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