Blue Skies
A History of Cable Television
Parsons, Patrick R.
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BOOK SUMMARY
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
BOOK SYNOPSIS
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.
AUTHOR BIO
Patrick R. 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. He is also the author of Cable Television and the First Amendment and co-editor (with Steve Knowlton) of The Journalist's Moral Compass.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1592132871
ISBN(13-digit): 9781592132874
Dewey Decimal: 384.55/50973
Library of Congress: 2007021328
Book Publisher: Temple Univ Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 804
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