Re: Cable TV Broadcast Retransmission Consent Feuds "Ease Up" [Telecom]

Jul 05, 2009 1 Replies

On Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:09:16 -0400, Neal McLain wrote, in part:


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> I don't understand that statement. CATV *is* cable TV. Back when the
> industry started, CATV stood for "community antenna television" because
> that's all it did: act like a big antenna for broadcast stations. But
> after CATV systems started carrying non-broadcast satellite-delivered
> programming, the term "cable TV" replaced "CATV". I still use "CATV"
> and "cable TV" interchangeably.

Funny, I always thought CATV stood for "Community Access TeleVision." Anyway, that's what our local Community Access stations seem to think.


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> Neal McLain

Straighten me out, please, if I've got that wrong :-) .



And cheers, -- tlvp


CATV systems literally erected antennas in the best location to receive a signal, then sold the signal to subscribers who lacked line of sight to the transmission tower.

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