Blue Skies: A History of Cable Television
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (628 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1592132871 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 816 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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"A fascinating story, riddled with errata" according to Charles Coldwell. One of the blurbs on the back cover of this book puts it succinctly, "Scholars have long awaited a comprehensive volume on cable television " (Megan Mullen, Department of Communication, University of Wisconsin-Parkside). This book fills that gap, and the subject itself is fascinating and very relevant.However, after reading the book I have to wonder if an editor ever did. It seems like every fifth page contains a grammatical, factual or spelling error of some sort, which became very distracting. Here's an exampl. The Partly Cloudy Industry Communications researchers now have a definitive scholarly chronicle of the cable industry. Parsons delivers an immense and exhaustive history of the industry, from its earliest days as a small town community antenna service to the modern mega-conglomerates delivering hundreds of channels of on-demand programming. Here we learn that cable isn't much younger than broadcast television, and the two industries have had a fractious but symbiotic relationship, made more complex by interloping technologies like satelli. Five Stars david j. blackstone Nice product.
Parsons is Don Davis Professor of Ethics, College of Communications, Penn State University. He is the co-author (with Robert Frieden) of The Cable and Satellite Television Industry. Patrick R. He is also the author of Cable Television and the First Amendment and co-editor (with Steve Knowlton) of The Journalist's Moral Compass.
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.
"What is new here is the degree of detail and description Parsons gives to the people and events that brought about the evolution of cable television in the United States. The links his book forges between cable pioneers and the chain of events that created the enterprise is fresh material, no longer clouded by speculation and guesswork." -- William R. Davie, Associate Professor of Communication/Broadcast Coordinator, University of Louisiana at Lafayette