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HBO - Wikipedia  Home Box Office (HBO) is an American premium cable and satellite television network that is .... He came up with the concept for a cable-originated television service, called "The Green ... Home Box Office launched on the evening of November 8, 1972. ... Through the use of satellite, the channel began transmitting separate...
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Cable television in the United States - Wikipedia  Cable television first became available in the United States in 1948, with subscription services ... Some telephone service providers have started offering television, reaching to ... 6 Statistics; 7 See also; 8 Notes; 9 Further reading; 10 External links ... Original programming over cable came in 1972 with deregulation of the...
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Television in the United States - Wikipedia  By the mid-1970s, some form of cable television was ... market that already had over-the-air television service. ... HBO became the first cable network to transmit ... Satellite television also began a digital transition, well ... Many providers of subscription television services...
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HBO | Open Access articles | Open Access journals | Conference ...  (U.S. cable Internet subscribers only; requires login from pay television provider to access content) .... Home Box Office launched on the evening of November 8, 1972. ... Through the use of satellite, the channel began transmitting separate .... In 1993, HBO became the world's first digitally transmitted television service.
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Satellite & Cable Television - Audio Engineering Society  Nov 30, 2005 ... 1948 - Cable TV began as Community Access Television (CATV) in Pennsylvania ... Sales of color sets would not exceed black-and-white until 1972. ... months, the satellite was in continuous, full-time service for nearly 4 years. ... Terrestial digital television broadcasting began in November using the 8-VSB...
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11103/ IE - American Radio History  Aug 1, 1987 ... To find suppliers of the product or service you want, first turn to the Instant ... manufacturer's advertisement for more product ..... (3); Tape -Athon (1 -3); TTC (1,2); Ultra Audio (1 -3). 1. ...... The Museum of Broadcasting is missing the first "Tonight Show" ...... everything from man and equipment hours to louver.
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TV Broadcasting History - Various Articles  The first Olympics that had extensive color and satellite coverage were the 1968 Winter Games in Grenoble, France, which ABC broadcast. ... That October, ABC carried the Summer Olympics in Mexico City, and with 45 hours of coverage, and...
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'SCTV' 40th Anniversary Special May Happen, Says Eugene Levy ...  Mar 2, 2016 ... Hatched by Canada's Second City comedy troupe, SCTV ran from 1976 ... in Canada and the U.S., including CBC, NBC and Cinemax. ... Stop horsing around- go with 72MHz of spectrum (+ guard bands) and be done with it.
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The Young and the Restless - Wikipedia  The Young and the Restless (often abbreviated as Y&R) is an American television soap opera ... First broadcast on March 26, 1973, The Young and the Restless was ... the Restless in 1972 for the network under the working title, The Innocent Years! .... became the first daytime soap opera to be broadcast in high-definition.
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Timeline Television - Timelines of History  1932 May 2, Jack Benny's first radio show made its debut on the NBC Blue Network .... 1940 Apr 21, The quiz show that asked the "$64 question," "Take It or Leave ..... 1948 Nov 29, The popular children's television show, Kukla, Fran and Ollie, ... 1949 Jun 1, KSL TV channel 5 in Salt Lake City, UT (CBS) began broadcasting...
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Television: From Vast Wasteland To Vast Wonders - Forbes  May 16, 2011 ... On May 9, 1961, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ... of broadcasters in Washington, D.C., to deliver a talk called Television and the ... of the time as a vast wasteland replete with a procession of game shows,...
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Ken Jennings' Final Jeopardy! Clues Quiz - By purplesteve6 - Sporcle  Its 1st broadcast, February 24, 1942, said, 'The news may be good. The news may be bad. We shall tell you the truth'. MASS COMMUNICATION. Ironically, he...
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This question originally aired on November 23,... | Jeopardy ...  This question originally aired on November 23, 1998 Category: BUSINESS TERMS Question: Sensible consumers clip these to get cents off Answer:...
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Dishing Democracy ~ Handbook: Satellite Television in the Arab - PBS  Jul 31, 2007 ... The introduction of satellite television in the Middle East in the early 1990s ... channels that broadcast a melee of government-controlled news, mostly ... the lead in establishing what has become a hugely popular media empire ... Al Jazeera, headquartered in Doha, Qatar, transformed the small Persian Gulf...
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DirecTV - Wikipedia  DirecTV (stylized as DIRECTV) is an American direct broadcast satellite service provider and ... Its primary competitors are Dish Network and cable television providers. ... DirecTV then transmits these signals to several satellites located in ... in 1990, to launch the first high-power digital television service called Sky Cable.
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TV History | Archive of American Television  None of us had any ax to grind, none of us had any political ambitions. ... linking of both coasts by coaxial cable in 1951 meant that the same programs could be ... He also introduced the underwater world of Jacques Cousteau to television. ... Plus, ABC's major coverage of the 1964 Winter Olympics proved to networks and...
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J! Archive - List Final Jeopardy! clues - Season 20  ... COMMUNICATION: Its 1st broadcast, February 24, 1942, said, "The news may be good. The news may be bad. We shall tell you the truth" Voice of America.
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About CBN: Mission and History of CBN  Fifty years ago, one could have reasonably suggested that Pat Robertson was stretching his ... The program's audience grew as other stations began carrying the show. Today ... In 1977, CBN started the nation's first basic TV cable network with satellite ... National Counseling Center begins 24-hour telephone prayer line.
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Nov. 23: First Issue of Life Magazine Published - ABC News  Nov 23, 2011 ... Image credit: AP Photo. On this day in 1936, the first issue of Life as a weekly news magazine was published. The cover featured a photo of the...
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Rupert Murdoch - Wikipedia  Also that year, News Corporation launched the Foxtel pay television network in Australia in partnership with Telstra. In 1996, Murdoch decided to enter the cable...
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1950-1959 - Television History - The First 75 Years  ... television exploded onto the scene at the beginning of the decade, mid-decade saw electronic color television and ... 1958 Philco Predicta BRAZIL (20K bytes)