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Cablevision Systems Corporation was an American cable television company with systems serving areas surrounding New York City.It was the fifth-largest cable provider [2] and ninth-largest television provider in the United States. [3]
In 1950, Robert Tarlton developed the first commercial cable television system in the United States. Tarlton organized a group of fellow television set retailers in Lansford, Pennsylvania, a town in the same region as Mahanoy City, to offer television signals from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania broadcast stations to homes in Lansford for a fee.
US Cable was founded as M.A.I. Cablevision in 1976 in Watson, New York by stockbrokers Stephen E. Myers and Michael Anderson. [1] Through the 1970s and 1980s, US Cable acquired and built many cable systems. US Cable had a couple joint ventures with Tele-Communications Inc. (TCI) during the 1980s.
Charles Dolan, a titan of the early cable industry who owned Cablevision, launched HBO and AMC Network and later branched out into iconic New York venues and sports teams, has died. He was 98.
He later went on to establish Home Box Office Inc., which eventually became known as HBO, in 1972, Cablevision in 1973 and the American Movie Classics (AMC) television station in 1984, CNN reported.
Demonstration of a 30-channel cable TV system in the Netherlands in March 1981. The very first cable networks were operated locally, notably in 1936 by Rediffusion in London in the United Kingdom [5] and the same year in Berlin in Germany, notably for the Olympic Games, and from 1948 onwards in the United States and Switzerland. This type of ...
Charles F. Dolan, the media pioneer and businessman who founded HBO in the early 1970s, merged a group of Long Island cable TV systems into Cablevision, and later created the channel AMC, has died ...
The first of the channels, News 12 Long Island, was launched by Cablevision on December 15, 1986, to customers on its Long Island system, as the first 24-hour regional cable news service in the United States. Over the years Cablevision expanded the reach of News 12 by adding additional networks across its footprint.