Cable Television: The First 50 Years

Cable World Salutes The National Cable Television Center and Museum's Hall of Fame Inductees

George Barco,

Bill Daniels

Irving Kahn

Bob Magness

Martin Malarkey

Milton Shapp

Introduction: Revolutionaries With a Vision

An Industry Is Born

The NCTA Through the Years

A Hell of a Business

The Big Players Arrive

The Great Pay TV Experiments

COMING OF AGE: Cable Gets its own Trade Press

The Dark Ages

Going into a Tough Stretch

Here's a look at some of the forces that hammered the cable industry during the mid-1960s and early 1970s.

Engineers Form SCTE Trade Group

The Satellite Breakthrough

The Growth Era

The Deregulation Era

Big Money

Return to Rereg

The Door-To-Door Billionaire