History of Cable Television
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- Опубликовано: 18 июл 2015
- From 1994-2002 I filmed and edited a program called Video Focus for Time Warner Cable National Division. This was a special edition from August of 1998 celebrating 50 years of cable television.
we have private cable network on 1989 on de "GDR" (ex-Sovietzone from germany) on a private network in my hometown ...i`m as a young guy in 1988 have TV channels like, SkyOne,MCM,RTL4,tele5,teleclub,superchannel,RTL..the speeech of the world in tv .. in the "sovietzone" ! this was the real reason, to fall the "german border" in `89 🙂...thanks for upload...your KrautROckt!er from Chemnitz/germany
I was 5 years old when we got cable in 1955. It was 5 channels and the cable plant was RG-11/U coax. Later on, I was friends with Warren Fribley, the guy who owned the cable system. He told lots of stories. I also knew Harold Hammel who came up with the amplifier tilt control, which compensated for coax losses on the higher channels by raising the amplifier gain as the frequency went up.
Little kiddies now don't know payphones and the closest things we had in the 70s to social media-CB radio.
My brother loved CB's!
Ham radio goes decades back from cb
@@yz250ftony Ham radio=original social media.
1998 and a 750MHz system. Its 2016 here and my cable network in my area is still only 450MHz...
What?!?!? What state?
I remember getting cable TV the first time in 1976 we paid 6 bucks a month
Dayum
How many channels did you get?
Adjusted for inflation that is about 40 dollars a month in today's money to get maybe 5 channels.
This year marks 70 years of cable television. Also, 35 years of the existence of the national division.
The AMP pocket is telling you..." I am a damn good cable technician "
United Kingdom Rediffusion was the trading name of Broadcast Relay Service Ltd, formed in 1928. in the 1930s, Rediffusion began manufacturing TV sets and supplying "Piped TV", an early form of cable TV, service to its customers, until the cessation of television broadcasts during the Second World War.
Great video. I enjoyed hearing the stories of the pioneers of the industry, and how they overcame challenges and obstacles in the early days.
TV was FREE when I was a kid.
Same here. We had every cable channel free on a cband dish. Then then encrypted them like 15 years later.
originally commercial free. That, is what sold everyone. That soon changed... in my recollection a swindle.
Here in Australia it is horrible. the amount of ads now is crazy. I swear when Cable tv first came here to Australia in 95/96 there were no ads only of other shows on the channel and you probably got 2 or 3 per ad break now cable tv here is infested with ads and the price hikes and removal of shows or complete channels is getting out of hand. what makes it worse is there is only one cable company here so they have a monopoly.
@27:14 Good call 1998.
I was gonna make a snide remark about how these folks had no idea how their industry was going to be turned upside down.... but as you point out, this one dude over here is a bloody genius.
No kidding. Poor guy was probably a lone voice fighting against people who struggled to look ahead. Like the lady talking about phone company’s marketing being “overkill”. Anyone in communications has to keep looking forward. We’re always on the way towards obsolescence unless we’re looking ahead and ready to change lanes.
Lew really knew what he was talking about!
I miss time warner cable so much spectrum is very different I remember the box from time warner had buttons on it to change the channels u loved that spectrums don't have it
Now we can watch 1 billion channels on youtube.
Those days are gone...
*Would be great for an updated version*
We got cable in the 90s the frecken Disney Channel was scramble our cable provider made it payed channel. But now day got have cable or satellite TV in my area to get all. Local channels. But I watch
on my tablet via cable internet lol
Are you kidding me the Disney channel in the 90s was pay to watch!? What were they thinking!? We’re they trying to make money!? Shame on them.
@@creedyfbaby it was scrambled disney was back then. and you had pay and put something on your line to get channel think cable company was TCI or something like that then AT&T bought them and went someone other cable provider and now it Mediacom
*Cable tv came here to Australia in 95/96.. does the US have free to air tv? or do you all have to pay for cable?*
We have free over-the-air TV. Just gotta buy an antenna and that's like 20-40 USD.
I got cable in 1980 and we pay 5 Buck month 10 year old
Lol talking about the internet as under-rated.😂
1998 and it looks it LOL
I think the music really sells the 90s corporate video production too 😀
The other day my son and I were watching 90s TV shows on RUclips and I told him that tv looked better back then compared to the reruns shown online because we were essentially watching a tape (or a tape of a tape) with maybe 1/4 the original resolution that may have degraded before it was digitized. It would be nice to see a perfect representation of how live tv appeared 25 years ago. Straight 480i to the face.
I actually thought it was from the late 80s or early 90s until I read the description lol
@@MrBibi86 I was thinking late 80's too...the main lady's hair style with the bangs..😁
The capital was the reality. Study Comcast, Turner Advertising - same as RCA etc. Cable is just another "product" of media. Why ask the bottom of the contractors employees - it's like interviewing the newspaper boy about the business of advertising?
no charging someone for wanting you to install your product is fucked up also its highway robbery!!!!