Blue Skies: A History of Cable Television
Cable television is arguably the dominant mass media technology in the U.S. today. Blue Skies traces its history in detail, depicting the important events and people that shaped its development, from the pre-cursors of cable TV in the 1920s and 1930s to the first community antenna systems in the 1950s, from the creation of the national satellite-distributed cable networks in the 1970s to the current incarnation of "info-structure" that dominates our lives. Author Patrick Parsons also...
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Blue Skies is the first complete history of cable television, the most influential technology affecting the lives of almost every American. Author Patrick Parsons writes about the early days of cable -- they go back farther than most people know -- and the pioneers in the last half of the twentieth century whose business skills, entrepreneurial instinct, and luck all played out to give rise to the most ubiquitous technology in the country-- still outpacing computers and the internet -- cable TV.
Preface viiThe Evolution of a Revolution (Origins-1930s) 1Pioneering Efforts (1930s-1952) 37Mom 'n' Pop Business (1951-1958) 77Abel Cable Goes to Washington (1950-1960) 122Cable's New Frontier (1960-1966) 170The Wired Nation (1966-1972) 232The Cable Fable (1972-1975) 297The Phoenix (1975-1980) 341Cablemania (1980-1984) 403The Cable Boom (1985-1992) 480The Cable Cosa Nostra (1986-1992) 543500 Channels (1992-1996) 581"What's Gonna Be Next?" (1997-2005) 636Appendices 701Notes 705Index 767
