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Television in the Multichannel Age: A Brief History of Cable Television

ISBN: 978-1-4051-4969-3
Hardcover
252 pages
February 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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  • Guides the reader through the history of multichannel television from its origins in the ‘40s to the modern age
  • Discusses factors that influence today’s television landscape including government policy-making, emerging technologies, and the public’s programming tastes
  • Concentrates on domestic multichannel technologies while considering global impacts of these technologies
  • Includes newly discovered oral history transcripts, personal interviews, government documents, and never before seen photographs
  • Presents a fascinating history of media that have come to play critical roles in today’s society, and in doing so invites the reader to speculate on the future of multichannel television

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