Blue Skies
Subtitle: A History of Cable Television
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: January 28, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 816
ISBN-13: 9781592132874
Subjects: Television; Technology & Engineering; Technology & Industrial Arts; Science/Mathematics; Corporate & Business History - General; Telecommunications; Television & Video; Technology / Telecommunications; Cable television; History; United States
Description: "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."--Jacket.