Video Program Distribution and Cable Television
Author: United States. National Telecommunications and Information Administration
Publisher:
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRead and Download eBook Full
Author: United States. National Telecommunications and Information Administration
Publisher:
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Roy Eric Xavier
Publisher:
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Martin H. Seiden
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Megan Mullen
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2009-06-23
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 0292778694
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner, McGannon Communications Research Award, 2004 In 1971, the Sloan Commission on Cable Communications likened the ongoing developments in cable television to the first uses of movable type and the invention of the telephone. Cable's proponents in the late 1960s and early 1970s hoped it would eventually remedy all the perceived ills of broadcast television, including lowest-common-denominator programming, inability to serve the needs of local audiences, and failure to recognize the needs of cultural minorities. Yet a quarter century after the "blue sky" era, cable television programming closely resembled, and indeed depended upon, broadcast television programming. Whatever happened to the Sloan Commission's "revolution now in sight"? In this book, Megan Mullen examines the first half-century of cable television to understand why cable never achieved its promise as a radically different means of communication. Using textual analysis and oral, archival, and regulatory history, she chronicles and analyzes cable programming developments in the United States during three critical stages of the medium's history: the early community antenna (CATV) years (1948-1967), the optimistic "blue sky" years (1968-1975), and the early satellite years (1976-1995). This history clearly reveals how cable's roots as a retransmitter of broadcast signals, the regulatory constraints that stymied innovation, and the economic success of cable as an outlet for broadcast or broadcast-type programs all combined to defeat most utopian visions for cable programming.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Dixie
Publisher:
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 51
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Amanda D. Lotz
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2018-04-13
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 0262345552
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe collision of new technologies, changing business strategies, and innovative storytelling that produced a new golden age of TV. Cable television channels were once the backwater of American television, programming recent and not-so-recent movies and reruns of network shows. Then came La Femme Nikita, OZ, The Sopranos, Mad Men, Game of Thrones, and The Walking Dead. And then, just as “prestige cable” became a category, came House of Cards and Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Video, and other Internet distributors of television content. What happened? In We Now Disrupt This Broadcast, Amanda Lotz chronicles the collision of new technologies, changing business strategies, and innovative storytelling that produced an era termed “peak TV.” Lotz explains that changes in the business of television expanded the creative possibilities of television. She describes the costly infrastructure rebuilding undertaken by cable service providers in the late 1990s and the struggles of cable channels to produce (and pay for) original, scripted programming in order to stand out from the competition. These new programs defied television conventions and made viewers adjust their expectations of what television could be. Le Femme Nikita offered cable's first antihero, Mad Men cost more than advertisers paid, The Walking Dead became the first mass cable hit, and Game of Thrones was the first global television blockbuster. Internet streaming didn't kill cable, Lotz tells us. Rather, it revolutionized how we watch television. Cable and network television quickly established their own streaming portals. Meanwhile, cable service providers had quietly transformed themselves into Internet providers, able to profit from both prestige cable and streaming services. Far from being dead, television continues to transform.
Author: United States. Cabinet Committee on Cable Communications
Publisher:
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sydney W. Head
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 642
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Communications
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 46
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK