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Cable Television. The History of Cable TV Cable television, formerly known as Community Antenna Television or CATV, was born in the mountains of Pennsylvania in the late 1940's.
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Cable Television
Cable television or Community Antenna Television (CATV) (and often
shortened to 'cable') refers to television, FM radio programming and
other services that are provided to consumers via fixed coaxial
cables, rather than by the older and more widespread radio
broadcasting (over-the-air) method.
It is most common in Canada, the
United States, Europe, most of Australasia and much of eastern Asia,
though it is present in many other countries.
Technically, both
cable TV and CATV involve distributing a number of television
channels collected at a central location (called a head end or
headend) to subscribers within a community by means of a network of
optical fibers and/or coaxial cables and broadband amplifiers.
Like
in the case of radio broadcasting, the use of different frequencies
allows many channels to be distributed through the same cable,
without separate wires for each. The tuner of the TV, VCR or radio
selects from this mixed signal one channel.
The same program is
often simultaneously radio broadcast and distributed by cable,
usually at different frequencies. Other programs may be distributed
by cable only; rules restricting content (e.g. regarding nudity and
pornography) are often more relaxed for cable than for over-the-air
TV.
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