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History of Cable TV

  • Creation of Cable TV

    Creation of Cable TV

    Communities would mount large antennas on top of hills or other tall structures and broadcast signals.
  • Period: to

    Expansion of Cable Antennas

    the cable antennas went from local too long distances. This created more channels for everyone and better signals.
  • More Content

    More Content

    they started to diversify the content that they showed on cable tv.
  • Period: to

    First Major Channels

    the channels that are still on today and that made cable tv so popular started to be produced.
  • Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition

    an act was passed that froze prices and restored power to local governments.
  • Broadband

    Broadband

    the invention of broadband was introduced, allowing immensely better results of cable quality and performance.
  • Cable Blow up

    Cable Blow up

    70% of Americans had watched tv and 65 million households had cable subscriptions.
  • Cable TV improvement

    cable tv just kept on getting better and improving with even more people subscribing.
  • Popularity Growth

    digital tv started to become more popular this made the quality of the film a lot clearer and more precise.
  • Streaming sevices

    Streaming sevices

    Netflix was launched; this started the rise of streaming and started to put tons of pressure on cable tv.