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Notes PREFACE 1. See, for example, Ron Garay, Cable Television: A Reference Guide to Information (New York: Greenwood Press, 1988); Christopher Sterling, James Bracken, and Susan Hill, eds., Mass Communications Research Resources: An Annotated Guide (Mahwah, NJ: L. Erlbaum Associates, 1998); Don LeDuc, “A Selective Bibliography on the Evolution of CATV,” Journal of Broadcasting, 15:2 (1971): 195–235; and see Felix Chen, Cable Television: A Comprehensive Bibliography (New York: Plenum Publishing, 1978). 2. Mary Alice Mayer Phillips, CATV: A History of Community Antenna Television (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1972). 3. Kenneth Easton, Thirty Years in Cable TV: Reminiscences of a Pioneer (Mississauga, Ontario: Pioneer Publications, 1980). 4. Kenneth Easton, Building an Industry: A History of Cable Television and Its Development in Canada (Lawrencetown Beach, Nova Scotia, Canada: Potters field Press, 2000). 5. Archer Taylor, History Between Their Ears (Denver, CO: The Cable Center , 2000). 6. Mark Robichaux, Cable Cowboy: John Malone and the Rise of the Modern Cable Business (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2002). 7. Joseph DiStefano, COMCASTed: How Ralph and Brian Roberts Took Over America’s TV, One Deal at a Time (Philadelphia, PA: Camino Books, Inc., 2005). 8. Porter Bibb, Ted Turner: It Ain’t as Easy as It Looks (Boulder: Johnson Books, 1997). 706 / Notes to Preface 9. James Roman, Cablemania: The Cable Television Sourcebook (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1983); Thomas Baldwin and D. Stevens McVoy, Cable Communications (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1983); Patrick Parsons and Robert Frieden, The Cable and Satellite Television Industries (Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 1998). 10. Martin Seiden, Cable Television U.S.A.: An Analysis of Government Policy (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1972); Don Le Duc, Cable Television and the FCC: A Crisis in Media Control (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1973). 11. Ralph Lee Smith, The Wired Nation (New York: Harper and Row, 1972); Ralph Negrine, ed., Cable Television and the Future of Broadcasting (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1985). 12. Steve Keating, Cutthroat: High Stakes and Killer Moves on the Electronic Frontier (Boulder: Johnson Books, 1999). 13. Baldwin and McVoy, Cable Communications; Christopher Sterling and Michael Kittross, Stay Tuned A Concise History of American Broadcasting, 2nd ed. (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing, 1990). 14. Thomas Southwick, Distant Signals (Overland Park, KS: Primedia Intertec, 1998). 15. This book draws on many of the oral histories collected by the Center. Those oral histories are available online at: http://www.cablecenter.org/education/ library/oralHistories.cfm. CHAPTER 1 1. Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward (Signet, Books, 1960), 86–87. 2. See, for example, George Basalla, The Evolution of Technology (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988); and John Ziman, ed., Technological Innovation as an Evolutionary Process (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000). 3. Abbott Payson Usher, A History of Mechanical Inventions (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1929), 68–69. 4. See, for example, Richard Hubbell, 4000 Years of Television: The Story of Seeing at a Distance (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1942); and David Fisher and Marshall Fisher, Tube: The Invention of Television (Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1996). 5. E. Stratford Smith, “The Emergence of CATV: A Look at the Evolution of a Revolution,” Proceedings of the IEEE 58 (July 1970): 967–982. 6. Alex Roland, “Theories and Models of Technological Change: Semantics and Substance,” Science, Technology & Human Values, 17:1 (Winter 1992): 79–100, 84. 7. Thomas F. Carter, The Invention of Printing in China and its Spread Westward, 2nd ed. (New York: Ronald Press, 1955). 8. Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979). 9. Thomas P. Hughes, “The Evolution of Large Technological Systems,” in The Social Construction of Technological Systems, eds. Wiebe Bijker and Thomas Hughes and Trevor Pinch (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1987). 10. Brian Winston, Media Technology and Society (London: Routledge, 1998). 11. Erwin Krasnow, Lawrence Longley, and Herbert Terry, The Politics of Broadcast Regulation, 3rd ed. (New York: St. Martins Press, 1982). Notes to Chapter 1 / 707 12. See generally, Bijker, Hughes and Pinch, The Social Construction of Technological Systems; and Janet Fulk, “Social Construction of Communication Technology ,” Academy of Management Journal, 36:5 (1993): 921–950; and more broadly, Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1966). 13. Edward R. Murrow, address to the Radio Television News Directors Association (Chicago, IL: October 15, 1958). 14. The manner in which radio...