 1950 and attracted the investment of Video Independent Theaters in 1952. The company also operated one of the early common carrier microwave services and was eventually bought by RKO General, becoming CableCom-General. The Larry Boggs Award is presented to the man whose leadership and foresight place the cable industry in the vanguard of new communications technology. The recipient of the first award is Bill Daniels, founder of Daniels and Associates.