cable television

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Now studios are desperate to show investors they can earn at least a fraction of the profit from streaming that they once did from cable television.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

Ted Turner, the media mogul who created CNN and revolutionized cable television, has died.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

Joseph Collins, a cable television executive who pioneered broadband, died April 2 at his home in Weekapaug, R.I., at 81.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

CNN would thus wind up part of a highly-indebted public company with weak growth prospects and still on cable television, which has been losing millions of subscribers in the United States each year.

From Barron's • Dec. 17, 2025

Because the mountains interfered with reception, in 1954 he erected an antenna on a high ridge and provided one of the first cable television systems in the United States as a free service.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam