Chapter 6 Cable & Its Advances

Ciara Adams

Chapter6

Cable :A Wired Versus Wireless World

At one point and time there was no such thing as cable.I believe there was only maybe five major stations that were viewed before cable came into play.Most of the T.V stations centered around daily, and national news.Television has undergone a wired vs. Wireless world, as time has progressed.

In 1940’s cable T.V was the “big advance” for many Americans.In the 1940’s the first cable systems were called CATV, another name for this system is Community antenna televison.In time HBO,and  TBS severed as satellite channels.The whole idea of satellite T.V came from a man by the name of Arthur Clarke.Clarke invisioned “a nework of communication satellites”.After the advance of satellite television, came Tekstar, the first communication satellite that relays telephone and televison signals in 1960.Now, in th year 2010.......If someone were to ask you to make a list of the your Top five networks and Top five channels to watch, for some it may be quiet difficult jugding from the wide variety of  television stations and networks our country has.It may be even virtually impossible for many more because some are trained into viewing T.V on the daily basis.The Wireless World along with satellite technology has changed the television industry for the better.Our technological world always seems to advance  in ways that benefit our society.There always seems as though there can bee a quicker, easier,and safer way to go about changing the way things previously were in our past routines.

The ficanial factor of the on going process of “ The Wireless World”, is that even when one may think to themselves  “I don’t think I can afford cable”,there seems to be a price range, or cable package to were each citizen has an equal opportunity to viewing the same shows as an individual who has a more wider selection to choose from. Our advances may change but,equal opportunity will always remind the same.