Blue Skies: A History of Cable Television Export

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TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:5182301 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5182301 N2 - Cable television is arguably the dominant mass media technology in the U.S. today. _Blue Skies_ traces its history in detail, depicting the important events and people that shaped its development, from the pre-cursors of cable TV in the 1920s and 1930s to the first community antenna systems in the 1950s, from the creation of the national satellite-distributed cable networks in the 1970s to the current incarnation of "info-structure" that dominates our lives. Author Patrick Parsons also considers the ways that economics, public perception, public policy, entrepreneurial personalities, the social construction of the possibilities of cable, and simple chance all influenced the development of cable TV. Since the 1960s, one of the pervasive visions of "cable" has been of a ubiquitous, flexible, interactive communications system capable of providing news, information, entertainment, diverse local programming, and even social services. That set of utopian hopes became known as the "Blue Sky" vision of cable television, from which the book takes its title. Thoroughly documented, carefully researched, yet lively, occasionally humorous, and consistently insightful, _Blue Skies_ is the genealogy of our media society. SN - 1592132871 TI - Blue Skies: A History of Cable Television PB - Temple University Press KW - cable KW - cinema KW - hbo KW - history KW - home_video KW - neoliberal KW - phd_exams KW - television AU - Parsons, Patrick PY - 2008/01/28/ UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&path=ASIN/1592132871 ER -