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The Cable History Timeline
The Cable History Timeline 1940s Late 1940s Cable brings television to small and medium sized communities without early 1950s television stations due to the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) freeze on TV licenses. 1948 Community Antenna Television (CATV) begins in small communities in rural Oregon and Pennsylvania where hilly terrain prevents broadcast television signals from reaching local businesses and customers' homes. Coaxial Cable , amplifiers and electronic equipment are modified by CATV pioneers to meet emerging needs. 1948-50 CATV delivers off-air television programming to homes that would otherwise not receive it. Jim Y. Davidson documents his start in Cable at Tuckerman, Arkansas in 1948 by signing his first CATV subscriber. CATV Magazine reports in the November 6, 1997 issue the occasion "was the initiation of telecasts from Memphis the first station operational in the mid-South.
The FCC rules that CATV systems could use microwave relay systems to bring broadcast signals from distant cities , only by showing that there would be no economic impact to broadcasters. 1963 Twelve hundred cable systems serve more than 1 million homes. The U.S. Court of Appeals affirms the FCC position in Carter Mountain Transmission Corp. v ...
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